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As a daily motorcycle rider, things are much, much different for us than for you cagers in how we deal with aggressive drivers.

First, I can't call 911 if someone is following me and using their car in an aggressive manner. Second, a person's car can be used as a weapon much more easily and to much more disastrous affect against a motorcycle than against most other cars.

With that said, there have been a few times where I was in a similar situation with someone obviously not going to quit following me until 1) I pulled over, or 2) they ran me over/off the road with their car. And I'd rather not have them follow me home or to my place of employment. Nor do I want them to continue to endanger me while I ride (I've had people intimate that they were going to use their car as a deadly weapon against me while riding before), or endanger other drivers around us.

In these situations, if I can not SAFELY maneuver away from them (which, even on my giant cruiser, is usually pretty easy to do), I will pull over, dismount and stand between the person and my bike, and prepare for confrontation. I'm a really big guy, who looks like the kind of biker most reasonable folk would rather not confront or mess with. So I assume anybody who would recklessly follow me, pull over with me, and get out of their car to come at me is not of sound mind and is intent on trouble.

For those of us on bikes, sometimes the only way to deal with road ragers is to pull over.