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

magicbastarder · 26-03-2022 08:10PM

two in the space of 200m today - came in to balrothery from man'o'war direction, and at the junction where you'd take a right to go to ardgillan, a woman coming from that direction pulled out on top of me. i ended up bellowing twice at her, first as she did that, and then as she called out the window that she didn't see me, i realised she was driving with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a disposable coffee cup. so i gave her an earful over that too.

200m later and a guy in a black prius did the exact same thing to me, he came out from the left, the road near the back of the pub.

and to cap it off, albeit not a near miss for me; a couple of km later, heading into balbriggan, a motorist probably 100m ahead of me (there were three or four cars between me and this joker) pulled into the side of the road at roughly where the filling station is - and immediately indicated right and swung out into the road to do a u-turn. the guy behind had to brake hard to avoid hitting them.

magicbastarder · 27-03-2022 02:33PM

christ, something about the sun must bring it out.

heading along here

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4903775,-6.3353301,3a,75y,88.01h,77.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRhtE3RZaNDgb2G9awv1UZw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

i knew there was a HGV of some sort behind me and my first concern was - as he started to overtake - that it might be one about to take a left in front of me, a lot of HGVs head up that road. but it was a grab truck going straight on in the swords direction.

however, as he was passing, i heard some shrill beeping, and just as he passed, there was a guy on a motorbike (with a pillion passenger), front wheel gone off-road, legs akimbo, bike at a weird angle, desperately trying to steer back to some sort of semblance of balance. i'm astonished he managed to keep the bike upright, i was certain they were going to wipe out.

i reckon the guy in the grab truck was focussed on getting past me and when he saw a clear spot, went for it, but hadn't copped the motorcyclist had already begun to overtake. stupid place to overtake anyway, that close to a crossroads.

bazermc · 27-03-2022 09:07PM

Thanks to the pr**ck who was within a second of left hooking me after he decided it would be ok the over take me and immediately pull into the car park at Ticknock this morning. It seems also indicating has gone out of fashion

Mountain bike on the back of the car aswell. Strange one. I would have thought he/she would be more tolerate or perhaps an extra 10 seconds of mountain biking was more important to him/her. Probably only took up mountain biking when he/she realised they were crap at golf.

Paul_Mc1988 · 29-03-2022 11:12AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118703078#Comment_118703078

Been a long time since I cycled to work from D12 to intel but this part of the journey was always the most treacherous.... buses loved to buzz me

mrcheez · 29-03-2022 11:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118842504#Comment_118842504

yeah, even driving around in my own car this weekend other feckin drivers were impatient and out of their heads... loons.

That jersey looks great btw... shame they're so pricey, be nice if Lidl/Aldi did something similar in their usual cheaper bike gear

TooObvious · 30-03-2022 04:49PM

Had a near death moment just after the Garda Headquarters as I turned off North Road towards Wellington Road in the Phoenix Park. Cars coming from the NCR direction have to yield at this particular junction, I was approaching from the other direction and had right of way. Needless to say a driver failed to yield and got so, so close to sideswiping me. Mitsubishi ASX fwiw, and the driver was playing with his phone.

Obviously this pissed me off rightly, what made it worse was no acknowledgement of wrongdoing or anything like that from this fecker. Hate to say it, but I gave chase, which must have looked stupid as I was on a Brompton, anyway I caught him down at the exit onto Conyngham Road. He wasn't expecting me as he was back on the phone as he was pulling out. I whalloped the window and then proceeded with a one way swearfest argument whilst he refused to engage.

