I can’t believe this needs to be said.A colleague came up to me and says, “Hey you drive a motorcycle right? You know, I gotta say I always wanted a bike, but after yesterday I just kinda hate them. A biker came up to me and and brake checked me, I guess I must have cut him off, but I hadn’t seen him. He followed me for a few miles, then drove up and knocked off my mirror.”If you’re angry at someone for driving erratically and having a near miss with you, please report it to your local police department. You can totally make a “WTF man!!” gesture, but knocking peoples’ mirrors off is excessive. I have had near misses too, and an angry reaction is totally normal, but attacking is totally not okay.As motorcyclists (at least in the US), we’re in the minority and we need people to say, oh that nice guy down the street is a motorcyclist, we should be extra careful to not hit people like him, not “I’m gonna kill that ******** because he damaged my car” because that also rolls over onto other riders and they end up having to deal with drivers who hate them and wish them ill will for no reason.Drivers suck, and they should totally be reprimanded for their actions, but it still sucks when my colleagues think we’re all a bunch of hooligan a$$-monkeys, which we’re not!Also, if they get scared or angry enough, we die, not them. Remember that. via /r/motorcycles https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/8fcx3w/dont_knock_peoples_mirrors_offrant/?utm_source=ifttt
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