Do you mean people screaming and honking their horns? Nope. Bad drivers doing stupid mistakes due to frustration/rage, definitely.

A lot of car drivers are complete knackers, I think twice about hurling abuse now in case they come and stab me.

You do right,

I myself refrain from responding to other drivers stupidity but am prepared to use my 'STOP-LOCK' steering lock (which is solid metal) as a weapon if the need arises!!

Definitely!:D

I witnessed it sometimes. Last time some wacko wanted to start at my father because we were driving through a monitored tunnel at 70kph which was speedlimit and he wanted to overtake us. He did it throught the right lane and suddenly hitted brakes and then pulled off. When we arrived at the lights on the end of the tunnel, he was waiting there for green. My father just smiled at him and waved his hand at him to greet him. That wacko got out of a car and wanted to come up. But just in that time green light came on and we pulled off. I just heard a horn behind us, when the drivers behind this wacko wanted to go.

Oh by the way, that Stop Lock is not a bad idea.

Yeah I found your driving quite interesting. When we were in Greece, we rented a car. That man from car rental showed us maybe more thant three times where the horn is

Also I found out, that in most case the one who horns first goes first throught the crossroad.

I don't know if this counts as road rage, but it was certainly violence. This happened to me about 90 minutes ago (1:30 am).

I was on my way home from work, which is a petrol station in the city. I was riding my motorbike down a main road, when I spotted two dark green rubbish bins (the kind with wheels on them) pushed out onto the road about 100m apart from each other. Since they are dark and can be easily missed... er... hit, I thought I'd do the right thing and take them off the road. So I pulled over and started putting the rubbish back into the first bin. Next thing I know, from around the corner, a male and female in their early 20s appeared, both yelling and carrying on at me, trying to pick a fight. He was holding an empty beer bottle by the neck. They were closer to my bike than I was, but i managed to get on it and start it up. As I tried to get away, he pushed me off the bike. He was still carrying on, pushing himself and the bottle against me, before I told him that a hit from my gloves would hurt quite a bit. If you've ever seen proper motorbike gloves, you would have noticed the conveniently integrated knuckle dusters. This just made him more agressive, so I gave him a carbon-fibre knuckle sandwich in an attempt to neutralise him. This only flared him up even more. He must have been drunk. As I ran to the traffic island (his girlfriend in pursuit), he went around the corner and broke the bottle and headed in my direction. I managed to flag down a helpful motorist who called the police emergency number and allowed me to sit in his car. Next thing the cops are there and all these spectators come out from nowhere. I gave a quick statement, got on the bike (minus a broken helmet visor) and rode home.

There was this other time at work when two cars collided and I tried to mediate, but then one of them suddenly came at me with a wheel brace that happened to be located between the driver's seat and driver's side door. I wonder what that was doing there? Fùcking hot-head Italian Godfather wannabe.

EDIT: As far as carrying weapons is concerned, don't do it. They don't give you an advantage. They can be turned against you. Don't let your pride kill you. The best thing you can do is make your best attempt to get away from the scene.

It's time for me to take up martial arts of some kind. I feel kind of silly not being able to defend myself properly. I've always avoided fights. This is the first time I've punched anyone.

miran: if I were you, I'd not know what to do also.
Steve: so basically don't play a goodman again next time, just pass away and ride straight home.

Steve++, don't worry about martial arts - just learn how to bust someone's knees with a quick kick - that'll stop them in their tracks, and their screaming will put doubt in anyone else's mind

Yes, violent, but someone's after you with a broken bottle, then tough shit to them.

For the record, I've never been in a brawl either, and don't intend to.

And the boot moved to the other foot. Rather than there being idiot cyclists, there are now moronic drivers

Eh? Please expand on that - I'm genuinely curious

Are all your experience with bikes has been bad ones? I've got a RockHopper for mountain biking and a 10 year old GT timberline for commuting, and no problems.