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Near misses - mod warning 22/04 - see OP/post 822
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Rechuchote wrote: »navigating from stanchion to stanchion along the bus as they go.
New word of the day!
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That's a f***ing disgrace. The disregard for another persons safety is sickening.
It's only a very small step away from attempted murder IMO.
Thats no mistake, it's someone who not only has a grudge against cyclists, but who indulges that grudge by deliberately driving close to them (and hitting them) with a 2.5 tonne vehicle at high speed. That individual has proved in those few seconds that he/she does not possess a mental state fit to hold a driving licence. Wilful endangerment of innocent lives needs to be made an example of. Licence should be taken off him and posted to the moon + prosecution for attempted murder with that footage as evidence. People need to be shocked into sitting up and taking notice in order to change their behaviours.
Won't happen of course, this is Ireland, the land of can't be arsed to change anything
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It's only a very small step away from attempted murder IMO.
Thats no mistake, it's someone who not only has a grudge against cyclists, but who indulges that grudge by deliberately driving close to them (and hitting them) with a 2.5 tonne vehicle at high speed. That individual has proved in those few seconds that he/she does not possess a mental state fit to hold a driving licence. Wilful endangerment of innocent lives needs to be made an example of. Licence should be taken off him and posted to the moon + prosecution for attempted murder with that footage as evidence. People need to be shocked into sitting up and taking notice in order to change their behaviours.
Won't happen of course, this is Ireland, the land of can't be arsed to change anything
White van man and taxi drivers both bottom feeders when it comes to cyclists. Worst on the road in my experience,0 -
Pinch Flat wrote: »White van man and taxi drivers both bottom feeders when it comes to cyclists. Worst on the road in my experience,
I used to own a white van. Sad that I’m one of them. 0 -
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What would you call them? I just reached for the handiest word.Actually I wouldn’t qualify degrees of idiocy here… People are stupid. Excusing one group of stupid people based on an assumed risk assessment is ridiculous.
My own opinion, but the red light jumpers (on bicycles) that I see are nearly all young lads all in black, no lights, but the glow of self-assumed immortality lighting all around them.
It's my theory that the reason for this is the lack of safe infrastructure. Bear with me a moment.
Women, in general, are reluctant to ride bicycles on our city streets, because they feel unsafe among the reckless drivers. And parents are reluctant to allow their children to cycle for the same reason. (In fact I've heard drivers, without so much as a whiff of irony, express shock at the careless parenting of people who do allow their children to cycle, or who carry their children on bikes.) Old people tend to abandon cycling after the second or third time they're knocked off the bike.
The result of the lack of women, children and old people is that there is no example of normal careful bicycle riding as the main mode of city cycling. So whizzing along as if alone on the road is normalised for young lads.
Not that red light jumping is the norm, but I reckon it's more so than it would be if the bicycle-riding population were more normally balanced and came from both sexes and all ages.
And of course if there were safe infrastructure. But apparently that's too much to ask of our politicians, who see granny grants as a better vote getter. (Time for cyclists to get out on the canvass, especially in areas where anti-cycling-infrastructure ministers and TDs are standing for election.)0 -
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Last week nearly ran head on into a guy on a weird electric scooter going the wrong way down a cycletrack.
I have seen him a lot, more often than not going the wrong way yet he totally stands his ground, staying dead central on the track at full speed, as though he is in the right to be going the direction he is (let alone the legality of the scooter), and expecting others to get out of his way.
As you see no head or leg movement at all it is all the more surprising, as you see a guy in the distance who looks like he is walking, but he is actually pissing along. It must be much more powerful than the other scooters you see.
Looks something like this, guy looks spanish or brazilian.
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site_owner wrote: »just got a hostile pass by a mercedes near my house. went to the shop (850m) so no cameras.
500m normal straight road, left turn that always gets cut, then about 200m narrow with cars usually parked on both sides before turning into the estate.
as usual there was a parked car blocking the cycle lane on before the left (entrance to park) so i took the lane, car in front was holding me up, maybe 35kmh
kept the lane through the left, car in front went on straight.
parked car blocking the lane after left after the turn (post office) so i kept the lane.
its <100 m now to the estate and its a sharp left with speed bump and car parked on the junction on the opposite side (as usual) so i keep the lane and indicate.
hear engine roar behind me, mercedes passes under heavy acceleration inches from me (bit of tyre squeal for good luck)
let a roar at him as i turn left, see him caught up to the car ahead in less than 50m
dickhead
Not a close pass, but had something similar yesterday. Cycling in the right hand lane of a one way system; left lane backed up with cars the length of the street. Hear a toot behind me. Start hearing more. Look back and realise the it's car behind me. He starts waving like mad to get out of the way so I wave back
. Not sure what he wanted me to do. There was a solid line of cars on both sides between traffic and parked cars. Fairly certain he was just skipping the line of traffic too and merged into the left lane once he got to the end of the right hand lane. Can't be certain because I was well ahead by the time he got that far :rolleyes:. On the Dock Road in Galway for those that know it. 0 -
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AndrewJRenko wrote: »Brilliant response. I've heard others recommend blowing of kisses in such situations, but I never quite remember it at the time.
It wasn't quite as smooth as I made out but I kept my cool and kept my space on the road. I used to get annoyed until I realised it's only effecting me so try to let these things go. Plus to be honest it's far more satisfying to leave them stewing. They expect the reaction and leaving them without if more frustrating 0 -
I've just left my job for a shiny new one across town extending my commute significantly. My lovely former work colleagues bought me a GoPro Hero 2018 as a going away gift. I did a test run of the new route today and this was the only incident fortunately.
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Last week nearly ran head on into a guy on a weird electric scooter going the wrong way down a cycletrack.
I have seen him a lot, more often than not going the wrong way yet he totally stands his ground, staying dead central on the track at full speed, as though he is in the right to be going the direction he is (let alone the legality of the scooter), and expecting others to get out of his way.
As you see no head or leg movement at all it is all the more surprising, as you see a guy in the distance who looks like he is walking, but he is actually pissing along. It must be much more powerful than the other scooters you see.
Looks something like this, guy looks spanish or brazilian.If its on the N11 I think it tops out at just over 30kmph based on my own speed, although the guy I meet is always on the correct side.Yes, N11 and leopardtown road, I have seen him in other places too. I think he goes one route and then backwards on the same path.
Seem him a few mornings including today.....up leeson st, through donnybrook and up the n11.
This was about 6.45.
The wheels are much smaller that the picture.
He zipps along at some pace.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ludicrous-electric-scooter-law-needs-to-be-changed-says-td-37074517.html0 -
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