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

Got some wallop on the back of the head on the ground, he'll be feeling that one. Jesus Christ.

Not a near miss as such but was at lights heading to Stoneybatter area. Car went through green light in NCR. Nothing wrong with that, but was so obvious driver was looking down at her phone as she went to junction, so a good 2 or 3 seconds, albeit couldn’t see the phone.

Oh and car was absolutely wrecked on drivers side, so that lesson didn’t ring through.

Driving behaviour in Dublin is absolutely shocking these days, using phones, breaking lights, lack of indicating, driving with side mirrors tucked in completely (an increasing trend these days).

Mirrors tucked in how do you get out of your drive/parking space without noticing that!! It speaks volumes for the driver's spatial awareness.

Agreed. There should be more people pulled for it but AGS couid not be bothered doing that either. Some of them dont bother either and stop in the advance cyclist box at junctions too.

Ordinance Survey Road is much better now that it's no longer a through road, almost no traffic on it.

Sorry should have been more specific (as someone who has commuted through for many years I'm not that familiar with the park!) There's bollards at Upper Glen Road car park so nobody can come from the Chapelizod side. There's still some traffic at Knockmaroon but the close calls I've had in the twisty section are basically gone.

Sounds like a basket case

While she should of been more aware, there is big arrows on the road showing which lane you should be in for going straight. Would never go straight from a lane that says left hand turn only. I always move myself into the middle lane there especially because the cars opposite will cut you off as they will turn right without thinking :(

Well fudge me i nearly had the same yesterday.

Headed from Kilmessan out toward Dunsany the few bends before the hill up to the quarry

I can see a motorbike (with a nice bright headlight) coming toward me plain as day, fairly shifting too.

I hear a car coming hard behind me, no slow down coming.

Held my line and threw my hand out in a stop/right turn kind of a gesture.

Car slams on and I look back to see the bike manage to squeeze through, car is way over the middle of the road, outside me completely and I'm well out.

Once is unfortunate, twice is a pattern. I'm well out taking the lane, both times.

Are these drivers adding bike and motorbike together and assuming space left for car.

Are they just not seeing the bikes (full sure the first one didn't)? Are they just oblivious?

Are they all on their phones???

Oh edit.

I also had a little Mazda crossover (cx3?) overtake me so close (and very low speed) in Dunsaughlin that i gave his back quarter panel a whack. It being a nice light Mazda I have hopefully done at least €500 damage.

Then 500m later an Audi Q3 overtook me and within 10 seconds had to turn right, and left me no space to fit down the inside. She was stuck with about 10 oncoming cars. So i just went around her on the right, where she had left loads of space. She was wearing a mask and staring straight ahead with the wheel in a death grip.

The replies from people on his post are actually disgusting and clueless at times

Talking about overtaking and blind spots etc. Are they too thick to think for a second that the cycle lane is different to the road?

Not a near miss but just a stressful situation with impatient drivers.

Cycling along on a minor road with T - junction ahead, where you have to turn left or right onto a major road. But once you're stopped, there's often traffic turning into the minor road.

So was on the minor road. Stopped before the white line with my arm out to signal turning right. But cars on the major road from both directions wanted to turn into the minor road. Cars on the left of me were stopped because of no real break to get through with cars coming from the right... But as soon as there is a break, car on the left of me signals me on... Ah how lovely of them, me thinks... Except, there's now a car driving on the right but signalling to turn into the minor road... And I sit there until they complete their turn but asshole behind me starts beeping like mad to hurry me on.

Am I correct in thinking that I don't take drivers signals and I'm meant to wait until the car on the right turns into the minor road (if they do)? Like what am I meant to do. Take someone else's thoughts and they think it's ok to exit, except it's not and I could end up having a car or truck drive into me?

Thats awful in Cork. I would be reporting that but I know RTBI has not had much success. I probably would have slowed, and then moved well outside the cycle lane to prevent a close pass from any vehicles behind. It does not justify what happened being the cyclists fault in any way. Driver should be checking mirrors.

I had a Dublin Bus encroach into a cycle lane before fully passing and then for good measure started to slow to stop. Pointless overtake. It was not as close as RTBI, but was still way to close and gave me a fright as the space between vehicle and kerb narrowed to the width of my bars and alongside a massive wheel.

I must try and get it on streamable. I had to bang the side of the bus repeatedly to stop it coming in. I reported it to AGS. DB are pretty bad in terms in infomation. Claiming GDPR etc. (I don't want to know the name of the driver) Can you insist they advise you the outcome of the investigation?