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Cycling on paths and other cycling issues (updated title)

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  • #1082
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,186 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    That must be fake! No cyclist involved, its in daylight, low speed, nah...impossible! :D

    Ah but no hi-viz on that parked car so he couldn't have been expected to see it.


  • #1083
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Thargor wrote: »
    What are you rambling on about now? I'm correcting your lies and nonsense about cyclists complaining about all the cyclists on the road, I don't give a sh1t if you're triggered or insulted, report the post if you have a problem with it.

    There is a bit of froth coming out from the side of your mouth.

    (And before anyone complains this thread probably wasn't on topic ever).


  • #1084
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,190 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    meeeeh wrote: »
    There is a bit of froth coming out from the side of your mouth.

    (And before anyone complains this thread probably wasn't on topic ever).
    :confused:

    Are you just typing random words in the hope of arriving at some kind of point now? Any sign of those examples yet?


  • #1085
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Stark wrote: »
    Ah but no hi-viz on that parked car so he couldn't have been expected to see it.

    Seriously... it does show how easily cars can flip over. My own car is very low at the front. A drunk driver hit it while it was parked and he ended up like this:
    And yeah i know.. must have been my own fault, what with my car being black!

    516486.jpg


  • #1086
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    That must be fake! No cyclist involved, its in daylight, low speed, nah...impossible! :D

    They weren't wearing high vis so you just couldn't see them.


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  • #1087
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Hurrache wrote: »
    They weren't wearing high vis so you just couldn't see them.

    Of course!.. so we really should congratulate the driver for sacrificing his/her own vehicle, to save the life of an invisible cyclist! #respect


  • #1088
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Seriously... it does show how easily cars can flip over. My own car is very low at the front. A drunk driver hit it while it was parked and he ended up like this:
    And yeah i know.. must have been my own fault, what with my car being black!

    516486.jpg

    Taxi license disk in rear window or something else? If so, drunk taxi driver or not, I hope it was a drunk taxi driver and one less taxi on the road


  • #1089
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    micar wrote: »
    Exactly.......cyclists the scourge on our roads.
    ewc78 wrote: »
    Do you want some sauce for that chip on your shoulder? :)

    Just the reality.....cyclists are not the ones killing people on our roads.


  • #1090
    ewc78
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    micar wrote: »
    Just the reality.....cyclists are not the ones killing people on our roads.

    Yep, that has been mentioned a few times on this thread, even though that actually has nothing to do with the thread topic whatsoever....


  • #1091
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    micar wrote: »
    Just the reality.....cyclists are not the ones killing people on our roads.

    Absolutely murdering people on the internet though.


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  • #1092
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    That must be fake! No cyclist involved, its in daylight, low speed, nah...impossible! :D

    Cyclist coming the other was to blame - driver distracted by the attire of the cyclists on the other side of the road. A lot of drivers seem to get fixated on this. According to these threads anyway.


  • #1093
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Just testing if I am banned from this thread.


  • #1094
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,574 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    sure the greens are in now. cycling will not just be allowed on the footpath, it will be mandatory.


  • #1095
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    sure the greens are in now. cycling will not just be allowed on the footpath, it will be mandatory.

    Greens are fine. We can probably wave goodbye to our kids ever cycling to school because for that we'd need the planned road to go ahead and it probably won't happen now. That being said it takes me 15 minutes getting to work including dropping kids to school and the traffic jams don't really exist so where we live probably isn't high priority anyway. Even cyclists are not really frowned upon. Despite all the whinging about greens and country, it will be easier to work from home, we'll continue to enjoy our gated communities and one off houses (local need and all that) and road rage will be left to people in the more urban areas. We might even get some public transport (not that I use it).


  • #1096
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    ...cyclists rule the world and everybody lived happily ever after.

    The end.


  • #1097
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    https://www.thejournal.ie/letterkenny-road-death-5122912-Jun2020/

    Basically another murder on the roads probably a speeding drunk. One RIP post. Imagine the difference if it aas an article about cyclists, or a cyclist hit someone?
    What's up with that?

    We Irish basically have a gargantuan blind spot / dead zone in our collective conscience when it comes to peoples behavior once behind the wheel and the consequences of that behavior.

    Its our equivalent to the Americans with their gun laws and the "thoughts and prayers" offered up each time another schoolful of kids gets shot up.


  • #1098
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Totally agree! I can see Conor Faughnan standing on a stage holding up a set of car keys and shouting: “FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!”


