Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822

Lambay island

micar wrote: »

That last is shocking......imagine what could have happened if the cyclist was going straight on.

I could be wrong but from the jerky type movement by the cyclist, I think he may well have been going straight on until he realised to protect himself he had to go left.

RacoonQueen

Lambay island wrote: »

I could be wrong but from the jerky type movement by the cyclist, I think he may well have been going straight on until he realised to protect himself he had to go left.

Yeah thats what it looked like to me. Has happened to me a few times where I've had to just take the turn with them. They see me, panic and stop and I have to cycle round the front of their vehicle to get back around them and go straight again.

Felexicon

hesker wrote: »

Felexicon wrote: »

Ah I've experienced that and worse plenty of times.
If you feel it's justified or it's the way you want to deal with it that's up to yourself and who am I to tell you you're wrong. Just giving my 2 cents worth.

In fairness you can’t know it’s worse. I’ve experienced plenty of silly overtakes too that are downright dangerous and I just shake the head and carry on. You’d have to know the road to know how stupid his overtake attempt was. Cars do not overtake other cars on this road unless they’re stopped. Also thought he was just going to haul right on top of me when he got his nose in front.

I also didn’t just shout abuse at him off the bat. I waved my hand to ask him what he was doing. If he had waved an apologetic hand that would have been the end of it but he didn’t.

Anyway that’s enough of that. I’ll try to be more calm in future when someone endangers my life.

Ah relax yourself pal you seem highly strung

Kaisr Sose

Felexicon wrote: »

Ah relax yourself pal you seem highly strung

Do you really need to post that? He was there, you were not. Any of these situations can be very scary and a split second can be the difference between using a different form of two wheeled transport to get about every day.

hesker

Felexicon wrote: »

Ah relax yourself pal you seem highly strung

Yeah right. Thanks for that pal.

Pinch Flat

Bit of a weird one this morning. Heading down to Castleknock gate, tipping along 30kph plus Center lane in between traffic when the car in front of me suddenly stops. I indicate to pull around. Motorist is hanging out the window as I pass.

“There’s no need for those strobe lights”. “Yeah sure thanks” I say as I pass him. I pull in front of him to continue on my way and he tailgates me, blowing his horn all the way to the gates, exchanged an expletive as he heads towards the navan road. All on camera.

Ar$eholes driving 181-D E class Mercs. Who would have thunk it?

site_owner

tight squeeze this morning, followed by some abuse about needing to get off his road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioxI3MQ12sI

view from the front of the oncoming campervans that caused him to squueze me over

average_runner

micar wrote: »

That last is shocking......imagine what could have happened if the cyclist was going straight on.

The driver should of assumed the cyclists was going straight on as there was no signal from the cyclist. Really bad driving

Pinch Flat

average_runner wrote: »

The driver should of assumed the cyclists was going straight on as there was no signal from the cyclist. Really bad driving

You can never win though. I had a near miss with a motorist 2 weeks ago - merging from a bus lane to a traffic lane to proceed straight through a narrow roundabout in a housing estate. Turned around,indicated in plenty of time. He continued on, speeding up in fact, to cut me off.

His excuse? I was giving the wrong signal apparently. How did he know I wasn’t turning right? He would have definitely hit me then.

CramCycle

I let a roar ( I knew what she was going to do) at the first photo, and she kept looking the other way. I shook my head as I went behind but I could see the look of confusion in her head, wondering why I was shouting coming from behind.

Look right please.

ED E

CramCycle wrote: »

I let a roar ( I knew what she was going to do) at the first photo, and she kept looking the other way. I shook my head as I went behind but I could see the look of confusion in her head, wondering why I was shouting coming from behind.

Look right please.

Its amazing how without even putting much attention into it you instantly know the idiot that'll nose out directly in front of you.

Pinch Flat

ED E wrote: »

Its amazing how without even putting much attention into it you instantly know the idiot that'll nose out directly in front of you.

