How to deal with jerkoff bikers on the road

[Cthulhu]

So most cars will ride your hind end.

Geez, I never crowd bikes. That's insane. Rear-end a car @ 30mph, we're talking embarrassment and lots of $$ out of pocket. Rear-end a bike @ that speed and you could easily kill someone.

[slipknot]

   

I didn't reall all 8 pages so I dunno if this has been already covered but....WTF???
Are you sure it wasn't a bug? I ride...ALOT and spitting at 70+mph and actually hitting the windshield of the car next to you as you pass....honestly i cant see that happening. unless you moved back in behind them. I got a bug in my teeth "once and only once" and spit that out, it went maybe 3 inches in the slip-stream and them was gone baby gone.
AS a member of the biker community and a member of a club ( The Marine Motorcycle Brotherhood) I have had to deal with some 1%'ers. Some its been a respectful toleration and a couple its been something like what you experienced.

They give all bikers a bad name but, just like everything else the biker community has its good, its bad and its down right smurfy...per the rules i wont pics of the smurfy but im sure everyone can find em.

As for the left lane thing....I think thats been pretty well covered so ya dont need my 2cents on that.

We all could use a lil more tolerance out on the highway, to much road rage and not enough courtesy.

It was spit. He didn't so much spit as let the loogie casually leave his mouth and enter the slipstream--as you mentioned. I was momentarily taken aback by the proficiency with which he calculated the trajectory as I was about 1.5 car lengths behind and to the right of him when he did it.

[Cthulhu]

It was spit. He didn't so much spit as let the loogie casually leave his mouth and enter the slipstream--as you mentioned. I was momentarily taken aback by the proficiency with which he calculated the trajectory as I was about 1.5 car lengths behind and to the right of him when he did it.

Smart guy, he let it stay laminar. Can't let your loogie go all turbulent on you and break up. You sure it wasn't one of us?

[slipknot]

Smart guy, he let it stay laminar. Can't let your loogie go all turbulent on you and break up. You sure it wasn't one of us?

Well, based on his own account of the way he showed that van who was boss, I momentarily suspected it was Pooh--but he's more of a ricer than a biker.

[SpazMan]

Geez, I never crowd bikes. That's insane. Rear-end a car @ 30mph, we're talking embarrassment and lots of $$ out of pocket. Rear-end a bike @ that speed and you could easily kill someone.

You're right not all cars tailgate and truckers are usually respectful also. I don't tailgate when I'm on my bike either. Like someone mentioned earlier, you never know when there might debris, a dead animal, or a pot hole in the road. Its no fun laying your bike down.

[WilldCrd]

You also never know if the biker your tailgating might have a bad of ball bearings used for nothing more than to let the tailgating car know its WAY to damn close 

[WilldCrd]

It was spit. He didn't so much spit as let the loogie casually leave his mouth and enter the slipstream--as you mentioned. I was momentarily taken aback by the proficiency with which he calculated the trajectory as I was about 1.5 car lengths behind and to the right of him when he did it.

Well he is WAY better than me. I'd be too damn afraid that it would whip around and hit me in the eye or something lol

[SpazMan]

You also never know if the biker your tailgating might have a bad of ball bearings used for nothing more than to let the tailgating car know its WAY to damn close 

Or a 9mm in his saddlebag.....

[SpazMan]

Well he is WAY better than me. I'd be too damn afraid that it would whip around and hit me in the eye or something lol

Roger that I would be wiping it off my coat..... 

[Carrel]

I think we have a bigger engineering mystery here than we've had since the plane on a conveyor belt debate.

Will a loogie, spit out at 75 MPH, maintain its consistency well enough to splatter on the windshield of the car behind it, or will it turn into loogie vapor?

Somebody call Mythbusters.

[Cthulhu]

I think we have a bigger engineering mystery here than we've had since the plane on a conveyor belt debate.

Will a loogie, spit out at 75 MPH, maintain its consistency well enough to splatter on the windshield of the car behind it, or will it turn into loogie vapor?

Somebody call Mythbusters.

IM(sometimes)HO :   Mythbusters = Junk Science For Morons By Morons

[slipknot]

I think we have a bigger engineering mystery here than we've had since the plane on a conveyor belt debate.

Will a loogie, spit out at 75 MPH, maintain its consistency well enough to splatter on the windshield of the car behind it, or will it turn into loogie vapor?

Somebody call Mythbusters.

Plane on a conveyor belt was an easy problem... The thrust/pull of the engines would only have to match and cancel the resistence generated by the ball bearings in the landing gear to keep the plane in place on the conveyor. Any thrust/pull beyond that would push the plane forward, off the conveyor. Any less, and the plane would gradually slide back as the constant speed of the conveyor would gradually decay the non-powered speed of the wheels.

[Cthulhu]

Plane on a conveyor belt was an easy problem... The thrust/pull of the engines would only have to match and cancel the resistence generated by the ball bearings in the landing gear to keep the plane in place on the conveyor. Any thrust/pull beyond that would push the plane forward, off the conveyor. Any less, and the plane would gradually slide back as the constant speed of the conveyor would gradually decay the non-powered speed of the wheels.

There's also rolling resistance which manifests itself as the energy required to deflect the tires, which depending on tire pressure, can be higher than the bearing resistance.

[RTHolmes]

oh no, here we go again 

[slipknot]

There's also rolling resistance which manifests itself as the energy required to deflect the tires, which depending on tire pressure, can be higher than the bearing resistance.

What you said.