cycling on a pedestrian bridge

Timberrrrrrrr

So apparently the cycling forum doesn't allow threads about this sort of thing so I will share this mornings experience with the nice people of AH and ask for your own experiences when it comes to gob****es on bikes.

Dear gob****e

While walking across the Sean O'Casey bridge (which is for pedestrians btw) this morning at the IFSC you decided that it would be a good idea to go as fast as you could on a bridge with very limited grip when wet and expect people to move out of the way for you.

I honestly don't think the lady with the buggy saw you but even if she did there was no way she could have gotten out of your way on time. Swerving to avoid her was the right thing to do but then turning your head to shout at her was where it all went down hill for you.

As you couldn't see where you were now going you obviously didn't realise you had crossed the width of the bridge and were now heading straight for me, I hope the venti coffee that you ended up wearing as a face mask didn't burn too much and i reckon 7 or 8 stitches should close that gaping cut above your right eye nicely although it will probably leave a pretty nasty scar.

I 'll say this for you though, you do have balls. After nearly wiping out 2 adults and a child (i'm ok btw, small bruise to my arm that i can live with) you then had the cheek to get up and start screaming at me because somehow in your tiny mind it was my fault. You had a camera on your helmet and told me you would be going to the guards and showing them the footage. Please feel free to do this but may i suggest watching it yourself first and seeing if maybe just MAYBE the fault lies with you.

You also claimed if you see me again you will " wrap your bike around my neck". No one was stopping you from doing that this morning so am guessing you were just mouthing off in anger. Anyway you will be glad to know that starbucks gave me a free refill of my coffee and am now nice and warm in work.

If you read this and need my details for the big garda investigation this please feel free to pm me for contact details.

Have a lovely weekend

Sincerely

Timberrrrrrrr

Drakares

I wonder why they didn't like your thread

MarkR

Can confirm, gob****es exist in world. In cars, on bikes, unicycles (fall you f*ck, fall!), and even pedestrians. Sounds like karma bit biker hard in this case. We do have a ranting and raving section around here somewhere.

So.. Starbucks.

Timberrrrrrrr

MarkR wrote: »

Can confirm, gob****es exist in world. In cars, on bikes, unicycles (fall you f*ck, fall!), and even pedestrians. Sounds like karma bit biker hard in this case. We do have a ranting and raving section around here somewhere.

So.. Starbucks.

Oh i know and i cycle walk and drive and see them all.

Yeah

starbucks

Wanna make something of it? :mad:

diomed

Let us now how you get on with the Gardai.

Timberrrrrrrr

diomed wrote: »

Let us now how you get on with the Gardai.

Oh I walked away and left him to it.

Turtyturd

Did you get a ban too OP?

Cycling mods will be stalking you now.

Would still love to hear a good reason why cyclists think they can justify their prickish behaviour by saying they have seen motorists do similar.

On my walk from Eden quay to Smithfield every morning you can guarantee that at O'Connell street, Capel street, or Church street you will have one near miss with them breaking the lights, and that's not even mentioning the ones who think they have free reign to use the path.

Oryx

I want to know how you got the free refill.

Grandpa Hassan

Cyclists are pricks. Drivers are pricks. More often than not, pedestrians are pricks. Nothing to see here. Except a completely disproportionate and unhealthy level of rage!

Timberrrrrrrr

Turtyturd wrote: »

Did you get a ban too OP?

Cycling mods will be stalking you now.

Would still love to hear a good reason why cyclists think they can justify their prickish behaviour by saying they have seen motorists do similar.

On my walk from Eden quay to Smithfield every morning you can guarantee that at O'Connell street, Capel street, or Church street you will have one near miss with them breaking the lights, and that's not even mentioning the ones who think they have free reign to use the path.

No ban and fair enough to the mod if that's not allowed then am ok with that. As I say i am a cyclist, pedestrian and a driver and see dickish behaviour from all three but what pissed me off this morning most was the fact the guy thought everyone else was to blame but him.

Timberrrrrrrr

Oryx wrote: »

I want to know how you got the free refill.

Free refills on filter coffee in starbucks.

Oryx

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Free refills on filter coffee in starbucks.

Well holy god I never knew that.

PeadarCo

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

So apparently the cycling forum doesn't allow threads about this sort of thing so I will share this mornings experience with the nice people of AH and ask for your own experiences when it comes to gob****es on bikes.

I presume next time you get a thump you'll got to the boxing forum and start a discussion on all the bad times you got a box and how bad boxers are, or next time someone gets shot you'll got to the shooting forum and start a thread on all the bad instances of guns and how bad shooter are, or the next time you have a car accident you'll go to the motors forum and start a similar thread.

What do you expect to happen? No one in the cycling forum would defend the cyclist in that instance and more to the point why should you expect them to? Why not just start a thread here on all the bad things that happened to you today/yesterday/etc would be just as purposeful.

Carlos Orange

Grandpa Hassan wrote: »

Cyclists are pricks. Drivers are pricks. More often than not, pedestrians are pricks. Nothing to see here. Except a completely disproportionate and unhealthy level of rage!

