Guys attacking cyclists in Dublin!!

endacl

teednab-el wrote: »

Glencarraig wrote: »

THis is probably the same shower of scroats who whipped my back with a belt buckle a while ago on the Featherbeds Road. Shortly after it happened I saw what I thought was the same car coming back towards me and I really did fear for my safety. The only weapon I had was my drink bottle which I was just about to throw at the windscreen when I realised it wasnt the same car !

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And when 4 of them jump out of the car, you're standing there in your cleats.

With no d lock...

teednab-el

endacl wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

Glencarraig wrote: »

THis is probably the same shower of scroats who whipped my back with a belt buckle a while ago on the Featherbeds Road. Shortly after it happened I saw what I thought was the same car coming back towards me and I really did fear for my safety. The only weapon I had was my drink bottle which I was just about to throw at the windscreen when I realised it wasnt the same car !

<snip>

And when 4 of them jump out of the car, you're standing there in your cleats.

With no d lock...

Then detach your front wheel and .......yeah give it a spin

oflahero

route66 wrote: »

oflahero wrote: »

Gotta watch out for it too on Stocking Lane in the evenings. Attempted push from the passenger seat three nights ago, hooned off too fast to get the reg. If you feel a car hovering on your back wheel a bit too close for a bit too long, it's a warning.

I'm on that road some evenings. Haven't seen this happen myself but I'm slowly turning green reading your post and the OP's.

FFS

I should clarify that that was probably only the second or third time in over six years of tootling around the area. No need to desert the Dublin mountains just yet!

Mycroft H

Slam on the anchors if you feel at risk. Better then getting pushed off the bike at speed.

2wheelsgood

Struggling up Slieve Mann today..small grey car went passed and passenger threw a full apple at me!....f*ckers!

Luckily they missed but that's the last thing you need on that climb!

teednab-el

2wheelsgood wrote: »

Struggling up Slieve Mann today..small grey car went passed and passenger threw a full apple at me!....f*ckers!

Luckily they missed but that's the last thing you need on that climb!

This is unbelievable. How people can do such things is beyond me. It would be the last thing one would be expecting an apple hitting a cyclist. I've hit the road a lot over the past few weeks with the bike and im very green to all of this.

g0g

2wheelsgood wrote: »

Struggling up Slieve Mann today..small grey car went passed and passenger threw a full apple at me!....f*ckers!

Luckily they missed but that's the last thing you need on that climb!

Serves you right for cycling up there at midnight!:rolleyes:

Seriously though, some dodgy stuff happening in the hills some evenings by the sound of things. I've been lucky in that over the past couple of years the worst I can remember is a couple of cars passing me too close and people shouting at me. Sounds like the best advice is just to brake and let them past.

VanhireBoys

It seems to be catching on .. A 04 UK reg dark blue Avensis with a few scumbags is doing the rounds here in Galway. Ive got pushed as well... ! Close enough to give me a fright but not enough to put me off

The car was then stopped at the new lights at Tuam road ! When they seen me barrelling down the road at 30mph + they broke the red light to get away.....

Flamin cowards ! I mean theres no way I was going to confront them anyway

Lets be careful out there fellas - whatever you do dont tackle these toerags as you never know they could be drunk or high and things could escalate

AssaultedPeanut

I got a belt of something out the window of a car on Annesley Bridge in Fairview last year, bout 10PM. Dark grey hatchback I think, they swerved a couple of times in front of me and then sped off through the lights. I grabbed two handfuls of brake and pulled in, tears in my eyes with the fright of it.

Gards couldn't do much, considering my info was pretty sketchy.

I wish these f*cktards would cop on and realise how dangerous this is.

Darkglasses

Well, this conversation has lead me to definitely put my camera back on my bike. I can't help but think that it would make this sort of this much easier to report.

Beasty

I've moved posts relating to this morning's tragic incident in Kerry when a cyclist was killed as a result of a "hit and run" incident to a separate thread. We have no information concerning intent/fault at this stage and it is not appropriate to speculate on such matters here

Thanks

Beasty

cdaly_

PCPhoto wrote: »

its all fun and games till someone gets knocked off and suffers a fatal injury - this idiots should have their licences revoked and be banned from driving for a minimum of 5 years and if caught during that time....straight to jail for a minimum of 3yrs (keep the roads a bit safer)

What licenses?

eyesquirm

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

tying them to a tree in a field, stripping them off, covering them in salt and letting in a few sucky calves is too good for them. f**kin pikeys

Jeez, I'd go for that myself.



:pac::pac::pac:

Gumbi

Fcking disgraceful.

I've had a cup thrown at me, because I failed to appease a driver's passenger. I was stopped at traffic lights, and was turning right, so I was, naturally, at the left side of the right lane (close to the centre of the road, essentially).