  • #1099
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,880 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    SeanW wrote: »
    Image must be fake, staged or at the very least, well timed. There are a dozen cyclists waiting at a red light! And not one jumper
    It was a bit too warm for a jumper yesterday. Is this the extension of the hi-vis approach where you now get to tell cyclists what kind of clothing to wear?


  • #1100
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    The comments section in the journal is always a good bell weather of how car dominated and car dependent we are. Someone boozed up driving and kills someone in a hit and run ? Hardly an eyebrow raised. Must look up the story about the new cycle lanes in the Phoenix park. I'd say the comments section went into melt down.


  • #1101
    ewc78
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    The comments section in the journal is always a good bell weather of how car dominated and car dependent we are. Someone boozed up drivong and kills someone in a bit and run ? Hardly an eyebrow raised. Must look up the story about the new cycle lanes in the Phoenix park. I'd say the comments section went into melt down.

    Another guy who needs some sauce for the chip on his shoulder.
    This thread is comedy gold.


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  • #1102
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    ewc78 wrote: »
    Another guy who needs some sauce for the chip on his shoulder.
    This is comedy gold in this thread.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/part-two-bicycle-blackspots-ireland-5082071-Apr2020/

    Lol. The comments. Two abreast. Holding up traffic. Lycra. "Road tax". Insurance. Red lights. Ah jaysus driving makes people so wound up you'd wonder why they bother.

    Anyway carmageddon coming post 29th june. Going to be mayhem out there. Let's hope people have some nice calming music in the car. :)


  • #1103
    ewc78
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    Comedy Gold :)


  • #1104
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    ewc78 wrote: »
    Comedy Gold :)

    Yeah nearly up there with this one

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88490012


  • #1105
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Yeah nearly up there with this one

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=88490012

    That gave me a real laugh. It's a shame there's no way to determine someone's mental age for a driving test- that lady's whining reminded me of the type of nonsense my 8 yr old used to try to pull about 3 yrs ago and is grown out of now.


  • #1106
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,880 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    PSST
    AJR
    i think you've made your point.

    Fair enough, enough about the parking.

    Let's move on to the drivers with the dodgy lights, like this genius with one out of three brake lights working. Happens all the time. Hi-vis all round would be a big help for idiots like this.

    516556.jpg


  • #1107
    ewc78
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 480 ✭✭ewc78


    Duckjob wrote: »
    That gave me a real laugh. It's a shame there's no way to determine someone's mental age for a driving test- that lady's whining reminded me of the type of nonsense my 8 yr old used to try to pull about 3 yrs ago and is grown out of now.

    A lot of the whining from cyclists on here reminds me of the same!


  • #1108
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Duckjob wrote: »
    We Irish basically have a gargantuan blind spot / dead zone in our collective conscience when it comes to peoples behavior once behind the wheel and the consequences of that behavior.
    .

    That's a fair point but I think the statistics will be very similar for cyclists most likely to break the law. You can narrow it down to age and gender. Basically the killer drivers will often have a lot of the same demographics with cyclists who most likely break the law. You can brush all drivers with the same brush or you can say it's all men of certain age. In my opinion both a bit unfair but according to stats quite a few of you were in the past or still are a menace to other road users.

    That's how generalisations work.


  • #1109
    Duckjob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭Duckjob


    meeeeh wrote: »
    That's a fair point but I think the statistics will be very similar for cyclists most likely to break the law. You can narrow it down to age and gender. Basically the killer drivers will often have a lot of the same demographics with cyclists who most likely break the law. You can brush all drivers with the same brush or you can say it's all men of certain age. In my opinion both a bit unfair but according to stats quite a few of you were in the past or still are a menace to other road users.

    That's how generalisations work.


    None of that has anything to do with what my post was about, but thanks anyway
    :)


  • #1110
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Fair enough, enough about the parking.

    Let's move on to the drivers with the dodgy lights, like this genius with one out of three brake lights working. Happens all the time. Hi-vis all round would be a big help for idiots like this.

    516556.jpg

    So Hi Viz is going to help his brake lights to be seen, how exactly does that work?
    It's more likely that they'll get fixed by Aug 8th when the NCT is due by. Or hopefully a Garda RPU get behind him and decide to pull them over.


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  • #1111
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVmLNWoEcp4


    Cyclist tries to kill driver by giving them heart stopping moment, well made my heart skip a beat and I'm only watching the video :eek:


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