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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Same thing for bicyclists. In my country long standing senators and senior police officials have said to media they’re ‘cockroaches of the road’, certainly helps fan the flames.
It’s an us v them depersonalised kind of mentality, mouth breathing fuckwits don’t see someone’s brother/father/husband instead it’s (motor)cyclist.
Great Analogy with the Darkest Dungeon! 😀
Hey, Step Brother. Nice video, Step Brother.
In the dystopian kingdom of Britain, bikes don't seem to be such a lightning rod for road rage …. although I do live in a relatively rural area so that might warp my view on the matter one thing is for certain most people I know agree that lycra wearing cyclists are cunts although again this may be due to the area of the world I live in
Very interesting topic and incredibly well researched and treated.
Driving might be like drinking for some, they either get angry or happy. I would be the latter type, I don't think I have ever flipped more than 5 people. The only time I can remember being an eldely driver that gave me finger after dangerously cutting me off, reacting like I was the one in the wrong. I don't even rev bomb when annoyed (it only happens on false neutral), I only express myself by doing a quick overtake to express the superiority of the bikes, or maybe to just get away from an idiot.
Most of this is due to the fact that drivers around here are mostly patient and polite: they often give space when they see a bike coming behind, to make overtaking them easier, they don't get pissed off when we filter and they get stuck in traffic. Not many reasons to get upset usually.
When driver do something stupid, it's mostly by mistake. I recently had a road traffic collision (oncoming car turning cut my way at night) and found an interesting reading I was forced to stay at home. It's fairly interesting as it explains the behaviours we can often see on the road:
Why Do Drivers Pull Out in Front of Motorcyclists? (Motorcycle Accident Reconstruction)
https://www.nathanarose.com/blog/2018/3/5/why-do-drivers-pull-out-in-front-of-motorcyclists
I also remember reading somewhere how the difference of reactions between bikers and drivers could possibly be explained: in their car, they're enclosed in a shell or cocoon, they feel protected and so they treat it like an extension of their home, and no one likes to be annoyed at home. As for us, bikers, we're always exposed and conscious of it, our anger might be especially triggered when made to feel vulnerable after something happens on the road. This kind of clashes with the feeling when get when riding, like a cold shower of reality.
We could add one last category, the drama bitches that do it for the views, escalading any minor situations as much as they can.
Congrats if you read everything up to here, so now a little question: why did you use a piano music for the background soundtrack? 😀
Hahaha! My own cognitive bias made it into the video!
Thank you for making this video, I need to take some time to think about what I have been doing on the road.
Is there seriously a question here as to why so much rage is directed by otherwise-normal drivers at motorcyclists? How about bad behavior on the biker's part? How about lane splitting when there's almost no room to fit through, or buzzing around a car in groups, a couple in front, some either side and some others following? Some of that plus an obvoiusly entitled attitude will tick off almost anyone. Movements of cars are mostly somewhat predictable. Cyclists seem to take pride in being all over the place and stressing out drivers of cars in this way. Dial it back, bikers.
I’m not gonna lie, I have road raged against a motorcycle. I wanna say he started it by cutting me off and it ended with him smacking my mirror. (Didn’t break) but after that I wanted to run him over but then I realized how much of an over reaction it would be. Road rage ending in a crash is the equivalent of hurting/killing someone while walking through a hallway because they were walking too slow or they came out of another room too fast and disturbed your walking speed
Couldnt watch more than 13:10 👎 first dislike