White Van Man

I was riding home this afternoon enjoying the dry(ish) roads. Its the best part of 50 miles for the journey. So I'm about 5 mins from home having just overtaken a few vehicles along a straight and open bit of road. Perfectly normal, nothing to upset any of them as far as I know. Half a mile after clearing the last vehicle I come to a large roundabout connecting the single carriageway I'm on to a dual-carriageway running across my direction of travel. The roundabout has traffic control lights which are green as I approach then just in that split second decision time they go amber. I'm in no rush, no need to take risks so I grab the anchors and stop neatly on the line. Next thing I hear is this voice shouting 'Oi' I look left and there's white van man, the last vehicle I over took has joined me at the lights. Naturally I think 'sh*t what did I do to upset him?', but wait, he shouts again 'That sounds f*ckin lovely mate' a hidden grin spreads across my face, I nod in approval. I look to knock the sv into neutral and give him the thumbs up but the lights are just changing back to green so I decide to give him another chance to hear the v-twin at its best. So giving it a fist full of throttle I tear away from the lights leaving him to savour the moment whilst I disappear into the distance.

nice! just keep your distance from him.

Nice story mate. Made me grin !

I stoppped at lights once, and some older school kids were crossing, they came up to me (about 7 of them) and I thought 'Oh sh*t what they goona do'

They told me my bike sounded fab, and looked nice, and gave me a smartie! I chortled off chewing my sweetie feeling good with the world

Are you sure it was a smartie? How long did the high last?

I was one today (haha). Hired a bleedin great hulk of a VW Transporter for a trip to sheffield and back. AWFUL machines!! You can see why they get so ****ed off at people in (relatively rocket-like Fiesta 1.2s and so on). I could barely handle one day in one of those. It was a 56 plater too. Slowest, spongiest, rolliest, dullest thing I've ever driven, still drank the diesel though.

He was probably a biker, my hubby is a nice WVM - and a biker

Quite possibly, I haven't drawn any conclusions on the character of WVM simply that he was a man in a white van.

Many seem to associate a certain stigma to the WVM I guess I was, in a round and about kind of way, pointing that very thing that they aren't all bad.

Silver seems to be the new white anyway

Originally Posted by Fearg

Many seem to associate a certain stigma to the WVM I guess I was, in a round and about kind of way, pointing that very thing that they aren't all bad.

I'll second that (Im biased though!)
Nice to hear a good WVM anecdote for a change

Originally Posted by sinbad

I was one today (haha). Hired a bleedin great hulk of a VW Transporter for a trip to sheffield and back. AWFUL machines!! You can see why they get so ****ed off at people in (relatively rocket-like Fiesta 1.2s and so on). I could barely handle one day in one of those. It was a 56 plater too. Slowest, spongiest, rolliest, dullest thing I've ever driven, still drank the diesel though.

I actually quite like driving vans... it's something different.

Always appreciate the difference, don't curse it.

I've just had 4 weeks driving around in a big blue van (Long wheelbase high top VW Transporter) and it was HELL! Driving round some of the nicest roads I've ever seen in wales in a beast that wallows through corners and struggles with the very concept of acceleration. Dropping it off tonight to pick up my SV again. CAN"T WAIT!!!