Same rule as the old thread…
Nice for a change!
Maybe drop an email managingdirector@amazon.co.uk, from experience they are good at feeding back stuff
I had the same on the quays to turn right at the Samuel Beckett bridge. A taxi who had just dropped someone off (and I had to leave the "cycle lane"), came racing up behind me (to the red light) and shouted "bloody cyclists think you own the road" at me after I got into the right turn lane.
Took a slightly longer route on my way home via Slade Hill beside Saggart. In thr 38km or so, I lost count of the number of drivers that performed lazy overtakes where they didn't bother moving out far enough and in time. I don't think they were malicious- just lazy.
However, coming down the hill which is a narrow road, maybe barely wide enough for two cars, a van driver passes me and immediately starts braking. Whilst he didn't indicate, I guessed that he wanted to turn into a house on the right but there was a van coming out so he just stopped there on the road. As I walked the bike past his passenger side, I told him that it was a stupid overtake given he was immediately going to brake. His passenger thought it was a good opportunity to tell me how sure I shouldn't be travelling in the middle of the road anyhow!!!
Closer to home and with the Westerly wind behind me, I was travelling from Hazelhatch towards Leixlip and comjng towards the junction kind of opposite to The Orchard Garden Centre when I encountered the cretin in the following video.
Conscious of my crude language and that there isn't much point reporting dangerous overtaking to the gardai, this one is simply going to get filed away in my YouTube account...
They're basically synonyms 🤷♂️
They're seemingly called blades (per Wikipedia)...
--where the tines meet the crown.
Interesting use of the word tine.
None of this will start to change until the driving test and theory test teaches people the dutch reach
Yeah, I was lucky to stay up. No afters. I stopped a few metres further up just to compose myself as my legs had gone a bit wobbly from the fright. The very kind cyclist behind stopped to check I was okay. No interaction from the driver. I did wait, expecting them to check on me but my back video shows they took an immediate right turn instead. I presume they dropped the passenger on the other side of the road (where there's a luas stop) and then drove off. I did hear the driver scream at the passenger not to open the door as it happened but it was too late. It wasn't malicious but obviously wreckless. Hopefully a lesson learned for them although they really should have checked rather than driving away.
I had a terrible experience on that road last month, which prompted me to put the cameras back on the bike. A driver did a close pass laying on the horn and then a deliberate closer pass further up the road in wet conditions. That one was terrifying. Again, I'm just glad my kid wasn't on the back.
Some clatter, impressed to managed to stay upright. Were there much "afters", not sure I've have held the cool in that situation and would have waited or looped back.
With sound for full effect. Glad I didn't have the little one on the back.
That verdict is one of the worst I've seen in a long time. Reduced to basically nothing presumably because of the mitigating circumstances mentioned, although what they are is anyone's guess based on the news article I read: basically his father (a 51+ year old's father) died shortly after the incident...so **** what. It's not often I get annoyed about things like this but this is a big one, because something similar happened me before in Blanch years ago.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/xzqx2o/scum_knocking_down_cyclist/
Video seems to be set to private so can't view
^^^ registration required
I went over the Wicklow Gap today, playing leapfrog with a lovely vintage car and accompanying large white van providing mechanical assistance. I don't know what was wrong, but they kept pulling in every couple of kilometres to tinker with the engine.
I hadn't seen them in a while as I approached a blind summit in the road. The roof of an oncoming car appears as I hear an engine behind me - the vintage car overtakes with very little room to spare. "oof, a bit tight", I think. I had stronger thoughts as the mechanic's van barrelled through straight afterwards, forcing the oncoming driver to come to a complete stop.
The icing on the cake was the pair of them pulling in once again about 200 metres up the road. 🙄
A garda and a judge would disagree with you.
You're new here but your posts tonight do see quite misinformed.
How far back does traffic have to be behind you before you're allowed indicate and move lanes?
Do you have Netflix? That new series Dahmer is pretty good, and I'm sure it'd be a damn sight more entertaining than what you're at here
Right, thats it, I've done it. I've bought a helmet camera because it is now at the stage where I'm in the middle of 2/3 near misses and 'light hits' a week.
I commute between UCD and DCU daily, through the city centre and it seems inevitable in the area between the 5 Lamps (northside) and the RDS (southside) that I'll be driven into the footpath, side swiped, near-missed or roared at. I'm tired of it, but will not go back to car/moped travel.
Is there someone we are lobbying to have a reporting facility available for incidents? I'm kind of late to the cycling commuting community, but can see myself becoming very active.
Today's incident was quite amazing. On Portland Row there was a car parked (in the bike lane) and as I approached it a taxi pulled in ahead of me and stopped adjacent to the car, literally hemming me in. I knocked on the window and shouted/gestured to the driver to move forward/backward to let me go. He refused, saying that his pickup was in the house we were sitting outside. A few more choice words ensued, and he was insisting that I could get out past him despite the fact that my handlebars would've taken his and the adjacent car's wing mirrors off. More shouting and then I eventually got off the bike and lifted it over the top of both cars. What the actual F like. I, admittedly came in a bit hot, but his first move was to pen me in and not look anywhere around him?!
Anyway.
something in the air about stupid overtakes
Seems to be. Not a near miss I suppose, but I had an aggressive driver try to bully me off the road on Saturday.
I had pulled up centre lane behind a taxi and another car to wait for these lights in Finglas to turn green. A driver came up behind me and started beeping for some reason. I didn't even bother turning around to see what was beeping.
Lights go green and I move off, beeping continues. This blue jeepy thing overtakes me (more beeping) and then cuts back into the bus lane in front of me making some hand gestures only he could understand.
He'd managed to get around me within 100 metres of the junction so I wasn't delaying him. Plus it was ~11 am, the bus lane was in operation.
Shows how a "perfectly good" cycle lane (which is over 12 years old at this stage 🤯) can cause problems even if you're not using it.
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That happened to me years ago. I was filtering along St. John's road back when it was two driving lanes. Some junkie popped out from between two cars right in front of me and we both ended up on the road. Though he was the one who got up and was looking over me saying "asreye aaaaalllriiiiiih buuuuud?"
Anyway, we were both fine, bike was minded by someone from Heuston station until I collected it later that day.
Same as below from a few weeks ago, hardly same car, 141 silver prius? Rang TrafficWatch and reported the driver at the time and also called Bridewell station a few times but was unable to get past the operator so email the station also but still haven't heard anything.
Good video showing the stupidity and impatience on the roads.
Just an honest lad wanting to do his turn in the wind ;)
Thankfully the young fella seems to be ok...
^^ I'd be curious to see the video of that one
Fu*ks sake! Another incident between a truck driver and a cyclist, this time in Celbridge @ 8am this morning ...
He seems to attract the 2-3 weekly ones every day though. As weepsie says though, he does contribute towards some of them (that said his road position or anything else does not justify dangerous driving)
He does seem to get more than an average number of close passes
