Got swore at on camera...

[thomas]

I've just seen the film and I am absolutely stunned that you think this is worthy of some sort of complaint.

I'd agree...which is unusual for the past few days .

Cab, from what I could tell she stopped by the van when she saw you. There was plenty of room for you to get past, so need to make any comment. Yes, if you'd been a car she may have needed to have reversed behind, or pull in front of the van.

I can't really see anything worth any complaint. I'd of probably given a slight nod of thanks for waiting, rather than carrying on down, expecting you to pull in at 0.17 secs.

Maybe she wasn't perfect, but I don't think she really did anything wrong. I don't really blame her for getting annoyed with you and swearing.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I'd have been probably more inclined to just laugh at her and tell her to have a nice wait for the bin lorry.

 

[BentMikey]

+1 to Lee.

 

[MacB]

I'd suggest a smile, a cheery wave and a thankyou as you went past her, and I reckon it would have been reciprocated. What's more she'd have driven on feeling nice and positive about cyclists. Whereas you just started something out of nothing, it would put most peoples backs up.

 

[potsy]

Not really getting the reaction you expected is it Cab? I have to agree with other comments I'm afraid,no real problem I could see,she waited for you to pass and got no thanks and an uneccessary comment from you.Don't think I would have reacted as she did tbh but everyones different I suppose.

 

[4F]

Is this some kind of joke ? Honestly Cab I think you go out of your way to create a situation that is not there.

If I had been that driver I think I would have been inclined to tell you the same as well

 

[oliver]

YouTube and tell the shop after about a week of holding up a banner with youtube adress!!

 

[Bollo]

Big meh from me as well I'm afraid. I'd tell you to chillax Cab, but that would make me a w*****r.

 

[hackbike 666]

I have a road very similar to this just like every one else and I think a bit of give and take may be appreciated.She gave you took.

Histon is clearly going down hill Cab ....... Looks like someone might be in the doghouse over this one. The driver's hardly what you call "well groomed"

Fantastic.

 

[tightwad]

...by someone in a van emblazoned with the name and logo of one of the shops on the local suburban shopping court. The new toy (the Muji) is still just that, a new toy, so I'm carrying it around and filming things on my commute and all over the place to get a feel for it as a camera. Anyway, in response to her needlessly blocking the road for me (in front of her) and another cyclist (who I know from the allotments, nice old chap I often see on the road) behind her, and to the two of us exchanging comments about what the heck she was doing, I got challenged as to what I was saying and on explaining thus invited to 'go and ****' myself, and given a rude gesture.

So the question is, do I go and send the footage straight in to youtube, do I go and tell them in the shop, do I do nothing, or do I just loudly rubbish the shop at each and every opportunity?

You sir, are a spanner; have a word with yourself. Who are you to stop in the middle of the road to lecture someone?

I suggest you take your new toy back to the shop before you embarrass yourself again.

 

[Cab]

You chaps need to re-read my first post. The road was needlessly blocked by someone who asked what myself and the other cyclist were saying, I told her, and she swore at me. Thats it. Thats all it is, and in a van emblazoned with her company name I think thats a bit off. I didn't start out looking for a confrontation with her, she decided to ask why me and the other cyclist were moaning, and it was because there was a bin van right behind me and she'd chosen to block our way for no purpose whatsoever. Not the end of the world but a bit irritating, and two cyclists who know each other passing comment about this as they pass (one at a time, the only way we could) is to be expected. She asked what we were talking about, I told her, and in my opinion swearing at me on being answered was out of order.

Its not something I'd go out of my way to follow up, but the shop is right around the corner from home, I had a call to make in the shop next door at lunchtime. I don't have to go out of my way, I'd have to almost go out of my way not to see her.

A big deal? No. I never made it out to be that.

 

[Cab]

You sir, are a spanner; have a word with yourself. Who are you to stop in the middle of the road to lecture someone?

I suggest you take your new toy back to the shop before you embarrass yourself again.

I stopped in the middle of the road because there were parked vehicles on both sides, no space down the side of the car in front for both me and the other cyclist to go, and she wound down her window and asked. Otherwise I wouldn't have stopped.

If a motorist asks why you've stopped, and its because they're blocking the road and you and the other cyclist have had to carefully negotiate around her, and she could just as easily waited in the gap behind, would you tell her?

 

[hackbike 666]

Hard to say this time CAB but the video makes you look the villian.Sorry.

you and the other cyclist have had to carefully negotiate around her,

So what is the problem with this?

 

[Cab]

Hard to say this time CAB but the video makes you look the villian.Sorry.

I don't think there is a villain to this piece, its too strong a word for someone swearing. I couldn't pass her while the other chap was, he passed comment, I passed comment, that'd be it but she wanted to talk about it. So I told her, and she swore at me. Villainy is too strong a term.

 

[jeltz]

Its never a great idea to tell a moderator of a forum that they've just posted a video which makes them look a little foolish, so I won't.

But I might suggest that they pull the thread while they still have some dignity