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

magicbastarder · 12-10-2022 03:00PM

yeah, i'm not sure what the usual terminology would be.

an aside, i don't like the use of the word 'forks' because it's a fork, and 'front fork' is a tautology in a sense.

standardg60 · 12-10-2022 07:06PM

I'm sticking with prong!

Tines are for leaf rakes :-)

Kaisr Sose · 12-10-2022 08:36PM

I would report that.. Why not. Garda should have a word with him about the manner of his driving and what he did after the junction.

harmless · 12-10-2022 08:54PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119736339#Comment_119736339

I know others who have tried to make reports like this only to be told swearing loudly is a public order offense.

I'm not sure what the Garda consider an apropriate response to almost being murdered.

CramCycle · 12-10-2022 08:57PM

He says wanker in such a nice tone, if you didn't know the word you'd swear he was saying something nice.

Overtaken by a 05 car, on a bend where the oncoming bus was already visible. I dropped anchor, as did the bus. Car then pulled in to their house about 5 seconds up the road. I pulled in on the far side, waited for them to get out (which took an age). Then asked was this where they were rushing too. They looked confused. I muttered an explanation of why it was careless driving but before I'd even finished I'd given up. They didn't know or care what had went wrong, there will be no punishment unless they hit something and even then, it would be an inconsequential punishment. I just gave up caring.

Kaisr Sose · 12-10-2022 11:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119736444#Comment_119736444

It depends on the Garda.. That is only used when a garda does not want to do their job. A simple question to ask is: We're there kids around or people to get offended, Gaurd?

Some Garda are just hopeless, uncaring and lazy.

Steoller · 13-10-2022 04:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119736444#Comment_119736444

I know that the video I submitted to Celbridge station was full of effing and blinding, and they took it all the way to court.

Admittedly, it did take them a year, but they did not give coarse language as an excuse to ignore it.

DaveyDave · 13-10-2022 04:50PM

Swearing doesn't change the fact he ran a stop sign. I'd argue the dangerous overtake/close pass too but as a cyclist is involved in that part they'd likely ignore that aspect of it...

CramCycle · 13-10-2022 07:52PM

Guy skimmed me on a downhill to the point if I was less confident I'd be over the bars. Caught him at the bottom of the hill and he genuinely had no idea what I was on about. It wasn't malice, it wasn't intentional, he just couldn't see the issue. I was quite calm and he just waved it away with a "go away out of that". Young fella but with the mindset of an auld lad in the 50s dismissing the little women. Awhile ago I would have went full rage, instead I just shrugged and said, learn how to drive and cycled off. He had caught up with traffic so I imagine he was still at the same set of lights when I was getting off my bike a few minutes later.

Is there any point even complaining, no one in Dublin gives a flying f*ck. Cars flying up the bus lane. One driver ran a red and cut off a taxi driver, didn't give a hoot. Another appeared to be knocking one out while using his phone on the Rock road in rush hour traffic.

Mundo7976 · 14-10-2022 12:32PM

Going to turn right here, check behind & car far enough back, move to middle of lane stick my arm way out & start to move, cnut in his poxy bmw decides to overtake at this point, giving me filthies as he does so. I think the motorist behind slowed way back on seeing what was happening. Thankfully had my wits about me!

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Viscount Aggro · 14-10-2022 05:02PM

Hedgehog and a BMW....

With a hedgehog, the pricks are on the outside

Thargor · 14-10-2022 05:16PM

Had an Amazon van follow me for about 2 km today beeping at me like mad for no reason, I stopped at a zebra crossing and went back to eat the head off the pr1ck but then he told me my phone had fallen out of my pocket a good bit back, went back and found it in the middle of the lane, must have had about 50 cars pass over it but no damage 😊

CramCycle · 17-10-2022 02:16PM

Ford transit, yellow reg, driver had a Donegal accent, turned in on me, thankfully as I was making the turn as well so I was able to squeeze tight.

He wound down the window to give me a bollicking and didn't seem to understand me.

