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

  • 26-11-2019 1:53pm
    #1
    Weepsie
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    Originally Posted by Beasty
    Anyone else starting to discuss red light jumping or otherwise trying to change the topic into a discussion of cyclist behaviour can expect mod action

    Any questions PM me

    New Thread, same rules as old thread.


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  • #2
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,161 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Weepsie wrote: »
    New Thread, same rules as old thread.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q


  • #3
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,739 ✭✭✭tnegun


    ooooh new thread :) spot the bike, I didn't until I was right on top of him!

    https://streamable.com/fg9oa

    Just noticed it might not be clear in his ninja gear that he's cycling towards me!!


  • #4
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,161 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    was driving through oldtown at 8:30pm this evening, two people out on bikes on an unlit road, but it was OK because they were both wearing builders vests.


  • #5
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    Heading north to Clontarf earlier. Just after I pass over Annesley Bridge there's a guy coming towards me, going the wrong way, in the cycle lane. He then just casually swung out wide into the bus lane to pass me. Does that still count as a near miss?


  • #6
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    I passed through this junction in the bike a few minutes earlier.

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/van-crashes-into-irish-times-building-after-collision-with-unmarked-garda-car-1.4095399%3fmode=amp


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  • #7
    Vel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    was driving through oldtown at 8:30pm this evening, two people out on bikes on an unlit road, but it was OK because they were both wearing builders vests.

    I cycled in at 7am this morning, and saw three people on bikes with absolutely no lights but all had builders vests on :eek: Two cars without lights either but they had forgot their hi-vis!


  • #8
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Vel wrote: »
    I cycled in at 7am this morning, and saw three people on bikes with absolutely no lights but all had builders vests on :eek: Two cars without lights either but they had forgot their hi-vis!

    I counted many cars this morning. None of them were painted in hi vis


  • #9
    tnegun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,739 ✭✭✭tnegun


    A bit of a rant along with a near miss. Some nonce locked up and almost ran into the back of me while drafting me this am when I signaled and pulled up to make a turn. Its a fupping commute with other people, bikes scooters etc. not a fupping race.


  • #10
    mathie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭mathie


    I posted this yesterday in another thread ...
    This morning on my cycle commute I was at a red light (T junction).
    Traffic was coming from the left and they had a green light.
    The light turned red for them and a car broke it. (light was now green for us)
    Then another car went through the red light.
    A third vehicle (van) went to go through the red light.
    I moved my bike forward and he stopped, gave me the finger, then noticed the helmet camera and was all apologies.

    I moved my bike forward in such a way that he'd 'only' hit my front wheel.
    That's what I had to think when I did it.

    The roads are getting worse around Dublin.

    And lucky me I'd an almost identical incident this morning.
    I come up to the red light at the T junction at Kinsealy on the Malahide Road.
    Light turns red for the people coming onto the Malahide Road and then green for us.
    Three cars break the red. The third is a taxi driver.

    I catch up to him and the conversation goes
    "You were the third car to break the red"
    "Great you can count. Tell the first two that broke it"
    "Ive camera footage that I'll be sending to the gardai"
    "Sure you break reds all the time"

    So the logic is
    - other motorists break reds so its ok
    - cyclists break reds so its ok.

    The lack of enforcement and gardai presence is reaching new levels.

    Its like a free-for-all out there.


  • #11
    BabysCoffee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Yesterday morning was possibly my worst cycling experience ever.

    The rain was really heavy, visibility was poor and there was large pools of water in lots of parts of cycling lanes - and then drivers were speeding and undertaking taking no extra care with the bad weather.

    I had numerous near misses.

    The worst one was that I saw a pool of water on the cycle lane ahead so I moved to the edge of the cycle lane to avoid it (I did not enter the car lane - but perhaps I should have?)

    The 145 bus then overtook me at the same time as I was on avoiding the water. The bus was so close, I would say it was 1 / 2 cm from my handlebars. The bus then pulled in to the bus stop just ahead.

    Seriously, could they not have waited for me to pass the puddle? I would have then safely reentered the cycle lane and then passed the bus stop and then they could have pulled in to the bus lane.

