Dummy opening post
What was most damning was the fact the driver chose to stay in the left lane in order to intimidate and bully further, all the other cars all went into the right lane which was straight on only. Someone with a serious hang up with all cyclists and about time they were caught red-handed before they killed someone.
Got some wallop on the back of the head on the ground, he'll be feeling that one. Jesus Christ.
Good catch !!!
As terrifying as it all was, and I hope they throw the book at the driver, I was cringing at the guy in front who was screaming I got it on video instead of holy **** are you okay. Sad state of affairs that's were his mind was at. Although maybe it's just the adrenaline.
Didnt hear that. Poor form alright
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).
was in decathlon earlier, crossing at a pedestrian crossing heading in, and a driver drove through it while i was halfway across; and i can put my hand on my heart and say she had no idea i was there.
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.
Nobody indicates anymore... they couldnt be arsed, and theres no consequences.
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.
i was in Phoenix park yesterday with three kids, 4 of us on bicycles. On the Ordnance Survey road, held up a driver in a Merc behind for i'd imagine 20 seconds as they couldn't overtake due to to cars in opposite lane. As they overtook me a goon in the passenger seat shouted out something along the lines of "blah blah cyclists kids lane blah blah blah". As far as I know there is no bike lane along there so not sure what his exact issue was.
Ordinance Survey Road is much better now that it's no longer a through road, almost no traffic on it.
is it closed? i.e. are you not able to drive from chesterfield avenue out knockmaroon gate?
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.
nearly collided with another cyclist today. was on the portmarnock to baldoyle greenway and a woman cycling towards me got distracted by something in her basket and stopped to investigate, but swung across in front of me as she came to a stop. missed her by a few inches.
Sounds like a basket case
got close passed today i think out near dunboyne, and i think it was a triple word score of red flags; 14 year old passat, DL reg, and a nurburgring sticker on the back.
yesterday, i was close passed (into oncoming traffic) by a chap driving an irish school of motoring instructor's car.
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 :(
not me, but caught a hairy one the other day (Wed evening) on O'Connell St (Dublin). Was headed up towards Supermacs there, where a woman walking in front of me was anxiously looking for an opportunity to cross towards Abbey St Lower in heavy traffic. Lights went red up at that junction. Without even looking back, hopped out onto the road - cyclist behind slammed the brakes and luckily avoided creaming her. She danced off with a nervous 'Ha ha'. Yer man seemed pretty shocked and managed not to upend himself 😬🤬
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.
Out last night heading from baldoyle up to the cycle lane on coast road, road was quiet no traffic jams in either direction and at the take aways just before the Elphin some young fella just pulls straights across the road right in front of me to go into a parking space. Dopey young 1 in the passenger seat just looking at me with no reaction or saying anything to the driver. Was in a bit of shock and anger that I didn't get a reg number but not sure how far I'd get if I reported him. Been contemplating a camera for a while and think now its time to get .
there's near misses and then there's this 😲
A bonkers amount of victim blaming in the twitter posts too
People are HORRIFIC at staying in their lanes on a slight bend. See it daily when driving the backroads to work. Funny that there's a lot of protected bike lanes in areas that don't really need it while there's loads of bends or junctions where people sit in the bike lane to turn left that are left without them...
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?
This and using phones in slow-moving traffic daily I'm pinched in on or cut off by traffic slowly weaving in and out of lane.
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?
He seems to attract a load of random UK Twitter accounts that are specifically trolls. I don’t know if it’s because he engages with them or there’s some UK account that likes to retweet him and then they all pile in
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?
From experience, DB won't tell you anything beyond the video was forwarded to the depot manager for investigation, if you want more you'll have to go to AGS even then I've given up as you have to do all the leg work e.g. attend to report, come back to give a statement and possibly go to court if they dispute it.
Just on GDPR, you can request the on board video where you are in the frame, so if they have a few cameras, you can get a few angles (no idea how many there are on a bus)
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