If it is possible, pull over and let them go by. You will be saving your XB from a possible rear ender. Tailgaters think they have super reaction time abilities, but we know better. One wrong move on thier part and....your XB pays the price. Let them go by. Don't let yourself become angry and pull a brake check, that will definitly be putting the tailgaters skills to a test and you might not like the results. The way things are today, you never know who is following you, or if that person has a gun to get back at you for the brake check. Road rage is an epidemic in the US and tailgaters are the no. 1 cause. Let them go by and let the next person in front of you deal with it instead of you. It won't make you a lesser person and your Xb will appreciate it.

 

Yesterday a woman in an SUV was tailgating a motorcyclist here. At a stoplight he got off the bike and went back to the SUV, whereupon she pulled out a gun and shot him "in self defense".
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/...WS02/806180870

Trucks and SUVs tailgate my xB because I don't accelerate wastefully and the little car probably ____es them off, but I would not ever get involved with them. Many of them are armed. Recently we had two armed SUV drivers pull guns on each other, and the one who fired shot up the other badly.

 

dang that sucks. one time a chick almost hit me on my bike while on the freeway. i had to kick her driver door so she would realize i was RIGHT THERE.

this makes me want to just slam on the brakes instead next time. but then again, i could get rear ended then. guess it's a lose-lose situation for motorcyclists :-(

i hope that chick gets hit HARD with legal reprimand.

 

I get tailgated all the time, I also thought I was the only one.

When I am on just a two-laned road and Im doing the speed limit, and then someone tailgates me I slow to a crawl sometimes. I just engine brake. If They really ____ my off then I brake check, but not enough to try to get rear-ended, I love my box too much. If Im in the fast lane then I just move over.

One time, I was about to exit a highway to get onto the interstate and an douche in an expedition was behind me. I slowed for the off-ramp and then this guy shoots onto the off ramp, not allowing me to get on. So I gunned it, and cut him off. Then I slowed down to 5mph. Oh man did the make him mad. This was also a fairly long off ramp. When I was about to hit the interstate, I gunned it to 70mph, he passed me as soon as he could, and I was laughing.

I sometimes tailgate people when they cut ,e off and then dont maintain speed. I ride them until they move or I have to leave.

 

I have the perfect fix for tailgaters

AIR SUSPENSION!!!!!

If im getting tailgated ( and they have to be really close for me to do this) ill set my foot on the brake just enough to turn the brake lights on then hit the rear switches. when the rear end jumps up six inches and the lights come on they think i just locked up my brakes and they FREAK!
I actually had one guy in an 80's Comaro try to "push" me out of his way on the freeway and when he started honking ( i was already doing about five over) i pulled this on him. He locked up his brakes so hard he about disapeared in a cloud of smoke and slid off onto the shoulder.

 

too funny^^^^^

 

I'm regretting not brake checking a cop about 6 months back, he came up on me at well over 90 and rode my bumper for about 8 miles, then flew past me like I was standing still, only to lock his brakes up, and spin his car around so he could "look cool" in another county(not his own) when he pulled into the gas station at over 80 mph

 

thats funny!!!

 

 

Some maniac in a Mazda 6 was tailgaiting me the other day on the way home, being really aggressive about it, following me from lane to lane.

Finally I got into the left lane and he pulled to the middle to pass and I did the "Top Gun" on him:

"I'll hit the brakes and he'll fly right by!"

*edited* Apparently the board won't let me say @$$h0l3

 

bag it then drag it (with drag..."cheater"...blocks of course) - scares the crap outta the tailgater and they will eventually go around. but like everyone else does, slowing down way below the speed limit helps too!

 

I havent read all the posts in this thread but I too get tailgated every work day...for two years. My solution...who cares who's behind you (unless its a two lane highway, 1 lane each direction, here in texas you have to get out of the way unless you're driving the speed limit or you can get a ticket for impeding traffic). If you can get away with it just turn your rear view mirrow up or down so you cant see who's behind you and........relaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaax! =D.

 

Usually I just tap the brakes enough to trigger the lights. If they are being extra annoying, like flashing brights, it is usually the same time I realize my windshield needs a cleaning. The amount of fluid the XB pumps out always makes them back off, and use their wipers to clear it.

I don't know what some people's problems are they have to tailgate in their oversized SUVs and act like complete jerks. They try to intimidate people out of their way with large vehicles, as if they are going to ram you. I'll be doing the speed the flow of traffic is, which is usually a tad over the limit, and they still come up behind you expecting you to move out of their way while you are boxed in with the rest of traffic.

Honestly, I see no reason for such large gas guzzling vehicles on the road unless your job requires it. But hey, they are the ones getting 19 mpg or way less.

 

Some people are just a little well...off.

There's a 2-lane highway by my house where 35 is the speed limit. If you go over that, you will hit a red light in the next quarter mile (there's like 10 of these along the highway). Once you brake, you'll usually force everyone else in your lane to brake.

Yet you get anxious tailgaters on this road all the time. It's unbelievable how little sense people make.

 

Last summer I gave a guy the finger for tailgating me. He responded by plowing into the back of my car.

It was a sh:tty old Volkswagen Golf - uh, I mean TDI - and probably the only thing on the road smaller than the box, but it did sufficient damage.

It did a lot MORE damage to his insurance rates and driving record, of course, but I have to imagine he didn't have the best record to begin with.

But BE CAREFUL HOW YOU RESPOND TO THESE IDIOTS. If they are willing to risk killing themselves to get 4 feet closer to their destination they are stupid and irrational right off the bat. And if you do get hit, sue the crap out of them...worked for me.

 

oh trust me, I want to, the ones I wanna do that to are usually the dicks on bikes doing 100 in a 15

 

Y'all worry too much. Just drive.

 

If someone is right up on me and won't back down, I will usually just downshift and use the engine compression to brake... that has some funny results sometimes...

 

I try not to sweat it. If it's really bad, I will slow down some or pull off so they pass. I WOULD like to rig up the super soaker mod though so I could squirt them.

I used to do the brake check crap, but a few years ago, there was a story on the news about someone who did that. The guy he brake checked followed him till he stopped, pulled out a crossbow, and shot him. I was like WTF?! who just carries a crossbow??

 

BMP round here its not crossbows you need to worry about its rifles and unliscensed automatics