    They literally overtook me dangerously and then a few seconds later I had to overtake them again as they stopped at the bus stop.

    Is there any point in contacting Dublin Bus about this dangerous close pass?


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  • #12
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Had an "out of service" DB driver give me the wanker gesture. I was overtaking two that were pulled in and he was behind me, I was quicker through the junction and was in the bike lane before any delay to him. In this weather though he thought it was a good time to slow down so he could eyeball me and do the wanker signal. At the next lights he got through as mine went red. He pulled in, and I could see him waiting for me. I was annoyed at the red as I'd love to hear his reckoning but its a long wait and he got bored and pulled off (no pun intended).

    Earlier in the commute, van at red lights with me, pedestrian light went green and he tore off. Realised his error and slowed, panicked and then sped up. He hadn't seen the person walking across the road who hadn't cleared it. I caught up with them later on, and knocked on the window. He knew what he had done, said he didn't know what happened, thought he got a green and went for it. Told him he needs to pull in and get a coffee. It only occurred to me afterwards, his issue was breaking the red, I am unsure if he realised that he nearly hit anyone. So focused on the lights rather than the situation.


  • #13
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    BabysCoffee wrote: »
    Yesterday morning was possibly my worst cycling experience ever.

    The rain was really heavy, visibility was poor and there was large pools of water in lots of parts of cycling lanes - and then drivers were speeding and undertaking taking no extra care with the bad weather.

    I had numerous near misses.

    The worst one was that I saw a pool of water on the cycle lane ahead so I moved to the edge of the cycle lane to avoid it (I did not enter the car lane - but perhaps I should have?)
    You should have. I always anticipate such issues and take the lane in plenty of time. A parked car on an otherwise clear road will have me taking the lane at least 6 car lengths before.
    The 145 bus then overtook me at the same time as I was on avoiding the water. The bus was so close, I would say it was 1 / 2 cm from my handlebars. The bus then pulled in to the bus stop just ahead.

    Seriously, could they not have waited for me to pass the puddle? I would have then safely reentered the cycle lane and then passed the bus stop and then they could have pulled in to the bus lane.

    They literally overtook me dangerously and then a few seconds later I had to overtake them again as they stopped at the bus stop.

    Is there any point in contacting Dublin Bus about this dangerous close pass?
    Given recent legislation with penalty points for dangerous passing of a cyclist, you should make a complaint to the Gardai. You should also request footage from Dublin Bus under GDPR regulations which require them to provide you with footage in which you feature. There's a post somewhere (probably in Near Misses I) detailing the process.


  • #14
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    You should also request footage from Dublin Bus under GDPR regulations which require them to provide you with footage in which you feature. There's a post somewhere (probably in Near Misses I) detailing the process.

    These 2 should explain it for everyone, maybe an idea to have these in OP?

    https://irishcycle.com/2018/10/21/how-to-request-cctv-from-dublin-bus-using-gdpr/

    https://www.dublinbus.ie/Privacy/Making-a-Subject-Access-Request/


  • #15
    papu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭papu


    How long does it usually take for a follow up call after reporting to TrafficWatch? It's been over a week now.


  • #16
    mr spuckler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭mr spuckler


    papu wrote: »
    How long does it usually take for a follow up call after reporting to TrafficWatch? It's been over a week now.

    It varies, I'm guessing dependent on station & officer. Mine took around 3 months but I've heard of much quicker responses...


  • #17
    site_owner
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    i got a response in 3 days once, and 14 weeks another time.


  • #18
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    I did a slow bicycle race in front of a wanker in a jag this morning who was flying down the bus lane in Clanbrassil Street Lower this morning on the way into town.

    Gets on my tits all the people that fly up there. I'd a nasty near miss a while back there with an assclown in a Donegal reg golf.


  • #19
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,434 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    From the old thread.
    eclipsechaser wrote: »
    There was a cyclist down yesterday on Sandford Road around 3pm. It was at the petrol station by Belmont Avenue. I didn't stop as there were a lot of people surrounding her. I couldn't see a car in the immediate vicinity but it could have been parked up in the station. It looked like they were waiting on an ambulance. I hope the cyclist was okay.

