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

05-02-2025 01:00PM

Game on.

JMcL · 05-02-2025 03:20PM

You could've been knocked over by a feather after you'd plucked that swerve from the bag….

magicbastarder · 05-02-2025 03:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123133891#Comment_123133891

if he'd shouted out 'oh cock!' i'd have allowed it on a technicality.

magicbastarder · 12-02-2025 03:43PM

not a near miss, but an abandoned overtake here earlier - by a guy driving a dump truck, of all things. he had to abandon when traffic came round the bend. lunacy. and i guarantee you he knows the road well, that it becomes straighter and wider a few hundred metres later.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4239907,-6.3195847,3a,75y,74.93h,81.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sig9XMESv5yxvfvHTSXRxdQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D8.588051193590417%26panoid%3Dig9XMESv5yxvfvHTSXRxdQ%26yaw%3D74.92786540424335!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDIwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Seth Brundle · 18-02-2025 06:27PM

I was encouraged to hit the dirt this evening near the Blue Door [here]. Moving at speed ĺ>40km/h) with a bit of a downhill gradient and a tailwind, a driver went to overtake me. Approaching the junction on the right they then moved in on me and slowed right down. I had maybe six inches of space between the muck on my left and the car on my right.

Pulling on the brakes but wanting to keep control and wanting to keep away from the car wheels I mounted the edge of the muck (which was kinda like a small wall) and after a second or two figured I had to go down to my left. Not sure how but I didn't hit the wall or the car and aside from getting mucky, no damage to me or the bike. I do think previous close passes helped me stay calm and think through the incident rather than panic.

I got talking to her afterwards and it was just incompetence on her end but I can't help feel that someone on a bike with less experience would have seen an ambulance.

magicbastarder · 18-02-2025 10:11PM

not really a near miss so!

glad you're OK.

monkeyslayer · 20-02-2025 03:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121385471#Comment_121385471

From November 2023

Got rear ended in blessington just on the naas road roundabout. I was in the roundabout, car came on behind me, accelerated right through the back of me, took a 5m trip on the hood then got pushed along the ground for another bit. Back is in a hoop this eve, hopefully just bruised and twisted. My cervelo is OK i think tho id need to wash it to inspect it properly, destroyed the bar tape and skewer on the left but seems to have been pushed more than slammed. Castelli winter bib shorts, glove and my rapha gortex jacket are destroyed. Guy said "(he) just wasn't looking". I'd lights on and an orange jacket, it was midday.

Not sure if wanna keep cycling as i sit here this evening thinking im so lucky that wasnt so much worse, fed up with sh*t drivers. I broke my neck, shoulder and chest in 2014 by another inattentive driver. These days every spin seems to have a near miss. Been cycling most of my 42 years and honestly feel the roads have never been more dangerous.

Got compensation for this today from the drivers insurance company. Not a massive sum by any means but at least all the bills are paid. Turned out I had a major compression fracture in my spine and had been walking around with it for months. An MRI showed evidence of it after months of unsuccessful physio. Still doesn't feel great over 15 months later tbh but happy its not worse. Also discovered a few weeks after the crash that the drop on the carbon handlebars was crushed completely, the bar tape was holding it together, also cracked the fork. Was about €2k worth of bike damage and reinstalling everything when the Cervelo tax was applied plus the cost of my shredded Castelli shorts, gloves, rapha jacket, pedals, shoe covers… Had treatment for PTSD as lost all confidence cycling in traffic and busy roads, zero confidence in drivers now, still try and get out but find I get so fed up and angry with bad drivers and near misses I stick to country back roads as much as possible.

Anyhows just felt like updating as a reminder to always take details of everything at an incident regardless of how small or inconvenient it seems a the time. I was so relieved to be able to stand and walk after the crash I was almost willing to let that driver away with attempted murder. It was him that insisted I took his details. I couldn't have anticipated the lasting effects at the time, I've had worse crashes that I've gotten over far quicker and easier.

CramCycle · 20-02-2025 06:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123191781#Comment_123191781

Please tell me they simply replaced the entire bike and not just the broken parts? If it could crack a fork, it can damage the frame. Glad the river stopped and was decent to you, no matter peoples errors, how they respond to those errors speaks volumes about them. Also sorry about the PTSD, my Mum had it after a drug driver crashed into her 20 years ago, alas back then it was not really a thing people noticed. She has never fully recovered and is still twitchy as a passenger in a car.

Gaz · 24-02-2025 07:04PM

Not sure the camera does this justice. Caught up with him at the lights and he argued he did nothing wrong, explained I have cameras and then he was suddenly all apologies. (Excuse the language!)

https://streamable.com/cyz37z

tnegun · 24-02-2025 07:19PM

If he'd been any closer you'd have been on the floor!

Ferris · 24-02-2025 08:58PM

Forget his apologies, report him.

MojoMaker · 25-02-2025 12:10PM

That's mad.

Cabaal · 25-02-2025 03:47PM

Report them, it'll make them think twice next time.
They only apologised because you confronted them, thats not enough for them to think twice next time.

magicbastarder · 25-02-2025 03:55PM

if he'd apologised straight off the bat, it'd have been one thing. the fact that he'd claimed he'd done nothing wrong proves he needs to learn a tougher lesson.

Gaz · 25-02-2025 04:07PM

Unfortunately my light is reflecting off his reg plate and despite my best efforts (frame by frame), I cannot get a clear shot of his number.

Looks like 142-WW-1308 but thats a Citreon Picasso when I do a reg check.

CoffeeImpala · 25-02-2025 04:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123208659#Comment_123208659

That looks like a 6 at the end rather than an 8.

Checking that reg gives a black Mercedes c class.

Gaz · 25-02-2025 04:23PM

Yes! Thanks … it was a Black Merc alright. Off to the Guards I go.

Seth Brundle · 25-02-2025 04:23PM

142-WW-1306

standardg60 · 25-02-2025 06:31PM

I felt that one myself just watching it.

tnegun · 27-02-2025 05:55PM

Cyclist down at the Dunboyne/Leixlip road junction in Maynooth this afternoon. I hope all is ok they closed the road for a period and were waiting for an ambulance. It's a mess of a junction, and one I regularly get grief for not being in the cycle lane. I don't use it due to the bus stop being located in the middle of it, the loss of priority when rejoining the road, and the rejoin itself being unsafe. Even when you rejoin, you're liable to have traffic cut you up or turn across your path. A minor enough incident for me this week at the same junction it's worse travelling in the opposite direction. Anyway it prompted me to pull all the crap passes/driving from this week to send to our local reps to highlight the poor driving around Maynooth in general. Ex1, Ex2, Ex3, Ex4, Ex5 this is everyday now and tyically I pass them sitting in traffic in Maynooth a few minutes later making it even more pointless!

Seth Brundle · 28-02-2025 12:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123185040#Comment_123185040

Finally got time to deal with this and I'm just back from Leixlip garda station to get it down on paper. However, the garda who came out to me started by telling me how it happened over the border in the Naas district and they'd be dealing with it, etc. etc. etc.
He pretty much told me that he had no more interest in it than the man on the moon - a feckin waste of my time. 🤬

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123200230#Comment_123200230

Quoting your question from the "Meanwhile on the roads thread" but see my comment above!!!

fat bloke · 03-03-2025 03:22PM

Bloody cyclist!!!!

Feckin just coming home while ago a secondary school kid came flying out in front of me. He was booting it off a cyclist/pedestrian walkway and bridge. I was only dawdling cos there's loads of kids and buggies coming home from school at that time. He slammed into my front wheel and then bopped me in the head. Gave me a right shock. Only realised after when he'd gone and mumbled sorry that my front wheel was buckled by him.

Grrr. The icing on what was already a sh1t day :(

MojoMaker · 03-03-2025 07:05PM

That on the beater?

fat bloke · 04-03-2025 08:18AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123228512#Comment_123228512

Yeah. Swopped a mavic on to it this morning that has quadrupled the value of the bike 😁

MojoMaker · 04-03-2025 07:05PM

So, up to a ton with the Mavic on…🤔

Checking sofa.

tnegun · 05-03-2025 07:04PM

Usual crap on the way home this evening, several have been close but this is the first time some one hit the island passing me. Am in two minds about these when I caught up to the bus he saw nothing wrong with this pass and this one was a combination of speed and distance pretty much par for the course on this stretch I can't wait for the Greenway works to complete as the stretch between Maynooth and Leixlip is the worst for me on a 22km commute.

magicbastarder · 05-03-2025 07:10PM

i was passed by a dublin bus on south parallel road today (i.e. along the runway at dublin airport). the fact that he'd pulled out quite far was marred a bit by the fact that he pulled in early, meaning the arse of the bus came within less than a metre of me.

tnegun · 05-03-2025 08:45PM

Drivers being unable to judge the combination of your speed, their speed, and the length of their vehicle is one of the contributors to these passes. I tried to explain to the Kavanagh's driver that the rear had come too close, but he was having none of it, saying he'd been driving for years and the fact I was standing there talking to him was proof that there was nothing wrong with the pass.

magicbastarder · 05-03-2025 08:58PM

ah, the old 'it doesn't matter if i throw a punch at you if i miss' excuse.

MojoMaker · 06-03-2025 09:45AM

🤡s the lot of them

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

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