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

That's about the best you can hope for in terms of a response I reckon. Glad they've understood exactly why their driver is a cnut.

That's a genuinely reassuring attitude. Which bus company?

Wow, I'm actually quite impressed.

Awesome, am impressed with that response.

My Saturday ride brought me off the Mendips into Shipham and then down towards Cheddar, I swung right onto the A371 and was heading out of Cheddar towards Axbridge being passed very nicely by cars and vans... until a large Sprinter van with sign writing all over it passed me at speed and with about a foot maybe less gap between me and him. Looking at my video his offside wheels do not cross the white lines. Amazingly, an hour or so later, nearly home I saw the van parked up, but did not stop as I knew I had him on camera. A&S Police have a new web page where you can report close passes and upload video... so I reported the b'stard and uploaded some video. Let's see what happens next.

Yeah a decent reply. It is StageCoachBus which runs the local Park and Ride. I am guessing the CCTV is pretty damning to have such a strong reply like that, and their description of it was exactly how I described it to them.

Gonna send them a thank you and stress how I just want their drivers to be safe around cyclists.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/45473316

Something, something, bloody motorcyclists...

Strange thread for this but reminded me of when we used to do this to each other as kids on our bicycles.
Motorbikes though at 130mph!!

Yeah you're right. I was going for the 'bad drivers' angle. F-ing scary stuff.

Is this not worthy of a criminal conviction?

Nah, the sun was in his eyes or something.

Seriously though, he pulled someone else's front brake at 130 mph with plenty of video evidence. If the other guy had gone over the front of the bike and died it would be manslaughter for sure. You can see how close the other guy was to going into a speed wobble.

What he did must be/should be a crime.

hes been sacked though right? Suspended then had the boot. Didnt he get punted from a sky team or something too. I skimmed an article on one of my motorbike pages about it this morning, pre coffee so its a bit fuzzy

Yeah, he's been sacked and lost his contract for next season too, by all accounts.

'Banned for two races' - well, it's nice to see the motorsport authorities taking the same hard line as the traffic courts...

This is interesting because does not being on the open road and in a race environment have a difference. This is next level but they endanger each other constantly during a race. Take other sports like F1, a lot of the accidents are caused by negligence but they are not arrested afterwards.
Having said all that this is more like cutting someones brake cables rather a 'racing' incident.

I think there is a clear difference between a racing incident i.e accidentally coming together on an overtake, and an intentional act like grabbing someone's brake lever to teach them a lesson.

Agreed.

ruddy heck these motorbikerists are monsters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ION2mhi7C8o

Saw an Islington Council community accessible transport minibus this morning being driven by an absolute cretin. Instead of slowly inching through this road feature (which I assume is to both stop large vehicles accessing the road and maybe lessen speeding near the football pitch?) like all other vans etc. do he swung over into the wrong lane for a bit, then drove over the traffic island, mounted the kerb and then drove off, bouncing all his passengers around inside. I'm pretty sure he could have just fitted through with about seven seconds of patience. If it was too wide he just shouldn't be using that road and could have gone another way. Got his plate so I'm grassing him up to the council.

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In Islington these are all fitted up with cameras, so he should get flagged up.
I know because I shamefully went the wrong way through a similar system around there.

I received a response from a roadsafe I did a while back. The driver was "interviewed under caution but as there is no corroborating evidence they will not prosecute". Given I was deliberately squeezed into oncoming traffic (a bus) while he looked me in the eye and laughed while doing it, I am a bit annoyed he'll not get prosecuted. Particularly as I could have requested the footage from the bus had I known you could do that at the time. He was driving a company van (which I emailed at the time and got a very apologetic response). He would have been 'interviewed' by the police, and 'talked to' by his firm so maybe he'll be a bit more considerate in the future given that there are so many bike/dash cams nowadays.

While it doesn't necessarily excuse the impatient driving, isn't that kind of road feature still supposed to allow permitted wider vehicles to pass (bin lorries, maybe community accessible transport minibuses, etc...), hence wider passing on the right hand side, combined with the dropped central area of the island?

Is that what they're actually for? I've seen something similar in the area as @croft says but marked 'FIRE ACCESS KEEP CLEAR' on the wider side, although not with the dropped pavement, so you could be right. He was still not a great driver as he came in too fast and mounted the kerb but I feel bad complaining now if he's just following procedure.

The possibility for wider vehicles to bypass this width restriction is a deliberate feature and not a design flaw, to allow emergency vehicles like fire engines and perhaps dustcarts (I don't know how wide they are) to get around it.

I don't know whether a public carriage vehicle like a community minibus is included among permitted vehicles, but it may be. I can well imagine such a vehicle being wider than 7' or just too wide to be easy to drive through it. None of that would excuse the driver taking it too fast.

Private drivers would most certainly not be within their rights to circumvent the width restriction. Do let us know what response you get back from the Council.