    Speaking of that petrol station, I needed to change my pants after this one. I was focused on the guy nosing out of the next exit of the petrol station, so I missed the gap in the line of traffic until this lady landed in front of me. Audio cut out to protect the innocent.

    https://streamable.com/vvlfn


  • #20
    AndrewJRenko
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    Ranelagh has not been good to me this week. This guy just kept on coming as I approached, and didn't give any I contact at all - scared the crap out of me.

    https://streamable.com/jgjtt


  • #21
    magicbastarder
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    had something vaguely similar today; was filtering up the inside in slow moving traffic going through portmarnock, and suspect as i was passing a car, that the driver of that car gave a motorist pulling out from a side road, the signal to pull out; but without allowing for my presence.
    the chap in the peugeot started to pull out (have had a run of issues with peugeot drivers recently), but even when he copped me, didn't make any sign of stopping to allow for me. i got a head on me - i decided he wasn't going to play that game - and pulled out around in front of him. he passed me about 50 or 100m later, and for reasons i will only speculate, as he approached a red light another few metres further on, pulled in hard to the kerb to prevent me passing. i just went around him.


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  • #22
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    I was cycling towards the lights just after Templeogue Bridge on the way out of town last night. As you approach those lights, there's two lanes, one to go straight forward (and filter left) and one to go right at the lights.

    I was a good bit away from them and they were just turning orange. I was in the left lane keeping well in, i was in no rush as i wasn't going to make the green when a red mazda fcuking whizzed by, very close. The bike wobbled but i stayed on.

    The mazda didn't make the lights so had to screech to a halt at the red. I indicated out and cycled up alongside the drivers door and made the hand signal for him to have a chat. I'd already had a long day of dealing with some difficult people in work so wasn't in the mood for a massive barney, but had to say something.

    He lowered the window and i don't want to sound mean, but this guy had his eyes literally crossed in his head and was wearing milk bottle glasses. I wasn't sure if he was talking to me or the fcuking wing mirror. I'll give a brief synopses of the conversation that followed:

    Me: Ehhh, you were a bit close to me there??
    Him: What were you doing in the middle of the road?
    Me: I wasn't in the middle of the road.
    Him: You were, you shouldn't be in that lane, there's a cycle lane right there.

    *he points to the cycle lane where i was. I turned out to come around to the drivers side of his car to talk to him.

    Me: I was in that lane.
    Him: Well i was within the speed limit. What are you a judge? I've a speedometer in my car!!
    Me: Well you must not look at the fcuking thing very often.
    Him: You shouldn't be in that lane now.
    Me: I need to be in this lane now to turn right.
    Him: No you don't. You go through this junction and then turn back to go up that way.

    I then just let a sigh and said i was reporting him to the Gardai and he screamed 'get them!!' I said no, i have it all on video will do it later. He turned white and closed the window.

    Unfortunately i do not have it on video, but i let him drive off thinking i did.

    This fcuking tit didn't see me at all, i'm lit up like a fcuking Xmas tree. It made no difference, because i'd say he could barely see two foot in front of him.


  • #23
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    He wanted you to travel through the junction and then do a U-turn and taking a left rather than doing a straight-forwward right? :confused:
    He sounds like a right cretin!
    (and a dangerous one at that!)


  • #24
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    He wanted you to travel through the junction and then do a U-turn and taking a left rather than doing a straight-forwward right? :confused:
    He sounds like a right cretin!
    (and a dangerous one at that!)

    Yeah, I actually asked him why I would do that and he said that's the law. I had to call it fcuking quits then.


  • #25
    tnegun
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    Had a few brushes with pedestrians they last couple of days and in the interest of balance I'll start with the one entirely(I really want to say mostly) my fault. I was following a bike lane and it disappeared due to road works and temporary barriers which left me stuck on a path, I slowed to a crawl and kept announcing my presence but everyone had head phones in. People actually stood in my way to stop me progressing I tried to explain that I followed the signs in and got stuck on the path and was barely moving but 2 confrontations in all of 100m.

