Can someone help me?

[Ron-da-Valli]

If a driver was revving their engine in order to intimidate another road user out of the way then the driver does not deserve any courtesy or consideration.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The van driver was already angry ( rightly or wrongly) and to annoy him further deliberately would just put you in a vulnerable position. Personally I would have pulled in just before the 2nd lights just to get rid of him. however, nothing warrants his outburst which I would view as intimidation and threatening.
BTW the church tower is actually Rhyl town hall on Wellington St.

 

[Matthew_T]

You said you have his address in reference to "shove a potatoe up the vans exhaust".

Well that was simply a joke, obviously I am not, it wasnt meant to be taken litterally.

 

[apollo179]

Well that was simply a joke, obviously I am not, it wasnt meant to be taken litterally.

Thats your 2nd mistake mathew.
First - expecting white van drivers to be calm reasonable and normal.
Second - expecting everyone on this forum to have a sense of humour.

 

[BSRU]

They werent doing that prior to the point at which courtesy could have been granted i.e. letting him out.

We have no idea if the cyclist was in a position to let someone out or whether it was safe to do so. I virtually always give way or move over to the left to eliminate/reduce any delay to other faster road users, as long as it does not compromise my safety, I do not put my bike into primary position for no good reason or just out of spite.

Granted letting them out would have avoided the situation completely but getting wound up because your "stuck" behind a cyclist shows the drivers attitude to other vulnerable road users.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Thats your 2nd mistake mathew.
First - expecting white van drivers to be calm reasonable and normal.
Second - expecting everyone on this forum to have a sense of humour.

Apollo, it is nothing to do with not having a sense of humour. What would now happen if a troll on this forum did just what Matthew eluded to?

 

[Rob3rt]

We have no idea if the cyclist was in a position to let someone out or whether it was safe to do so. I virtually always give way or move over to the left to eliminate/reduce any delay to other faster road users, as long as it does not compromise my safety, I do not put my bike into primary position for no good reason or just out of spite.

Granted letting them out would have avoided the situation completely but getting wound up because your "stuck" behind a cyclist shows the drivers attitude to other vulnerable road users.

Unless there was some other mental road user behind him, off camera, the video shows quite clearly that he could have let the van out safely.

 

[apollo179]

Apollo, it is nothing to do with not having a sense of humour. What would now happen if a troll on this forum did just what Matthew eluded to?

No - just to make it clear - nobody is advocating sticking potatoes up car exhausts.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

No - just to make it clear - nobody is advocating sticking potatoes up car exhausts.

If you read what I actually wrote you would see that I didn't suggest anyone was. Some people on here however seem to get a kick out of stitching up others. GB155 and his ebay auction for example.

 

[4F]

Apollo, it is nothing to do with not having a sense of humour. What would now happen if a troll on this forum did just what Matthew eluded to?

I would wear surgical gloves and use an East Anglian potato to cover my tracks

 

[Angelfishsolo]

I would wear surgical gloves and use an East Anglian potato to cover my tracks

 

[Rob3rt]

If you read what I actually wrote you would see that I didn't suggest anyone was. Some people on here however seem to get a kick out of stitching up others. GB155 and his ebay auction for example.

Wasnt this an isolated incident?

I only say this because it hardly looks very good for the forum if forum members feel the need to warn other people about this sort of thing in a non-generic way.

 

[BSRU]

Unless there was some other mental road user behind him, off camera, the video shows quite clearly that he could have let the van out safely.

That's the thing about forward facing cameras, they do not show what is going on behind the wearer, it is assumption that it would have been safe to let the van out.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Wasnt this an isolated incident?

I only say this because it hardly looks very good for the forum if forum members feel the need to warn other people about this sort of thing in a non-generic way.

I might have been. It also might have been the tip of an iceberg. I remember a warning going out to the young kid building the SS that he had he his name on display and someone warned me about linking to my Flickr sight as I use my real name on it.

 

[Rob3rt]

That's the thing about forward facing cameras, they do not show what is going on behind the wearer, it is assumption that it would have been safe to let the van out.

All assumptions are not equal.

 

[Rob3rt]

I might have been. It also might have been the tip of an iceberg. I remember a warning going out to the young kid building the SS that he had he his name on display and someone warned me about linking to my Flickr sight as I use my real name on it.

I understand that, what I mean is, one could warn about things in a generic way "this is a public forum..... etc" rather than "some users of this forum seem to like to cause trouble". Maybe I'm being pinikity, just thinking about the image of the forum in a wider context and specific warnings about malicious forum users seems a bit strong in the negative