Your one rolled down the window, and asked me to move over to the left lane. I said, no I'm turning right. The same was demanded of me two more times. I just said no and ignored her. 5 sec later, I had a cup thrown off me Didn't catch the reg number, unfortunately. I was very pissed.

I've also had motorists beep at me for "being in the way" (as if they owned the road). Situations whereby I'm in the right lane, and there are two cars behind me in both lanes. Because one, or both, can't safely overtake me at that time, they get annoyed and start beeping Very annoying indeed, considering.

Another time, someone to whom I was parallel suddenly turned left without any indicators (not that it would have mattered, we were parallel to each other at that point), and I slammed into the side of that car. luckily I was not injured - my brakes had fortunately been tightened earlier that day and were in top shape.

I realise that these things happen, and I'm sure, in fact, I know, cyclists break the rules of the road too, but I feel as if motorists feel a sense of entitlement to the road over cyclists, and are generally disrespectful towards them.

Roger Hassenforder

eyesquirm wrote: »

Jeez, I'd go for that myself.



:pac::pac::pac:

Ive heard its an old West Limerick vigilante 'cure' for kiddy fiddlers.
Ever let a calf lick your hand? the tongue is rough as sandpaper, but sure what ever your into, some people pay good money for that sort of thing.

Roger Hassenforder

Gumbi wrote: »

....I was very pissed.

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is that euphemism in an American or Irish context?

Gumbi

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Gumbi wrote: »

....I was very pissed.

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is that euphemism in an American or Irish context?

"....off" Does that clarify it?

Gumbi

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Gumbi wrote: »

....I was very pissed.

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is that euphemism in an American or Irish context?

"....off" Does that clarify it?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Columbia wrote: »

Outrageous that the Gardai are not doing more to help.

Last week in Blackrock Village an Italian reg swerved to hit/intimidate me. Caught up with him at the next lights and asked him if he done it on purpose, he said yes, that I shouldn't be on the road. I told him he should learn the rules of the road and went on, he was revving his car and nudging towards me while telling me to step aside.

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

jon1981

This is why i don't like SPD-SL, can't plant the feet properly when you're throwing that right hook... :pac:

magicbastarder

Ayleen Slimy Chickpea wrote: »

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

one time when i had a minor issue with the way gardai handled a (non-cycling related) issue, i emailed the press office to enquire as to whether the way it was handled was policy. i got an apologetic email, explaining how the call should have been handled, and a promise that they would contact the super in the relevant station to follow up the issue. granted, that could have been an empty promise, but it may be an avenue to try?

OldBean

Ayleen Slimy Chickpea wrote: »

Last week in Blackrock Village an Italian reg swerved to hit/intimidate me. Caught up with him at the next lights and asked him if he done it on purpose, he said yes, that I shouldn't be on the road. I told him he should learn the rules of the road and went on, he was revving his car and nudging towards me while telling me to step aside.

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

Silver family wagon?

bazermc

magicbastarder wrote: »

one time when i had a minor issue with the way gardai handled a (non-cycling related) issue, i emailed the press office to enquire as to whether the way it was handled was policy. i got an apologetic email, explaining how the call should have been handled, and a promise that they would contact the super in the relevant station to follow up the issue. granted, that could have been an empty promise, but it may be an avenue to try?

Isn't That what GSOC is for.

OP, surely that is attempted assualt.?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

OldBean wrote: »

Silver family wagon?

It was a silver car but small enough. The incident happened at the turn off to the dart station at the lights. Did you happen to witness it? I didn't take his reg as I was in a wee bit of shock.

magicbastarder

bazermc wrote: »

Isn't That what GSOC is for.

i think you would need to make an official complaint to GSOC who would then have to investigate; if you try to handle it within the gardai, you *may* get a superintendent who is willing to give a subordinate a kick up the arse.

JBokeh

Ayleen Slimy Chickpea wrote: »

Last week in Blackrock Village an Italian reg swerved to hit/intimidate me. Caught up with him at the next lights and asked him if he done it on purpose, he said yes, that I shouldn't be on the road. I told him he should learn the rules of the road and went on, he was revving his car and nudging towards me while telling me to step aside.

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

I live in a place plagued by tourists, and it's the Italian reg cars are most likely to be doing something scary on the roads, though to be fair they're campers and those things are probably impossible to build up speed fast enough to overtake a cyclist properly. Some bloke got really offended that I overtook him in my car and started beeping and flashing, and this is only in the past fortnight

Isn't cycling fairly popular in Italy? You'd swear he'd have known better than to be at that like. I've also heard that the Gards don't touch foreign drivers, seems a bit of a shambles, but thats the first i've heard of a tourist being deliberately aggressive, most of the time it is probably them being a bit confused to the way we do it here.