    The second myself and a car were waiting at a set of pedestrian lights everyone crossed and the lights started to flash yellow, we both went to set off and I mean moved inches when a guy runs diagonally from behind us to our right stepping into the crossing just in front of the car. We both stop and he's shouting for f's sake I tried explaining the lights had started flashing yellow and he points at the same light flashing yellow shouting red :confused::confused:


  • #26
    What Username Guidelines
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    Not a near miss on the bike, but I ran to work this morning. There was a crash on the firhouse road, no idea what happened, but this whole junction was blocked. I was waiting to cross at the ped crossing, got the green and stepped out, when three large dumper trucks coming from rathfarnham direction come up the wrong side of the road and turn right towards the spawell. I jumped back, me and cyclist beside me pointing at the lights, which are now orange, with the truck driver pointing to the crash as if to say "What am I supposed to do?". Gardai standing around doing nothing as usual. Glad I was paying attention

    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    I was cycling towards the lights just after Templeogue Bridge on the way out of town last night. As you approach those lights, there's two lanes, one to go straight forward (and filter left) and one to go right at the lights.

    What is it with that junction? There's something about the way it's laid out that causes drivers to never stay in the middle lane, and I've no idea what it is. This causes those in the left lane on approach to really squeeze by. Nearly every car, every day.

    496371.jpg


  • #27
    downtheroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭downtheroad


    I still don't know how I avoided crashing into a pedestrian who was crossing Amiens St towards Talbot St outside Connolly Station this morning. Traffic had the green light but all vehicles were back up, so this guy with headphones on and eyes glued to his phone stepped out directly in front of me.

    I stopped and shouted at him and he didn't even acknowledge me. Anybody know what the situation would have been had I hit into him?


  • #28
    crisco10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭crisco10


    downtheroad wrote: »
    I still don't know how I avoided crashing into a pedestrian who was crossing Amiens St towards Talbot St outside Connolly Station this morning. Traffic had the green light but all vehicles were back up, so this guy with headphones on and eyes glued to his phone stepped out directly in front of me.

    I stopped and shouted at him and he didn't even acknowledge me. Anybody know what the situation would have been had I hit into him?

    Different jurisdiction, but very similar story, and the cyclist was punished.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cyclist-knock-over-woman-phone-compensation-court-london-a8969731.html


  • #29
    Salary Negotiator
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    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    Yeah, I actually asked him why I would do that and he said that's the law. I had to call it fcuking quits then.

    Guy was obviously as thick as his goggles.


  • #30
    Utter Consternation
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Utter Consternation


    What Username Guidelines wrote: »
    Not a near miss on the bike, but I ran to work this morning. There was a crash on the firhouse road, no idea what happened, but this whole junction was blocked. I was waiting to cross at the ped crossing, got the green and stepped out, when three large dumper trucks coming from rathfarnham direction come up the wrong side of the road and turn right towards the spawell. I jumped back, me and cyclist beside me pointing at the lights, which are now orange, with the truck driver pointing to the crash as if to say "What am I supposed to do?". Gardai standing around doing nothing as usual. Glad I was paying attention




    What is it with that junction? There's something about the way it's laid out that causes drivers to never stay in the middle lane, and I've no idea what it is. This causes those in the left lane on approach to really squeeze by. Nearly every car, every day.

    [IMGhttps://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=496371&stc=1&d=1574935275[/IMG]

    I passed by that crash this morning too. I had the same thing where i was going through the junction on green and there were cars coming towards me going right and not yielding. For all the emergency services at the scene, one would think that they'd manage the traffic properly.

    No, where the near miss happened was just around the corner from there, when you take a left at those lights.

    I know what you are saying about that lane though, i don't come that way very often, but it is very tight. That's why there's always a load of people cycling on the footpath i'd say.


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  • #31
    What Username Guidelines
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    Utter Consternation wrote: »
    No, where the near miss happened was just around the corner from there, when you take a left at those lights.

    Ah sorry, gotcha now.