At the next lights he wound down again to ask what he could have done, he had given me a cycle lane width (His front wheel was 30 cm from the kerb when I stopped. Apparently he was paying so little attention he thought I had hit his van before it turned for being close to the cycle lane. It took me a moment to process what he was saying. I explained that I was on his inside when he started turning across me, I didn't hit the back of his van but the side. He seemed then to process he was wrong but just drove off.

magicbastarder · 17-10-2022 05:43PM

they may also know who the driver was as in many of those courier companies, drivers work set routes. so no harm to pass on thanks as per Cabaal's suggestion.

18-10-2022 06:46PM

https://twitter.com/AlanDub13/status/1582358476558589953?s=20&t=R1Vb4INtYel7UwKGz2_M4A

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20-10-2022 06:21PM

https://twitter.com/righttobikeit/status/1583133783200366593?s=20&t=WPKYOrxOrcz_w43Vvzgwpg

Tweet says it all

20-10-2022 06:36PM

Why is he flashing him ffs 😂

Wildly Boaring · 20-10-2022 07:04PM

He's in one lane. The trick is in another. Truck is fine surely. Even if his arm's out, indicator dies not equal move.

Did he then decide to cycle in front of the truck on a different route than he intended to take, purely to piss off the driver?

standardg60 · 20-10-2022 07:33PM

Why was he so far out from the kerb prior to the merge? Truck was well past by the time they got to it.

No wonder the truck driver was pissed off, and even then they performed a perfect overtake.

He really doesn't help himself.

Wildly Boaring · 22-10-2022 07:32PM

As i shot down bellewstown at over 50kph some dopey middle aged woman in a 5 series drove sraight out in front of me.

Luckily I thought she might and had fingers on brakes. 100kg at 50k takes a bit of stopping on rims. Managed to not lock up and controlled it to go in between her back wheel and the ditch.

Amazingly she still hadnt seen me!! Was looking back into her own house at something as she hit 5kph. She then wobbled toward the other side of the road as her adjusted something in the car before finally jumping out of her skin as I roared at her!!

She then stopped and I headed on inside her. I was on the road for another 1 or 2k and never saw her again..... No idea.

magicbastarder · 22-10-2022 08:12PM

another pass into a blind bend earlier, between the grallagh and jordanstown. the oncoming motorist got quite a scare i'd say, had to come to a near stop.

it was one of several such overtakes today on a shortish cycle, and not the worst in terms of where it happened, just the one where there did happen to be a car coming around the bend.

Large bottle small glass · 22-10-2022 09:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772257#Comment_119772257

There's a pair of cnuts in that.

I lived in Crosshaven for 8 years and cycled and drove those roads a lot.

Truck driver is going to gain no time on a cyclist from where the video starts to the left turn onto the Rochestown road. Blowing horns and lights is grade a d1ckhead stuff

It's very unlikely that truck is going beyond Pepsi, about 1.5km from the roundabout.

I was never a fan of how we do merges here, but expecting truck to yield to you isn't smart

CramCycle · 22-10-2022 10:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119781095#Comment_119781095

Technical answer, 100%. Real world answer, if he had indicated while riding the line there the lorry would have held back. He didn't, possibly subconsciously knowing it would get a warning beep. I live near a port so have become accustomed to large trucks as lots use small storage yards down country roads. If he had center lane knowing the truck would be passed before a merge was necessary, it wouldn't have happened. If he genuinely felt he needed to go earlier and had indicated, the truck would have held back. And if it didn't, he could have stopped and posted that as the driver is still a ****. Many times he is right but videos like this make it look like he is the one starting sh1t. Even worse he doesn't realise it as if he had left either half out, he would have looked less like it was intentional.

Does that excuse the driver, not even remotely.

magicbastarder · 23-10-2022 04:59PM

i've occasionally wondered what fibs motorists have to concoct when they get home for their wives or husbands, to let some of their righteous steam vent after they've an interaction with a cyclist, but are afraid if they accurately relate what happened they might look foolish.

anyway, it was an overtake into oncoming traffic (am getting a lot of those lately) and the oncoming motorist blew her out of it, but her opening line to me when we met at the next junction was 'you were in the centre of the f*cking road!'

