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

10-10-2019 09:12AM

No chance a near miss through city centre this morning with the extinction rebellion campaigners cycling as slowly as possible and causing traffic to come to a standstill. Plenty of Gardaí (bicycles and cars) accompanying them.

Cabaal · 10-10-2019 09:22AM

downtheroad wrote: »

No chance a near miss through city centre this morning with the extinction rebellion campaigners cycling as slowly as possible and causing traffic to come to a standstill. Plenty of Gardaí (bicycles and cars) accompanying them.

Usual anti cyclist crap on the likes of thejournal.ie
https://www.thejournal.ie/cyclists-climate-change-protest-dublin-4845304-Oct2019/

Now before anyone says that I BIKE Dublin are doing the wrong thing, remember that the Netherlands is only the way it is now because people protested in the 70's.
Blocking entire roads
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Stuff has to change and protests have to happen, its clear its not going to improve otherwise

eeeee · 10-10-2019 09:39AM

downtheroad wrote: »

No chance a near miss through city centre this morning with the extinction rebellion campaigners cycling as slowly as possible and causing traffic to come to a standstill. Plenty of Gardaí (bicycles and cars) accompanying them.

I think this should happen more often

Pinch Flat · 10-10-2019 09:44AM

hah the Journal is gone into overdrive. Probably lots of plebs who were queuing futilely at midnight for the last drop of fuel before the budget hike.

Utter Consternation · 10-10-2019 09:55AM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

hah the Journal is gone into overdrive. Probably lots of plebs who were queuing futilely at midnight for the last drop of fuel before the budget hike.

Absolute morons. The drive down to the filling station probably cost more in fuel than the few cents they were going to save.

magicbastarder · 10-10-2019 09:58AM

i filled up that evening; not because of the price hike, but because i needed to. the filling station was like a graveyard.

Duckjob · 10-10-2019 10:11AM

Cabaal wrote: »

Usual anti cyclist crap on the likes of thejournal.ie
https://www.thejournal.ie/cyclists-climate-change-protest-dublin-4845304-Oct2019/

Now before anyone says that I BIKE Dublin are doing the wrong thing, remember that the Netherlands is only the way it is now because people protested in the 70's.
Blocking entire roads

Stuff has to change and protests have to happen, its clear its not going to improve otherwise

Tediously predictable how the headline is "Cyclists blocking traffic...." as opposed to something like "IBIKE Dublin blocking traffic" or even "Active travel campaigners blocking traffic..."

I suppose it's that easy to stir up the halfwits in the comments there.

10-10-2019 10:26AM

eeeee wrote: »

I think this should happen more often

If this happened once a week it would surely help bring about change.

However ibike used to form a weekly human and bike barrier along several cycle lanes that ate routinely blocked by vehicles, Westland Row and Rathmines are 2 I remember. I think it was every Tuesday morning, they'd pick 1 and stop vehicles from parking in them. Don't see the blockades any more, still see the vehicles blocking the lanes though.

average_runner · 10-10-2019 10:56AM

Utter Consternation wrote: »

Absolute morons. The drive down to the filling station probably cost more in fuel than the few cents they were going to save.

Well if they needed to fill it they were saving.

Petrol stations were very quiet in what I saw

Cabaal · 10-10-2019 11:03AM

Some photos from this morning

https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/10/10/meanwhile-across-dublin-city/

mmrs · 10-10-2019 11:11AM

Nearly got creamed by a girl in a car texting as she navigated a roundabout in the Phoenix park this morning. I tapped of her car as she cut into the cycle lane. She didn't notice.
I caught up with her a few meters down the road and she dropped her phone and apologetically shrugged. I don't think she realised what nearly happened.
Got me agitated and I hate cycling like that. I generally ignore bad behaviour by all to keep myself calm but the last few weeks have had a few too many near misses.
Rant over;)

Seth Brundle · 10-10-2019 11:44AM

Cabaal wrote: »

Some photos from this morning

https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/10/10/meanwhile-across-dublin-city/

Feck all helmets and high-viz.
They are a dangerous bunch!

Pinch Flat · 10-10-2019 11:56AM

I’ve taken the advice from the journal comments and started wearing a hi vis vest. I’m also heading to DCC later to enquire about paying “road tax” for my bike. It’s all these incremental steps that’ll help fight climate change.

Cabaal · 10-10-2019 12:16PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I’ve taken the advice from the journal comments and started wearing a hi vis vest. I’m also heading to DCC later to enquire about paying “road tax” for my bike. It’s all these incremental steps that’ll help fight climate change.

Let us know how you get on, I'm sure DCC will be happy to accept your money based on your bikes emissions and due to the hi viz you'll never have somebody nearly kill you again.