And to think in my case above the motorist reckoned there’s no need for a strobe.

CramCycle

Pinch Flat wrote: »

And to think in my case above the motorist reckoned there’s no need for a strobe.

I am 6'1, a bald patch that reflects light at just the right intensity for visibility and eyes that would light up the darkest room, if only she'd looked, we both would have had a better morning.

godtabh

Coming up Kilinney Hill Road from Shankill. Almost at the village. Some bellend reving the engine as she couldn't pass.

See eventfully passes over a sold white line and I say she missed me by mm. I was collecting myself as there was a bit of a wobble and she clipped an on coming car.

The two people in the car had words. She was blaming me.

I passed her.

She then got back in the car and over took me. Waited at the roundabout and started accusing me of causing the accident. I pointed out she nearly knocked me over, passed on a solid white line and was on the wrong side of the road when she collided with the other car and I just cycled off.

She had a brand new Kona. Scrape damage on the rear door/pack panel. Probably cost thousands to fix. I'd say the car was only off the forecourt.

Tough ****. Learn how to drive.

QueenMTBee

site_owner wrote: »

and a taxi man trying to run me off the road and give me a piece of his mind out his window at malahide.
according to strava i averaged 43kph from portmarnock to malahide and he was barely behind me at all before he started closing in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWZkD6bM2I4

sorry for the terrible video editing

That's literally the exact spot where the same thing happened to me - by a guy driving a silver taxi too. I posted about it on here. I wonder if it's the same taxi driver?

check_six

godtabh wrote: »

She had a brand new Kona. Scrape damage on the rear door/pack panel. Probably cost thousands to fix. I'd say the car was only off the forecourt.

I thought a "Kona" was a bike?

Interesting to see an instant karmic feedback loop going on in that incident. Do you think the driver learnt anything from it? I wonder what their version of the event is in their head (they've got to try and justify themselves somehow, right?).

magicbastarder

check_six wrote: »

I thought a "Kona" was a bike?

hyundai make a car called the kona.

godtabh

magicbastarder wrote: »

hyundai make a car called the kona.

Thats the one. Brand new 181 with a high reg number.

I had a laugh at her when she said the road wasnt suitable for bikes. Try telling that to the hundreds of cyclists who use it every day!

Road wasnt suitable for drivers like her

Alanstrainor

godtabh wrote: »

Coming up Kilinney Hill Road from Shankill. Almost at the village. Some bellend reving the engine as she couldn't pass.

See eventfully passes over a sold white line and I say she missed me by mm. I was collecting myself as there was a bit of a wobble and she clipped an on coming car.

The two people in the car had words. She was blaming me.

I passed her.

She then got back in the car and over took me. Waited at the roundabout and started accusing me of causing the accident. I pointed out she nearly knocked me over, passed on a solid white line and was on the wrong side of the road when she collided with the other car and I just cycled off.

She had a brand new Kona. Scrape damage on the rear door/pack panel. Probably cost thousands to fix. I'd say the car was only off the forecourt.

Tough ****. Learn how to drive.

What an absolute moron. Glad you're okay, hopefully they realise their mistake, but I doubt it...

godtabh

Weepsie wrote: »

I'd like to think that I'd have the will to take her details, hand them to the other driver and let her insurer know. Least she'd deserve

I wasnt going to stop.

My uncle used to always tell me that if there is an issue between my and a women walk away as if there is any confrontation (or a made up one) due to my size and my neo-nazi hair cur I'd be assumed to be the aggressor. He's a garda.

sy_flembeck

godtabh wrote: »

Coming up Kilinney Hill Road from Shankill. Almost at the village. Some bellend reving the engine as she couldn't pass.

See eventfully passes over a sold white line and I say she missed me by mm. I was collecting myself as there was a bit of a wobble and she clipped an on coming car.

The two people in the car had words. She was blaming me.

I passed her.

