Cyclists

[BillyMorganRuinedMyLife]

The attitude of some on the road seems to be i cycle therefore im fully entitled to engage in boorish behaviour and motorists are terrible.

I drive and I cycle and i keep well in on busy roads as i was taught to have respect for other road users. Mamils doing the belyton cycling 2 or 3 abreast on country roads are a menace and should be fined for causing long tailbacks.

Good luck ever finding a traffic cop lol

At this stage I’m genuinely surprised when a cyclist doesn’t go through a redlight

There’s a step change with motorised traffic in the city though- some buses are going through the first few seconds of a red - bus drivers used to be the gold standard of good safe driving + progress

Cars are going through lights that went red when they were 20m back

There should be 10 guards on bikes (in pairs) just constantly circling the middle parish

 

[menace404]

At this stage I’m genuinely surprised when a cyclist doesn’t go through a redlight

There’s a step change in motorised traffic in the city though- some buses are going through the first few seconds of a red - bus drivers used to be the gold standard of good safe driving + progress

Cars are going through lights that went red when they were 20m back

There should be 10 guards on bikes (in pairs) just constantly circling the middle parish

I think a high powered e-scooters would be best. A guard would be on a scene in minutes (dare I say seconds) if there was a team of 3, 4 guards zipping around. Cork is the kinda city perfect for a fleet patrol of e-scooters.

 

[Debanks]

I think a high powered e-scooters would be best. A guard would be on a scene in minutes (dare I say seconds) if there was a team of 3, 4 guards zipping around. Cork is the kinda city perfect for a fleet patrol of e-scooters.

There is little or no enforcement of the existing Rules of the Road and absolutely no enforcement of the new laws with regard to those diving unaccompanied on Driver Permits, Scramblers, Electric Scooters,Electric Bikes, and Bikes so whilst a good idea to have Guards zipping around dosent look like it going to happen soon.,

 

[van]

What i can never understand is this, lads going around on bikes without mud guards on them.
I mean on Irish roads, that are wet a lot of the time.
Imagine the constant flick of water from the back wheel of bike up onto a fellas back, surely he would be drenched or is that lycra shite like sub aqua or wharic

the flick from the front wheel is worse....your clothes are destroyed....

 

[Meridian]

There is little or no enforcement of the existing Rules of the Road and absolutely no enforcement of the new laws with regard to those diving unaccompanied on Driver Permits, Scramblers, Electric Scooters,Electric Bikes, and Bikes so whilst a good idea to have Guards zipping around dosent look like it going to happen soon.,

Well if a Garda's personal driving licence is in the mix, no wonder they don't pursue them
Liberal fuck wits yet again without a grain of common sense

 

[Debanks]

Well if a Garda's personal driving licence is in the mix, no wonder they don't pursue them
Liberal fuck wits yet again without a grain of common sense

Certainly an issue

 

[Yermon]

Was coming back from Kirry last weekend and we were in traffic behind three middleaged cyclists wearing high-viz light anoraks. The three were cycling one behind the other and, in fairness, actually pulled over to a stop to allow traffic past - on the hill from Dooks bridge up to the Red Fox for anyone who knows that part of the Ring of Kirry between Glenbeigh and Kilorglin. Further on there was another cyclist coming against us, in bright yellow lycra, and he was pulled well in to the side to allow traffic past. None of this "primary position on the road" nonsense for him. Decent skins the four of them who didn't wish to adversely impact on other road users and didn't want to put anyone's life at risk.

Then cycling to work again this morning, going out Washington Street - approaching a red light opposite the Court House I naturally slowed down, a cyclist wearing headphones overtook me on the traffic lane and then pulled into the cycle lane carrying on right through the red light and on out heading west. He actually looked as though he was going to undertake a bus on Lancaster Quay but the bus got away from him. F**ken clowns like him make the road unsafe

 

[markyboy]

How triggered are people on here about virtual cyclists?

 

[Heraldo]

Was coming back from Kirry last weekend and we were in traffic behind three middleaged cyclists wearing high-viz light anoraks. The three were cycling one behind the other and, in fairness, actually pulled over to a stop to allow traffic past - on the hill from Dooks bridge up to the Red Fox for anyone who knows that part of the Ring of Kirry between Glenbeigh and Kilorglin. Further on there was another cyclist coming against us, in bright yellow lycra, and he was pulled well in to the side to allow traffic past. None of this "primary position on the road" nonsense for him. Decent skins the four of them who didn't wish to adversely impact on other road users and didn't want to put anyone's life at risk.

Then cycling to work again this morning, going out Washington Street - approaching a red light opposite the Court House I naturally slowed down, a cyclist wearing headphones overtook me on the traffic lane and then pulled into the cycle lane carrying on right through the red light and on out heading west. He actually looked as though he was going to undertake a bus on Lancaster Quay but the bus got away from him. F**ken clowns like him make the road unsafe

A mostly positive soundy cyclist post!

I did mountaineering around glenbeigh and the roads there are dicey the best of times with narrow bridges!

 

[Ogre Moran]

There is little or no enforcement of the existing Rules of the Road and absolutely no enforcement of the new laws with regard to those diving unaccompanied on Driver Permits, Scramblers, Electric Scooters,Electric Bikes, and Bikes so whilst a good idea to have Guards zipping around dosent look like it going to happen soon.,

The Government's (FF-FG-led) response of late has been to double road offence fines, a cynical revenue-raising act. It's a small thing but I am still seeing a lot of those dark grey number plates, a means of avoiding camera detection, on the roads. Clearly, no intention of tackling that issue.