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

Going south yesterday through Ballymun about 1:30pm, woman in an orangish Hyundai Accent turned left across me at the Rediscovery center junction. Full jam on breaks while trying to turn left to avoid hitting her car. She rolls down passenger window and I'm saying "what the **** are you at you stupid fcuking eejit?" she says "sorry luv, didn't see you" and drives off.

Don't know what she was at, wide open area and I had a good rear light on. Frightened the shite outta me to be honest. Disk brakes are good for commuting.

it's a junction where you can carry a nice bit of speed into the making the turn in a car as it's got a big curve into the junction so she probably just misjudged where I was or as she said didn't see me.

I need to get a second good rear light for my backpack

Talk about manufactured faux outrage.

The cyclist in this instance is an absolute dickhead. Instead of getting out of the way of an approaching emergency vehicle, he chose to press on in front of it as though he could outrun it. He passed another cyclist dangerously closely, which could easily have resulted in a collision in front of the fire engine. All the stupid bastard had to do was pull in, let the fire engine past, then pull out again. Cretin.

😂😂😂😂

Had nothing for a long time, then three over the last week.

last Tuesday, while cycling home, got overtaken by a lady who felt the need to open her window and shout at me as she passed. She couldn't have been behind me for more than 10 seconds up to that point.

Yesterday an older man on a bicycle held his line coming contraflow on a single lane cycle path forcing me to stop, and then gave out to me that I should have moved left onto the footpath to let him by.

This morning a Ford people carrier overtook me into oncoming traffic, and so never crossed the median - brushed my elbow and then continued on to break the red at the next junction.

Must be something in the air.

THAT is the one thing, even as a cyclist, that really grinds my gears on the roads.

Absolutely. What an f'ing retard.