Cyclists on the M11 motorway

Glencarraig

At around 1.00 today I saw 2 gobsh***s cycling on the M11 motorway between Bray and Cherrywood. One was a little bit behind the other and I slowed down and suggested to the chap that it might just be a little bit dangerous, never mind illegal, and the reply I got was "its ok, im cycling with a garda" !!!

the mind boggles !!

DirkVoodoo

You think that's bad, I saw a guy cycling on the M50 the other day between exits 6 and 7 I think.

Just curious, when you say you "slowed down", did you pull into the hard shoulder to let them know or did you just drop down to ~ 30 km/hr in a 120 km/hr zone?

Raam

I saw a moped in the very much off-road Sutton-Clontarf track a few months ago. I slowed to ask him what was he at. He said, it's OK, I'm with this cyclist. Which he was. Seriously.

Cookie_Monster

there is someone on a bike on the m11 between Loughlinstown and Bray nearly every weekend without fail... (in my experience anyway)

Glencarraig

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

You think that's bad, I saw a guy cycling on the M50 the other day between exits 6 and 7 I think.

Just curious, when you say you "slowed down", did you pull into the hard shoulder to let them know or did you just drop down to ~ 30 km/hr in a 120 km/hr zone?

I actually drove slowly behind him with my hazard lights on to try protect him as he was approaching the on ramp from Bray, he almost got wiped out by a car joining the motorway, it was after this that he told me that it was ok as he was with a garda !

victorcarrera

Glencarraig wrote: »

At around 1.00 today I saw 2 gobsh***s cycling on the M11 motorway between Bray and Cherrywood. One was a little bit behind the other and I slowed down and suggested to the chap that it might just be a little bit dangerous, never mind illegal, and the reply I got was "its ok, im cycling with a garda" !!!

the mind boggles !!

That was outgoing Minister John Gormley going for the last burn up before handing over the tandem and Garda driver.

Either that or McDaid has joined the greens.

S. Goodspeed

God only knows why the 'authorities' felt the need to turn a whole 2km of the n11 into a motorway in the first place, it probably shortens a cars journey from Wicklow to Dublin by a whole 20 seconds. As a cyclist havin to peel off the N11 and go through Shankill and Bray is a pain in the ass. Personally i wouldn't even think about cycling on a motorway but in reality is it much more dangerous than cycling on the rest of the N11 considering a significant portion of cars do 120km+ on the dual carriage anyway?

cdaly_

That section of N11 didn't exist as anything but motorway. It bypassed Skankill and Bray which were serious bottlenecks in the past and took up to 20min off journey time.