Give their rear window a little lovetap with the Freedom Hammer, and I guarantee that’s the last time they ever yell at a cyclist.
Previously:
Cyclists: What do you do when someone yells at you from their car?
58 Responses to “Cyclists: Something else you can do when someone yells at you from their car”
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you my friend, are an idiot.
you, my friend, fail at reading tags (and using commas)
I read the tag and still think you’re an idiot, though.
if you bait a bear, don’t be surprised if you get mauled
yes, it will be very difficult for me to recover from this “mauling”
someone should take one of those hammers to your head, asshole, and see how you recover
If they wanted people to read tags, why are they in the smallest font on the page?
it was mandated from one of our primary sponsors (who happens to be an optometrist) in an evil scheme to convince you all that you need glasses
hahahahaha
yes he is a complete idiot, but I guarantee there are cyclists out there who buy this weapon and use it.
Yeah but surely don’t think they’d buy this weapon only because this blog told them to?
Then that is when you get shot with another contraption with a hammer.
This is a good way to get someone really hurt or worse Andrew.
Um, pretty sure you have a bike lock in your back pocket that would probably work just as quickly as the FREEDOM HAMMER. No need to spend money on this silly shit.
Right? A half empty cup of coffee or handful of pennies works just as well.
It used to be called the FRENCH HAMMER.
+1, this joke never gets old for some reason
It’s actually pretty hard to break a tempered glass window. There are a couple of easy ways to do it, of which this is one, and spark plug ceramic is another (although it’s not that easy). I think a bike lock would be quite difficult tho. It’s surprising.
Who cares if someone is yelling at you? Fuck, don’t people know how to ignore each other any more?
Meh – tell it to the guy in the car yelling in the first place.
But then I wouldn’t be ignoring him.
And, probably you deserved to be yelled at.
So I can trash the bikes of the cyclists that’ve almost run me down in the crosswalk, right?… right?
You can push them out of the way to prevent them from running into you. Straight-arm them like Walter Payton, duh.
Yes. You can and should.
Oh yes. you can and you and we should. plus yell at them and call them hipster fuckwads.
if you’ve ever felt intimidated by a cyclist, then you are probably too much of a pussy to do anything about it. if a cyclist is coming at you, you have the right to push them over. you can do much more harm to someone on a bike than they can do to you as a pedestrian. they are balancing on two wheels and in a very vulnerable position. the same logic doesn’t apply to bike-car interactions; but i don’t think logic is really your game . . .
Didnt a bike rider kill a woman not to long ago?
Yup.
Didn’t a car kill a cyclist not too long ago? Today I’m guessing? If not today, then yesterday?
Thanks: Your reasoning is deeply at odds with the basic laws of physics. When a speeding metal bike frame encounters a soft flesh body, the metal bike frame is guaranteed to win.
Screw these wussies. I’m for it. Well, not really, but I don’t think your clearly-hyperbolic post does not require “oh no!” chastisement.
Hahaha. God bless you, Andrew.
Well at least we know these things work based on that one Mythbusters episode.
Someone I know has ridden with one of these for a while… don’t think he’s used it yet.
Yelling is not against the law, vandalism is. Some cyclists deserve to be yelled at!
good solution… advocate property damage and potential injuries to passenger in cars from flying glass (including children who are usually in back seat) – because someone yelled at a cyclist. You are indeed an idiot….
Awww did someone hurt your feelings because they yelled at a cyclist…..
If someone starts this cycle of violence they should expect a crowbar swung at their bike in return – and since you don’t seem to care about repercussions – if the cyclist gets hit well that’s just collateral damage.
Now I have another use for my steering wheel club.
touchy, touchy. i think your post made these two tear up a bit.
I don’t cry, I weep.
then i guess it’s ok to shove a steel pipe in their spokes. that works like it does in the movies, right? what with them face planting over the handlebars, yeah?
ooohhhh, you’re mean but I like you.
You guys are so Unfun.
exactly. save your anger for something serious and meaningful.
Pedestrians = Cyclists = Drivers
We’re all assholes. Move on…
OR a porcelain spark plug.
Start doing this and I’ll start carrying a stick for plunging in between spokes.
this is such a bad attempt at bicycling propaganda masquerading as humor, it’s the same brand of bad politicking as critical mass and occupy. i say this as a believer in bicycling, mass transit and occupy, that it pisses me off that outspoken bicyclists as a fair generalization really appear to celebrate their immaturity and do it publicly.
what is this, golden gate park circa 1969?
i’ve never yelled at a bicyclist, but, i have had my car broken into, and a tiny freakin window they broke cost me $700 to fix. the parallel to this post would be for me to “in good humor” say the next time a bicyclist yells at me, i go ruin $700-ish of his/her property.
there’s a term for this kind of behavior: scorched-earth. it’s immature and i naively hope for better of my fellow san franciscans.
OMG you guys, chill the f out. It’s funny.
Use your “Freedom Hammer” on my back window and we’ll see just how fast you can peddle… I bet my .45 projectile can travel faster than your legs will move your a$$!
If you really want to ride your bicycle on the city streets, then do the same things an auto driver must do; get a license, carry minimum insurance, and have the vehicle registered with the city/state and display a license. If you don’t wish to do those things then keep your bicycle OFF the street!
Hey if that was the LAW, people would do that -but it ISN’T.
BTW it’s spelt ‘Pedal’ and you don’t have a .45 anyway, just a keyboard, and you’re not afraid to use it.
Break my window and better be able to outrun a bullet
OH NOES! INTERNET GUNSLINGER!
I once threw a cable box at a car that almost ran me over while walking across the street. It bounced off their driver side window and they never got out to face me. He stopped moving though. He was scared and i lived It was awesome.
Even in jest, this is the wrong sentiment. The comments of the folks in this thread just goes to show you how many mentally unstable drivers there are on the road around here who have sociopathic fantasies about causing injury or death to anyone who happens to be on a bicycle.
Furthermore we live in a car-centric city in a car-centric country where drivers have free reign to kill and injure pedestrians and cyclists at will without any real consequences. Even Joshua Calder, who was caught red handed drunk and high killing a cyclist with his car and then trying to cover it up, still walks (and drives) the streets with a fair shot at walking away with no jail time.
Drivers can kill you here, don’t give them a reason to.
Passive aggressive hipster. What is this, Thunderdome? Get a life.
Seriously, if you pull this kind of crap, with your special little hipster windowbreaking hammer, I sincerely hope the first person you try it on stomps on their brakes, jumps out of their car and pummels you into a bloody heap on the pavement like you’re asking for. Because they hurt your tiny little feelings by yelling at you. If you’re going to ride in SF, you’re going to need to man up a bit.
does anyone need to yell?
does anyone need to ride a bike?
why complicate matters with such formalities?
lets just get drunk and smash some car windows!