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Near Misses Volume 2 (So close you can feel it)

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  • #1472
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Normally its fine for me but seems to be something up with it tonight
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  • #1473
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭tnegun


    Yeah there are some pretty poor ones around Maynooth, I stay out of most now and can say I've given them a chance! There was a cyclist down on the Straffen road this afternoon at one of the lanes that gives right of way across an entrance to an estate was left hooked and the bike crushed. Thankfully he was up and about but with comments that he was traveling too fast for the driver to see :rolleyes:
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  • #1474
    BoardsMember
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    Cycling up Kellystown Road earlier with son. Coming up to this corner: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Uo5Zy4o5UWJNnVDb7

    Going slowly after the long pull up the hill. Coming to the blind and I hear car behind. I hear it drop down gears, assuming its going to go really slow while we round the completely blind bend. Then the revs raise. So I turn and hold my hand up, taking the middle of the road, telling them to stop. I decide to idle back to have a word.

    He rolls down window. Very politely I ask "were you really planning overtaking us on a blind bend". For those who don't know it, only one car fits the width of the road. He considers his response "you should use the main road". Drives off.
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  • #1475
    CramCycle
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    BoardsMember wrote: »
    He rolls down window. Very politely I ask "were you really planning overtaking us on a blind bend". For those who don't know it, only one car fits the width of the road. He considers his response "you should use the main road". Drives off.

    Dear f*cking lord, you really cannot win. On the main road you'd be given out too for not using quieter roads. Use quieter roads and you get this sh1t. Cycle on the path and people give you dirty looks because whether you sow down or not for passing them to close, you cycle on the road to avoid pissing off peds and you have motorists trying to skim you even though they can see the lane is blocked by others.

    What do people f*cking want.

    Hope your son is OK
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  • #1476
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Dear f*cking lord, you really cannot win. On the main road you'd be given out too for not using quieter roads. Use quieter roads and you get this sh1t. Cycle on the path and people give you dirty looks because whether you sow down or not for passing them to close, you cycle on the road to avoid pissing off peds and you have motorists trying to skim you even though they can see the lane is blocked by others.

    What do people f*cking want.

    Hope your son is OK

    With the ongoing saga on the Dun Laoghaire open forum on FB over the new cycle tracks you have one fool reckoning that cyclists congregating (in groups) are spreading Covid 19 wherever they go (this is pre level 3). Another one - a persistent whinger, claiming NOT to be anti-cyclist, reckons that rather than them being on the road they should be on a raised structure on stilts along the coast - the glaring dangers seemingly passing him by. You'd really have to wonder how some people's minds work.
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  • #1477
    micar
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    sy_flembeck wrote: »
    With the ongoing saga on the Dun Laoghaire open forum on FB over the new cycle tracks you have one fool reckoning that cyclists congregating (in groups) are spreading Covid 19 wherever they go (this is pre level 3). Another one - a persistent whinger, claiming NOT to be anti-cyclist, reckons that rather than them being on the road they should be on a raised structure on stilts along the coast - the glaring dangers seemingly passing him by. You'd really have to wonder how some people's minds work.

    The I've no problem with cyclists attitude......but don't be cycling anywhere around me
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  • #1478
    BoardsMember
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    CramCycle wrote: »
    Dear f*cking lord, you really cannot win. On the main road you'd be given out too for not using quieter roads. Use quieter roads and you get this sh1t. Cycle on the path and people give you dirty looks because whether you sow down or not for passing them to close, you cycle on the road to avoid pissing off peds and you have motorists trying to skim you even though they can see the lane is blocked by others.

    What do people f*cking want.

    Hope your son is OK

    Son is fine, blissfully unaware, didn't see the big deal at all. Oh to be a dreamer teenager. There wasn't a near miss, or an issue really, so nothing for him to be bothered about, to be fair. Just a really stupid dude, too small minded to admit he maybe should have approached things differently, and too thick to come up with a retort that made any sense at all.
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  • #1479
    breezy1985
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    Some lads on the GAA forums tonight complaining that the new yellow flou sliotars are too hard to see.
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  • #1480
    bazermc
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    More bonkers parking up by hell fire club/Masseys wood this morning.

    Double yellow lines don’t apply on a Sunday right?
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  • #1481
    CramCycle
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    bazermc wrote: »
    More bonkers parking up by hell fire club/Masseys wood this morning.

    Double yellow lines don’t apply on a Sunday right?

    Any chance of the fuzz popping up there, you'd think after the number of times the fire brigade and ambulances have gotten caught up that way by w@nkers parking badly that they would be more proactive. Young Garda Reilly could spin up at the start of the shift, ticket 40 cars and spend the rest of his shift writing them up if he has nothing else to be at.
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  • #1482
    KevRossi
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    Ho-Lee-Shyte !!! :eek::eek::eek:


    Translation:
    This is absolutely my biggest nightmare and cities like Cologne are still building infrastructure that plans for these types of accidents.


    https://twitter.com/PJUllrich/status/1319600970632921091
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  • #1483
    CramCycle
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    KevRossi wrote: »
    Ho-Lee-Shyte !!! :eek::eek::eek:


    Translation:
    This is absolutely my biggest nightmare and cities like Cologne are still building infrastructure that plans for these types of accidents.