Macy0161

If you have the reg number(s) of these Italian reg cars, you could try to report them to Revenue. If they're resident here, they're supposed to transfer the car to an Irish Reg within 7 days of it entering the state.

daragh_

OldBean wrote: »

No, I'm afraid not, but there's an Italian reg'd car that goes from the Dart station to Deansgrange regularly that gets up to similar antics. Not friendly people.

My neck of the woods.

There's no point in escalating the situation. Stay calm, get the number and a pic of the car/reg if you can. Report it to the Guards in Blackrock straight away.

If this kind of behaviour is happening on a regular basis someone will be getting a knock on the door sooner or later.

Lusk_Doyle

Macy0161 wrote: »

If you have the reg number(s) of these Italian reg cars, you could try to report them to Revenue. If they're resident here, they're supposed to transfer the car to an Irish Reg within 7 days of it entering the state.

Beasty is all over it. His pet hate is people not paying the state what they are supposed to!

darconio

I was cycling home along the luas track between Goldenbridge and blackhorse, and suddenly something quite heavy hit me on the frame of the bike splashing some kind of liquid (beer, water, pi$$?)over my trousers. I was quite shaken when I realized that it was a can filled up with the above liquid thrown by a bunch of knackers sitting on the other side of the canal and cheering about the fact that they just hit the target. I shouted some abuse at them but they just laughed at me, I then decided to move on, only to notice that they were throwing cans at most of the cyclist. I stopped at blackhorse trying to spot a garda: I waited a good 10 minutes until I decided to head home when I finally encountered a police car. I explained what happened and explained that I could easily be dead if I was hit in the head, they ensured me that they were aware of the matter and that they would be looking into it as soon as possible :rolleyes:
They didn't bother to ask me WHERE it happened, WHEN it happened or how they looked like...

RainyDay

Ayleen Slimy Chickpea wrote: »

Last week in Blackrock Village an Italian reg swerved to hit/intimidate me. Caught up with him at the next lights and asked him if he done it on purpose, he said yes, that I shouldn't be on the road. I told him he should learn the rules of the road and went on, he was revving his car and nudging towards me while telling me to step aside.

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

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Bloggsie

jon1981 wrote: »

This is why i don't like SPD-SL, can't plant the feet properly when you're throwing that right hook... :pac:

Take your shoe off & swing that!

Bloggsie

daragh_ wrote: »

My neck of the woods.

There's no point in escalating the situation. Stay calm, get the number and a pic of the car/reg if you can. Report it to the Guards in Blackrock straight away.

If this kind of behaviour is happening on a regular basis someone will be getting a knock on the door sooner or later.

My neck of the woods as well, hope you arent put off the bike by the italian numpties or la numptio as they are known as back home.

Traumadoc

Ayleen Slimy Chickpea wrote: »

Last week in Blackrock Village an Italian reg swerved to hit/intimidate me. Caught up with him at the next lights and asked him if he done it on purpose, he said yes, that I shouldn't be on the road. I told him he should learn the rules of the road and went on, he was revving his car and nudging towards me while telling me to step aside.

Garda told me that they could only do something if I was killed... What... the... fcuk... (so basically you can get away with a lot of crimes abroad...)

Ask the gardai to get the drivers insurance details as you plan to take an action through the PIAB.

lolo62

Can't believe this..it confirms what I've been thinking lately about society and that's that average Joe these days is a sociopath. I cycle but only to Inchicore village and back, maybe to imma, even these leisure cycles have me coming home with near death experience stories.
I think anyone who commutes has balls of steel to be honest.

On a more positive note I'm a very courteous driver and always make sure to give lots of space to cyclists so they can do what they need to do. I quite enjoy it actually. Oneness and all that!!

greenmat

Best I heard was from a very experienced cyclist who encountered problems with a driver who nearly killed him and ran him off the road. He casually bent over into the drivers window, pulled out his car keys, informed the driver were he was going, and cycled to nearest Garda Station to present the keys.

Alanstrainor

lolo62 wrote: »

Can't believe this..it confirms what I've been thinking lately about society and that's that average Joe these days is a sociopath. I cycle but only to Inchicore village and back, maybe to imma, even these leisure cycles have me coming home with near death experience stories.
I think anyone who commutes has balls of steel to be honest.

On a more positive note I'm a very courteous driver and always make sure to give lots of space to cyclists so they can do what they need to do. I quite enjoy it actually. Oneness and all that!!

These incidents are still rare, i've covered thousands of kms through Dublin city centre and can only think of one where someone revving an engine and lurching forward as a way of intimidation. I'd reckon that's one incident out of 8 years of mostly daily cycling.

greenmat wrote: »

Best I heard was from a very experienced cyclist who encountered problems with a driver who nearly killed him and ran him off the road. He casually bent over into the drivers window, pulled out his car keys, informed the driver were he was going, and cycled to nearest Garda Station to present the keys.

