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Cycling on paths and other cycling issues (updated title)

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  • #2852
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    kenmm wrote: »
    This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

    Totally agree.


  • #2853
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    SPDUB wrote: »
    Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland
    Any particular reason you ignored the first use of us political slang (Trumpian in nature by Andrew) but decided to hone in on this one


  • #2854
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,188 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    SPDUB wrote: »
    Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland
    Twitter and Facebook tend to rot weaker minds so bicycles/climate/change/vaccines/facemasks/socialism/anything progressive all end up being classed as THE ENEMY. 2 of the most toxic companies in history imo.


  • #2855
    meeeeh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Thargor wrote: »
    Twitter and Facebook tend to rot weaker minds so bicycles/climate/change/vaccines/facemasks/socialism/anything progressive all end up being classed as THE ENEMY. 2 of the most toxic companies in history imo.

    Well considering how much Twitter is quoted in this thread quite a bit of rotting is done. Or are weaker minds classified as those who don't agree with you?


  • #2856
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,410 ✭✭✭SeanW


    SPDUB wrote: »
    Any particular reason you are using American political slurs in a thread about cycling in Ireland
    It seemed fair with all the "Trump" and "Trumpian" nonsense thrown around by cyclists. BTW it wasn't just Andrew, though he is the main offender.
    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    It's the Trumpian approach. Keep repeating a lie often enough and hope that it sticks.
    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    The Trumpian approach is the introduction of the international comparison, when it's not really relevant. All it shows it that no other country has bothered to really get to grips with this issue.
    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    It’s quite Trumpian in nature, so far detached from the actual reality of what happens on the roads.
    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    It’s not that I don’t agree with you. I don’t see any credibility in the man who steps out into traffic multiple times on every working shift telling everyone else in the world except him and his car that they should be hi-vis. Breathtaking hypocrisy, almost Trumpian.
    Hurrache wrote: »
    I see you're from the Trump school of statistics.

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  • #2857
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,865 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    kenmm wrote: »
    This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

    Could be worse though - could be the thread with one of the 'best and safest drivers in the world' boasting about posting to boards.ie while driving.


  • #2858
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Could be worse though - could be the thread with one of the 'best and safest drivers in the world' boasting about posting to boards.ie while driving.

    Or the deliveroo, just eat and "ordinary" cyclists using their phones while cycling, being surprised by lampposts jumping out in front of them.

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  • #2859
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,865 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    Or the deliveroo, just eat and "ordinary" cyclists using their phones while cycling, being surprised by lampposts jumping out in front of them.

    I haven't seen too many news reports of cyclists being killed or maimed after being surprised by lamp posts, so I'm guessing this isn't really a very big problem. In the unlikely situation of this happening, the person put at risk is the cyclist.

    Whereas when drivers are playing with their phones and posting on boards, this is the kind of thing that happens - four people from one family getting wiped out.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eojhtc6Wvsw


  • #2860
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Using phone to text or read while driving or cycling - or, for that matter, crossing the road on foot = dumb.

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  • #2861
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Ah yes. They do things differently in "The Kingdom"


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  • #2862
    SPDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Tea drinker wrote: »
    Any particular reason you ignored the first use of us political slang (Trumpian in nature by Andrew) but decided to hone in on this one

    Because that's a description of a style of Government by someone who is the head of Government whereas AOC is only one of 441 Representatives


  • #2863
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,410 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Trump is not "head of the government" of the United States. The US has 3 co-equal branches, Legislature (Congress), the Executive branch and the Judiciary. DJT is only head of one branch, the Executive. As for AOC, it looks like she and "the squad" are the future of the US Democratic Party.

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  • #2864
    Tea drinker
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    SPDUB wrote: »
    Because that's a description of a style of Government by someone who is the head of Government whereas AOC is only one of 441 Representatives
    Well you've strung together a sentence but pardon me if I see no real justification for your bias contained above.
    Trumpian is a form of invocation for a group of people, it's not a crititique of his governance, it's a rejection of all things Trump. We are wandering far off track here, pardon the pun.


  • #2865
    TallGlass2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭TallGlass2


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    Using phone to text or read while driving or cycling - or, for that matter, crossing the road on foot = dumb.

    Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:


  • #2866
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    TallGlass2 wrote: »
    Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:

    Your bike could mount the pavement, taking out anything in its path - pedestrians, cars, parked trucks or perhaps demolish a light pole or tree.


  • #2867
    Spook_ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,896 ✭✭✭✭Spook_ie


    TallGlass2 wrote: »
    Out of interest, anyone know if it is actually breaking the law using a phone cycling :pac:

    As it stands in Ireland and the UK no, if they wanted to charge you it would have to be reckless cycling or similar, however the Dutch have introduced a ban since July 2019, and I look forward to when we can get a similar ban here. But of course that's because I hate cyclists rather than thinking that cycling and Facebooking etc. is distracting from road safety.

    https://www.eltis.org/discover/news/netherlands-prohibits-use-mobile-phones-bicycles#:~:text=In%20the%20Netherlands%2C%20since%201,are%20cognitively%20and%20visually%20distracted.


  • #2868
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    kenmm wrote: »
    This must be the worst thread on boards. No winners here.

    If you put the spammers on ignore it improves a lot. The thread is about 75% shorter aswell.


  • #2869
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Spook_ie wrote: »
    As it stands in Ireland and the UK no, if they wanted to charge you it would have to be reckless cycling or similar, however the Dutch have introduced a ban since July 2019, and I look forward to when we can get a similar ban here. But of course that's because I hate cyclists rather than thinking that cycling and Facebooking etc. is distracting from road safety.

    https://www.eltis.org/discover/news/netherlands-prohibits-use-mobile-phones-bicycles#:~:text=In%20the%20Netherlands%2C%20since%201,are%20cognitively%20and%20visually%20distracted.

    Phew! At least they haven’t banned the use of earphones!


  • #2870
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    Phew! At least they haven’t banned the use of earphones!

    Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?


  • #2871
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,865 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    kenmm wrote: »
    Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?

    I had to do a QQI Level 8 course to get those skills. They do it in the same place as the course for Audi drivers to assume that the road and paths are entirely empty, and the one for BMW drivers to stop using their indicators.


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  • #2872
    kenmm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭kenmm


    Sometimes I get my BMW skills and my cycling skills mixed up. Its so confusing trying to adhere to the appropriate label.


  • #2873
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    See this is the problem, the acute and chronic lack of awareness of cyclists. Page after page and yet no one seems to have noticed Golf drivers are the absolute worst!


  • #2874
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    kenmm wrote: »
    Didn't you get the earphones with the bike? Along with the instructional video in how to mount the kerbs and sail through lights. I mean obviously all cyclists are the same, that must of been when it happened?

    I have to admit... I failed my Kerb "Bunny hopping" test recently. thankfully no one was around to witness it! :)


  • #2875
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Tea drinker wrote: »
    Golf drivers are the absolute worst!

    I've disliked golfers since they took a passing fancy to titanium in the 90s and pushed up the price of bike frames.


  • #2876
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,403 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    The crap some people have to put up with! :(

    https://twitter.com/velobetty/status/1289085454785093633?s=21


  • #2877
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,780 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Shocking but not surprising behaviours from someone in a range rover. So many entitled driving them with some serious issues going on.


  • #2878
    micar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭micar


    Saw this the other day on C4 news.

    Part most was interesting was "Can we teach drivers to understand cycling even if they don't cycle"


    https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1288182788232040448?s=19

    https://www.channel4.com/news/how-urban-cycling-could-be-made-easier


  • #2879
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    The crap some people have to put up with! :(

    https://twitter.com/velobetty/status/1289085454785093633?s=21

    I wonder how many pedestrians did she pass within 1 metre of?


  • #2880
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    micar wrote: »
    Saw this the other day on C4 news.

    Part most was interesting was "Can we teach drivers to understand cycling even if they don't cycle"


    https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1288182788232040448?s=19

    https://www.channel4.com/news/how-urban-cycling-could-be-made-easier

    I got laughed at uproariously here when I suggested several years back we should all do a one day trianing course every 5 years on how to understand other road users and see things from their perspective.
    maybe if the Brits do it the cap doffers here will quickly follow suit in order not to be seen as stupid.


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  • #2881
    ebbsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,209 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    07Lapierre wrote: »
    The crap some people have to put up with! :(

    https://twitter.com/velobetty/status/1289085454785093633?s=21

    She deserved it.


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