I hate that I reacted like that, but I'm only human.

magicbastarder · 03-04-2022 01:48PM

finding myself in this thread more often than usual recently.

i took the left at the junction here, and as i started the turn, the cock driving the BMW behind me decided to floor it to pass me - even though he was *also* taking the left. i think he overcooked it slightly as he actually was briefly swung in on top of me. i let out a rather healthy and profane bellow and he stood on the brakes - there was no way in hell he could see if there was any oncoming traffic as he took the left (there wasn't, thankfully) but what a bizarre place to attempt a pass. dangerous and illegal.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4915128,-6.2849137,3a,75y,22.05h,96.52t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sg1FiV6Eq39C-hdZWqTNo8w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

06-04-2022 12:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118887914#Comment_118887914

Fyi, you can request a copy of any videos that have you in them, so feel free to submit a GDPR request to them. If you do, make sure to ask for video from all cameras incase there are multiple on the bus

CramCycle · 06-04-2022 03:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118887914#Comment_118887914

Got to AGS, DB are incorrect here. They don't give a sh1t. Its assault with a deadly weapon. For every few 100 good drivers you have the few, and they are rare, who really make it an awful experience to cycle. A friend who drives for DB and also cycles was telling me he wouldn't wear the DB Hi Vis he has if he was cycling to work as there are a few who'd skim him to wise him up to not cycling. Absolute insanity.

Effects · 06-04-2022 04:07PM

I was told by a DB driver that busses often do punishment passes to cyclists on Newcomen bridge, to try and force them to use the bridge that was built especially for them.

The bridge they mean is actually a pedestrian bridge, and the road is clearly marked for cyclists. Makes me wonder what kind of training some of them have.

06-04-2022 08:54PM

He should go and do the fukin lotto!!!!!! Jesus H

magicbastarder · 06-04-2022 09:04PM

at least the reg plate is clearly visible.

Wildly Boaring · 06-04-2022 09:44PM

**** hell

Coming out of Duleek towards Juianstown one day I had a car do the same to me. Difference was he was always going to do it. Could see from his approach to the tractor that he was coming and it was probably a bit further away. Other difference was I had a big gravel run off to get my ass into

Pawwed Rig · 06-04-2022 10:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118891051#Comment_118891051

In the UK they would prosecute that. Here you would be chasing the Gardai for months in hope

06-04-2022 11:20PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118891743#Comment_118891743

There you could submit the video through a portal in some areas and they would take it from there !!!.

I've said this once in reaction to a video here before but that video was a shove a lump of coal up me and I'd poop a diamond moment if ever there was one !!!!!!

CramCycle · 07-04-2022 09:28AM

Coming home last night, left my camera in work, it was late and the roads were quiet. Coming through the junction at the Goat pub, first car went across me when the lights went green, always happens, and while not mart, there is enough time. Second car, seen me, stopped and themn when I was halfway through, started to drive through the junction and went straight for me. Only I shouted and they dropped anchor which left them in the middle of the road blocking all the traffic on my side of the road, he then started f'in and blinding at me as if it was my fault. FFS, I wish I had my camera as you can't report it the way it is but you could see the rage in his eyes at me, as if him cutting across in front of traffic (not just me by the way, there was a car only 2m behind me) was someone elses fault. I hate cycling in Dublin.

magicbastarder · 07-04-2022 06:50PM

funny one earlier that i got a bit of childish enjoyment out of; a guy in a big expensive looking merc passed me with probably about a foot to spare coming in to sutton, but i caught up with him at the lights about ten seconds later. i pulled up alongside and motioned at him to wind down the window, which he did with a look of bemused confusion on his face. i told him he'd missed me by about a foot, and he started to smirk and open and close his mouth as if he had some smart reply, but nothing came out; and he started to wind up the window (which went up comically slowly) which gave me time to say to him 'if that was deliberate, it was bad enough, but if it was a mistake that might be even worse; please drive more safely in future'; all the while his stupid smug head was bobbling and his mouth moving as if he had the ultimate riposte but his tank was empty.

CramCycle · 08-04-2022 03:28PM

Well I hit a car today and I am not proud of my reaction, coming down the N31 hill (towards blackrock) and a light Blue Audi SUV pulled out in front of me while I was doing 40kmph. I was able to brake/swing in behind and avoid, I let a roar, which he heard but smirked about and when we were level again I swung out and hit his wing mirror (very lightly). He then gave chase, swerved at me, so I slowed so he could catch me. He had a big spiel and rant ready to go but I managed to cram so many novel curse words into those 10 seconds he decided to leave the conversation. I was, shamefully, full of adrenaline and testosterone and ready to wrap his door round his head like a necklace. He will undoubtedly go home to give out about those bloody cyclists. Hopefully he copped the team name on my shorts and rings the club complaining, Merijn Zeeman will find it an odd complaint to deal with #fullkitwanker

magicbastarder · 08-04-2022 04:26PM

newtownpark avenue?

a light Blue Audi SUV pulled out in front of me while I was doing 40kmph.

the very same thing - same colour and make of SUV - happened to me about three years ago.

