White van driving wanker

Sorry in advance for the rant but i've got to get it off my chest...

So i'm riding in this morning minding my own business when some guy in a van overtakes me then immediately pulls in to park in the bus stop. Without indicating. I manage to emergancy stop and knock on his window to give him a peice of my mind as to how dangerous what he's just done is. He gets out and has a right go at ME because apparently he's not going that fast, i've got brakes so it's my problem and i shouldn't be getting annoyed with him. I point out that legally he has to indicate, speed really has nothing to do with it and it's damn dangerous but he just repeats (getting more aggressive) that it's up to me to brake and cyclists should be watching out for cars. At this point i realise i'm not going to get anywhere with this so get back on my bike and head off.

Rant over, sorry but i just can't believe what an arrogant cunt this fella was!!!

No point reasoning with a man in a white van, mate - that's for the driver of the new saloon car, or the lady in the Gee Wiz. Just give them copious, very angry abuse, and the finger - it's a language they understand.

Sexist. Gee wiz can also be driven by gay men.

I carry a fat magic marker for guys like this.
writting honk if your Gay on the back of the van

Point your phone at them and their number plate and make out you're taking their photo, then tell them deliberately and slowly you will be reporting them to the police. It'll ruin their morning cup of tea and maybe make them think twice next time.

If they don't grab your phone and frisbee it into traffic that is.

I am still trying this "defensive cycling" thing and it isn't really working out for us, is it?

I carry a fat magic marker for guys like this.
writting honk if your Gay on the back of the van

edit....you're ?

I'll get my coat & go to Bikeradar

defensive cycling has worked a treat for me on my daily commute - the only fly in the ointment was a cayenne turbo trying to undertake a RS6 at highspeed, almost breaking my fingers as I indicated out prior to a parked car.

What's defensive cycling then? Is it hitting anything that come near you with a d-lock or something?

An RS6 surely?

What's defensive cycling then? Is it hitting anything that come near you with a d-lock or something?

Nah... going out in a deep-sea divers suit with car tyres bungee clipped to pannier racks. I'm surprised you haven't seen me around...

An RS6 surely?

don't call me surely

writting honk if your Gay on the back of the van

What are you, 12 years old? Twat.

I drive a white van, i promise i'm not a cunt tho.
I use my mirrors and indicators, this certainly puts me in the minority of london vannists but we're all just trying to get somewhere and pulling over like a twat is just not cool. Glad you survived it and didn't have a shunt.
For the record, if ANYONE writes on my truck their body is forfit. Nodder/forumenger or anyone else.
I've had plenty of cyclists do utterly stupid shit then try and blame me for it, touch wood no collisions yet.
Oh, and i'm not fat, or bald, and tabloids are banned from my truck.
Be safe and don't fuck with vans, plan for the worst people.

had a guy in leckky van dragging some cable go past me about 6 inches away this morning, couldnt do anything because it was on a straight section at speed, let it go.

otherwise if its near junctions,
I consider everything i do an 'invite' to drivers behind me, if I go close to kerb when the roads wide---thast an 'invite' to overtake me,
like wise if I take the lane fully near a junction thats also an 'invite' to stay the fuck away from me until I have cleared the junction,
easy isnt it?

Are you serious? You would use your van against someone if they wrote on your van? Even by the principles of natural justice, that seems more than a little skewed.

How would you feel if someone wrote "you are a c*ck" on your bike? If someone's that much of a twat, natural justice dictates their DNA should not be allowed to pollute the human gene pool...

Are you serious? You would use your van against someone if they wrote on your van? Even by the principles of natural justice, that seems more than a little skewed.

The use of a van as a weapon is not mentioned, to be fair.

For the record, if ANYONE writes on my truck their body is forfit. Nodder/forumenger or anyone else.

How might I express that anger? I'm not sure, but it probably would not involve driving 2 tonnes of steel into someone at speed.

Hopefully you'll never need to find out, but you know you'd want to... and you'd probably enjoy it. It's a dirty business being human...

I never said i'd drive into someone for it did i? Nor was it implied. That'd just be silly.

Mmm white van man thinks he is right and gets angered at confrontation... Shit..
in other news the woman in my office got angry when i slapped her arse and told her to be off some use and put the kettle on. then the muslim in the post room failed to see the funnyside of me naming my cock Mohammad.. what is the world comming to??!

I've got nuff 'don't pass on the left' stickers on my truck and the vast majority of cyclists still ignore this and cruise down the left with reckless abandon. The guys i work with are trained to help spot bikes in my blind spots for me when i know someones doing something daft. Tell them politely about their mistake and often receive a barrage of abuse from nodders/commutengers. It happens both ways people.
I should hand out leaflets to cyclists from my truck....

^where do you get the stickers from dude? (I want one to put on my bag)

tfl.
They're a4 size, i think i've got one spare. Will pm you if i can find it.

Could I just say...

...fuck 'em all!