Wildly Boaring · 24-10-2022 09:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119783489#Comment_119783489

I was out for a run one evening.

Country road but white line down the middle so not tiny, big long straight with plenty visibility.

Chap in a Leaf came within mm of my elbow with even slowing much, and I roared at him.

He stopped and I stopped to see what he'd say after the ridiculous pass.

I was in the "Middle of the road"
I could have just gone on the grass
He couldn't stop as the road was mucky and it would have been dangerous
He had kids in the back
There were cars oncoming (no **** Sherlock)

I asked why he didn't just slow down and stop for a second like everyone behind him now had to do as he was stopped "in the middle of the road"

He told me to F off and run on the grass next time

I then asked him if he was out with his kid would he expect to have to go on the grass for cars.

He had no answer and flew into a rage for me mentioning his kid.

magicbastarder · 24-10-2022 09:29AM

i did engage with that lady - this happened eastbound on collins avenue extension.

i told her yes, i was 'in the centre of the road' (it wasn't the time to get into the semantics of the difference between 'road' and 'lane'). that because of the parked cars, and needing to stay out of the door line, i was in the correct position. and that she'd overtaken me into oncoming traffic, so the fault was hers. i cycled off then so didn't hang around for her response.

i'd already become quite wary of her before she performed that overtake - she'd tried to overtake me while going through the junction of collins avenue and the malahide road, despite not really having the room to her side, and me being only 2m from the small commercial van in front, so she genuinely had nowhere to go. and then she literally just gained 50m before i caught up with her again.

magicbastarder · 24-10-2022 09:33AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119785812#Comment_119785812

i have on occasion wished for a flip chart so i could more easily explain the 'here's why it makes no difference whether i'm cycling in the 'middle of the road' or in secondary position' for people who complain about this.

TheChizler · 25-10-2022 11:26PM

More of a head scratcher than a near miss. Had a strange one today, pulled up behind a queue of cars at traffic lights, lashing rain and starting to get dark. Driver ahead of me doesn't pull off when the light goes green. I wait a few seconds and overtake, but then he flies around me and pulls in in front and reverses until I'm by the passenger window, nearly catching my handlebar with his mirror.

Says something about how I should either turn off my flashing light or go ahead of him. I was slightly confused and indignant considering how he could have either gone ahead of me or let me go but chose neither option, so let him to repeat himself a few times. Said I'd go ahead of him, and then very satisfyingly got through the lights as they turned red.

The Fly12 light does point slightly higher than I'd like when oriented for the proper camera angle, but his behaviour didn't make sense if he truly was being blinded. Must have a look at the video in the morning.

Shotser · 27-10-2022 10:31AM

Yesterday I was cycling up the Carysfort Ave cycle lane with my son on his balance bike. On the road passing us was a man on his bike. I noticed a line of traffic up ahead and as I approached it was cause by a Garda SUV stopped in the middle of the lane with the Garda chatting the the cyclist. I stopped to see what was going on. The Garda left and I had a chat with the man who told me that the Garda was lecturing him on how he should be using the cycling lane. This man was an informed cyclist (I heard him telling the Garda he was a member of the Dublin Cycling Campaign) and told the Garda that he was completely incorrect. He then told me that the Garda said that he would get a clip of a mirror if he wasn't in the cycle lane! The man tried telling the Garda that that would be the fault of the driver and that close passing is illegal but the Garda just left.

What hope is there?

Wildly Boaring · 27-10-2022 12:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119799151#Comment_119799151

Christ.

(This is all third hand)

A colleague has a cyclist "just cycle right into me as I was turning left".

Apparently this left hooked cyclist took a photo of insurance details and called the guards.

Guard arrived, and my colleague was delighted to recall, admonished the cyclist for not wearing hi-viz and "cycling up the inside of cars".

My colleague has rang her insurer to make sure they don't pay out, really hope she'll be disappointed.

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

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