Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Anybody know these guys?

Options
2

Comments

  • Options
    #32
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    I used to drive this road every weekend, it was never unusually to see a cycling club on the M11 on a sunday morning! Not n11 park!


  • Options
    #33
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    Lumen wrote: »
    Dismounted cyclists being chased by their rogue bikes? Farmers hunting down jockeys? It's ARMAGEDDON!

    yes. The Spanish signs could probably do with a bit of improvement:)

    These are our standard signs. What is an invalid carriage anyway??


    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2412852,-6.1290223,3a,75y,190.84h,83.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Yj6SH7nFHMR4S7ExLePXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


    but its a lot to read. I think something more visual rather than text would be better.

    like


  • Options
    #34
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,748 ✭✭✭degsie


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    yes. The Spanish signs could probably do with a bit of improvement:)

    These are our standard signs. What is an invalid carriage anyway??


    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2412852,-6.1290223,3a,75y,190.84h,83.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Yj6SH7nFHMR4S7ExLePXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


    but its a lot to read. I think something more visual rather than text would be better.

    like

    Our signs should include a checkbox beside each item so we can tick them off and shout 'bingo'! when completed.


  • Options
    #35
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    degsie wrote: »
    Our signs should include a checkbox beside each item so we can tick them off and shout 'bingo'! when completed.

    Well in a recent well publicised case we had a child missing out on a school place because neither parent could read!!

    Maybe a text sign and a visual one??


  • Options
    #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,621 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Plastik wrote: »
    It's the M11 southbound alright.

    Found the ride on Strava. It's four guys doing a charity cycle from the North all the way to Rome. Giving them the benefit of the doubt I would guess that they just took a wrong turn and didn't mean to go straight on at Loughlinstown roundabout to the motorway - or were blindly following a pre determined GPS route on their Garmin.

    That and once you realize you are on a motorway it's not exactly easy to get back off it.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #37
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,727 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    yes. The Spanish signs could probably do with a bit of improvement:)

    These are our standard signs. What is an invalid carriage anyway??


    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2412852,-6.1290223,3a,75y,190.84h,83.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Yj6SH7nFHMR4S7ExLePXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


    but its a lot to read. I think something more visual rather than text would be better.

    like
    They are called the more PC "mobility scooter" now. Invalid is a very outmoded term for someone with some manner of incapacity.

    I will now go and look up how this restriction is defined. I won't be surprised if it inadvertently bans cars modified for use by disabled people. :rolleyes:


  • Options
    #38
    Plastik
    Registered Users Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Plastik


    I went back and looked again actually ... and ... well .... I think we're in Darwin territory for sure. They stayed on the Motorway all the way to south of Gorey.

    Amazingly they've made it as far as the Alps.


  • Options
    #39
    Peterx
    Registered Users Posts: 2,116 ✭✭✭Peterx


    Easily done, they had google maps set to car and never clicked on the little bike icon?
    That particular junction at the roundabout at Loughlinstown could do with a massive sign saying bicycles this way and route them towards Bray.


  • Options
    #40
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    Peterx wrote: »
    That particular junction at the roundabout at Loughlinstown could do with a massive sign saying bicycles this way and route them towards Bray.

    The weird thing is, if they followed the N11 cycle lane on approach to Loughlinstown RA, it is fenced and leaves you no choice but to take the road into Shankill village. They would either need to double back to then go M11, or take the road and go across to the M11, on a roundabout I would be afraid to cycle on as a local.


  • Options
    #41
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Plastik wrote: »
    They stayed on the Motorway all the way to south of Gorey.

    Did they make good time at least?


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #42
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    Jep Gambardella wrote: »
    Did they make good time at least?

    Now that's trying to see the positives in it all!


  • Options
    #43
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users Posts: 6,372 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Nothing new about this story.

    You'll see it at least once a week. Cyclists join here as the next entry onto the n11 means a trip up the herbert road if you want to go the back way or else up the killarney rd. I never get the fascination with cycling on the n11.l to be honest.

    If anything from time to time you'll seeel cyclists head North bound on the m11 trying to get up to the Loughlin town exit instead of going through Shankill.


  • Options
    #44
    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,999 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    I have a "slight" bit of sympathy now that I know they weren't local.

