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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    amcalester wrote: »
    I've done that too, car illegally in the bus lane beeped at me to move so I stopped and slowly checked rear lights, brakes and tyre before asking him what the problem was.

    He said I was blocking the bus lane, so I corrected him and went about my business.

    For some reason, I get a sudden urge to free wheel when someone in a private car beeps me in a bus lane while it’s in operation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 921 ✭✭✭benjamin d


    I find slowing to theatrically point out the 5ft high words "LANA BUS" and the usually accompanying 5ft high bicycle painted on the road gets most people to sheepishly F off out of the bus lane.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    Go easy on us. I'm sure you want to be one, someday.

    This you Eamonn?
    https://twitter.com/OldManRodgers/status/1065181884869763073?s=19


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,000 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    About 4.20minutes in, keep an eye on the track bike guy.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,000 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Jaysus, that's ballsy and so incredibly dumb a maneuver. I wonder if they ever had an accident

    If the jeep hadn't tapped the brakes, I imagine that lad would be another unpleasant statistic.


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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,880 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Weepsie wrote: »
    Jaysus, that's ballsy and so incredibly dumb a maneuver. I wonder if they ever had an accident
    If they did, I doubt it was an accident!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    CramCycle wrote: »
    About 4.20minutes in, keep an eye on the track bike guy.

    Fella thinks hes an NYC Fixed Gear Fascist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭rushfan


    CramCycle wrote:
    About 4.20minutes in, keep an eye on the track bike guy.


    One brave idiot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    467124.jpg
    "There's space here for ya"

    "I'm making a delivery to the bank, is that alright with you?
    ***ng p**k, ***ng busybody".

    467125.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭site_owner


    presume he means robbing the bank?

    but still, how did he get through the magic wands?

    we need segregated infrastructure. now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Encountered a charmer yesterday going through Ranelagh.

    I'm in the cycle lane on the left and had a van pull right out and in on top of me from the road opposite. https://www.google.ie/maps/place/6+Sandford+Rd,+Dublin+6,+D06+A2P4/@53.3223766,-6.247984,3a,75y,147.19h,86.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm8lMJsTlyLKL0Fkv7Y6STA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sSandford+Road,+Dublin+6!3m4!1s0x48670eafe4c1f963:0x99f5d799ded5865b!8m2!3d53.3236528!4d-6.2498415

    He didn't like my dirty look so proceeded to slow down and drive alongside me with the window down asking me what the problem was.

    When I told him that he had pulled in on top of me he came back with 'sure if I was on top of you I'd be riding you. Actually do you fancy a ride?'

    So many smart responses came to me only after he had driven away!! Hate that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    site_owner wrote: »
    presume he means robbing the bank?

    but still, how did he get through the magic wands?

    we need segregated infrastructure. now.

    Well he pointed at Ulster bank when he said he was making a delivery, then waddled off around the corner
    The genius reversed down the cycle lane half on the footpath


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 956 ✭✭✭site_owner


    papu wrote: »
    Well he pointed at Ulster bank when he said he was making a delivery, then waddled off around the corner
    The genius reversed down the cycle lane half on the footpath

    sometimes i'm amazed at the stuff motorists come up with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Danjamin1


    site_owner wrote: »
    sometimes i'm amazed at the stuff motorists come up with.

    I'm regularly amazed at how people can have their heads shoved so far up their own arses they can't see, nor do they care, how their actions impact on other people.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,412 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Vel wrote: »
    When I told him that he had pulled in on top of me he came back with 'sure if I was on top of you I'd be riding you. Actually do you fancy a ride?'

    So many smart responses came to me only after he had driven away!! Hate that!
    'are you always this... rapey?' is one which springs to mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,546 ✭✭✭VW 1


    Had a silly one this morning which was my own fault truth be told.

    Coming down Ballymun Road, just past the entrance to DCU - was in the bus/bike lane and heard a motorbike behind me so I didn't fully take the lane to let him go by, but I was a doors width out from the cars parked on the left.

    Next thing a taxi is sliding up beside me, so close that I moved a couple inches left so his wing mirror wouldn't touch my handlebars. He was going marginally fast than I was so it was all slow motion. He had a fare in the front seat, so I banged the rear passenger window.

    He got in front, put his hazards on and dropped anchor to get out and confront me.

    He asked why I banged his car and wanted to know should he do something about it.

    I asked why he passed so close instead of waiting behind, told him he almost touched my bars with his wing mirror.

    He told me he was miles from me and made a gesture with his hands to show this.

    I asked if he was so far away how did I manage to bang the window.

    At this point traffic was building up behind, including two motorbikes. A cyclist came alongside me and started telling the taxi man about the 1.5m passing distance and he had almost hit me.

    Our taxi friend then gave the usual, you cyclist think you own the whole road and got into the car.

    I passed him 300m later as he queued in traffic and gave a friendly wave.

    It's rare I don't take the lane there, will definitely not make that mistake going forward.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,412 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i wonder what his fare thought of all that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    i wonder what his fare thought of all that.

    I'm sure the meter was running during all of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    Leonard's Corner this morning, usual thing with a member of the self love crew (an 11yo 3 series BMW) not checking his mirrors.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    VW 1 wrote: »
    Had a silly one this morning which was my own fault truth be told.

