Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

Get an action cam or two and give the footage to the met roadsafe.
There is no point confronting unless you want a fight, almost zero confrontations with drivers driving like dicks has ended with them being calm and recognising they were driving like a dick.
So it's not going to change their behaviour one bit.
A fine/points from met roadsafe might.

^this.

I always try and avoid confrontations as it never resolves anything and just leaves me feeling wound up further along the ride, leaving my mind more likely to wander back to the incident.... distracting from the parked car about to pull out suddenly / peds derping into the road etc.

confront, but make sure you have your backroad escape planned well in advance. One way streets / dead ends / station bridges / subways etc.

feelsgoodman/10

'you need to slow the fuck down mate'

Yeahbut this is antagonisation. If you are going to say something, I'd be inclined to offer something neutral, Are you OK? maybe but even that's a bit 'u ok hun'.

Safest just to camera and report to the police.

On a side note, had some chap (it's always....mostly a chap) fly up behind me revving his engine yesterday who then essentially bullied me out of his way. Karma delivered however when he got stuck on our one way street behind one of those curious communal bus type things that had stopped to pick up some old dear. Considered giving a cheery wave as I passed him and slipped through but thought no, so just had a little smile instead as I looked back as they laboured the process of loading wheel chair granny.

You're on a bike - they're in a ton of metal. For the outcome it just isn't worth it. They're unlikely to have a sudden epiphany about respecting other road users and that is your best case scenario.

It's actually really fucking awkward when they frown and then apologise. I've had this happen. Did I feel better? Nope.

Fuck em up

Fuck em up

The air would positively bristle whenever a cab pulled up to drop a passenger off outside LMNH in the summer when everyone was in the little courtyard and cyclists actually socialised there.

I think the fact he was using his car physically against me, coupled with his extreme rage, and coupled with my lack of a D-Lock did make me re-think my decision-making process. As I said I missed the red flags that indicated he was already in psycho-mode, I just lit the fuse.

While I am certain the better course of action is cameras and non-confrontation, I am also certain I am a stubborn cunt that doesn’t react well to provocation who rarely learns his lesson.

Apart from leaving the D-Lock at home that is. Never again.

When you've been given a fright, primal mode takes over, and who you really are comes out, and most blokes instinct is to fight fire with fire. Pretty natural imo.

Still, keep trying. Maybe some day you'll reach a level of zen so powerful that nothing will fuck up your chill

Its a nice dream.

Though I was thinking about MrSweary's attack, I mean he just put his hand up after a close pass. That was obviously a very extreme reaction to that, but it is equivalent to saying don't ever disagree with anyone because they might have a gun and shoot you with it. I mean at the end of the day you have to stand up for yourself, an angry hand wave after a close pass is very justified: if they are looking it will inform the driver they made you uncomfortable but more traffic behind you see it and 9 times out of ten pass you with much more space afforded you. Drivers can't have some free pass for driving dangerously around us just because one of them might be mentally unbalanced enough to use their vehicle as a weapon.

Met police are going to prosecute white van man.

Pretty impressed with road safe so far.

I just read somewhere 3 out of 4 insurers will decline cover with a CU80 conviction. I'm not sure if that's true, you'd have to play around with a quote engine.

Most intermediaries will decline to cover by the time you're up to XX80. Any significant endorsement usually requires a check with the insurer...

Good news!
I really need to get some cameras.

I feel there's a story here about hammering frozen sausages into the lawn. Is there?

Did you get the plates?

I've got so many cases of close passes and arsehats leaning on the horn taking off from lights, etc. on video I'm just copying them to my PC and doing nothing with them. It would be much simpler to just remove the eyeballs of drivers. They'd never present me another problem then. Lasers!

Nope, all happened too fast. I remember the wing of his car pressing into my leg, a face contorted in anger through a half-opened window getting coated with saliva from the inside and the squeal of his wheels as he shot off. I wonder if he turned left so I didn't have chance to get his number.

I've had a couple of racer boyz do that in the last few months (both blue beemers - maybe they're trying to claw back arsehole driving title from the Audis?). The neat thing is they've both had personalised plates so very fucking easy for me to report them.

It's the ones that I know I've got on video but just can't be fucked downloading it, sifting through it and then reporting them.

This reminded me to complete the form for a nasty piece of vanity-plate asshattery last night. Let's see what comes of it.

Search Google or check out the Bastard Neighbors thread :)

Wheeling my bike out of my house, I noticed a 4x4 approaching at speed. My street is extremely narrow and in a 20mph zone. Instinctively I put out my hand and touched the window as he passed. I don’t know why.

He stopped and enquired with some force as to what my game was. I explained that, in a residential street not much wider than wing mirror width, at school time, in the rain, I thought 40mph was a little excessive.

His measured response that he was accelerating to pass me so he didn’t have to stop and that anyway I should fuck off and mind my own business made me laugh. This did not please him.

He informed me that if I touched his car again he would feel obliged to fuck me up. I responded that if he returned to my street at high speed he would certainly feel the wrath of my fingers again. This also was not met favourably.

I had unlocked a car to get something out of it, so Detective Dickwad inferred that this was my car. He asked me if it was my car. I replied that it was my car.

He politely informed me that he would be back later to trash my car.

He did not come back.

I'm going with Howard's advice and smoking weed instead

:')