    I have cycled extensively in Spain and Portugal and there are plenty of roads of motorway standard (that are not motorways) where you can cycle and roads of a lower standard (that are motorways) where you cant cycle.

    However at every "real" motorway entrance you have a sign like the one below which takes a lot of courage or stupidity to pass.

    I haven't seen them too often on Irish roads..

    Sign at all of our motorways, as you can see from the picture you posted below on this actual one.
    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    yes. The Spanish signs could probably do with a bit of improvement:)

    These are our standard signs. What is an invalid carriage anyway??

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2412852,-6.1290223,3a,75y,190.84h,83.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4Yj6SH7nFHMR4S7ExLePXQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

    but its a lot to read. I think something more visual rather than text would be better.
    No sympathy at all. Once they were on the motorway, they knew all about it even if between the 4 of them they didn't see the signs (which I don't believe for a minute) Blue signs are standard for motorways everywhere. They shouldn't have to read all the text or rely on a picture.
    ronoc wrote: »
    That and once you realize you are on a motorway it's not exactly easy to get back off it.
    They could have simply stopped and turned around. Or here is an idea.... they could have taken the exit 3km up the road, just before this video kicked in!!

    These numptys knew what they were doing..... going for the short, quick direct route and to hell with the consequences.


  • Options
    #45
    Seaswimmer
    Registered Users Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭Seaswimmer


    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    Nothing new about this story.

    You'll see it at least once a week. Cyclists join here as the next entry onto the n11 means a trip up the herbert road if you want to go the back way or else up the killarney rd. I never get the fascination with cycling on the n11.l to be honest.

    If anything from time to time you'll seeel cyclists head North bound on the m11 trying to get up to the Loughlin town exit instead of going through Shankill.

    You can join N11 at Fassaroe using Dargle Road Upper. No need to use Killarney Road or Herbert road.

    But I agree that it is not most pleasant of roads. Nicer to go through Enniskerry or over Bray Head.


  • Options
    #46
    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,999 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    Plastik wrote: »
    Found the ride on Strava. It's four guys doing a charity cycle from the North all the way to Rome.
    Hunterbiker wrote: »
    Super Sleuth! Top work there finding that out.

    he got me interested... was starting to think it might be himself, but I found them!!!! Quite easily as it happens

    https://www.flogas.ie/news-and-media/flogas-news/flogas-distributor-takes-on-challenge-of-a-lifetime-for-three-local-charities.html

    http://www.actioncancer.org/About-Us/News-Media/News/Local-Men-take-on-Challenge-of-a-Lifetime-for-Thre

    http://www.coolfm.co.uk/charity/get-involved/hometorome/

    And the boys themselves.

    https://www.strava.com/athletes/4244714
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/11025973
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/3114780
    and the fourth guy but maybe he didn't go away with them though as he doesn't appear on the foreign rides
    https://www.strava.com/athletes/12085157

    Facebook - - check out their pics, even had a picnic on the side of the Motorway!


  • Options
    #47
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users Posts: 6,372 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Seaswimmer wrote: »
    You can join N11 at Fassaroe using Dargle Road Upper. No need to use Killarney Road or Herbert road.

    But I agree that it is not most pleasant of roads. Nicer to go through Enniskerry or over Bray Head.


    True but definitely not recommended it may not be motorway but cars still at motorway speed and that junction is quite short.

    Agree coast road is much nicer route


  • Options
    #48
    Thud
    Registered Users Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭Thud


    They were on the motorway the whole way down, surprisingly few motorway segments on strava, here's the two they completed:
    https://www.strava.com/segments/9649581?filter=overall
    https://www.strava.com/segments/3557098?filter=overall


  • Options
    #49
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    The Boards Bureau of Investigation (BBI) is on the ball! No matter where you are on a bike, THEY WILL FIND YOU!

    Rider one already in the wars going by his Strava pics!

    That junction from Fassaroe to the N11 has lots of not so cycle friendly traffic!


  • Options
    #50
    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,530 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Thud wrote: »
    They were on the motorway the whole way down, surprisingly few motorway segments on strava, here's the two they completed:
    https://www.strava.com/segments/9649581?filter=overall
    https://www.strava.com/segments/3557098?filter=overall

    The second one of those has a KoM that is at 147 km/h. I'm going to guess that someone forgot they had strava on, and then basically broke the speed limit in their car.