    Coming down Ballymun Road, just past the entrance to DCU - was in the bus/bike lane and heard a motorbike behind me so I didn't fully take the lane to let him go by, but I was a doors width out from the cars parked on the left.

    Next thing a taxi is sliding up beside me, so close that I moved a couple inches left so his wing mirror wouldn't touch my handlebars. He was going marginally fast than I was so it was all slow motion. He had a fare in the front seat, so I banged the rear passenger window.

    He got in front, put his hazards on and dropped anchor to get out and confront me.

    He asked why I banged his car and wanted to know should he do something about it.

    I asked why he passed so close instead of waiting behind, told him he almost touched my bars with his wing mirror.

    He told me he was miles from me and made a gesture with his hands to show this.

    I asked if he was so far away how did I manage to bang the window.

    At this point traffic was building up behind, including two motorbikes. A cyclist came alongside me and started telling the taxi man about the 1.5m passing distance and he had almost hit me.

    Our taxi friend then gave the usual, you cyclist think you own the whole road and got into the car.

    I passed him 300m later as he queued in traffic and gave a friendly wave.

    It's rare I don't take the lane there, will definitely not make that mistake going forward.

    Id love for a rant like this to be captured on camera and forwarded to the NTA and RTE.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,818 ✭✭✭marvin80


    VW 1 wrote: »

    He told me he was miles from me and made a gesture with his hands to show this.

    I asked if he was so far away how did I manage to bang the window.

    Perfect - he had no response to that! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,546 ✭✭✭VW 1


    ED E wrote: »
    Id love for a rant like this to be captured on camera and forwarded to the NTA and RTE.

    Tbh he was a tall imposing man, when he stepped out of the car I feared the worst, he had that look about him. You are in a difficult position if someone hits you and you are straddling a bike.

    Point above is that I'm now pondering about whether a camera would deter that type of thing, but I really don't want to be in a position where I feel I need a camera.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    VW 1 wrote: »
    Tbh he was a tall imposing man, when he stepped out of the car I feared the worst, he had that look about him. You are in a difficult position if someone hits you and you are straddling a bike.

    Sounds a lot like Brian


    VW 1 wrote: »
    I really don't want to be in a position where I feel I need a camera.

    The camera isnt for you, its for the Coroner after you've been crushed by a Dublin Bus driver that "didnt see you".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    ED E wrote: »

    The camera isnt for you, its for the Coroner after you've been crushed by a Dublin Bus driver that "didnt see you".

    That escalated quickly!

    Sad but true though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    That escalated quickly!

    Sad but true though.

    it absolutely is. another cyclist asked me recently while stopped at traffic lights why I had a camera on the bike. I told him it was primarily for evidence in case someone hit me - he responded that it wasn't much use if they killed me. I told him that my life assurance is also of no use to me when I die but I damn sure want to ensure that responsibility is correctly apportioned if such an event occurs.


  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,880 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    it absolutely is. another cyclist asked me recently while stopped at traffic lights why I had a camera on the bike. I told him it was primarily for evidence in case someone hit me - he responded that it wasn't much use if they killed me. I told him that my life assurance is also of no use to me when I die but I damn sure want to ensure that responsibility is correctly apportioned if such an event occurs.
    But I thought that if you are wearing your high-viz than you won't get hit? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    it absolutely is. another cyclist asked me recently while stopped at traffic lights why I had a camera on the bike. I told him it was primarily for evidence in case someone hit me - he responded that it wasn't much use if they killed me. I told him that my life assurance is also of no use to me when I die but I damn sure want to ensure that responsibility is correctly apportioned if such an event occurs.

    I have a camera in my car. There is nutjobs out there on the road making invalid insurance claims etc.

    One that happened to us a few weeks ago was as follows:

    I was at a junction, red light and a bike came up my inside and in front of us. After awhile the bike decided to break the red light but got hit by a car. Nothing serious.
    Garda were called and we couldn't move as were witness to it. Cyclists claimed car went through red and not him. Garda asked us a few questions and then he saw we had a camera and asked to look at the footage. Cyclists changed his tune once he saw garda looking at a camera.

    Alot of people out there trying to make a quick buck at all of our expense!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    I have a camera in my car. There is nutjobs out there on the road making invalid insurance claims etc.

    One that happened to us a few weeks ago was as follows:

    I was at a junction, red light and a bike came up my inside and in front of us. After awhile the bike decided to break the red light but got hit by a car. Nothing serious.
    Garda were called and we couldn't move as were witness to it. Cyclists claimed car went through red and not him. Garda asked us a few questions and then he saw we had a camera and asked to look at the footage. Cyclists changed his tune once he saw garda looking at a camera.

    Alot of people out there trying to make a quick buck at all of our expense!!

    I keep saying to myself I need to get a camera for the car.

    Very similar situation after getting knocked down off the bike. Driver said I cycled into him. I said he didn’t indicate. He argued he did. I showed him the video. He bought me new askiums.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,881 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    I keep saying to myself I need to get a camera for the car.

    Very similar situation after getting knocked down off the bike. Driver said I cycled into him. I said he didn’t indicate. He argued he did. I showed him the video. He bought me new askiums.

    Not indicating pisses me off. And I am in a car.


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  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,000 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Not indicating pisses me off. And I am in a car.

    I have gotten into the habit of letting people know their indicator isn't working :pac:

    Why bother indicating if your only going to do it as you turn. You indicate before the turn.


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