It is pretty rare to see drivers driving on paths. Mostly in films.

eamonnq

PeadarCo wrote: »

I presume next time you get a thump you'll got to the boxing forum and start a discussion on all the bad times you got a box and how bad boxers are, or next time someone gets shot you'll got to the shooting forum and start a thread on all the bad instances of guns and how bad shooter are, or the next time you have a car accident you'll go to the motors forum and start a similar thread.

What do you expect to happen? No one in the cycling forum would defend the cyclist in that instance and more to the point why should you expect them to? Why not just start a thread here on all the bad things that happened to you today/yesterday/etc would be just as purposeful.

And we're off..................At least you know you will have gotten a few new 'followers' from the cycling forum now.

mikemac1

Venti coffee?

OP is a coffee snob

Timberrrrrrrr

mikemac1 wrote: »

Venti coffee?

OP is a coffee snob

$2.85 for a bucket of coffee with free refill works for me

SteM

I cycle or drive to work depending on the weather. Yesterday afternoon I almost knocked down a pedestrian who just walked out onto the road in Rathmines in front of my bike, didn't give even bother looking they were too busy on their phone. This morning driving into work I almost got hit by another car in Templeogue, the other driver was half asleep pulling out without indicating or anything.

Stuff happens and stupid people aren't confined to bikes.

Boom_Bap

psinno wrote: »

It is pretty rare I see drivers driving on paths. Mostly in films.

It's actually quite common, there are a few places I go past where if there is a single lane going to a filter left, drivers will get 2 wheels up on the footpath, drive over the cycle lane and footpath until they reach the filter lane. They also expect pedestrians on the footpath to stop until they are finished their manouvre.

There is one spot on the corner of Wellmount Road and the Finglas Road where there is a small housing area, rather than waiting in traffic until they can get to the entrance, they will get all 4 wheels up on the path and drive down it to the entrance of the houses along the Wellmount Road footpath.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Oh I walked away and left him to it so I could get this up on boards.ie as fast as possible.

FYP

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

in fairness though,

some of the cyclists with go pro cameras are just flutes looking for trouble

https://www.youtube.com/user/CycleDub/videos

and then this other flute that disables all comments on all videos because he doesn't like to hear how he is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/user/talk2liam/videos

Timberrrrrrrr

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

FYP

Actually i was more interested in getting my coffee refilled and heading to work than standing in the rain arguing with a gob****e

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

in fairness though,

some of the cyclists with go pro cameras are just flutes looking for trouble

https://www.youtube.com/user/CycleDub/videos

and then this other flute that disables all comments on all videos because he doesn't like to hear how he is wrong

https://www.youtube.com/user/talk2liam/videos

Can you be more specific? I warched one wher a bus driver overtook him very closely (to the point that he had a right to be pissed off) and one where he recorded.... a swan...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Actually i was more interested in getting my coffee refilled and heading to work than standing in the rain arguing with a gob****e

Ah, yes. Coffee. Dmaned more important. Any act of apathy or fake outrage is automatically excused if it was explained by the need to get a coffee. Good man!

cloud493

I think the obvious thing to do here is to have all cyclists shot by firing squad.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Can you be more specific? I warched one wher a bus driver overtook him very closely (to the point that he had a right to be pissed off) and one where he recorded.... a swan...

and one where a cat ran out in front of him and he nearly let a roar as to give out to the cat.

or the one where he was cycling and the tree hit him on the helmet.... instead of just, you know, moving out of the way

the groutch

mikemac1 wrote: »

Venti coffee?

OP is a coffee snob

yeah I stopped reading the second I saw him use the word Venti.

Cantona's Collars

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

$2.85 for a bucket of coffee with free refill works for me

You can fit the contents of a bottle of wine in one of those cups.Just sayin'.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

and one where a cat ran out in front of him and he nearly let a roar as to give out to the cat.

or the one where he was cycling and the tree hit him on the helmet.... instead of just, you know, moving out of the way

I meant links - ah **** it, I;ve to go to work.

buffalo

psinno wrote: »

It is pretty rare to see drivers driving on paths. Mostly in films.

I see hundreds of cars parked up with two wheels on the footpath every day. Do they lift the car onto the footpath?

Dr_Bill

To be honest I think the thread should be unlocked in the cycling forum, its a valid discussion anyway got to respect the Mods decision. Cyclists in some cases feel everyone should move out of the way for them as if they have priority over all other road users and pedestrians which is simply not the case.

A commute to work doesn't have to be a time trial!

Timberrrrrrrr

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Ah, yes. Coffee. Dmaned more important. Any act of apathy or fake outrage is automatically excused if it was explained by the need to get a coffee. Good man!

Apathy? Fake outrage?

The guy could have seriously injured 3 people including a small child in a buggy.

You think i should feel sorry for this guy?

Carlos Orange

buffalo wrote: »

I see hundreds of cars parked up with two wheels on the footpath every day. Do they lift the car onto the footpath?

You must have a tough time going through life deliberately misunderstanding people.

