KJL

I have had this happen to me many times but usually I had enough room to get out of the way but last night I was on a stretch of county highway where there is no shoulder to speak of. I could see it coming. A tractor hauling a trailer and a SUV approaching from rear of him. I moved into my lane a bit more to allow the driver to see me - I was wearing bright green and had a small white light flashing up front. There was no way they did not see me. But, here they came anyway- I don't take a lot of chances but I had a enough and stood my ground - which I had little choice other than bail off anyway. I pointed at them and the tractor trying to say - yo stay in your lane until it's clear dip stick! They laid on their horn and gradually yielded and flipped me off and was hollering something. I just smiled back and and gave him a sarcastic thumbs up. I really wanted to rip their head off but I had more hills to climb. Frustrating!

Dunbar

I had an oncoming pickup truck do that on a narrow 2-lane country road in Indiana. The young looking male driver was hustling it around corners and using the oncoming lane (+ shoulder) to take the corners faster. For those familiar with racing he was hitting the apex of the corner. If it had happened 10 seconds later it would've been a close call. I definitely was not expecting him to do that...

howsteepisit

This used to happen to me with regularity when riding on RT191 south of Bozeman, MT. Thank God there was a shoulder, but being chased to the shoulder by a driver who clearly saw me was about the only thing that made me swear and gesture obscenities at the drivers. The driver could not have cared less.

Chris516

Yes, I know what you mean in reference to racing. That guy was(and probably still is) insane.

Chris516

I have never experienced this before. But I am not surprised. Because of the hostility towards cyclists'. Regardless of what the traffic laws say in any locale.

Murray Missile 

I haven't had this happen to me on my bicycle (yet) but it has happened to me on my motorcycle. A woman pulled out and passed an oncoming truck, I was cruising at 55 and she was probably doing about 75. She could clearly see me, it was a bright sunny day and she had the sun at her back, I was on a full dress touring bike with my high beams on and we were approaching each other on opposite sides of a small valley and I could see her entire car over the truck in front of her as they started down the other side so she could also see me over the vehicle she was passing. She looked me straight in the eyes as she pulled out and just kept coming in my lane so I took the shoulder, her passenger had an "Oh S#I*!" look on her face but the driver was laughing as she went by. I laid on the horn as she went by but it was pretty much a futile gesture, she didn't give a damn, she knew EXACTLY what she was doing.

volosong

It's time like this that I wished I had mounted my GoPro for that ride.

Chris516

I have been wanting one for quite a while now.

nelson249

Has happened to me several times. The worst was the guy who flashed his lights at me and got all pissy because I wouldn't get off the road. Wasn't any place to go even if I wanted to oblige him. Then he went head on with me anyways. As I've written elsewhere such people need to be bunged under a bus.

dynodonn 

Now if we can just get BF member degnaw to chime in and post his video of the motorist that decided to do a deliberate high speed head on "buzz" while he was riding on the opposite side of the road.

turbo1889

I've had it done to me many times.

Several times where there were not passing another car and came into the lane I was riding in (the oncoming lane for them) to make a deliberate chicken run at me and it had nothing to do with them passing another vehicle because there was no other vehicle they were passing.

Rootman

I've had several encounters like this. Drivers just drifted over in my lane seemingly to challenge me to a duel. Had to bail more than once, other times they eventually moved over. Don't know if they didn't see me or were just a$$holes.

More than once I've seen a car pass other bikers or pedestrians and swing way wide, nearly into me or other oncoming car traffic in front of me and I prepared to stop or bail if I had too, either I was going to be in an accident or was going to be right on top of a head on between a couple of cars.

Seems people are in such a rush these days, common sense just flies right out the window.

daihard 

The requirements for getting a driver's license should include riding a bicycle in the streets at least for a week. Experience helps.

turbo1889

How about making that a few years, as in you can get a "bicycle drivers license" as a very young kid with your parents signature but you can't get a car drivers license until your 18 and have at least a couple years of bicycle riding on the roads under your belt first. Although certainly possible, you have to be really stupid on a bicycle to kill or seriously hurt someone else while riding a bicycle, for that reason why not use the bicycle as the learning to drive vehicle and you don't get a to drive a big dangerous car until you've mastered the bicycle first.

Just like teaching kids to use a gun (another equally dangerous machine). Until a boy can handle a pocket knife and be responsible enough with it to be trusted with it beyond question and without having any "incidents" you don't start him learning how to use a gun. At least that's how responsible ranching and farming country folk that use guns as necessary tools on the ranch and farm (mainly for livestock predatorizing and crop damaging varmint animal control) handle that. If only people were equally smart about automobiles which arguably by the mere number of people killed and injured can be argued to be more dangerous then guns.

jessestylex

Thats why I have the AirZound horn. I encounter a lot of cars taking curves on the other side of the road. I've scared the crap out of many of them cause they will say FU** and get back over quickly. I've never had any of them get aggressive back cause they know they were in the wrong. The AirZound is really loud and I love it.

Murray Missile 

After a close encounter the other night with an inattentive driver I ordered one for my beater/errand/rain bike. It arrived in this morning's mail and I got it mounted. I aired it up and gave it a blast, the neighbor across the street who is a retired truck driver was in his driveway and spun around to see what the ruckus was so I gave it another hit. He laughed, gave me the universal "air horn" hand signal with a mile wide grin and a thumb's up. I like it.