When the "flashing the brake lights" trick doesn't work for me, I try this:
While maintaining safety, I turn around (as much as possible) and eyeball the cage driver, and then point at him/her and then give a "stop" hand gesture (nothing offensive).
That tends to work a lot for me.
Or you could have a mattress handy to take care of the tailgating offender...
>>I was in the car pool lane during heavy rush hour traffic. All four lanes were moving though about 75 mph. The car pool lane was not very congested but I had a car in front about 2 seconds and a guy on my rear about a car length back that would not give me space no matter what. Traffic to the right was waaay to thick to merge over and let the nut by so I just gritted my teeth knowing I was not in a good place. Suddenly the car in front of me taps his brakes and swerves over to the right into a small slot and at the same time I see a full sized mattress dead ahead. Stood up and hammered it and the KLR went over pretty easy. I checked my mirror and saw the tail gater spinning out against the divider wall with lots of smoke and stuffing flying around.
<< (storyfrom Face Plant section of advrider.com)
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