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

FFS. Two in Two days and I very rarely get a crappy pass anymore.
Yesterday, 100 metres from the junction of Kennilworth road and Grosvenor Pl with traffic in front of me and cars parked in the left, I am fully in the centre of the lane keeping pace as we slow to the junction. I hear a big acceleration behind me and I pull further right to show i am using the lane so I am now pretty much middle of the road. Still the acceleration. We are practically at the junction now. I stick my arm out as the taxi on the wrong side of the road, speeding into a blind junction flys by me. Anything could have been coming around that corner which would have meant I was toast. I won't go into the words we exchanged, needless to say the professional driver didn't see anything wrong.

Just now on Leinster road. I am in the centre of the lane as I don't want to be doored and there is a slower cyclist ahead of me. A car is coming in the opposite direction. Next thing a guy with a learner permit passes me and doesn't make it past the next guy but pulls in on top of him and just squeezes by only to indicate and pull in ( I kid you not) 25 metres later to drop the kid to school.
Apparently I was holding him up for the last fifteen minutes. (I am three minutes into my cycle at this stage) So he felt it was ok to risk everyones safety.
I am absolutley raging here. I have been cycling in Dublin for over 12 years, (when I wouldn't see another cyclist from one day to the next) and they are by far the worst passes I have ever encountered (the taxi driver for sure)

Dreadful to see cyclists terrorising pedestrians again down at oul Sam Beckett

https://streamable.com/hadcp

Three of us out today, around the naul and stamullen. Plenty of considerate passing. Even got a friendly toot and a wave from two motorists when we singled up on some of the narrower country roads..

All undone when I was alone on my way from Clonee home to Carpenterstown. Horrible road from clonee to ongar - some crazy overtaking, across the continuous line. Several oncoming drivers had to almost stop to allow the overtake to complete, some flashed. Crazy stuff for a Sunday morning, everyone in a rush to get no where

im just wondering whether or not the guy on the escooter got pulled over by the Garda car on his heels.

Plenty of this type of intimidation goes on at the quays, especially the south ones from O’connell bridge to Parliament street bridge. Taxi drivers up your ass, revving and sometimes beeping in the bus / bike lane, even when the lane beside is free. For some reason, I get an instant urge to freewheel, look down and see where the problem is with my bike that the beeps are alerting me to.....

Idiotic overtake of a cyclist around 7pm.

Am heading along road with cyclist coming opposite direction. Car behind him.

Car decides to start over taking as I approach.

Had completely stop to avoided a head on collision.

As the car passed, I raised both hands in the air with a WTF look.

90 Shanliss Way
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DaveyDave wrote: »

I slowed down because it was obvious but average motorist wouldn't have the foresight.

Thank God you're such a great driver Davey Dave!

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Had what I felt was a very dangerous pass this evening on the Ballyowen Rd. I was cycling the bus lane, taking the lane due to the wet weather.
A car came up behind avoiding the normal wet weather queues and I pointed towards right indicating for them to get in the correct lane; they simply beeped their horn and pointed to their left telling me to get into the cycle lane.
I stayed put anyhow as I wasn't going to be bullied out of his way.
For about 150m he revved his engine as he travelled behind me.
Lo and behold, the revs increases and got closer. Knowing what he was at I looked to my right and the prick was comung up to squeeze past. He was inches from behind me and I knew that if I stayed on my line I'd be in an ambulance. I pulled to my left and there was inches between us, his mirror taking much of that up.
He sped on ahead leaving me to slow down for a red light at the Penny Hill jcn (green for him).
I pulled over and wrote down his reg into a text message and continued on.
Further on at the queue for the N4, there he was. I cycled in front of him and told him that I was going straight to the gardai. He looked up from his phone, said something as I was leaving and gave the obligatory F-you beep as I left.
I popped into my local garda station and the gardai will give him a warning.

That road is wide enough for us all, what was his problem? Was he just lane jumping and driving in the bus lane?

CramCycle wrote: »

Indeed, here was me driving around with the attitude that everyone else was an idiot, pedestrian, cyclist and motorist and prepared to act accordingly.

On a more serious note, the very last point (Rathgar Road point), it is the exact thing that every motorists should expect and I would be worried if the didn't. Be they Ped, Cylist or motorist, if there is an obstruction, I expect them to move out and adjust my driving/cycling/walking accordingly. Only a complete muppet wouldn't, congrats Dave, your not a complete muppet.

Actually, that is the same for the first point. Hmmm.

And the middle one, stupid yes, a possibility you should be prepared for, definitely.

Congrats Dave, your better than the average motorist by barely meeting the minimum standard that a motorist should meet :rolleyes:

It's easy to take a sarcastic cut at someone but isn't that just glossing over the point that Dave was making?


You are correct above about the duty of care that a motorist has in these situations. Surely the cyclists in these instances also have a duty of care, to themselves if nobody else? They shouldn't change lanes without either looking or signalling their intentions. Is it not ok for that to be pointed out too?

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Not that I need to excuse my actions but I was in the centre of the bus lane (as recommended by the RSA & Rules of the Road). Knowing how traffic can be on wet days along this stretch and because I'm effectively on slicks, I decided to follow a somewhat dry line which also allowed me to safely take control of the lane. Had a bus or taxi come up behind me I'd have happily moved out of their way.
He was breaking the law by driving in the 24/7 bus lane. He got pissed off because I was blocking his empty lane and I had the nerve to point towards the full regular lane. When the I didn't get out of his way he beeped to command me to move left to the wet and somewhat poor surface of the cycle lane (why else beep when he knew I saw him?).
He then agressively tried to pass me using the space between me in the centre of the lane and the queueing cars. There was not enough room. Had I not taken evasive action, I would be in a hospital or morgue now.

TLDR: he was an inconsiderate prick who felt that it is ok to illegally undertake queueing traffic and close pass a vulnerable road user cycling legally

You did nothing wrong. Often seen cars flying down that lane when I am out running there.

The cycle lane there can be very slippy

magicbastarder wrote: »

which end of the R113?

Turned left of the N11 towards Sandyford Industrial estate.

Since the schools are back, the amount of close passes have increased.