Boom_Bap

Dr_Bill wrote: »

To be honest I think the thread should be unlocked in the cycling forum, its a valid discussion anyway got to respect the Mods decision. Cyclists in some cases feel everyone should move out of the way for them as if they have priority over all other road users and pedestrians which is simply not the case.

A commute to work doesn't have to be a time trial!

The cycling forum is for people that have an interest or passion for cycling, so opening a thread there to blanket critique the patrons is not so cool.

AH though, critique away.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Dr_Bill wrote: »

To be honest I think the thread should be unlocked in the cycling forum, its a valid discussion anyway got to respect the Mods decision. Cyclists in some cases feel everyone should move out of the way for them as if they have priority over all other road users and pedestrians which is simply not the case.

A commute to work doesn't have to be a time trial!

even if the thread was unlocked in the cycling forum i still wouldn't go into it.

they are a weird sort over there that i wouldn't like to get involved with too much. and i mean weird even by AH standards.

Hell when i was getting advice on bicycles i went to the motor forum and got great advice from people on brands of bikes and where to start etc without it being a big rigmarole !

Snickers Man

Grandpa Hassan wrote: »

InconsiderateCyclists are pricks. DangerousDrivers are pricks. More often than not, carelesspedestrians are pricks. Nothing to see here. Except a completely disproportionate and unhealthy level of rage!

Just amended yours a little so I could agree with it

Snickers Man

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

Sure cycling is best of both worlds, cycle on the road when traffic is flowing, get to a junction with a red light, cross with the pedestrian green light. You may never have to stop at all :rolleyes:

endacl

As I was coming in to work today I saw a cyclist bunnyhopping over a bus full of grannies. He landed on an ambulance transporting a heart for transplant into a critically ill child, sending it into a skid. As he rode away he happyslapped a little girl, walking to school with her mother. He also picked his nose and flicked it at a passing motorist.

I see this kind of cr4p every day. Something has to be done about the plague of bunnyhopping, happyslapping, boogerflicking cyclists. Luckily, there were no hot beverages involved. Could've been mayhem.

:mad:

Carlos Orange

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

I don't cycle but I think the default is that cyclists can not cycle in pedestrian areas so there doesn't need to be a sign disallowing it.

endacl

cisk wrote: »

Sure cycling is best of both worlds, cycle on the road when traffic is flowing, get to a junction with a red light, cross with the pedestrian green light. You may never have to stop at all :rolleyes:

Well, you really should slow down to get of the bike to cross on the pedestrian green. That's what I generally do. As do many others. What's the problem with that?

seamus

Dr_Bill wrote: »

To be honest I think the thread should be unlocked in the cycling forum, its a valid discussion

Not really, it's a pointless rant, not a discussion. Pointless rants belong in AH.

SteM

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

There used to be signs at both ends of the bridge indicating no cycling. The last time I passed it they were gone - not sure if they'd been removed by the council or by a scally.

endacl

seamus wrote: »

Not really, it's a pointless rant, not a discussion. Pointless rants belong in AH.

I hear the cyclist involved was on the dole at the time. Also a traveller, if the rumours are to be believed.

Sheldons Brain

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

The Sean O'Casey bridge is clearly for pedestrians.

If you are going to go slowly, would it kill you to get off the bike and just walk across? Quite apart from the law you would not be showing contempt for your fellow citizens.

my friend

Timbrrrrrrr

I'm lovin' it!

check_six

Snickers Man wrote: »

BTW. Is the Sean O'Casey Bridge ONLY for pedestrians or can cyclists use it too? I have often cycled across it SLOWLY and always giving right of way to pedestrians. I have never noticed signs saying cyclists shouldn't use it but some seem to think they can't.

Anyone got a definitive answer?

Well there is a cycle track on the path on both sides of the bridge separated from the footpath by a strip of paint. Cycle track layout is pretty arbitrary and inconsistent at the best of times. I'd guess the engineers decided to fudge it and lead the cycle track to the bridge and then let people work it out for themselves.

I can't see anything wrong with slowly wheeling across the bridge, but I'd say that, technically, you're supposed to dismount, though in some cycle track designs they have "Cyclists Dismount" signs all over the place, and they are absent here.

Obviously, cycling like a scuttering gobsheen as described in the OP is strongly discouraged.

Dr_Bill

seamus wrote: »

Not really, it's a pointless rant, not a discussion. Pointless rants belong in AH.

Hardly pointless but you got to love AH. I've got my popcorn

ebbsy

East link bridge has a sign on it saying no cyclists.

Some people still have problems reading.

There is an overall problem in Dublin, it is a very dangerous place to be cycling around in. The council can have as many of those bikes as they like for rent, but would you feel safe cycling up the quays ? I would in my arse.

MrStuffins

Helmet-cam or no Helmet-cam, I would've been introducing his bicycle to the splendour of the River Liffey!

endacl

Dr_Bill wrote: »

Hardly pointless but you got to love AH. I've got my popcorn

Of course it's pointless. The OP came on to vent, because his venty thread wasn't entertained on the cycling forum.