Bike on the m50

Zebrano

Anyone see the lad in jeans and a jacket on a dublin bike heading against the traffic on the m50 hard shoulder from blanch towards the old toll bridge

Darkglasses

Zebrano wrote: »

Anyone see the lad in jeans and a jacket on a dublin bike heading against the traffic on the m50 hard shoulder from blanch towards the old toll bridge

:eek: Some Dublin Bike users are absolutely terrifying. Where do they get these ideas!

Cookie_Monster

Nothing surprises me on that road any more. Have come across a guy doing the same around the Tallaght stretch. And of course the same guy nearly weekly on the M11 from Loughlinstown roundabout to Bray

jaqian

another contender for The Darwin Awards

awec

Saw someone last week cycling on the M1 near Newry along the hard shoulder.

Going with the traffic rather than against mind.

RacoonQueen

In fairness sometimes if you don't know the area the motorway just appears almost out of nowhere. Nearly ended up on it a couple of times myself.

awec

RacoonQueen wrote: »

In fairness sometimes if you don't know the area the motorway just appears almost out of nowhere. Nearly ended up on it a couple of times myself.

The big blue signs with the "M" on them tend to give it away. :P

Eamonnator

awec wrote: »

Saw someone last week cycling on the M1 near Newry along the hard shoulder.

Going with the traffic rather than against mind.

As far as I know, that stretch of road is not actually a motorway. Don't know why, just that way it is, I guess.

Cookie_Monster

RacoonQueen wrote: »

In fairness sometimes if you don't know the area the motorway just appears almost out of nowhere. Nearly ended up on it a couple of times myself.

really?
It's grade separated its entire length and every junction is heavily signed well in advance. There's no way onto it directly that I can think of without having to negotiate a big obvious junction.

Squidgy Black

In all fairness, it could be easily done seeing as parts of the N3 are legal to cycle on (the bus lanes). Could be just confusion of roads.

Although cycling against traffic puts that out of question, seems like he's just nuts.

petethedrummer

I'm sure he's grand. There's loads of room.

RO 06

Eamonnator wrote: »

awec wrote: »

Saw someone last week cycling on the M1 near Newry along the hard shoulder.

Going with the traffic rather than against mind.

As far as I know, that stretch of road is not actually a motorway. Don't know why, just that way it is, I guess.

Motorway stops at Dundalk North junction so legal to cycle. That's where I seen the two lads with the Dublin bikes when they were cycling to Warrenpoint couple years ago.

awec

RO 06 wrote: »

Motorway stops at Dundalk North junction so legal to cycle. That's where I seen the two lads with the Dublin bikes when they were cycling to Warrenpoint couple years ago.

Still nuts though.

I wouldn't cycle on that road!

RO 06

awec wrote: »

RO 06 wrote: »

Motorway stops at Dundalk North junction so legal to cycle. That's where I seen the two lads with the Dublin bikes when they were cycling to Warrenpoint couple years ago.

Still nuts though.

I wouldn't cycle on that road!

Would cycle there myself but u see plenty lads out training between Dundalk and Newry.

ThisRegard

stetyrrell wrote: »

In all fairness, it could be easily done seeing as parts of the N3 are legal to cycle on (the bus lanes). Could be just confusion of roads.

Although cycling against traffic puts that out of question, seems like he's just nuts.

All the N3 is legal to cycle on, it's the M3 that you can't.

RacoonQueen

awec wrote: »

The big blue signs with the "M" on them tend to give it away. :P

Hence the nearly

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

really?
It's grade separated its entire length and every junction is heavily signed well in advance. There's no way onto it directly that I can think of without having to negotiate a big obvious junction.

Heavily signed? Irish roads? Seriously?

hardCopy

Must have missed the signs when he was cruising the wrong way through the junctions

buffalo

RacoonQueen wrote: »

In fairness sometimes if you don't know the area the motorway just appears almost out of nowhere. Nearly ended up on it a couple of times myself.

Likewise, this one has nearly got me a couple of times:

http://goo.gl/maps/8ROz

Admittedly, there is this: http://goo.gl/maps/iVgb but that could mean the other road leads to the M50. I'm used to seeing the large blue sign saying "No L driver, no pedal cycles, etc" when joining a motorway.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

awec wrote: »

Still nuts though.

I wouldn't cycle on that road!

Not really, perfect road and surface for doing some tt type efforts. As previous poster mentioned the M1 stops and changes to N1 after Dundalk & into Newry. Often you will see groups out cycling along there.

senordingdong

Have to agree that many motorwats here do appear almost out of nowhere but they should have figured it out when they began cycling on it.