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Mr Penis Head holds forthVideo: "My name is Penis Head" — meet Britain's sweariest driver
Sometimes helmetcam riders get talking to drivers who’ve done stupid things and the conversation goes no further than a simple apology, albeit often followed by “mate, I didn’t see you”. But sometimes, despite being clearly in the wrong, a driver will go right off the deep end anyway, like the chap here who we’re going to call Mr Penis Head, since he says that’s his name.
It’s one of the few repeatable things he does say and you’ll want to turn down the volume if your workmates have tender ears.
In the video, the rider who goes by the YouTube handle Urbane is crossing a roundabout at what appears to be the end of Harbourne Gardens in Southampton.
As the rider approaches the first exit from the roundabout, Mr Penis Head, driving a Jaguar with stickers and logos enters the roundabout. The rider sounds his horn and after the driver stops and reverses into the roundabout a full and frank exchange of views follows, with Mr Penis Head delivering most of the frankness.
In his comments on YouTube, Urbane says: “I thought I was pretty diplomatic, considering the circumstances” and we tend to agree. Here’s how it went down in his own words:
Parental Advisory... Excessive swearing, aggressive behavior and stupid driving.
This rabid loon is called, by his own admission, Penishead Cockfacedcunt ;-0 although it said Mark on his sticker.
He is probably an inspirational figurehead and a fine representative for PowerSlideRides (logos and his name conveniently plastered all over his XJS), but I fear he may have had a tad too much high octane go-go juice in his veins, when he nearly ran me over this morning. Perhaps he had been drinking diesel instead of petrol that morning.
I hit my horn, as a warning, before the car is even on the roundabout, and (despite what he says) you can see that I am easily half way across before the car rips past, narrowly missing me on my bike.
He screeched to a halt and reversed round the roundabout (!) to confront me for having the temerity to honk my horn at him. But he soon scuttled back into his vehicle when I was not intimidated by his shiny piston shaped head and aggressive swearing.
I thought I was pretty diplomatic, considering the circumstances, if he had just said sorry everything would have been quickly forgotten. But now, I'm going to let the viewers decide...
Who do you think is being aggressive? 
While Mr Penis Head doesn't manage the sheer delivery speed and quantity of expletives of the previous holder of the title of Britain's Sweariest Driver, we think he makes up for it with a wider range of creative abuse. Coincidentally, or perhaps not if you believe that the car you drive says something about your personality - both of the potty mouthed protaganists drive Jags.
We should point out that although the car in this video clearly displays the name, phone numbers and website of a business that doesn't necessarily mean that the driver is associated with those phone numbers - and as the business in question has so far proved uncontactable the true identity of the driver cannot be verified - except that he goes by the name of Penis Head.
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
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It looks like someone has been busy all afternoon erasing themselves from the Internet. Good luck with that...
And on the Facebook page linked in srchar's reply, there is both the car and a guy in a cap that looks amazingly similar to our Mr PH.
I think the phrase is "it's a fair cop guv!"
www.linkedin.com/pub/karen-dreamshack/85/6ab/b25
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I run a fan page on Facebook to Mark Dreamshack called The Bald Engineer as well as keeping up to date the sensible Facebook page Dreamshack Custom Sandrails.
I do whatever Mark makes me! I am the official workshop slave....
Although apparently his other half maintains (or maintained, seems to have gone) a Facebook page on his behalf called "The Bald Engineer"
I imagine Mark is drumming up business by trying to create as many disabled people as possible via his driving skills.
Oh, he's taken down all the details on his website so you'll have to find it archived on some other website. Eg http://www.hampshiregateway.info/en/Powerslide_Rides
' I could be wrong as you never get a proper view of him.'
hmm. And yet the still at the top of this article has managed exactly that.
It's the old Chris Huhne defence...
Good point, on the photo, to be honest it doesn't look like him.
Mark has hair - or at least he did when i last saw him back in 2011.
If not, I suspect he's going to try and grow some pretty quickly now.
Hiya,
I've been emailed from someone called Andy with a link to this site and video as my company is linked on the Dreamshack site and I've met Mark a couple of times a few years ago.
I tried to reply to the email but it was a false address so i'd just like to post my reply to it here.....