That's how you end up with your head kicked in tbh. Or caught under the wheels of a car as they attempt to speed away. Dangerous stuff...

lolo62

Alanstrainor wrote: »

These incidents are still rare, i've covered thousands of kms through Dublin city centre and can only think of one where someone revving an engine and lurching forward as a way of intimidation. I'd reckon that's one incident out of 8 years of mostly daily cycling.

Thanks for the reassurance. I hope I'm not becoming cynical I definitely think there's a low empathy level for the ridiculous positions cyclists can find themselves in though. Like when a cycle lane just disappears or there's road works in the middle of it. Maybe when you're a more confident cyclist it's easier to hold your ground but if you just cycle as a sunny day alternative to the car or bus it can be an ordeal. Not always but if you've ever cycled in Germany it's hard not to compare the experiences :P

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Alanstrainor wrote: »

These incidents are still rare, i've covered thousands of kms through Dublin city centre and can only think of one where someone revving an engine and lurching forward as a way of intimidation. I'd reckon that's one incident out of 8 years of mostly daily cycling.
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Happens to me quite a lot, but outside town heading south. I'd say it happens every week or so. No idea why.

I was coming back from racing Tuesday night and a grey 131 corolla with 3 lads in it felt compelled to cross the n11, pull up beside me, shout at me, comment on my anatomy, then pull off again. :rolleyes::mad: It does happen, but no enough to put you off. A lot more so in Spring/summer/autumn (the shouting). Almost never in winter for me anyway.

MLC61

On the flip side, a couple of times in the last three months drivers that have shouted abuse at me have then driven straight through red lights. In one instance a guy with three kids in the back had stopped at the red light and saw me coming up and drove through the junction narrowly missing cars coming across.
I had no intention of confronting him.

cython

Traumadoc wrote: »

Ask the gardai to get the drivers insurance details as you plan to take an action through the PIAB.

The post doesn't mention the driver hitting the poster, so not sure what action there is to be taken through the PIAB, they will want to know about threats even less than the Gardai seemed to want to!

magicbastarder

btw, when i first read the thread title, i read it as 'gays attacking cyclists'.

Harrybelafonte

gadetra wrote: »

Happens to me quite a lot, but outside town heading south. I'd say it happens every week or so. No idea why.

I was coming back from racing Tuesday night and a grey 131 corolla with 3 lads in it felt compelled to cross the n11, pull up beside me, shout at me, comment on my anatomy, then pull off again. :rolleyes::mad: It does happen, but no enough to put you off. A lot more so in Spring/summer/autumn (the shouting). Almost never in winter for me anyway.

N11 though. I experienced most of my worst **** on bike or car on N11. Used to live in Killiney and had some crazy experiences.

Harrybelafonte

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

N11 though. I experienced most of my worst **** on bike or car on N11. Used to live in Killiney and had some crazy experiences.

Sorry, to clarify, never cycled when I lived there but still use the N11 for cycles since moving to NORTHSIDE.

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Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Sorry, to clarify, never cycled when I lived there but still use the N11 for cycles since moving to NORTHSIDE.

Most of the cycling 'incidents' I experience happen on the n11. Just seems to he a hotspot for it. Hate that road. An unfortunately necessary evil.

Traumadoc

cython wrote: »

The post doesn't mention the driver hitting the poster, so not sure what action there is to be taken through the PIAB, they will want to know about threats even less than the Gardai seemed to want to!

There is payment for mental health, If you have suffered, e.g. afraid to cycle a particular road or indeed cycle at all because of the actions of a 3rd party you are entitled to claim.

Its in the PIAB forms

You do not have to have a collision to have an adverse outcome.

BTW I always cycle with a fly 6 camera now.

Harrybelafonte

And very boring to cycle

cython

Traumadoc wrote: »

There is payment for mental health, If you have suffered, e.g. afraid to cycle a particular road or indeed cycle at all because of the actions of a 3rd party you are entitled to claim.

Its in the PIAB forms

You do not have to have a collision to have an adverse outcome.

BTW I always cycle with a fly 6 camera now.

And where did the poster mention having suffered any of this?! Is it any wonder there's a compo culture when this is the goto advice that people get? :rolleyes:

Traumadoc

cython wrote: »

And where did the poster mention having suffered any of this?! Is it any wonder there's a compo culture when this is the goto advice that people get? :rolleyes:

Nowhere, I just mentioned it as a way to get the guards to take action.

But go ahead, fly off the handle.:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Traumadoc

KTRIC wrote: »

Put in a claim against their insurance for your injuries and damage to your bike.

:eek: