Idiot Rider Demonstrates How To Make Road Rage Worse

Evans Brasfield
by Evans Brasfield

We’ll start off by saying that what the car driver does is wrong, and according to news reports, she is, as a result of her road rage, being charged with 16 charges, including Aggravated Assault, Littering, Endangering the Welfare of a Child (her child was in the car) and Reckless Driving. Hopefully, she’ll learn her lesson courtesy of the court system.

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However, as motorcyclists, we need to consider what the rider did to aggravate the situation. First, this rolling incident took place over three miles, long enough for the people in the following car to decide to record the conflict. Second, the rider appears to be deliberately riding slowly and accelerating ahead of the car when she tries to pass. According to her statements, he also brake checked her several times. Do we really need to discuss the folly of brake checking a car with a motorcycle?

Finally, we need to consider what the rider should have done. Pulling over and letting the crazy woman pass would have instantly ended the confrontation. Instead, by throwing gasoline on the fire, he ended up being hit by her car at a stop light. He is extremely lucky that only his motorcycle was damaged, given how unstable the behavior of the woman in the car appears.

Remember, we are much more vulnerable than the occupants of cars. Do your best to de-escalate before the red mist takes over.

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Evans Brasfield
Evans Brasfield

Like most of the best happenings in his life, Evans stumbled into his motojournalism career. While on his way to a planned life in academia, he applied for a job at a motorcycle magazine, thinking he’d get the opportunity to write some freelance articles. Instead, he was offered a full-time job in which he discovered he could actually get paid to ride other people’s motorcycles – and he’s never looked back. Over the 25 years he’s been in the motorcycle industry, Evans has written two books, 101 Sportbike Performance Projects and How to Modify Your Metric Cruiser, and has ridden just about every production motorcycle manufactured. Evans has a deep love of motorcycles and believes they are a force for good in the world.

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  • Scott Gross Scott Gross on Dec 19, 2017

    As a fellow motorcyclist, I can relate to the feelings of frustration at some automobile drivers. However, getting pissed at, then taunting a driver in a car, is extremely stupid and counter productive, to educating the general public to be aware and careful around motorcycles. Fellow riders, if someone in a car or truck is giving you problems, pull over and let them go. Do not exacerbate the situation.

  • Jay F Jay F on Aug 09, 2018

    Regardless if she hit him or he fell, his bike hitting the ground was just as much his fault as hers.
    People in cars are capable of making me never see my wife and kids again. One brief snap of road rage can result in me never playing ball or taking them fishing again.
    I'll let people around all day and sort out who's right/wrong while I grill steaks on the back deck in the evening.
    Unless someone hits me at a stop light, it is MY responsibility to know what the hell's going on around me and to get myself out of dangerous situations. I don't smoke that often, but always have a pack of cigarettes and a thermos of coffee on the bike. Someone starts getting stupid I pull off and reset.

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