http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Forum: Commuting - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:06:20 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1115#post-10366 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:10:45 +0000 chdot 10366@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/4814594651_e5b0f1afa7.jpg"></p> <p><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/mobile/warnings?ua=Edinburgh" rel="nofollow">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/mobile/warnings?ua=Edinburgh</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/dg_forecast_warnings.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/dg_forecast_warnings.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16102#post-213021 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 15:59:44 +0000 BrotherDuck 213021@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Council groups in West Lothian and Edinburgh appear to be looking at feasibility of development on the A71 from West Lothian into Edinburgh and how possible it is to have a segregated cycle and walking route largely following the A71 route to reach inside the bypass and possibly join the tram paths routes at Edinburgh park station. </p> <p>There is ever increasing standing traffic on this route approaching Hermiston junction and does become problematic on the commute having to pass the HGV on the right and cars on the left, I am sure folk just think I am weaving, but to be honest I have never made a basket in my life. </p> <p>Interested to hear what others think of this and how much this route is used or would be used following changes. I use this route most mornings, a lot of the tarmac is terrible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21860#post-382667 Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:27:26 +0000 Rosie 382667@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>SURVEY OF BIKE COMMUTERS</p> <p>Spokes has had a request from (US) cycling author Sam Tracy to publicise this survey for a planned book (not just USA, we think)</p> <p>Question: do you get around by bike? Have any thoughts to share on the topic? If so, I’d love to hear from you!</p> <p>I am writing a new book on bicycle transportation, to more fully document this everyday but easily overlooked experience—who’s riding; why we do so; how things tend to go. The few recent books on this topic tend to be academic, or first-person narratives; I hope to write one that better reflects broader numbers of bike commuters’ actual experiences. Beyond expanding the popular understanding, I want to capture a moment in time—for posterity, if we’re lucky, but foremost for the benefit of those around us who may be commute-curious. This book will invite any and all to join us in our daily journeys.</p> <p>It’s not difficult nowadays to find advice on bike commuting: surprising numbers of people are happy to share their opinions. The mileage varies greatly, of course; from earnest suggestions or expressions of concern to the far simpler ‘get off the road.’ Yet moving beyond generalities—for or against—is harder. This project will canvas the participants themselves: to see what people are actually doing, and what we might learn.</p> <p>Link to survey:-</p> <p><a href="https://s.surveyplanet.com/f451kkqy" rel="nofollow">https://s.surveyplanet.com/f451kkqy</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17848#post-253226 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:30:44 +0000 Dave 253226@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New commute for SWMBO. Anybody got any good ideas to get from Kingsknowe golf course to the zoo?</p> <p>Dropping down from the clubhouse down Kingsknowe rd to the station / canal seems obvious. At the other end Carrick Knowe Av gets you from the tram line with minimum traffic.</p> <p>But what about the middle section? Essential to avoid Calder Rd roundabouts, which I think rules out underpasses too (otherwise in winter she'd have the choice of trying to survive the roundabout or risking a dark underpass).</p> <p>Cyclestreets says Stenhouse Drive and some kind of path through prison? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1587#post-15284 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:06:03 +0000 kaputnik 15284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would like to take the opportunity to start a thread where we can give thanks for a hassle free and wholly pleasurable day's riding.</p> <p>Yes, it was utterly baltic this morning and my new Northwave Touring shoes with "airflow system" were a bit of a liability in that the <strong>coldest temperature ever recorded in the UK was between my toes at 820AM</strong>. However it was clear and still and bright, with a full moon still in the sky and with some frost on the ground and ice collecting in the hollows, it was truly beautiful and the sort of day when I rode to work with a big smile on my face.</p> <p>Hurrah. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18733#post-280012 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:06:40 +0000 Rosie 280012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Article in the current Private Eye:- (PS - is there a self-driving thread?)</p> <p>There's a cheap and tried technology for getting the urban traveller efficiently through cities.</p> <p>From Private Eye</p> <p>ROAD RAGE</p> <p>Ministers’ enthusiasm for robo-cars – handy distraction from the government’s dire road-safety record – won’t be dented by the recent death of a pedestrian in Arizona hit by an Uber car in self-drive mode.