  • Options
    #51
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,334 ✭✭✭secman


    Last Friday night heading down the N11, I thought I was seeing things. On the Arklow to Gorey bypass section , near to the lay- by section, in complete darkness I passed a guy on a bike with fully loaded up panniers dressed in black clothing and no lights front or back..pure lunacy. Only saw him as I was right at him..couldn't believe it.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #52
    Glencarraig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭Glencarraig


    Not unusual to see stupid cyclists on motorways, last week at around 3.30pm I came upon lets call him a "veteran cyclist", dressed in some trade team outfit cycling happily on the M50 between Sandyford and Knocklyon which just happens to be one of the longest stretches between exits. Gave him a "what the f**k" beep of the horn and promptly got the finger back. If you were that guy all i can say is the you are a gob****e.


  • Options
    #53
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    Kaisr Sose wrote: »
    The Boards Bureau of Investigation (BBI) is on the ball! No matter ....

    He's kinda like a cycling Luther...


  • Options
    #54
    2RockMountain
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭2RockMountain


    I've never seen a cyclist on a motorway, but if I did, I'd be getting a passenger to dial 999 as soon as possible, or pulling off the motorway to make the call asap.


  • Options
    #55
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,995 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    I've never seen a cyclist on a motorway, but if I did, I'd be getting a passenger to dial 999 as soon as possible, or pulling off the motorway to make the call asap.
    I see it occasionally on the M1 - the most recent time was a chap between junction 3 and junction 4 going southbound on the northbound hard shoulder.


  • Options
    #56
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    I've never seen a cyclist on a motorway, but if I did, I'd be getting a passenger to dial 999 as soon as possible, or pulling off the motorway to make the call asap.

    The M50 a few times. Usually the same spots, joining northbound at the N4 and actually going over the bridge towards the N3. And then southbound between the N4 and N7.


  • Options
    #57
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Maybe I'm a fascist (uno duce, uno voce!), but I think cycling on motorways should warrant an on-the-spot €1,000 fine. A totally disgusting and stupid and selfish thing to do.

    They're on the Dash Cam thread in the Motors forum, incidentally. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057386855&page=171


  • Options
    #58
    sy_flembeck
    Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭sy_flembeck


    Happens with alarming regularity on the M11. Used to see one chap going southbound all the time. Wearing huge headphones. Another day I saw a car stopped on the hard shoulder to assist hie mate who'd got a puncture! Couldn't have committed many more offences if he'd tried. Once, while driving northbound I turned off for Dun Laoghaire and came straight up behind a group on the flyover all over the place-and there's no hard shoulder at that spot.

    And the most ironic thing of all is, it's actually shorter to go through Shankill


  • Options
    #59
    robyntmorton
    Registered Users Posts: 4,263 ✭✭✭robyntmorton


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Maybe I'm a fascist (uno duce, uno voce!), but I think cycling on motorways should warrant an on-the-spot €1,000 fine. A totally disgusting and stupid and selfish thing to do.

    I totally agree with you. It's all "what harm am I doing?" until one little thing goes wrong, and the cyclist becomes ground (in more ways than one) zero of a multi vehicle pile up.

    A massive fine, and seizure of the bike until payment is forthcoming should help get the point across.


  • Options
    #60
    man_no_plan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭man_no_plan


    How did they manage to spend so long on the motorway without any intervention from the gardaí, surely some good citizen would have reported it!

    If only to save them from their own stupidity. The guy is lucky he has only a few scratches on his legs.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #61
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,618 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Maybe I'm a fascist (uno duce, uno voce!), but I think cycling on motorways should warrant an on-the-spot €1,000 fine. A totally disgusting and stupid and selfish thing to do.
    i've mentioned it before, but vehicle seizure is a more proportionate measure; as €1000 to someone who is in a part time job is a hell of a lot stricter a punishment than to someone much better off.

    to reiterate - if you're caught doing X which usually incurs two penalty points, you should be made surrender the car for two days within a week of being notified. i suspect it'd do a lot more to reduce idiot behaviour than the penalty points system would.
    as mentioned, it'd also be a lot more proportionate as the car is much more likely to be of value to what the owner earns.

    i reckon the threat of having your bikes seized during a publicised charity ride would serve as an interesting warning to anyone trying to repeat this.


Advertisement