"Since I'm going to turn left at the approaching intersection I start to accelerate in case the older gentleman ahead of me decides to do the same. After riding behind him in plain sight for a couple miles, I pull forward and as I do he drifts into my lane and forces me into the center turning lane(between the two sets of yellow center lanes). I lay on the horn right beside his door and he doesn't acknowledge me. I pull ahead and keep my eye on him in the mirror and he acts like nothing happened."
Are you sure he didn't see you, or just ignored you? We had a guy who was in his Eighties that rear-ended a friends son sitting at a stoplight on his sportbike, then pulled around him to get into the grocery store. Cops found him in the store shopping, he replied "what's the big deal? I have insurance."
Over 40 years of riding on all kinds of bikes, I have experienced quite a few people trying to run me off the road that weren't distracted by anything obvious, other than a supposed hatred of motorcyclists.
|