  • #32
    downtheroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,271 ✭✭✭downtheroad


    crisco10 wrote: »
    Different jurisdiction, but very similar story, and the cyclist was punished.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cyclist-knock-over-woman-phone-compensation-court-london-a8969731.html

    Insane. I remember that now, had the cyclist sued he would have ok but because he didn't he got penalised. I think a crowdfund was set up for him in the end.

    Its bad enough having to watch out for all the traffic on the road never mind pedestrians just deciding to step out in front of you.


  • #33
    aloooof
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭aloooof


    This is kinda tangential to motorists breaking a red but, as a pedestrian, this section of road infuriates me almost every morning.

    https://goo.gl/maps/CWyeBXSr4VgrwVwh8

    Drivers habitually enter the yellow box. And there's no traffic light at the pedestrian crossing. So when the green man comes up and I cross, very regularly drivers will go to move on as the traffic is clearing in front of them.

    It's really frustrating, and happens practically every morning; I have to make sure I'm making eye contact to be sure they can see me.

    It's obviously nothing as egregious as some of the incidents on here, but would this situation be worth flagging to the Gardai? If they had some traffic lights at the crossing it'd help, but I think the reason there are none is because of the yellow box.


  • #34
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    downtheroad wrote: »
    I still don't know how I avoided crashing into a pedestrian who was crossing Amiens St towards Talbot St outside Connolly Station this morning. Traffic had the green light but all vehicles were back up, so this guy with headphones on and eyes glued to his phone stepped out directly in front of me.

    I stopped and shouted at him and he didn't even acknowledge me. Anybody know what the situation would have been had I hit into him?

    I am pretty sure from a criminal point of view, you would have been responsible although the peds lack of attention would have been a mitigating factor. In a civil case, presuming you both go to court, it would be at a judges discretion but it would be more favourable. (All guess work, no proof)


  • #35
    CramCycle
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    Driving for work this morning, had a green light, cars turning across as I approached, and continued to do so as I entered the junction, to the point I had to stop. Zero F*cks given. Anyone giving out about cyclists as the issue on Irish roads needs their head examined, every morning there is a near miss on my commute which if it hadn't been a miss would have been a serious RTC or a fatality. People taking turns while watching movies, people rewriting documents on the steering wheel, driving through junctions on red without slowing or even observing, no one apparently know how to use a god damn roundabout, speeding up to enter a junction on red, bumpers hitting the road because their ABS couldn't handle their speed or braking as the car judders and fishtails a bit, overtaking and turning across other traffic, dropping anchor on a road, drivers merging into the same lane from different directions, tailgating at speed, driving on the footpath, straddling lanes and so on. I am not excusing it but how is it even in the list of things looked at by anyone concerned about road safety.

    These are all examples from me, in less than 5 days of commuting. These are not everything, not even close. Bring back the tractors, at least traffic had died down a bit.


  • #36
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Garzard


    Really despise the commute through Rathmines every day. Had two unusually close calls there this morning with the dump truck in the 2min video here. A few seconds in I almost faceplanted into the back of it when it braked so abruptly. Probably a pedestrian as they always jaywalk around that spot. Hold my hands up there though and know I was far too close behind the truck, but having it brake that sudden was completely unexpected, but it's a lesson learnt. Thank Christ I was focused on it and for deciding to fit new brakes yesterday evening - the previous were in dire need of replacing.

    Next, about midway through the video, the same truck starts edging into the bus lane in on top of me. Used to that happening around here and not as much of a near miss as the first but was all the more unnerving today due to the first close call moments before.

    I won't spoil the last part of the video - not a near miss but still scared the sh1te out of me!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lopEI1MQ0


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  • #37
    tnegun
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    That driver and his employer needs to be shown that video whatever about making a balls of the left turn at the end, he should of straddled both lanes not completely moved into the left. Also you could easily of gone under when he cut into the bus lane had you been a few meters further forward and not noticed him cutting in when you did. Possibly one for the Guards even.


