If people on bikes were made to follow the letter of every traffic law and regulation, I'd still be at the top of my street, waiting for a green light to turn left onto the main road, as that light isn't triggered by motorcycles. One has to read the given traffic situation and react accordingly, and as for a "bad…

What the driver did was, in terms of potential outcomes, was no different than pulling out a handgun and firing. Anything the biker did was completely separate from the auto driver, and would be dealt with separately in legal proceedings.

And in your view that makes it okay for a driver to try to kill the rider, eh?

So again, a bike passing on a double yellow with a safe margin harms who?

The short answer is the rider shouldn’t have been passing on double yellow, but the driver is in the wrong. If the driver has a problem with it, they should write down the bike’s license plate and report them.

That does not give anybody the right to run somebody off the road. Even the police would not stop a pursuit of a motorcyclists that way.

Who cares if the motorcyclist was wrong. That doesn’t give the driver of the car permission to try to use lethal force to stop him.

Sure, it was against the letter of the law to pass on double yellow (and I do ride), but I have had douches in cars fuck with me just because I am on a motorcycle. That car driver tried to kill them. If it had been a police officer on the motorcycle, the person driving the car would have been tased or shot for assault…