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

Being a van driver myself he's really in an impossible position there. The cycle lane is too far away to firstly see any cyclists in the wing mirror and you can't see them at all once you're turning as you can't see through the van.

Cyclist should have read the situation and stopped, dumb in my view.

Continuous line is a mandatory cycle lane - goes without saying but the taxi driver was 100% in the wrong.

Honestly, if a driver gets that worked up, I think the best case outcome is as little interaction as possible.

I had something very similar happen to me, expect the taxi crossed the road and pulled in facing me as I was cycling along. Think I yelled 'oi' and wagged my finger, but the legend of the passenger got out and said 'don't worry, I give out to him too'. The idea of the taxi driver being given out to inside the car made my day.

A month!! Some of them are criminal. Several were buses which is ridiculous.

A lot of them beeping at him. That a Cork thing?

I think it's a Cork thing especially though. I'm from Cork, moved to Dublin and bad enough as Dublin is, it's a lot easier to cycle here than Cork imo.

If I were him, I would cycle from Carrigaline to Passage, via back roads and then onto the cycle path all into the city.

If he changed his road positioning he would run out of footage and wouldn't be able to rage post on Twitter all week :D I'm all for highighting the poor and dangerous actions of drivers / cyclists / pedestrians that we all experience but many of the dedicated posters on Twitter seem to thrive on the attention and over react by aggressivly chasing drivers, getting into aguments with them etc. I've watched some of their video's (can't remember if it was the chap linked above) and they've been outright dangerous in their pursuit of the "offending" driver and seemed to care about nothing other than catching up and gettting into a confrontation. They will defend their "right" to do so in the comments and refuse to acknowledge that any of their own actions were dangerous. I think many of these posters make cyclists look just as bad as the drivers.

You are spot on with the road positioning. I used to be guilty of sticking to the inside edge of the lane etc, but after getting knocked off on a roundabout a few months back I have started taking a much more assertive position on narrow roads / roundabouts and at junctions. It has made a noticeable difference with cars approaching from behind and also puts me in a better position to react to drivers pulling out in front of me. Roundabouts are still dodgy as 99% of people seem to have no idea how to navigate them :D.

Agree with this, there was someone on here a while ago calling for cyclists to be banned from rural roads, 'cos at times there wasn't enough room to get by them straight away'.

I cycle twelve km each way to work when i'm in the office. Every single fcuking day, i have a close one with someone driving a car or see another cyclist having a close on with someone driving a car.

Every single fcuking day.

I saw that at the time, people are just morons, some were saying they're reporting him to the RSPCA and I have no doubt some did.

It’s a one-vehicle lane. Nobody should be parallel in the same lane.

Not sure why it’s irresponsible having a cat on the bike as opposed to a baby strapped up on a bike?

I know you mightn’t mean to - but this is the exact victim blaming that often gets thrown at people that is unwarranted.