you are just lowering yourself to THERE level!

This is for anybody riding near the Ironman Wisc course. My brother and I went up there back in 2014 to watch the Wrestling World Team Trials and decided to ride the course as we were doing the Ironman that year. We took a right off of Garfoot Rd onto Mineral Point and about a mile up the road wraps around to the left and you head up a descent hill. As we were wrapping around I saw a red truck in the only house on the North side of the road at the bottom of the hill about to pull out. This crazy bastard runs us off the side of the road into the grass as we were about to head up the hill. He was honking and screaming so out of instinct I flipped him the bird. He stops at the top of the hill and gets out. I get off my bike, take off the cleats and start running at him. He wimps out jumps back into his car and speeds off before I could get to him. This guy obviously isn't the brightest since we saw exactly where he lives. Anyway we ride back into town, gather up a bunch of old wrestling buddies that we went up there with and drove back over to this guys house. Unfortunately nobody was home but that red truck was there so a few of us took a dump on his hood. Hindsight that was pretty stupid of us and we could have potentially been shot but that guy deserved it. So for any of you riding on Mineral Point beware of that red pickup.

Ai_1 wrote:

I prefer to be overly polite, considerate, and apologetic, in the response (keep your sincerity or otherwise a mystery).

and monty,
I have actually taken it one step further towards total enlightenment, I just wave and smile

exactly.. stupid and cheerful, my mantra for responding to aggression..

"gosh I'm sorry I got in your way. Have a nice day !"

it puzzles them ;-)
and by not escalating, puts them explicitly in the position of being the bad guy if they choose to go on yelling..

I only ask this, because if you get a ticket, for using your phone (not free handed) in car. Then they might also give you a ticket for using your phone while riding your bike.

You can control your car a lot better with only one hand compared to bike. If we talk about normal speeds (for both). If you slam on break with only one hand (on bike), you will either fly over your handlebar or slide over the road or into a ditch

Or am i wrong?

In California, it is illegal to use a phone while riding a bike.

out running, one time a car with a few kids passed me and one yelled "Faggot!!!" as they passed.

Unfortunately nobody was home but that red truck was there so a few of us took a dump on his hood.

stay quiet but get the license no. and report the driver to the police

Purely my opinion from my 26 years in law enforcement. A response “usually” isn’t the best idea. The best action is just to ignore their anger and move on. A snarky response just ends up causing an escalation in the anger of the driver. As long as you know you aren’t doing anything wrong, their anger, or whatever they have going on that caused the comment, isn’t your problem.

That's unlikely to be worth the time it takes. Having talked to some cops, they essentially have to personally witness the violation to do anything.