PBancroft
Senior Member
- Location
- Winchester
I'm quite fortunate on my commute. Although it runs along a very busy stretch of the A3090 I get into very few confrontations with drivers. The vast majority are patient, will hold back when not safe to overtake and will give plenty of room when they do. It's about two years since anything occurred that was worth mentioning to someone else, even in passing.
Yesterday on my commute home a van overtook very close, and the passenger yelled out the window at me ("w@nker!") at an attempt, I guess, to make me fall off.
I didn't get the number plate alas, but they were in a company vehicle, emblazoned with the name of the business they work for. The business isn't local, so I think it would be relatively easy to find out who was in the area at that time.
So... what do I do? My gut reaction is to take it up with the business, but I've discovered they are a very small outfit. The van occupants might even be the only people in it. I have no qualms in taking the issue up with the driver and passenger directly (if you've never made any enemies, you've never stood up for anything) but these guys are evidently not the sharpest tools in the box, and I wouldn't want to make things worse for the next cyclist they come across.
Ideas please?
Yesterday on my commute home a van overtook very close, and the passenger yelled out the window at me ("w@nker!") at an attempt, I guess, to make me fall off.
I didn't get the number plate alas, but they were in a company vehicle, emblazoned with the name of the business they work for. The business isn't local, so I think it would be relatively easy to find out who was in the area at that time.
So... what do I do? My gut reaction is to take it up with the business, but I've discovered they are a very small outfit. The van occupants might even be the only people in it. I have no qualms in taking the issue up with the driver and passenger directly (if you've never made any enemies, you've never stood up for anything) but these guys are evidently not the sharpest tools in the box, and I wouldn't want to make things worse for the next cyclist they come across.
Ideas please?