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a few years ago 4 or 5? I was on N11 slip rd, and some absolute loon job, after having a heated 'discussion' on the incident, reversed back up the slip road, stopped, reved the engine like he'd seen too many movies and then dropped the hand brake and sped towards me! I got off the bike and up onto a grass verge and over a concrete railing, he probably wasnt trying to run me over literally, but it scared the sh
it out of me thats for sure.
The Lesson: asshats are asshats and confronting them just isnt worth it, most dont think, and comfronting them just isn't worth it. you'll end up takling to the wall anyway and more pissed of with them not listening to them.
Much better to just use the adrennaline coursing through your legs to get in some high quality training sprints or burning the touch paper efforts, screaming while doing so is optional
If you run all your doing is encouraging them to keep up their act, I had a similar incident a few years ago (off the bike) when some local tough guys tought they were hard and reversed up a one way street all coked up to attack a friend of mine who had thrown chips at their car after they had jokingly tried to run him over; unaware that I was about 20yards behind after being distracted by a nice dog, well those coked up losers were soundly trounced and had a trip to casualty.
Recently I took it upon myself to chase down a van which had done the usual trick of trying to push me into the kerb, wel he wasn't so tough at the lights when I was banging on his window as he looked blankly forward with a very pale face.
The Lesson: people feel very safe in their metal boxes however their balls often shrink once they realise how thin the metal is and how weak the glass is