  • #38
    AndrewJRenko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,434 ✭✭✭✭AndrewJRenko


    Garzard wrote: »
    Really despise the commute through Rathmines every day. Had two unusually close calls there this morning with the dump truck in the 2min video here. A few seconds in I almost faceplanted into the back of it when it braked so abruptly. Probably a pedestrian as they always jaywalk around that spot. Hold my hands up there though and know I was far too close behind the truck, but having it brake that sudden was completely unexpected, but it's a lesson learnt. Thank Christ I was focused on it and for deciding to fit new brakes yesterday evening - the previous were in dire need of replacing.

    Next, about midway through the video, the same truck starts edging into the bus lane in on top of me. Used to that happening around here and not as much of a near miss as the first but was all the more unnerving today due to the first close call moments before.

    I won't spoil the last part of the video - not a near miss but still scared the sh1te out of me!
    FFS If you scripted a video for all that to happen within two minutes, no-one would believe you, but it really does show Rathmines as an extreme sport.


    That cement mixer driver was clearly just a bully, happy to push you out of his way to get into the bus lane. Can you make out the name on the truck?


    As as for the final moment, I'm delighted for him - hope it cost him a few quid.


  • #39
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Garzard


    I'll definitely consider forwarding it on actually. That said, maybe I'm too forgiving but I'd have thought the driver might have to deal with a much bigger blind spot than a bus driver or smaller truck would have due to the raised cabin, maybe I'm wrong there. Squeezing into the bus lane like that though was downright dangerous.

    I think replacing the bike brakes last night must have been the best timed decision I've ever made in my 8 years of commute cycling. I almost decided not to bother last night as I was wrecked, and I could well be missing a set of teeth and severe facial injuries right now from that first near miss.


  • #40
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    As the other poster said, you'd be fairly snookered stuck between that parked black jeep and the truck if you'd been slightly further ahead. Rathmines is scary, I cut through there the last day thinking it would be a more pleasant cycle than along the canal and I will never do that again.


  • #41
    Garzard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Garzard


    I love the area itself for its pubs, nightlife, the Stella cinema and its history, but it's a disaster in terms of traffic and an absolute skidmark on my commute each morning and back in the evenings - crowded, poor road conditions, cars, taxis and vans parked in the cycle lanes on both sides, vehicles pulling out from sidestreets into the cycling lanes, jaywalkers... often I see up to 6 or 7 buses backed up behind one another in the shared cycling & bus lane. I'd love to avoid the place but left with little choice as it's the most direct route into work and Harold's Cross is no better.


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  • #42
    jethrothe2nd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 585 ✭✭✭jethrothe2nd


    My commute is generally fairly uneventful (Maynooth to Mulhuddart) but this morning a white van realised half way through overtaking me that there was a lorry coming the other way. Instead of braking and getting back in behind me for the 5 seconds he would have had to wait before being able to safely overtake, he floored it whilst swerving back in. I hope he scared the sh*t out of himself as much as he scared the sh*t out of me.


  • #43
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    Garzard wrote: »
    Really despise the commute through Rathmines every day. Had two unusually close calls there this morning with the dump truck in the 2min video here. A few seconds in I almost faceplanted into the back of it when it braked so abruptly. Probably a pedestrian as they always jaywalk around that spot. Hold my hands up there though and know I was far too close behind the truck, but having it brake that sudden was completely unexpected, but it's a lesson learnt. Thank Christ I was focused on it and for deciding to fit new brakes yesterday evening - the previous were in dire need of replacing.

    Next, about midway through the video, the same truck starts edging into the bus lane in on top of me. Used to that happening around here and not as much of a near miss as the first but was all the more unnerving today due to the first close call moments before.

    I won't spoil the last part of the video - not a near miss but still scared the sh1te out of me!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-lopEI1MQ0

    I must be missing something here because what I see is you cycling too close to the back of a vehicle when you can't see ahead.

    I am a cyclist and I wouldn't get the close for the very reason they could suddenly stop or slow.


  • #44
    Murph_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,484 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Lombard St heading South from City quay, past Windjammer pub to Pearse St. I'm in right lane as I will be turning R at Pearse St. There's a contraflow bike lane just to my right, and I'm in the "car" lane. Taxi overtakes on my left, aggressively close. Of course he has to stop at the light, less than 50m away. Has window rolled down as I approach. I draw up beside him (encroaching into the empty contraflow lane in order to speak to him)and he points at the contraflow.

