Cyclist assaulted by white van man.

[400bhp]

:sigh:

 

[Primal Scream]

Oh dear, 5 weeks off work is serious.

 

[glenn forger]

Indenting twat.

 

[campbellab]

Boris:

The bang you hear at 1.38 is the van smacking into my elbow, I was really injured and couldn't drive for weeks!

 

[Boris Bajic]

The bang you hear at 1.38 is the van smacking into my elbow, I was really injured and couldn't drive for weeks!

The consensus seems to be growing that this is a fib. I've looked at the video and it smells more and more like the cyclist slapping the van.

Did the OP slap the van and cause an injury that meant four weeks off work?

Some lessons in van slapping required, if so. And maybe a lesson in making honest claims.

The driving by the motorist was dreadful and his violent response inexcusable.

Posting legalistic piffle at the end of the clip about what is required under law after an RTC is shameful and humiliating for the poor, deluded OP if (as seems to be the consensus) the 'RTC' was him slapping the van. I imagine that the OP might stay off CC for a while after this apparent lie and the horse-poo thread about an MGIF at a mini-roundabout. Poor roadcraft and a loose relationship with the truth... Ooops!

The lies were shabby and cheap, to put it in the best light I can. It is inexcusably uncivilised and cowardly to post footage complaining about the behaviour of others that contains what looks increasingly like a lie. The van driver is no better; perhaps worse.

 

[glenn forger]

Yeah yeah, my hip sticks out further than my elbow when I'm riding and I'm not a fat bastard. He thumped the van. The driver's a twat.

 

[glenn forger]

ETA Wot Boris said but with fewer indenting.

 

[Mugshot]

I honestly thought he was getting out to see if I was ok, I was shocked when he attacked me. I didn't have the chance to say a word and said If I can touch your van mate you're far too close meaning if you're that close to anyone its too close in reply to his shrieking I was really shaken up.

I watched your video again and again before I made my initial post as i didnt want to make an unsubstantiated accusation, although it was thinly veiled as I wanted you to come clean yourself. I just couldnt see or hear from the footage that he had hit you, the noise sounds like a van panel being thumped. Ive done it myself then immediately realised what a stupid and dangerous thing it is to do, but I think it can be a natural reaction to lash out at what one perceives as a threat like that.
To reiterate, the van driver is a first class pillock, but I think youve used a little too much artistic licence in your full description of the incident.

 

[slowmotion]

Always get the number plate, plod may not do anything but if you are lucky you will see the van again.

A rolled up news paper or a potato shoved up the exhaust will cause the van to conk out after a few hundred yards and they will never think to check the exhaust

I have heard that a carton of cream , dumped into the ventilation grille at the top of the bonnet, has a terrible and lasting effect.

 

[subaqua]

I have heard that a carton of cream , dumped into the ventilation grille at the top of the bonnet, has a terrible and lasting effect.

baby formula milk is far far worse

 

[Vikeonabike]

That's pathetic.

If a cop had been on the receiving end of that assault there'd be more than a caution dished out...


GC

No there wouldn't trust me!

 

[Cyclopathic]

Sometimes Ballantyne' bicycle pump suggestion for dealing with dogs springs to mind!

I'd never thought about it but that whole paragraph could just be code for what to do with an abusive driver. I'm sure it mentions kicking in the testicles.

 

[Hip Priest]

Thought the way OP went down was quite funny lol

I didn't.

I feel very sorry for the OP, whether he is telling fibs about slapping the van or not.

 

[veloevol]

I didn't.

I feel very sorry for the OP, whether he is telling fibs about slapping the van or not.

I too but I'm hanging onto what sympathy I have as the small issue of perjury( or PCJ ?) tries to tear it away from me.

 

[Cyclopathic]

When I first watched your video, before you made any suggestion of the van hitting you, I thought it was an ignorantly close pass where the cyclist slapped the van to show his displeasure (I've done it myself).

Nothing you've said since has convinced me otherwise.

GC

I wouldn't use the term "punishment slap". If they are close enough to be touched they are far, far too close and a slap on the bodywork is no punishment at all, just an audible alert to say to the driver that they are too effin' close.
A punishment slap is what I did to a car (a very, very long time ago when I was far too full of testosterone and my own self importance to know better) after it had cut me up. I caught up with it at the lights and slapped the roof very hard with the flat of my hand. It must have been bloody loud inside the car because the driver looked like he thought he'd been hit from behind by a car. Then I bravely rode away at top speed.