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for the heads up on this, I've looked at the video and it looks pretty damming however i don't recognise the driver.
I've not seen Mark in about 3 years but I don't think that's him in the video - I could be wrong as you never get a proper view of him.
Not great driving or reaction in my view from the driver whoever it is.
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As per my reply i'm not 100% sure it is the guy from Dreamshack so whilst it's a bad encounter and the driver is clearly in the wrong it might be worth double checking the true identity of the driver. It would be silly of someone to behave like that with their name all over the car which to me suggests it may not be the owner himself driving?
Quite shocking behaviour from an angry man with a big car.
It's somewhat interesting that his 'charity' isn't registered with the charities commission, nor do their seem to be any related financial documents available. Can't help but question if the Charity staff and volunteers have undergone the required CRB checks to work with vulnerable youngsters.
I hope that the videographer has passed this along to the police.
The driver committed at least two offences, cutting in front of another road user on a roundabout when he was supposed to give way to the rider already on the roundabout and reversing back over the roundabout and potentially into oncoming traffic. I'm not sure how many penalty points on the driver's licence the offences would equate to, but I'm guessing at six with three for each of those two offences. Perhaps Stumpy could advise on that. From the video it looks as if the car was moving fast over the roundabout too, but I expect there's little chance of judging accurately and determining if the vehicle was breaking the speed limit.
I'm curious what the police will think of the video. Speed is of the essence with supplying it to the cops otherwise they won't take note. This is without taking his aggressive behaviour into account. Perhaps the Cycling Silk could provide some advice.
I'll wager they won't do a damn thing, citing lack of independent witnesses, blah, blah.
But in getting away with this, as he almost certainly will, the next cyclist who even gets near to being in his way (which he has obviously bought and paid for) may suffer a far more tragic consequence.
How many times do I have to say there should be a "Cyclists Vigilante Force" set up to extract vengeance on such as this excuse for a human being.
Just wrote a comment on his FB page shaming him for his behaviour. I suggest others do the same.
His facebook page for his Princes Trust supported 'charity' is down - very wise in the circumstances, he wouldn't want them to get wind of what sort of a moron they are working with.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dreamshack-Custom-Sandrails/393242444127398
This is his facebook page, yet to look for twitter.
Idiot driving, especially in a car with company stickers.
Here it is https://twitter.com/MarkDreamshack
Recognise this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=892725570744442&set=a.3574501109...
This google link shows a few returned search items of interest. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=facebook+karen+dreamshack&ie=utf-8&oe=...
Initially the Facebook related links showed a link to someone else's profile in which pictures of him, clearly the same person as in the video, were shown. It seems likely from those pictures that he's a nice family guy. Seems sad though that the person in the video doesn't seem to hold other people's loved ones in very high regard, at least not whilst he is driving his car
Its also telling that neither the linkedIn nor Facebook pages are accessible any more. Perhaps the owner of these accounts has decided to prefer not to be publicly associated with him. Hopefully someone somewhere is giving him their opinion on how stupid his actions were, even if the law itself doesn't follow up.
... Although I just read his site in more detail and see that his company specialises in building off-road buggies for the disabled. How can someone doing such a 'good' job also be so angry?!
Unfortunately some people running charities are not doing it for the right reason, and its not just the small ones, I have had the first hand displeasure
Ah, the Jeffrey Archer hypothesis...
He's a business man?
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Increasingly, drivers like this make me want to keep a bidon filled with stale, week-old p!ss attached to my bike for emergency purposes...
Brake Fluid is another option
His 'business' seems to have some influential supporters - I'm sure they'll be very supportive when they see the vid
Its amazing how some people even consider trying to defend whats clearly indefensible. Hes approached that RA with no consideration for what may be on it or approaching it, yet he trys to defend his driving...... Hopefully one day he wraps himself and his car around a tree somewhere remote.
Whois reckons he's not called Mr Penis Head at all.
http://www.marksdreamshack.com/index.htm
His website.
What a nice fella. He has a bit of a reputation does Mark judging by various forums that his name appears on (not all of which are positive towards him). Amusingly one of his own posts say he is "uncommunicative". Apparently it should have said "f*****g uncommunicative".
I don't think that's how you spell "gerbil".
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