Tell us about your new improved government regulations compliant cycle part II

smacl wrote: »

Sounds like the surgery went ok so. Hope it wasn't too grim and your back on two wheels soon enough. Weather looks a bit ropey for the next couple of days so dithering on getting out myself.

Went well yeah, thanks. Pretty shattered after it though and under no illusions about getting back in the bike for a while. Middle of March maybe I could aim for, but as you say yeah the weather isn't the Mae West at the minute anyway. Its as good a time as any to be up on blocks

I was out yesterday for a spin. On the Julianstown Drogheda road, I was (really) close passed completely unnecessarily( wing mirror centimetres from my elbow) by a single occupant car. It happened a couple of hundred metres south of Moorehall Nursing home, outside of which, there is, quite often, a Covid checkpoint. As luck would have it, the checkpoint was there, so I put the boot down and cycled as hard as I could to keep up. Luckily, there were a couple of cars stopped at the checkpoint. I got to it just as my man was being spoken to. I spoke to the Garda and told him what had happened. He asked me did I want to make a complaint. I said I did. He asked me and the motorist to pull in to the side of the road. I told him my story, he went back and spoke to driver. The Garda told me, if I wanted to make a statement, I could call to the Garda Station today to do so. We all went about our business. The Garda rang me this morning and asked me what I was going to do. He told me that he was issuing a fine for a separate offence, whether or not I wanted to further my complaint. I told him to carry on and that I thought that was sufficient punishment.
Happy with the outcome.

Yes, always complain, I didn't once and came to regret it afterwards

It may well not go anywhere (though being on PULSE may help if there's further misbehaviour) but if you don't complain there's literally zero chance they won't endanger someone else

I've a real bug bear re bad driving, causes so many unnecessary deaths. Need to start banning people for short periods seizing their cars for a few weeks for relatively minor offences instead of waiting till they kill someone when it's too late.

Weepsie wrote: »

We don't actually care where anyone cycles. That's their business. If you feel like you are above the restrictions facing us all, have at it.

Stop posting about it though and repeatedly posting your routes that are a clear violation of the limits that we are all fed up with.

An Irish solution for an Irish problem?

I think a better solution to this would be to encourage all posters who do not agree with this provision to email their local politician pointing out how ridiculous they feel it is and ask them to change it. Regulations are due to be renewed on March the 5th. I don't think anyone on here actually thinks the 5k limit applying to cyclists makes any sense at all. And if they do, those people should be in their houses on turbos and not posting about ridiculous 40 - 50k loops within their 5k (which for anyone living in an urban area, is a far greater public health risk than breaching the 5k)

So email your local representative, tell them how you're concerned at how current regulations criminalise people for walking out their front door without a "reasonable excuse" (they actually do this), ask them what they think of this and indicate that if they continue this criminalisation you won't vote for them again?

A thread entitled "tell us about your 5k cycle" is basically like a thread saying "tell us about the best sex you almost had"

I don't know MB I have to fill that fcking pond you made me dig (it only took me a year)

Between Covid19 and House stuff, I wasn't on the bike for all of Oct20 until the end of Jan21. I just didn't have the heart to drag a bike out of the attic.

But been getting back into it recently. Did another small 21km around Firhouse yesterday, in the miserableness. I don't mind wet & cold. The wind is soul destroying though. That said, I'm lucky that my 5km has Ballycullen as it centre, so I can almost go all the way up the piperstown climb to the Featherbeds, bar the last 100 metres or so. However, it will be a while before I get my climbing legs or spirit back!

As an aside... I did do a bit of walking/Jogging/Running last year and my God do I have a lot of respect for people who "run". That is really, really tough on the body. A 5km Rog for me was like doing 100km on the bike with 1500m of climbing

What a week for me five 50k spins outside and 2 days on the Wahoo compared to one spin outside in the previous 6 weeks
Hopefully from now on the spins on the Wahoo are going to be infrequent as the weather improves
But have to ay I was a little disappointed to see groups of eight to ten riders on the road and at the usual coffee stops that I would pass

3hrs outside on a decent day with a stiff breeze and one unwelcome shower when just home.

Passed plenty lads in pairs, not sure that’s advisable the way things are.

Lovely 70km within my 5km, great day for it. First non turbo spin since mid Jan. Reacquainted with close passes and traffic. Maybe its just me, but i feel more triggered when close passed by someone with a bike rack on their car.

Similar to a few posts above, passed a group of 5 lads, advertising their club with their kit too.

lovely day for a spin out around Dunboyne lots out only saw a few pairs but hopefully if the good weather comes people do not go out in groups as it may well bring attention to cycling as the 5k looks like staying for a while and i do not think bigger groups are staying anyway in 5k as am sure plenty of solo ones are not either.

Seth Brundle wrote: »

Sounds like the park was jammers today...

Yeah was out for a bit in the afternoon, parking was so packed that people were just parking everywhere, all the way up the Glen road, Acres road, Kyber. Cars backed up all the way from Chapelizod gate through the Kyber junction and up towards the roundabout, same at the Castleknock roundabout. Really makes things less enjoyable when you've to worry about getting doored and navigating traffic on roads that are half their usual width because of parked cars.