Video: Helmet cam parody of van driver attacking ‘innocent’ cyclist

There's definitely a strain of cyclist that likes a bit of an argument and it takes the piss out of them. I think it's funny! There you go.

Lots of these cyclists in here I see.

The self righteous pomposity of some of these comments are deeply ironic.

Mildly amusing, and makes the point that some, very few, cyclists are too aggressive, but in the complete power imbalance that is our road and legal systems, that's rather understandable. I've seen lots more aggressive, arrogant, sweary drivers than I've seen cyclists, so I can't help feeling they've got the wrong target.

Mind you, just how would you parody some of the absolute arseholes of drivers that have featured in some cyclists headcams. Beyond parody surely, so perhaps the cyclist was a bit of an easier target.

Nice try, but no coconut.

I'd prefer a video of a head camera wearing driver getting out of his car to complain that the cyclist is on the road in the first place. Then chasing after a woman on a horse to complain again. Jumping up and down asking if she's paid road tax for the horse.

It's the drivers that need the piss taking out of them not the cyclists.

I never go out on the bike looking for a confrontation with dangerous drivers - they come to me...

Being more po-faced, a close pass is often inches away from this:

http://road.cc/content/news/162286-berkshire-cyclist-killed-a322-named

Hilarious, I'm sure we can all agree.

I've shat things more clever and amusing than this.

Chris Morris probably shits things more clever and amusing than this on a daily basis.

Loved this video.

Every tribe should laugh at itself once in a while and web-cam-heroes are no different.

Bloody funny.
Let's see how long it takes for the Daily Mail to pick up on it...

v.funny

love the grinding up the col de rail bridge and the other guy in the van.

yes we get angry at pricks in car but I try to remember I'm the awesome one on a bike and they are stuck in an expensive box.

I found it funny and I'm a cyclist who has suffered my fair share of close passes and many more 'overtakes then left turns' in and around Edinburgh.

You learn from these and move on rather than staying bitter and engaging in the them and us war that gets nobody anywhere.

It's a parody and I'll tell you why I find it funny.. because there are guys out there that do over-recact to situations, I've ridden with a few who think every driver is the enemy. I like the fact that the video gets so well edited by the 'cyclist', just as many that appear on YouTube do. But most of all, I like the out-of-breath drawn out slow pursuit that I am sure is meant to hint at the riders lack of experience and expertise on a bike.

Funny that. Laughed so the way through

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I quite enjoyed it. next!

Get the jokes, but not sure if the video has a point. But it does show something that happens quite often: cyclist and car drivers are full of rage and adrenaline, even if they are right. Keeping a cool head is so difficult sometimes, and vigilantly behaviour hardly ever solves something.

Maybe an idea for an article: How to keep a cool head in traffic and racing? (and i don`t mean an article for helmet reviews)

Had already posted this in the forum under the title Pure class

I thought it was funny

Can't help but think that the only ones who will find this funny are the ones who don't see a problem with dangerous passes.

If this is supposed to be a parody - then it totally doesn't understand what it is trying to parody.

I think this will feed the anti-cycling brigades bias and is not particularly funny or clever.

I think some of you need to get a sense of humour - seriously funny stuff.

It's hard to call it overreaction when your life is left up to motorists. Camera filming cyclists may get hostile and aggressive, but if you nearly kill them, you should expect them to be livid.

Since when is parodying endangering lives ever okay? Parodying a close pass is uncalled for, since it's just sensualizing extreme danger that can easily result in death.

I thought a parody was supposed to be funny? That's 2 minutes of my life I won't get back

The joke is that the cyclist is angry even though the van driver left lots of room. I get it. Then there's another small joke at the end.

The film-makers seem to be making a point: people on bikes are too sensitive. I don't agree with that - you don't have to go looking for a bad overtake, you'll get lots of them.

Or maybe they're just jumping on a bandwagon, and trying to get some views, in which case they're on their way.

This is how I think many of those video cyclists react....I hope they watch this and learn that they are actually the cocks. Yes, sometimes you are going to get an idiot driver, but chasing them, shouting abuse (like that magnatom guy) then you are going to get whats coming to you and I will laugh when it happens, because two wrongs don't make a right