</p> <p>New medicines undergo masses of tests before humans take them, yet various governments, including our own, are eager to unleash potentially lethal self-drive vehicles quickly. In 2014 our austerity-obsessed government found £10m for a “driverless car trial”. Last year it predicted: “Fully self-driving cars will be on the UK roads in as little as three years.”</p> <p>Robo-cars are emerging because technology makes them possible, not because there’s pressing need for them. Their chief proponents – huge motor and technology corporations – say the vehicles would eliminate the many accidents caused by driver error. What they don’t mention is the other types of accidents that would proliferate unless taxpayers splash out on adapting and improving the road infrastructure.</p> <p>Robo-cars’ safety would also depend on big changes to the way other legitimate road users – including pedestrians and cyclists – get around, and on an infallible cyber-security regime – something the world’s cleverest computer boffins have yet to produce.</p> <p>The supposed safety benefits of self-driving vehicles are music to the ears of Tory ministers, who love trumpeting vague improvements in the distant future to divert attention from inaction today. Thus environment secretary Michael Gove has banned saes of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040 while Britain falls far short of meeting its 2010 clean-air deadlines; and transport secretary Chris Grayling flags up unproven hydrogen and battery trains while reneging on promises of further deployment of super-efficient electric trains.</p> <p>Robo-cars are a convenient distraction from Britain’s grim safety record. In the year to September 2017, 27010 people were killed or seriously injured on Great Britain’s roads. The number of traffic police fell by about 24 percent from 2012 to 2017, according to data from two-thirds of forces. Duty on road fuel has been frozen for eight years, while public transport fares have rocketed, stimulating extra road traffic; small increases to fuel duty could have funded proper maintenance and repairs on our roads. Robo-cars would need far better maintenance of roads, including painted lines, but the cost of getting our roads to that standard rises with every additional year of neglect.</p> <p>Some of the technology underpinning robo-cars is well established. “Intelligent” speed limiters and black-box data recorders could be made compulsory in human-driven vehicles. But Tory ministers have opposed both on grounds of “privacy” and “data protection” and “Big Brother nannying” – while brimming with enthusiasm for self-driving cars which would usher in Big Brother nannying and data-protection issues in spades. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21812#post-381136 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:12:28 +0000 DaveC 381136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I was in Glasgow last week and saw what looked like secure bike parking, near the Strathclyde Uni campus.</p> <p>Is there any independent secure cycle parking in Edinburgh yet? Most offices have his but the office I'm visiting has building work going on which has blocked access to their cycle cage. I know I could use a staple outside the building or nearby at Haymarket but I really don't like leaving my bike outside for any length of time, if I can avoid it.</p> <p>Thanks, Dave C </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=868#post-7644 Thu, 27 May 2010 16:34:39 +0000 andrew@camera-obscura.co.uk 7644@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycling this route every weekday, the new painted cycle lane is routinely ignored by drivers of vehicles large and small as you come past Missoni hotel, blocking the way for cyclists to reach this busy junction.  The markings are nice and clear but there is something screwed up about the layout that must encourage drivers to ignore them. Drivers can see they have to move left to avoid the right-turn lane which appears in front of them, taking many of them into the cycle lane. I guess the paths could be painted in red, might help a little - but it is the layout that needs changed if there is any hope of making this junction cycle friendly again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13931#post-172175 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:29:02 +0000 Nelly 172175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does anyone else think there are (a lot) more people commuting by bike now?</p> <p>Seems to me there are, and its particularly noticable now we have the dark mornings/evenings.</p> <p>Previous years there was a huge dropoff from the summer months, but - on my route anyway - there seem to be loads of cyclists.</p> <p>Work bike park is still pretty busy too.</p> <p>Non-scientific survey based on one person (me) which might bring some on here out in hives -</p> <p>Last night on way home there were at least 5 cyclists plus me either crossing the tram tracks at Stenhouse or going west - this at 6PM. Clearly only a snapshot of one part of the Broomhouse path - but it and the canal appear consistently busy.</p> <p>This morning I had to be in early so left home for Edinburgh Park at 6am. I had seen 6/7 cyclists by the time I got to the Hutchison Crossway junction on Slateford Road 10 minutes later (about the same number of people i saw at bus stops)</p> <p>Dont know if this is evidence of a big shift, but it <em>seems</em> like there are more of us around.</p> <p>Can only be good I guess - but wonder (if the increase is accurate) if some in CEC will point to the numbers and presume that cycling infra is working well? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17320#post-240289 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:17:05 +0000 wingpig 240289@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Top of Middle Meadow Walk near the Lauriston Place junction. Quite widely-spread. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21612#post-376549 Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:18:24 +0000 DuddingstonDomestique 376549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apart from generally fewer vehicles on the roads, one of the fringe benefits of a (partly) rural commute at this time of year, late August through September, is getting a tow from agricultural vehicles. Tillage farmers are out in the fields harvesting at this time of year. There is a higher preponderance of tractors, often with wide trailers, and combine harvestors on rural roads. For drafting these have the ideal combination of being relatively slow and having a wide girth. If you are lucky you can draft for a couple of miles. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21527#post-374844 Sat, 04 May 2024 18:44:04 +0000 jss 374844@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder if others also experience near death experiences from left turning motorists ?<br /> I know as a driver that there is actually a blind spot as you turn left so it is very hard to see the cycle lane at the moment you turn .Whilst you can look in your wing mirror before you turn ,as you turn that mirror swings away. A fast moving bike can unexpectedly suddenly appear .<br /> I have almost been wiped out a few times like this. Am I correct that as a cyclist in a bike lane I legally have right of way and a vehicle turning left should wait until I have passed on his or her left.? But as I have indicated ,at certain points you are invisible. In the interests of self preservation ,I now stop to allow vehicles to cross the cycle lane , but it can be very annoying on fast descents. I think an unintended consequence of segregated bollarded cycle lanes is that car drivers pay less attention to us and we pay less attention to other vehicles.<br /> Not sure what the solution is - warning signs to drivers on left turns to give way to cycles on their left ? Compulsory extra mirrors on vehicles to overcome the blind spot on the left? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21487#post-374002 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:37:27 +0000 Dave 374002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At the weekend I got a pinch flat on an undropped kerb at Asda Chesser. Annoying but who can say when the tyre was last pumped up, not a bike I've been using much.</p> <p>Yesterday, just west of the Almond aqueduct there's a spillway on the towpath which has a lot of hard stone edges, but I've never had much bother with. In hindsight I was always riding our ebike with "summer" tyres (Big Apples). On yesterday's commute it had ~32mm Marathon Winters on, freshly pumped up, and I got an immediate pinch flat :(</p> <p>On the way home I was extra careful on that bit, then got a pinch flat crossing the watercourse on the way up Donkey Lane! (My little portable pump doesn't have a gauge so possibly not mega hard at that point.)</p> <p>That's three pinch flats in three rides! That bike last had a flat in April '23 (a thorn) and before that twice in winter '22 (a thorn, and something unknown on the road in Kirknewton)</p> <p>Time to put the fat summer tyre back on. I apologise in advance for the snow and ice storms this will cause! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18339#post-265759 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 11:09:51 +0000 paddyirish 265759@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/07/theft-bike-app-vancouver-project-529-j-allard-xbox">A good read</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21342#post-369618 Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:10:16 +0000 mcairney 369618@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is mine as we've been told that to clear out the lockers in our cycle store and that nothing is to be left there overnight.<br /> This pretty much renders the lockers useless given they are primarily used by regular cycle commuters for storing things like toiletries, clothes etc.</p> <p>Having responded it seems like my suspicion about this being driven by a need to acquire lockers for staff members displaced by a flood in the building (as well as a cost-saving move as there are admittedly about 100 lockers currently unused) has been confirmed.</p> <p>They did mention security and I mistakenly forgot to make the point that from a security standpoint I'm more concerned about my not inexpensive bike than I am about £20 worth of shower gel and moisturiser</p> <p>Name of employer kept anonymous but I don't think you need to be Hercule Poirot to figure it out... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3240#post-34035 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:02:05 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 34035@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a short contraflow I use to get to work, for the use of buses and cycles only. I'd expected any issues might be with drivers coming the other way, not thinking I was supposed to be going that way, but so far not a sniff of a problem with that.</p> <p>Instead, heading along there yesterday there was a car pullnig out of an alley way ahead. I watched the driver stare and stare and stare in exactly the opposite direction to where I was coming from, i.e. the direction of all of the <em>other</em> traffic, clearly not thinking anything at all would be coing from my direction.