Last night.
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2
Members of the Dublin Cycling Campaign, including Alice Beuchat (pic 6) and Tomas O Dowd and Irene Walsh (pic 2) handout free mini-bike lights to cyclists.
FIGHT!
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Thick cyclists…need to be spoon fed safety
says the man so stupid as to admit to being a terrible dangerous driver when complaining previously about cyclists.
That’s it yeah. Fact.
This cycling campaign is one of the most pedestrian hostile groups I have ever met. Stop and ask them a question without having a bike stuck between your legs.
And check out the location – appealing to the Dublin Silicon Docks loaded tech set who can afford lights and a bike yet insist on hogging all the Dublin Bikes.
Stasi stabiliser hell.
I thought you were describing the group as ‘pedestrian’ when I read that first Paddy, I thought you were being oh so clever. Then I realised how wrong I was.
In the words of Sean Mac Réamoinn, the only time to use the adjective pedestrian is to describe a croissant.
Could someone courier me some?
GOWAN THE COURIERS!
Me too. Thanks Tommy
Think drivers, too busy checking their Facebook ‘likes’ on their phones to see people riding their bikes in any case.
Fail comment
This lights are completely ineffective and actually Illegal by the standards set out in the RTA.
You’d be better off giving a subsidy to decent lights, or having them available there and then to buy. Perhaps with a member of AGS to impose the threat of a fine or allow them with a caution if they buy a suitable set of lights.
They’re better than nothing.
Which is what a lot of morons have on their bikes at the moment.
I don’t know if those rules aren’t completely outdated with the advent of modern powerful led lights. And they aren’t completely ineffective, especially when compared with someone having no lights at all.
Such an Irish attitude.
Diddly eye top o the marnin to ya jayz this whish-key is terrible wake.
They may be ineffective in lighting the route but they are hardly ineffective in making the bicycle more visible to other road users.
They are certainly not illegal Paps but they do not meet the standards set out in the RTA section 29.4.b. i.e. “have an illuminated area of at least 2 square inches and of such a shape that a circle of 1 inch in diameter may be inscribed therein”.
This, of course, doesn’t mean they can’t be used but it does mean that an additional rear light would be needed to meet the RTA requirements.
The clue is in the word “spare”. These are spare lights, to use when your bike light unexpectedly runs out of battery, or when some little bowsey fecks your light.
The Bike 4 Work scheme covers lights. That scheme should be stopped and the monies used for more worthy causes. It’s a complete joke.
Some of them are TOO powerful. Sometimes I’m cycling behind some bozo with his SLASH her lights flashing and it’s quite distracting.
ps I’m NOT posting too quickly. YOU slow down.
Grrr.
Thank god im not the only one to notice that, it’s intensely irritating
Not as irritating as being knocked off your bike and having some fool tell you “I didn’t see you” as if that makes it all OK.
I was talking about the comments thing.
But if you’re knocked off your bike because you didn’t have a light on it at nighttime, you might be open to some victimblaming
Why do right wingers and conservatives hate cyclists so much? It’s so *so* weird.
@ moyest – basically its because their equipment doesn’t function properly
if you know what I mean
Apart from pojecting your own issues onto my comment, where do you get that I hate cyclists?
My mistake Rotide.
(I tried posting this already but was told I was posting too quickly.)
Anyone who cycles at night without a light is an idiot. That doesn’t make them a legitimate target though and the onus is still on the motorist to watch for other road users irrespective of how hard they make it to spot them.
The lads with flashing POW camp searchlights need a slap. You know they’re thinking ‘I’M SO AMAZING’ when in fact they’re worse than ninja cyclists.
everyone should have a dynamo on their bike
just yesterday I was walking home trying for the life of me to remember the name of that thing that went on your bike and powered the lights.
Thank you Harry, you’re a good man.
you’re welcome. they made a delightful whirring sound but could slow you down significantly.
Felt like fpping sysiphus pushing that bloody rock you mean
Or failing that a David Blaine….
That aul sex pest!
We’re all sex pests now, andy. it’s de rigueur.
is he!? never trust a man who can see with his hand
Can ye explain why it takes me FIVE goes to get a fupping comment posted these days lads?
It’s supremely frustrating, and I miss out on all the best fights.
Ooohhh, Millie’s in moderation!!
are you sure you’re not just mashing the keyboard with your fist?
Well, in perspective the Leaving Cert took you six…
Yiz are all feckers. All of ye.
It’s what i was commenting on above Mildred, it’s SO ANNOYING.
Bodger, when you go to post a comment, you get the ‘You are posting too quickly, slow down’ message
Only since the edit reply thing was rolled back.
I don’t even get that message. Sometimes nothing happens. The comment just won’t post. Other times it boots me out of the app altogether.
And yes, Rotide, I agree it’s SO very very annoying. Hence the lack of activity from me lately. I don’t have the time to do battle with an app.
In fairness if you collect enough of them they’ll look grand decorating the entirely of that house in Crumlin at Crimbo.