Rechuchote · 10-10-2019 12:21PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

hah the Journal is gone into overdrive. Probably lots of plebs who were queuing futilely at midnight for the last drop of fuel before the budget hike.

Depressingly, they were all "bleedin coyclists" comments, no word about the climate crisis. But perhaps the only climate crisis they know of is the climate control button in their SUVs.

downtheroad wrote: »

If this happened once a week it would surely help bring about change.

However ibike used to form a weekly human and bike barrier along several cycle lanes that ate routinely blocked by vehicles, Westland Row and Rathmines are 2 I remember. I think it was every Tuesday morning, they'd pick 1 and stop vehicles from parking in them. Don't see the blockades any more, still see the vehicles blocking the lanes though.

They've been happening again - a few in the cycle lanes in Camden Street and the street leading into it, which are regularly and dangerously fly-parked during rush hour.

Pinch Flat · 10-10-2019 12:27PM

Cabaal wrote: »

Let us know how you get on, I'm sure DCC will be happy to accept your money based on your bikes emissions and due to the hi viz you'll never have somebody nearly kill you again.

I’ve worked out my “road tax“ bill for my bike should be €2, as the bike weighs about 1% that of my car that costs €200 to tax annually. Might even be cheeky and ask them about a “road tax” refund for. My car that sits on the drive Monday to Friday saving (in my fag packet calculations) 1.5 tonnes of CO2 annually if I was to drive to work.

magicbastarder · 10-10-2019 01:16PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I’ve worked out my “road tax“ bill for my bike should be €2, as the bike weighs about 1% that of my car that costs €200 to tax annually.

if you're using weight as a means of determining the tax, your bike tax would actually be less than 20c. the relationship between road wear and weight is not even close to linear.

Rechuchote · 10-10-2019 01:27PM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

I’ve worked out my “road tax“ bill for my bike should be €2, as the bike weighs about 1% that of my car that costs €200 to tax annually. Might even be cheeky and ask them about a “road tax” refund for. My car that sits on the drive Monday to Friday saving (in my fag packet calculations) 1.5 tonnes of CO2 annually if I was to drive to work.

Nope.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/

Utter Consternation · 10-10-2019 01:50PM

Rechuchote wrote: »

Nope.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/

I resemble resent that last category!

Cabaal · 10-10-2019 02:17PM

Rechuchote wrote: »

Nope.

https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/chart-of-the-day-vehicle-weight-vs-road-damage-levels/

I laughed so much at that last category, brilliant

Must create a EU/Euro version of this chart

Rechuchote · 10-10-2019 02:37PM

Cabaal wrote: »

I laughed so much at that last category, brilliant

Must create a EU/Euro version of this chart

What would be particularly useful would be a version of the calculation model with "10kg bike" and "2 ton car" replacing the letters.

magicbastarder · 10-10-2019 02:53PM

interesting that in the states, an 'average car' is 4000lb; that's over 1.8 tons.
a ford mondeo has a list weight of between 1.4 and 1.6 tons.

CramCycle · 10-10-2019 02:55PM

Myself and my bike are 55% the weight of a fat man on a freakishly heavy bicycle. The more you know.

Duckjob · 10-10-2019 03:53PM

CramCycle wrote: »

Myself and my bike are 55% the weight of a fat man on a freakishly heavy bicycle. The more you know.

Fat man on a freakishly light bike?

Alanstrainor · 10-10-2019 04:23PM

Maybe not quite a near miss...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5jB6wFs_0

tnegun · 10-10-2019 06:22PM

Bit of a final destination morning this am both incidents occurred within minutes of this other this am the first guy past me 20 secs earlier so had seen me the taxi was just a prick and shrugged his shoulders when I made eye contact with him :mad::mad::mad: .

3 point turn
But I'm a Taxi

I've two lights to the front, a hiviz jacket and 3 lights to the rear in case you're wondering about my visability!

beauf · 10-10-2019 07:38PM

I think as a cyclist you can forget to not assume people do stupid things sometimes unintentionally sometimes not.

Also they get task fixation and ignore obvious things in front of them. It's how people can seem to look but not see.

Yillan · 12-10-2019 03:40PM

Wrong thread

St1mpMeister · 12-10-2019 03:42PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Maybe not quite a near miss...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U5jB6wFs_0

That's every minute at the Clontarf Road / Causeway Road junction in Raheny

Actually saw a taxi go through about 5 seconds after it turned red and I was almost half-way across about 2 weeks ago

CramCycle · 12-10-2019 10:23PM

St1mpMeister wrote: »

That's every minute at the Clontarf Road / Causeway Road junction in Raheny

Actually saw a taxi go through about 5 seconds after it turned red and I was almost half-way across about 2 weeks ago

Drove through a light on the N11 today, went amber when crossing. Still cars driving through when I was a further 250m down the road, zero f*cks given.

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