Do you take offense that you're called a "Cager"

I have a DesmoNorthwest sticker on my car. That and I'm always looking out for riders, I give them room and a nod.

And I like to think I can spot them, they normally give me room and often a nod when I'm on my bike.

 

Being called a cager and taking offense is a first world problem for those with no lives.

 

When I drive a car I'm in a cage, the shoe fits so I'm gonna wear it. That said, I try not to be an inconsiderate cager, be it interacting with motorcyclists, bicyclists or any other vehicle, including the other cagers. In fact, I think that's the most important thing about driving is remembering that your dealing with people operating machines, not the machines themselves, and every operator is equally likely to be a dangerous bastard with a hard on to cause an accident. Watch out for everybody is what I'm sayin' and don't stress about how some other operator is labeling you.

 

No

 

The word Cager instills the "them and us" mindset that is so much bullshit because the bulk of us here own both, this time of the year you can find me in my Honda.

 

no one has had the nerve to call me that to my face..:thefinge:

idiot..dumb censored:..stupid mothercensored:..sure but never cager:mfclap:

 

Hell i call myself cager when I'm in a car. No offense taken one bit. Anyone who gets bent outta shape by being called something like that needs to chill out a bit.

 

Your momma wears army boots.

 

This.

"Trusting" someone because they put a sticker on their car is a dumb idea. I've known a lot of morons that ride bikes... And whether or not someone is a rider has no bearing on excluding them from normal threat/error management. Excluding or disregarding any potential threat is a bad, bad idea.

 

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:shock:some peoples kids

 

It seems as tho the OP does in fact take offense to the moniker of cager. Sorry boss but you're one. I base this off of 2 things:

1: you have a state issued driver's license to operate a motor vehicle with 4 or more wheels and unless NV or ID do something different, said license carries a motorcycle endorsement which you can't otherwise have. You had to drive a "cage" at some point to get that license. Unless you're riding illegally, which I don't find likely.

2: I find it impossible to believe that you NEVER get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle having 4 or more wheels and operate it on public roadways EVER.

At any rate, everyone has got to drive every once in a while for whatever reason making everyone a "cager". I don't take offense. Its part of life and when you get down to brass tacks, who cares.

The reality is everyone needs to take a turn at attentiveness, alertness, courtesy and manners no matter what they are operating on public roads.

Riding CAN make a person a bit more of all of the above but doesn't mean it DOES.

 

I drive a convertible, so it's not a cage - if I flip, I die. It's... I dunno... a half-cage? a tub? a bucket?

 

I drive my car to work 95% of the time cuz of the weather and the crap I need to take back and forth with me. Occasionally in life I have been forced to not have a motorcycle, sad but how it had to be for a while. I CANNOT be without a car.

 

I pay additional attention to M/C riders when in car, since I know their issues so well.
And I don't hear the term "cager" until I'm on the internet.


So the thread contrast, driving vs. internet, doesn't compute.

 

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