Car slapping

[Texas_rp]

I flip car mirrors out when drivers forget to. Does that count as slapping?

I have hit cars as well when they try to run me off the road though when a M&S lorry did, I just jumped on the pavement.

 

[DamoDoublemint]

I had to knock on a car a couple of days ago as it went past, it was about an inch from my bars, cutting in as I was approaching queued traffic. Driver didn't think he did anything wrong even though he would probably have clipped my wheel if I hadn't knocked.

Like others, I'd prefer not to take my hands off the handlebars, evasive maneuvers normally take priority. In this case, since we were going so slowly, and he was so close I thought it was justified.

Video of the incident:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=i7g589BmMlc

 

[briantrumpet]

My first car slap today. I'd had a lovely 75-mile cycle round Devon (lots of good and courteous drivers), but as I came back through Exeter a twerp started to overtake me as we approached a traffic island, so he cut back in. As he was only going about 2mph faster than me (we were approaching a queue of traffic) and was only about a foot away from my right hand, his rear quarterlight presented a perfect target. No great reaction from him, other than he looked in his rear view mirror to see me indicating my displeasure with a couple of fingers.

I have a history with the same traffic island as about 20 years ago a 40-tonne artic did a similar manouevre at the same place, but I would have lost the battle with that one. I made do with exercising my full vocabulary of Anglo Saxon.

 

[oldroadman]

Not strictly commuting, as a group of us were on early season training some years ago. Bus passes us, wide, then as the road curves right, he keeps straight on. We can SEE the driver looking in the nearside mirror, so he knows what's happening. Anyway we are all squeezed and lots of shouting, etc. Bus goes on. But, buses stop....
What the driver didn't know was that a sprinter in our group has a short fuse, and so he jumps off the bike, climbs the ltlle steps at the side of the bus, slides open the drivers door and expresses his opinion. Driver suggests he goes away, or something like that. Mistake. Solid whack on nose, blood, back on the bikes and off we go. Never any comeback, don't think the driver could see for the tears for quite a while.
This is not a recommended course of action, but our man's view was, why hit the vehicle when the driver's available?
Oh, how in those dim and distant days of the past, we laughed...

Milder one, having been cut off, come up alongside the L plate bearing car in traffic, warm day, windows open. Say to driver "are you the learner?" "no". "then stop driving like one".

 

[AuraTodd]

[when I pulled alongside and tapped on his window to explain the error of his ways. The guy wouldn't even look at me. He just stared ahead looking embarrassed waiting for me to move on.]

Pig ignorant rude, take down it's number plate.

 

[BlackPanther]

I try not to slap cars. If someone cuts me up/pulls out in front of me and they just haven't seen me. I find that the best thing to do (if you can catch up) is to get close to their window and shout as loudly as possible 'RAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!'. Hopefully, you'll scare the bejesus out of them. Then explain to them that that's exactly how you felt when they nearly took you out a few seconds ago! Hopefully it'll stick in their minds.

I did once strike a car when someone pulled out in front of me when I was on the motorbike. It was VERY close (I nearly came off), and when I beeped him, he gave me the finger. When I pulled alongside him at a roundabout and asked him why he had done what he did, he told me to F*** off, and wound his window up. I had my carbon fisted gloves on, which made one hell of a dent in his bonnet.