Originally Posted by
MaxKatt
He never should have escalated it by flipping the driver off. He owns a piece of this.
Shoulda ignored the horn and kept focused on completing his lane take as quickly as possible and there’s likely no event or anything to report here.
At that moment cycling was serious business and he let himself get sucked into a stupid tough guy game.
agree - dumb move
there is one type of motorist worse than the truck driver in this incident: the motorist that does not see the cyclist - distracted or under the influence or whatever - and hits the cyclist
this is one good reason a cyclist should not flip off an impatient / aggressive driver - the driver may be a jerk but at least they saw you and did not run you over
( motorists that beeps at you can actually be a good thing )