</p> <p>She's lucky I wasn't a bus. Seriously considering an airzound... &gt;:) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21259#post-366815 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:05:08 +0000 the canuck 366815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got a conference there this weekend. Lsat time I went, there was a lot of hanging around a cold and windy station for the bus.</p> <p>In my wisdom, I've decided it would be better to experience that cold and wind on a cycle.</p> <p>Any issues getting on that train with a bike? ScotRail says no reservation needed, and it's fairly early in the morning that I'm heading out, and early evening return.</p> <p>The A91 seems to have a cycle path next to it, but are there better routes? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21231#post-366033 Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:26:52 +0000 MediumDave 366033@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This has turned into quite the rat-run while Mayfield Road is closed Northbound due to the University's epic building project.</p> <p>Some time back someone (contractors presumably) put a bunch of those awful plastic sleeping policemen on Blackbarony and Ross Road in an attempt to slow the drivists down. For some reason they left Hallhead Road without them. Naturally the drivists all went there instead, which is annoying as it is on my commute route.</p> <p>This oversight is now being corrected. Quite why they: </p> <p>a) couldn't simply turn that whole area into a temporary LTN for the duration of the works with a couple of modal filters so the rat runners are forced onto the A701 where they should be in the first place or </p> <p>b) install a more appropriate bolt-down traffic calming measure (e.g. <a href="https://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/product/rubber-speed-cushions" rel="nofollow">https://www.marshalls.co.uk/commercial/product/rubber-speed-cushions</a> instead of <a href="https://www.simplysafetygroup.co.uk/speed-bump-complete-kit-10mph)" rel="nofollow">https://www.simplysafetygroup.co.uk/speed-bump-complete-kit-10mph)</a> </p> <p>escapes me.</p> <p>On plus side I can now get what the cool kids may know as "radical air" when heading downhill. I suspect my future will include wheel trueing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11657#post-133177 Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:58:58 +0000 KarenJS 133177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been cycling for years but am a relative newbie to winter cycling. I usually give up cycling to work when the clocks change as the normal problems with roads and weather are that much worse, and scarier, when it's dark and cold. However, I've invested in a good light and continued up till now (most days anyway), but my next challenge is cycling when it's icy/snowy. </p> <p>I was wondering if anyone had any tips/advice for commuting in this weather? Anything from what clothes to take/use to how to avoid skidding! If there's already a thread I haven't found, please let me know. My commute is all in the city, mix of roads and cycle paths. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1230#post-11251 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:38:09 +0000 Min 11251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A light hearted topic about silly things you have forgotten to take with you and how you managed!</p> <p>Today I managed to turn up at work without my keys. First time I have done this and I am not sure how I managed it. I have had to take my bike in with me and hide it though luckily the people who would object also cycle to work and would understand it is an emergency. I also had to walk around in my cycling clothes having not showered until I remembered that spare locker keys are kept.</p> <p>D'oh.</p> <p>Still, perhaps not quite as bad as last week when I came to work without any trousers. Not normally a problem except that this particular day, unlike pretty much every other, I was wearing lycra shorts and had to walk around in them the whole day. Not only did I feel (and no doubt look..) stupid but I was freezing as we are air conditioned to death. Won't be doing that one again. Till next time.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20990#post-361399 Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:06:51 +0000 renrut 361399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I drove to Hermiston park n ride to park and cycle to work this morning. Unfortunately there's a 1.9m height restriction barrier, that I didn't see.....</p> <p>I would have thought the council would encourage bikes on roof racks there. There aren't many obvious places to park if you want to cycle part of your commute into Edinburgh.</p> <p>To anyone planning on parking and cycling, be aware some Park and rides do have them (Straiton &amp; Hermiston) whereas others dont (Ingleston) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20986#post-361329 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:33:31 +0000 bill 361329@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>With various changes happening at my workplace I no longer can use the plant room to hang and dry my clothes (I was advised to do so some 5 years ago and it has worked very well over that time). So right now all my clothes are hanging on the radiators in an open plan office. I don't mind doing that but once we get more people in the building again there will be folks sitting right next to my clothes which I would prefer to spare them from. </p> <p>I have been asked for solutions and I know some of you have done a lot for the active travel facilities at your workplaces.