    "That's the bus lane, the red one. You were on the black". I point to the arrows and tell him it's a contraflow lane, I'm not supposed to be in it. (Didn't have time to make the point that it's not remotely wide enough to be a "bus" lane")

    "Well why are you in it now, then?", he says, delighted with himself.


  • #45
    De Bhál
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭De Bhál


    Garzard wrote: »
    Really despise the commute through Rathmines every day. Had two unusually close calls there this morning with the dump truck

    you look like you never actually undertook the truck which probably means you were in the blind spot all the time it was alongside you.

    I know it's up to the driver to be sure there's no-one in the bus lane before entering it but really you just need to be away from those trucks as assuming the driver knows your there won't end good.

    IMO those trucks shouldn't be on the road in the city centre during rush hour and also shouldn't have a blind spot but that's not going to happen any time soon


  • #46
    tommythecat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭tommythecat


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    I must be missing something here because what I see is you cycling too close to the back of a vehicle when you can't see ahead.

    I am a cyclist and I wouldn't get the close for the very reason they could suddenly stop or slow.

    Did you even read his post? He literally acknowledged that he was too close.

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  • #47
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Garzard wrote: »
    Really despise the commute through Rathmines every day. Had two unusually close calls there this morning with the dump truck in the 2min video here. A few seconds in I almost faceplanted into the back of it when it braked so abruptly. Probably a pedestrian as they always jaywalk around that spot. Hold my hands up there though and know I was far too close behind the truck, but having it brake that sudden was completely unexpected, but it's a lesson learnt. Thank Christ I was focused on it and for deciding to fit new brakes yesterday evening - the previous were in dire need of replacing.
    Glad you take responsibility for that, as alas, it is no ones fault but your own. Nearly happened to me a few times, and I hold my hands up, completely my fauly every time.
    Next, about midway through the video, the same truck starts edging into the bus lane in on top of me. Used to that happening around here and not as much of a near miss as the first but was all the more unnerving today due to the first close call moments before.
    I would have said it was worse, if you didn't slow, you were getting flattened. Plenty of vehicles just behind you who should have beeped and for those who said you were in the blind spot, if the driver had used his mirrors earlier, you weren't and he should have been aware of the potential, really poor driving all round by him.
    I won't spoil the last part of the video - not a near miss but still scared the sh1te out of me!
    I would have sh1t myself if I couldn't see it, sounds like a gun going off.


  • #48
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    tommythecat wrote: »
    Did you even read his post? He literally acknowledged that he was too close.

    Ok so I did miss something which you could have simply said


  • #49
    tommythecat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭tommythecat


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Ok so I did miss something which you could have simply said

    Eh I think that’s exactly what I did. I asked you did you read his post and explained what he said. No more no less.

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  • #50
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Unless one of ye are going to close pass the other*, can ye keep the squabbling away from the thread.

    *post the video if so


  • #51
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,008 ✭✭✭skallywag


    I am guessing that this is the right thread for this.

    I had a pretty terrifying experience recently while out on my road bike. I was on a fast section of a relatively main road, would have been doing high 30's Kph I guess. I had the road to myself at this moment with no other traffic about. There were two young girls (I guess about 10 years old) on the footpath ahead of me, with their backs to me, and skipping along etc in the same direction as me. The footpath was also isolated from the road by a meter or so of grass.

    Just as I was about to pass them, for God only knows what reason, they both suddenly turned 90 degrees without warning or looking and headed straight out onto the middle of the road and right into my path. I slammed on the brakes and veered, and just really barely managed to avoid hitting them. I can only assume that they heard no traffic approaching and assumed it was OK to just run out onto the road.

    I'm usually fairly aware of my surroundings when out on the bike, but for some reason I had a feeling when I saw these two that they were going to do something like this. Shook me up a bit, if they had crossed a second or so later and I had no time to react then I would have wiped them out completely ....


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