If you ride a motorcycle with any frequency, you’ll inevitably realize that somehow that your bike acts like a magnet for anger and frustration of other drivers. You don’t have to do anything illegal or abnormal to invoke the wrath of those around you, why is that? What causes motorcycles to trigger such visceral aggression in other drivers? This video explains it all from the ground up.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:46 Road Rage Data Kinda Sucks
06:03 The Challenge of Defining Road Rage
09:36 Anger and Stress
11:43 Intermission
13:31 The Road Rage Cycle
17:14 Why Driving Makes Us So Angry
20:48 Mental Health
22:33 How Motorcycles Trigger Anger
27:01 How To Make Things Better
29:22 Outro
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I've found one of the main contributing factors in the UK to Road Rage (at least from experience) is nobody can every admit to being in the wrong and just say "sorry". I've had two memorable occassions riding down the road at the speedlimit (I commute to and from work) someone in a car has pulled out out on me. I beeped my horn, not an aggressive drawn out blast, but a beep to remind them to look before turning at a junction, the first lady slammed on her breaks and started screaming at me, saying it's my fault I almost T-boned her, for riding so damn fast. Now, that boiled my blood as it would anyone else, she almost caused an accident and blamed me for her lack of observation and judgement. The second occasion this happened, I eventually pulled up alongside the dude at the lights, he rolled down his window and apologised profusely – my anger instantly melted away and told him no problem, no harm. Sorry for the long story, but I think we all fall victim at one time or another feeling as though we have to defend our honor at all costs. If you fuck up, just say sorry – it's suprising how powerful that is at descalating a situation. It doesn't apply to just the road, how many people refuse to admit they are wrong (especially, deep down, they know it) – whether it's an argument with a loved one, or some guy on the internet?
How does this guy only have 6k subscribers..
okay I just found your channel and am learning alot from you since I just got my first bike. BUT FOR GOD SAKES YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC, ITS NOT 2009 ANYMORE, SERIOUSLY, I HAVE FRIENDS THAT MAKE BEATS I CAN HAVE THEM SEND YOU A FREE, ROYALTY FREE INSTRUMENTAL TO USE. okay sorry for ranting but I really do love your videos I've watched like 12 today
turns into a soy boi
thanks for throwing in some wheelie footage
I just came across your channel and oh my god! you're so underated for the work and time you put in these quality videos. Keep doing this , you're really great at it! Stay safe !
G'day mate, you know I enjoy these. Even I'm guilty of tribalism, although it's more within the motorcycling community itself. I still don't think scooters are bikes and I have a guarded approach to Harley's, yet the folk's who I actually know who own these are nice folk, so go figure.
As always you make some great points regarding road rage and the depth/ complexity of the problem, though IMHO a dictatorship is a better solution than communism. Lol. Seriously though, the fact that it is so complex and each person and their mood/stress/religion/bmi/etc. is unique means that there is almost no possibility of predicting the outcome nor having a strategy to deal with it effectively when it occurs. The only logical solution is to avoid it. Full stop.
I totally concur that road rage against motorcycles is 99.9% controlled by the rider. This isn't to say we are in the wrong (more likely we aren't), but our actions are almost always the trigger OR we choose to react. The other 0.1%? Well there's nothing we can do about angry koalas (to be fair they aren't that smart) I just hope the furry blur launching out of the bushes isn't a roo – or some semi-naked crazy running across a highway!
As you show in your last example, we generally get to choose whether we escalate situations or not. I'm neither lunatic nor slouch, but I can't think of any personal example of confrontational (person to person) road rage whilst on my bike. Yep I've had drivers do dumb-ass stuff and I'm no saint, but since I don't hit them then generally I'm long gone and they are long forgotten. I simply choose not to respond or escalate, though a head shake is usually an automated action!
But your post did make me look hard in the mirror. Ironically my own 'road rage' is more likely to occur when I'm in my car……usually because I'm stuck behind some slow-poke. I'm thinking owning a bike possibly magnifies this frustration, because normally these drivers are irrelevant – I just pass them. Hmmm.
But I also realised I get the s··ts with other riders doing dumb-ass things, especially squids, to the point where I'm feeling like winding down the window and saying something.
Yet I never think that with other drivers.
I know the logic and the reasoning (education/safety), but when writing this out realise it's simply not my role (nor right) to do this – for riders OR car drivers.
So in summary I really enjoy your longer posts, because they make me analyse and think critically about my own attitudes when on the road – which ultimately is probably the solution to not just road rage, but everything. 42 🙂
Successful de-escalation aka bikers running away like the pussies they are after destroying property
Great Video unfortunately road rage happen a lot when on a bike I mean any Bike or even a push scooter lol – some drivers should not even have a licence – I could have been nearly killed by 2 one a van driver rushing in the wet lost control and smashed into my motorbike on my side of the road another a Merc who lost control and pinned me and my bicycle to a granite wall – road rages happen every so often especially when a driver is stuck in traffic and you whizz past them – one of the funniest ones was when a guy raced and over took me and I him constantly down an open road I gave in 5 minutes later a police bike came the opposite way and kind of gave me a look and smile was precious
only thing i dont like about bikers Is that when they want to lane split they think you're supposed to move out of the way or make room but screw that!!! in my book fucks that I'll run your ass over, I'm not gonna risk my driving and screw up just because I need to get out the way for some jackass who too impatient to wait behind a car like all other cars have too. when i rode my bike om the road i rarely lane split, most lane splitters will get in an accident one day.