</p> <p>I heard that at a laser company in Glasgow they have a <a href="http://www.pekodryingcabinets.co.uk/cycle-to-work-scheme/">PEKO drying cabinet</a>.<br /> <blockquote>It is particularly suitable for offices with staff who cycle to work, the fire and rescue services, utility providers, airport handling services, construction companies, sports clubs and outdoor leisure centres, and professional laundry services.</blockquote><br /> Has anyone here used them? </p> <p>Or any other solutions/suggestions? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=859#post-7539 Wed, 26 May 2010 15:58:46 +0000 SRD 7539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone ever looked into importing used cargo bikes and such like from the continent for sale here? Is there a market for them in Holland, where they seem much-used? and would it be plausible to resell them here? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20716#post-354439 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:33:32 +0000 Baldcyclist 354439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On buying a new helmet and lights, and training (as best as this old git can) to hopefully be able to do the cycle commute again, Mrs Baldcyclist asked "Does your work still do the cycle to work scheme, maybe you should get a new bike for going back...".</p> <p>A few years ago +1 would have been ordered by now...</p> <p>Better wait and see if we actually do get back into it, maybe next year eh? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15045#post-191913 Fri, 26 Jun 2015 12:44:31 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 191913@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cab 44 this morning.</p> <p>He was behind me at the lights at the bottom of Morrison Street. As we both set off at green, I looked back and indicated I’d need a bit of patience from him to negotiate the tram tracks. </p> <p>He did so right through the junction to when I exited to Haymarket Yards. If all cab drivers were so vigilant, they’d be a credit to the city. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20605#post-351313 Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:50:46 +0000 LaidBack 351313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This comes under 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'.</p> <p>1. On my invisible recliner heading along Forest Road<br /> 2. I catch up Deliveroo rider wearing headphones and moving slower<br /> 3. Taxi is behind us both<br /> 4. Entry to Gerge IV segregated lane is partially blocked by van<br /> 5. Deliveroo roder goes straight on slowly<br /> 6. I see a chance to get by the slower rider that now has taxi driving close to him upset that he is not on lane blocked by van<br /> 7. I get alongside him just as he decides to turn back onto lane though space in bollards.<br /> 8. Close thing as I take evasive action by using the walking part of lane - kept on bike just.<br /> 9. Taxi gets by - happy that both cyclists have almost eliminated each other!<br /> 10 Traffic light red anyway so we wait behind the taxi.</p> <p>One of these things - if Deliveroo had gone onto bike lane I would have gone straight on quickly and only rejoined bike lane if I felt appropriate. I do use though 99% of time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14764#post-187597 Mon, 04 May 2015 14:24:55 +0000 edonald774 187597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Since I've been using the cycle path on the road I've been hankering more and more to the commuting without water proof clothes and reflective strips etc.</p> <p>Tempted to replace my metro messenger bag with a "trendy" looking pannier (like a shoulder bag).</p> <p>Any one tried these sorts of things out? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20602#post-351249 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:40:54 +0000 Frenchy 351249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<a href="https://www.cycling.scot/what-we-do/cycling-friendly/employer">Apply for funding of up to £25,000 for facilities, such as showers or bike racks, that will encourage staff to travel by bike.</a>"</p> <p>In case anyone's employer needs a wee push.</p> <p>Current round of applications has a deadline of June 25. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8190#post-81524 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:05:27 +0000 wingpig 81524@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I merely glowered at a small rat-like dog this morning as it ambled pathetically into my path, tennis ball barely held in its mouth, on my way up Leamington Walk. The presumed owner (tallish beardyman in a suit with a strong local* accent) then said something rude BEFORE I'd even had a chance to start muttering about leads and so on. Unfortunately this was a couple of minutes after my camera had beeped to tell me it was full after I forgot to empty it last night.</p> <p><em>*Scottish. Even after eighteen years living here I'd need more than a few gruff words to even be able to start to guess roughly which coast someone was from.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=160#post-988 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:09:40 +0000 chdot 988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>MMW gritted. </p> <p>Canal towpath white and crunchy - fine/fun to ride. </p> <p>Ungritted side roads shiny - seems to be freezing.</p> <p>Pavements - don't go there... </p>