Bullshit. I never said anything near that. I simply called out douchebag rationalization when I saw it.

yeah, that’s true. But—and especially on motorcycles—it’s better to be safe than sorry. If you think he’s being a dickbag, expect maximum dickbagness all the way through.

Exactly what’s on video? The fact that the car swerved? Yes.

If he did swerve just for the deliberate purpose of fucking with the biker, then yes.

Whether we ride or not, the laws still apply. Unless the motorcyclist can demonstrate extenuating circumstances, there are several illegal activities that can and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law:

so, your attitude is that laws are to be considered as suggestions, not followed.

The driver going 20 under is not a dangerous situation. What it is, clearly, is an inconvenience to you and to this biker—an inconvenience that you feel ENTITLED not to “suffer”. So you will rationalize it to be “a danger” and use that rationalization to do whatever the fuck it is you want to do, in traffic.

Now turn that attitude around and think like a driver who sees nothing but asshattery from every biker he encounters. “Now put up with this for decades”.

Dude, that wasn’t a ‘pass’. Both of those riders were straight-up driving on the wrong side of the road. Sorry, but being on a bike doesn’t give you carte blanche to do whatever you want if traffic isn’t moving fast enough for you. A quick pass is one thing, but that’s not what we saw here. They were trying to pass…

“1) double yellow areas are designed for cars”

Percentage-wise, a driver using a car as a weapon is a man-bites-dog story. Percentage-wise, a biker being an asshole in traffic is <yawn, another one>.

You’re about the fourth person to ask that question based on my calling out the douchebag rationalization.

I’m saying you are not entitled, by law, to make that decision. You break the law at your own risk.

The double yellow dicates that, by definition, there is no safe margin.

I know the laws for “slower traffic keep right” exist. That doesn’t mean on a two lane road that the “cager” is obligated to pull over for anyone.

And plenty of people have had douches on bikes fuck with them while they drive their cars. And both bikers and drivers have had truckers fuck with them by going slow.

1) double yellow areas are designed for cars

Utter nonsense. He didn’t need to do anything to get away from a “dangerous situation.” He got impatient behind a slow car and broke the law. He passed in a no passing area with clear double yellow lines, and passed very close to a car that by all rights should not be expecting him to pass. It’s completely fathomable…

“Wah, he’s driving slow, I’m ENTITLED not to be stuck behind him, so I can do whatever I want” and then trying to rationalize that under “sometimes you have to break the law, like when your life is in danger”—that’s selfish douchebag rationalization right there.

So it comes down to The Law vs. common sense, being stuck behind a slow car in the twisties for 15 miles till the next actual passing zone, stuff like that.