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Best technique for taking off a cage mirror?

GiorgioFurioso

GiorgioFurioso

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Le's say you just had that "life flashing experience", after which the asshat in the cage manouvers next to you and flips you off...and his rear view mirror is right there, inches away from your left hand.

How do you take it off without hurting yourself?

I'm thinking it would be nice to make a necklace out of them, or just hang them off my belt. :grin
 
The long answer is that different mirrors are mounted differently, from safety breakaway stuff to bolted on chunks of steel.

The short answer is that you are not doing yourself or anyone else a favor by doing such things and might in fact get yourself killed.
 
budbandit said:
The short answer is that you are not doing yourself or anyone else a favor by doing such things and might in fact get yourself killed.
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+1
 
taking it out with your left hand you will be more prone to yank on your throttle..

I pull up on their left, give some gas, pull clutch, swing with right then off it goes
 
Follow him to a parking lot with a screwdriver. Remove it while he's inside buying a latte.
 
pop a wheelie and maybe your front tire will land on top of his mirror causing it to break off haha
 
That's a situation that won't end well for anyone. You're on a bike, he's in a car, he wins . . . Period. It doesn't matter who's the bigger badass when standing on two feet.
 
You should speed up and get in front of him and then stop as fast as you can...probably the same result as trying to take off his mirror. Physics are not your friend in this situation. He who rides away rides another day.
 
Personally, what I like to do is this. Just fold the mirror back like it was designed to do. If you do this to the passenger side, they have to stop and get out of their car to fix it.

Why do I choose this method? It's not permanently damaging. (I'd be pissed if someone damaged my car, so I won't do it to someone else. If they almost killed me, I'm going to almost kill them, not their mirror.)

It does two things:
1. It aggravates them, without setting yourself up for liability.
2. It reminds them that though we may be vulnerable, we can still fuck with them, too.
 
HellFyre said:
Personally, what I like to do is this. Just fold the mirror back like it was designed to do. If you do this to the passenger side, they have to stop and get out of their car to fix it.

Why do I choose this method? It's not permanently damaging. (I'd be pissed if someone damaged my car, so I won't do it to someone else. If they almost killed me, I'm going to almost kill them, not their mirror.)

It does two things:
1. It aggravates them, without setting yourself up for liability.
2. It reminds them that though we may be vulnerable, we can still fuck with them, too.
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Fucking brilliant.

I like this idea, it's perfect.
 
spideyfive-o said:
hatred begets more hatred. when you finally accept that there will always be oblivious cagers, the road will be a better place.

spidey
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Not true.

About accepting the oblivious cagers part. I accept that they will exist, but the road hasn't become a better place.

I wonder if I can legally carry a bowling pin with me to throw at idiots. :teeth
 
budbandit said:
The long answer is that different mirrors are mounted differently, from safety breakaway stuff to bolted on chunks of steel.

The short answer is that you are not doing yourself or anyone else a favor by doing such things and might in fact get yourself killed.
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+1

A few seconds of lost temper and gratifying destruction could very easily cost you your life if they swing into you immediately after you break their mirror or if they chase you down (or if they are the type, the next rider to pass them could bear the brunt of your actions), it's simply not worth it!
 
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m0moma said:
pop a wheelie and maybe your front tire will land on top of his mirror causing it to break off haha
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LOL that's messed up :laughing :laughing



I was just thinking. When I was down in San D visiting my brother, he told me that when somebody does stupid shit in front of him or cuts him off, he chucks these silver golf ball sized metal balls out from his sunroof and be crackin windows!!:wow He wears his special chucking leather gloves while he does this. I was like dude you gotta stop that shit, cus that shit will come back and bite you in the ass. He said he will try to stop, but it's gonna be hard and we laughed. But seriously, doing things like that only causes you to get yours 10Xs worse. Plus it's not good anyway, just gotta let shit go...whatever happened to morals?
 
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Once again, please remember Julius Long:

'Road Rage' Driver Jailed, His truck killed motorcyclist
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, February 17, 2001

Declaring that "road rage is out of control in our society," a San Mateo County Superior Court judge yesterday sentenced a man to nine months in jail for running over and killing a motorcyclist he had argued with minutes earlier.

Gerald Neal Bowen, 53, who had pleaded no contest in November to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, tearfully apologized yesterday to the family of Oakland motorcyclist Julius Long, 49, who died on Skyline Drive near Westridge Avenue in Daly City on Christmas Eve, 1999.

"There is no possible way I could convey the sorrow I know this caused to your family," Bowen said to Long's family and friends, who sat on one side of Judge Robert Foiles's Redwood City courtroom, while more than 30 of Bowen's friends and family packed the other side.

"There's not a day that goes by that I do not feel immense sorrow and immense responsibility," Bowen said sobbing. "I am sorry, Mrs. Long."

According to court records, Bowen was following his daughters' car the day of the accident when he saw the two young women exchanging vulgar hand signs with two motorcyclists. Bowen caught up to the bikers at a stop light, where he exchanged words with Long. Some witnesses also reported that Long kicked Bowen's truck.

Witnesses gave somewhat conflicting reports about what happened next, with some accusing Bowen of driving aggressively, even trying to strike Long. Other witnesses said Long was the aggressor, and continued to kick Bowen's truck as they sped down the road, although some said it looked like Long was just trying to keep the truck at a distance.

Long was passing Bowen on the left when the two vehicles collided, and Long's bike slid under Bowen's truck. The full-size, extended cab pickup ran over the bike, then ran over Long, who died at the scene.

The accident was commemorated a week later by a memorial run of 300 bikers, who donned orange arm bands and retraced Long's last ride. Long's family filed a civil action against Bowen, which his insurance company settled for $500,000, according to his attorney, Jeffry Glenn.

Yesterday, Glenn asked Foiles to sentence his client to community service, citing Bowen's complete lack of a criminal record, his long career with Pacific Bell -- where he was demoted as a result of his arrest and the subsequent suspension of his driver's license -- and his decorated voluntary military service in Vietnam.

"This is a good man who was involved in a terrible, terrible tragedy which was a terrible, terrible accident," Glenn said. Bowen has always denied hitting Long intentionally.

But prosecutors and Kenneth Collins of San Francisco, who said he was riding with Long the day he died, called for a more severe sentence, both to balance Long's death and to send a message to the driving public.

"People who don't ride have to realize that an auto or a truck is a deadly weapon out there," Collins said. "If you swerve your car at someone, it's like taking out a gun and taking a shot."

Foiles agreed, sentencing Bowen to nine months in county jail and three years of supervised probation.

"There can only be one loser when a full-size pickup plays chicken with a motorcycle, and I think that was foreseeable," he said.
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Thanks.
 
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