    https://twitter.com/PJUllrich/status/1319600970632921091

    Holy f*ck, there can't have been 5cm between the wheel and his head, that was insane.
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  • #1484
    Pinch Flat
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    I must have missed the update in the recent rules of the road. Apparently if you need to overtake cyclists in one of the biggest city parks in Europe, you just barge by and expect what's ever coming against you to stop. Happened to be on early circuits of the Phoenix park on about half a dozen times. Absolutely wedged with cars and abandoned everywhere, even where there was lines of bollards with no parking in them
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  • #1485
    Pinch Flat
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    Was there in the early afternoon. had someone pull out from Ashtown castle in front of me when I had right of way with minutes of arriving, so that set the scene. Also had someone overtake me at the wellington monument - I was trying to get to the green cycle lane. Car overtook me and mounted in the cycle lane in use. 2 clear wheels on it, with bikes coming against the car. Families. kids. Lots of close passing going up by the upper glen roads - because of the cars parked either side and the amount of cyclists, cars were just buzzing through _ was paranoid about getting doored so was keeping out. One motorist got impatient an stared beeping at a family crossing at the zoo - that desperately needs a pedestrian crossing as it's an accident waiting to happen - same motorist sped up to cut off the three cyclists heading out at the round about towards park gate street. All in all an unnecessarily unpleasant and stressful experience. It's a public park FFS.
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  • #1486
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Not a near miss but more of a rant. Was cycling on a road with traffic islands every few hundred metres.

    Was cycling past one of them, staying on the left hand side of the road when a car decides to join up with me. Leaving very little space between myself and the car. Scary wondering are they going to hit you being so close.
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  • #1487
    Away With The Fairies
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    If there's a risk of you being left short of space by an overtaking car then take Primary Position on the road until they can pass you safely.
    https://irishcycle.com/2019/08/07/you-can-cycle-in-the-centre-of-the-road-says-revised-rules-of-the-road/

    Very good, thanks for this. I didn't know I can do this. But I'm guessing now that I do know, will I have drivers being dícks and giving me the horn to move? But fcuk them, I'll cycle in a safe way.
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  • #1488
    breezy1985
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    Was thinking yesterday when out on country roads. What is all the hedgerow on Irish roadsides for. Is it to protect farmers land and would it be a problem to clear it on narrow bends to help viability?
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  • #1489
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,686 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Was thinking yesterday when out on country roads. What is all the hedgerow on Irish roadsides for. Is it to protect farmers land and would it be a problem to clear it on narrow be ds to help viability?

    It would certainly be a problem for all the wildlife that live in the hedgerow. It would probably result in drivers doing higher speeds on average too.
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  • #1490
    breezy1985
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    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    It would certainly be a problem for all the wildlife that live in the hedgerow. It would probably result in drivers doing higher speeds on average too.

    Never thought of the wildlife tbh. Just noticed from watching European cycling that ourselves and the UK are the only ones seem to plant this hedgerow on every road and was wondering why
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  • #1491
    BoardsMember
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    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Was thinking yesterday when out on country roads. What is all the hedgerow on Irish roadsides for. Is it to protect farmers land and would it be a problem to clear it on narrow bends to help viability?

    It's to do about bio diversity. Lots of animals and plants survive because of the hedgerows.

    Better we ask road users to adjust driving behaviour to conditions, rather than look to bend to their will.
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  • #1492
    breezy1985
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    BoardsMember wrote: »
    It's to do about bio diversity. Lots of animals and plants survive because of the hedgerows.

    Better we ask road users to adjust driving behaviour to conditions, rather than look to bend to their will.

    I'm not disagreeing but those hedgerows were planted long before we had a clue about biodiversity so that's not why they were planted. But I'm not against it as a reason to keep them
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  • #1493
    breezy1985
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    I think they were planted as field boundaries to stop animals wandering (and possibly for defence?). They are also usually accompanied by a drain to help allow excess water to leave the soil.

    Probably why you don't see them too much on the roads in the Tour de France. Not much chance of all those yellow sunflowers and wheat stalks running over into the next field
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  • #1494
    Seanmk1
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    You often see that here also where tillage farmers keep hedges right down because the headlands around the sides if a field tend to have lower yields due to the shade, amongst other things.

    Some of the NCD hedgerows come with instructions
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  • #1495
    Seanmk1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Seanmk1


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    You often see that here also where tillage farmers keep hedges right down because the headlands around the sides if a field tend to have lower yields due to the shade, amongst other things.

    Some of the NCD hedgerows come with instructions 😀
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  • #1496
    Pinch Flat
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    Posted in the phoenix park thread as well.

    Was heading down by the Aras in the Phoenix park earlier. On the drops and going at pace - 40 kph plus. €150 worth of seesense lights blaring back and front. Still didn't stop some dope overtaking me and pulling into the cycle lane, stopping abruptly in front of me. He swerved in without warning i genuinely thought he was deliberately trying to kill me or he had collapsed at the wheel. Closest I've come to being milled in a while. Never under estimate the tools on the road.
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  • #1497
    AndrewJRenko
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    Very close near miss left hook courtesy of a Dublin taxi driver

    https://streamable.com/8srvjw
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  • #1498
    [Deleted User]
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    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Very close near miss left hook courtesy of a Dublin taxi driver

    https://streamable.com/8srvjw

    What cyclist? sure all I could see was the sun judge.
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  • #1499
    AndrewJRenko
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    Make sure you wear bright colours so drivers can see you on the road;

    https://streamable.com/27rz47
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  • #1500
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 916 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Make sure you wear bright colours so drivers can see you on the road;

    https://streamable.com/27rz47

    I experienced a lot of very poor driving today for some reason.
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  • #1501
    suffering golfer
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    AndrewJRenko wrote: »
    Make sure you wear bright colours so drivers can see you on the road;

    https://streamable.com/27rz47

    Maybe I am missing a bit of the clip, but it looks like he indicated when the cyclist was behind, seem to be a cyclist error.
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