How I avoided getting into a road rage today thanks to Team-BHP

I parked my motorcycle in the middle of the road, put the side stand down, got off and went towards the Tata Ace.

BHPian nasirkaka recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

Team-BHP saved me from almost getting into a road rage.

I was on my way to work this morning, riding on a motorcycle. On a relatively empty Bommasandra-Jigani road, a Tata Ace almost hit me.

The road has some large potholes spread across many sections. I was riding peacefully when the Tata Ace approached me from my left and suddenly swerved right to avoid a pothole. In this process, he almost hit me, only to be saved by my guardian angels.

I got angry and overtook, asking him to stop. Parked the bike in the middle of the road, put the side stand down, got off and went towards the Tata Ace.

Yesterday I was reading some posts on this thread, and some of them played on my mind on how not to lose cool and get into trouble. The Tata Ace driver was a young guy who looked sorry for his rash manoeuvre and mumbled some excuse. I was wearing riding gear, so I would have looked intimidating as well. I tried keeping my cool and told him to drive carefully, as such moves could have easily tossed me off the bike. Meanwhile, many vehicles piled up at the back and started honking for blocking their way. I got on the bike and rode on.

If it was not for spending some time on this thread yesterday, things could have gone differently. All is well that ends well.

In retrospect, if the road did not have large potholes, the Tata Ace guy would not have done that rash manoeuvre and would have driven straight. A lot of accidents and reasons for road rash are also related to bad infrastructure like bad roads, no street lights, unscientific speed breakers, haphazard diversions and bottlenecks, etc.

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