Just this last New Year's eve:
I was coming back home from hanging with one of my buds at the local microbrewery early in the evening... I was on Carbon Conyon Road- a really nice winding road, mostly do-able at around 60 mph without pushing it too much, when I come up behind a new, big Range Rover with a guy and his old lady, about early-50ish, (like me- and too old to be fighting, but s&!t happens). He's going slow, like he's looking for a turn-off or address, or something, braking intermittently and falling far behind the cars ahead of him.
I honk, or actually beep, him as I go by, and think nothing more of it for a while- I'm just enjoying the ride thru this nice canyon, and I slow a little to catch up with the cars in front as slowly as possible, since we're now approaching the 'S" turns near the houses, and there's no way to pass there, anyway. I see the guy behind me, way back, causing a problem for the cars behind him, and forget about him.
As we get thru the 'S' turns at about 30 mph, this guy catches up with me, and it seems he's now very pissed, tailgating me, and actually starts honking his horn...! I flip him a certain hand gesture, and he starts tailgating me about 1 to 2 feet behind my bike! We're now in the regular part of the canyon. I slow down and stop, and go walking back to his car, where he has the window rolled up, the lights on inside and I yell at him, asking what the hell he's trying to do.
At this time, his old lady comes out of her side, and starts pushing me, and the guy comes out and takes a swing at me. I don't know if he hit my helmet, or just I ducked enough, but I grabbed him, stepped back, and threw him on the ground, twisting him over my leg, and commenced hitting him in the head a couple dozen times...
His old lady kept trying to pull my head off by pulling on my helmet until I twisted around and tried to pull her with my legs over the embankment that we were perched over. I didn't succeed but at this point she stopped and shrieked something , and I got up. She started to yelling at me " You f***ing a$$#@le" And I said " Why? because I passed you? Are you guys nuts?" They stopped, and reflected for a moment, then bailed, and so did I, bystanders gaping in disbelief.
Looking back, it was kind of funny. It was a total brawl. I was pretty much unharmed except that I banged and bloodied my knee a bit.
Next time, though, I'll just pass the cars ahead to get away from the wackos behind and avoid the whole thing. We probably would have ended up in a giant legal entanglement had we stuck around...
