White van man .....

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White van man .....

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Decided, as it's not raining, to use the BoxerCup this morning to ride to work rather than the workhorse F650.

All was great, then filtering in traffic some numpty white van man decides not to use his mirrors before executung a U turn when I was at the side of him, and of course he's also deaf to the sports exhaust on the 'Cup ...grrrrrrr

... thankfully my "spidersense" had tingled moments before and was ready for the twonk, clipped his mirror with my 'bar end and gave him the universal "I'm unimpressed with the standard of your driving" hand signal before riding around him and carrying on my way :)

Oh and all this outside the local traveller site (which I strongly feel the van was from and heading back to) ... it's not a place you'd want to leave a post accident bike ....
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Pikey in a Transit?

It's entirely likely that he 'had' used his mirrors and was aiming for you.
Years ago, I had a mate who did'nt quite manage to avoid a "Traveller/Van assassination attempt". Inside five minutes, half of his site/family had arrived to "offer thier assistance". We left sharply as I doubted there was much to be gained by swapping insurance details.. :)
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Ah yes, our Caravan Utilising Nomadic Traveller friends... :)
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