She then got back in the car and over took me. Waited at the roundabout and started accusing me of causing the accident. I pointed out she nearly knocked me over, passed on a solid white line and was on the wrong side of the road when she collided with the other car and I just cycled off.

She had a brand new Kona. Scrape damage on the rear door/pack panel. Probably cost thousands to fix. I'd say the car was only off the forecourt.

Tough ****. Learn how to drive.

That is simply beautiful. It's exactly how I wished all my close passes ended up

I would have pointed to my lights even if it didn't have a camera and told her I had it all on camera and that both reg's were on there and that I'd pass her's on to the other driver and watch her poop :P

Pinch Flat

Ah yes the errant motorist who manages to fcuk their car up, but somehow it’s the cyclists fault.

Reminded me of a similar encounter I had while commuting on the strawberry beds a few years back

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057125981/1/#post88490012

Still makes me chuckle

benjamin d

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Ah yes the errant motorist who manages to fcuk their car but somehow it’s the cyclists fault.

Reminded me of a similar encounter I had while commuting in the strawberry beds a few years back

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057125981/1/#post88490012

Still makes me chuckle

I regularly cycle Beaver Row towards Donnybrook and it's the same story. It's a slight downhill so I'm usually bombing along at close to or above 40km/h in the centre of the lane but sometimes some spa HAS to pass only to have to slow right down for fear of going airborne at the next ramp. I have never been slower than a car across the length of that road. It's lovely seeing someone almost tear the arse off their car in those situations.

Rechuchote

godtabh wrote: »

See eventfully passes over a sold white line and I say she missed me by mm. I was collecting myself as there was a bit of a wobble and she clipped an on coming car.

benjamin d wrote: »

I regularly cycle Beaver Row towards Donnybrook and it's the same story.

Beaver Row isn't a road, it's a car park. I pity the disabled people who need to get wheelchairs or walkers along that road: they have the choice between trying to scrape along between all the cars parked halfway across the southeast pavement or trying to wheel along beside the badly maintained sticky-outy greenery on the northwest pavement, with its high kerb and no dishing, should they wish to take their lives in their hands and try to cross. What a kludge of a road plan.

Though the little metal bridge is truly gorgeous. And the plan for the Dodder Greenway envisages a path along above the entrancing weir and waterfall…

benjamin d

Rechuchote wrote: »

Beaver Row isn't a road, it's a car park.

It's pretty awful alright but I have some sympathy for the residents parking there considering it's a narrow row of probably 200-year-old cottages that has become a fairly major throughway. It would be fairer to remove the through traffic to give over to the parking IMO - maybe by reconfiguring Eglinton Road and rerouting cars that way, which could leave Beaver Row as a lovely quietway

site_owner

benjamin d wrote: »

It's pretty awful alright but I have some sympathy for the residents parking there considering it's a narrow row of probably 200-year-old cottages that has become a fairly major throughway. It would be fairer to remove the through traffic to give over to the parking IMO - maybe by reconfiguring Eglinton Road and rerouting cars that way, which could leave Beaver Row as a lovely quietway

Hahaha
Residents would be more likely to pay barristers to campaign to turn their road into a motorway before a quiet way if the recent situation is anything to go by

Kaisr Sose

I gave up on Beaver Row years ago. Not pleasant to cycle on it. Eglington Road, though not perfect, is way better.

benjamin d

site_owner wrote: »

Hahaha
Residents would be more likely to pay barristers to campaign to turn their road into a motorway before a quiet way if the recent situation is anything to go by

Yeah I know, which is such a pity as it's a lick of paint and a handful of bollards off being a perfectly logical extension to the Dodder path from Milltown. It could probably be done for a 5 figure sum! It could save a packet for the Dodder Greenway plans.

CramCycle

site_owner wrote: »

Hahaha
Residents would be more likely to pay barristers to campaign to turn their road into a motorway before a quiet way if the recent situation is anything to go by

True but it would make sense, one way from Business park down to the N11, with a short two way stretch for buses, workers and the apartments behind the depot at the N11 end.