Squidgy Black · 08-04-2022 09:47PM

https://twitter.com/alandub13/status/1512414420009426951?s=21&t=D8w07CEJR_donZ0E6CTIWg

magicbastarder · 08-04-2022 10:11PM

where is that? Alan D lives on the northside (D5?) i think?

Squidgy Black · 08-04-2022 11:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118900834#Comment_118900834

looks like it’s the Grange road in Baldoyle, the lanes are a disaster up there, they swerve in and around parking spots as well as the crossings causing pinch points

CramCycle · 09-04-2022 12:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118899240#Comment_118899240

Mt. Merrion Avenue is what I would call it but can't find an official name bar the N31, not Newtownpark Avenue, it is the turn before that (heading south on the N11) that brings you down on the northside of the Frascati centre.

magicbastarder · 09-04-2022 01:01AM

just checked the map - the N31/mount merrion avenue drops onto the northside of the frascati centre. turns out newtownpark avenue is the R113.

CramCycle · 09-04-2022 07:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118901513#Comment_118901513

Northside is what I meant, apologies

Wildly Boaring · 09-04-2022 05:14PM

2 conversations in the last week that I wasn't expecting.

First my father, who is an excellent driver, hyper observant and has driven all sorts of hgv and machinery on the roads. Has 2 cyclist sons. "You'll never guess where I saw 2 cyclists today" I was genuinely expecting the m50 or similar. "on the road between Colpe cross and Donecarney, holding up a line of traffic and then having then all squeeze past them" Told him I often use that road and asked what if they just lived in Donecarney? Flummoxed with that one tbh.

Another just now in a cafe in duleek. Pair of bikers asking a cyclist why he didn't have hi-viz. He pointed to the reflective strips on his black jacket and told them he did. When I told them I never worn a yellow vest either they were awful put out. "sure if you're doing 140 around a bend you'll never see a fella in black...." FML.

Then " sure cyclists be fine if they just did what they should" what's that? " Cycle tight to the ditch and stick to good roads, not twisty backroads".

I fuckin give up ....

Large bottle small glass · 10-04-2022 12:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118903555#Comment_118903555

On your first point while I'd never question the right to use any road by bicycle it's beyond me the choices most leisure cyclists repeatedly use for a spin.

Dropped pin

https://maps.app.goo.gl/CtEzUvZnD8zk16ph9

I was driving to Tralee last week and met a lad riding east solo on that section with 10-15 vehicles behind him including a couple of HGVS. How the fcuk is that enjoyable?

There is a really simple alternative on the other side of Blackwater (as they there nearly always is with a major river).

There was a serious accident on the R671/672 Clonmel Dungarvan road. I counted up the fatalities on that road in the last 50 years and some of the serious incidents and it is pretty jaw dropping. Yet it is hugely popular with leisure cyclists, even on days with traffic volumes will be mental (Waterford playing in Thurles on a hot day with half of Tipperary heading south to the beach for example).

Again there is close to perfect cycling routes on both sides of main road where on a busy day you might encounter 5-10 cars on a busy day between Clonmel and Dungarvan. I've often done it without seeing a car.

Ironically one of the big traffic drivers now on weekends is people driving to Greenway for a cycle.

Large bottle small glass · 10-04-2022 12:28PM

Yep really weird Google maps fcuk up.

Fixed now it's the N72 between Mallow and Rathmore

CramCycle · 10-04-2022 01:21PM

What if the guy on that road was simply going from A to B and this was the most straightforward route?

Rosahane · 10-04-2022 01:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118906361#Comment_118906361

There are lots of field gates that he could use to pull into for a few seconds to let the traffic past him!

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

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