http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: cycling - Recent Posts en Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:11:45 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=153#post-385728 Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:38:05 +0000 Arellcat 385728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I watched I think eight members of the SRYT Massive this evening on Colinton bridge. They came in three groups, all in their safety balaclavas and Buffs, and demonstrating their mad wheelie skillz. They disappeared down the access road to the former Colinton station, whence they could have gone east or west.</p> <p>Probably ought really to put SRYT shenanigans in the rubbish driving thread. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=153#post-385591 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:35:25 +0000 chdot 385591@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Road safety statistics up to 2025 also show a trend in dangerous driving for young people, particularly young men, being on the rise, with 77 people aged between 16 and 20 dying last year, compared with 65 the year before and 55 in 2016, the largest rise of any age group. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/more-people-arrested-over-a66-crash" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/more-people-arrested-over-a66-crash</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=153#post-385479 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:36:18 +0000 wingpig 385479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There are far too many instances of "I wouldn't have done that" to count these days, particularly if I'm heading south up Leith Walk past the end of London Road, but there was a fun moment a few weeks ago where a dingbat who was repeatedly skipping lights between Leith Walk and South Bridge (and casting no glances neither beside nor behind him at any point, including when wibbling blockingly up the middle of the Leith Street lane) claimed he was more safe doing what he was doing but had had to remove his earbuds to hear what I was muttering at him. I would have escaped him a lot sooner if I hadn't been on a VOI. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-385478 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:15:24 +0000 wingpig 385478@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...and avoided shouting abuse at them..."</em></blockquote></p> <p>I can see only <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21645&amp;page=2#post-383333">one other</a> invocation of that name on here, but had wondered if he had been mentioned in this thread yet. I have recently been presented with a few of his videos on various Meta platforms, which I have observed with the sound off. I'd've thought he would be more likely to be someone at whom abuse would be shouted, or have I been missing a critical and possibly explanatory component of his activities by not listening to them? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-385475 Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:34:11 +0000 gembo 385475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>South Roslin Youth Team?</p> <p>[Admin edit: no, <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=165&amp;page=20#post-382155">Sur-Ron</a>] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-385474 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:45:00 +0000 Arellcat 385474@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I encountered a lone crusader of the SRYT Massive at the weekend, wheelieing at high speed down Oxgangs Road North. He was accompanied in his derring-do by two minicrusaders on unbelievably quick e-scooters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-384934 Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:19:19 +0000 mcairney 384934@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>2 students on Voi bikes turning right out of Bristo Square then cycling in the wrong direction along the cycle lane i.e. against traffic. I managed to control my inner Bob Wilkie and avoided shouting abuse at them but if anyone cycling in the lane in the correct direction was likely to get a scare. Maybe we need signs saying 'Ride on the left' like they have near airports/ferries in the Central Campus area? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-384753 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:30:49 +0000 edinburgh87 384753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@arrelcat - agree, see similar most commutes, with the police would make an example of a few of them </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-384750 Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:45:38 +0000 Arellcat 384750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday's rubbish cycling was brought to you by one of the esteemed members of the <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=165&amp;page=20#post-382283">SRYT</a>. Wearing the regulation black safety balaclava and black clothes he absolutely caned it up Burdiehouse Road, under the bypass, blew two red lights and disappeared up the A701. A few minutes later he reappeared, absolutely caning it down the B702 to the A701 roundabout again, blew another red light and narrowly avoided giving several car drivers heart attacks, and accelerated away down Burdiehouse Road again at 30-40mph.</p> <p>[Rule 2]ing menace, and the Police seem to be either powerless to stop them or actively don't care. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383391 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:54:39 +0000 gembo 383391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had two drunk student types on Voi bikes behind me on my commute home. They were somewhat annoyed at me bike pushing over Lothian Road - In my defence I was merely escaping from their Karma. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383388 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:13:44 +0000 mcairney 383388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bit of a double whammy on my ride back from SQ on Saturday on the shiny new 2-way segregated cycle path at Haymarket.<br /> I'm cycling along into town and on the other side of the cycle path there's a Deliveroonie and a chap on a Voi Bike. The Deliveroonie decided to do a Deliveroonie thing and stop dead without warning in the middle of the lane to check his mobile right in front of the Voi bike.The Voi bike then overtakes the Deliveroonie and is now heading towards me on my side of the path meaning that I have to slam on the anchors to avoid a head-on collision! If I hadn't had a tingling Spidey-sense it could have been pretty nasty. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383175 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:01:08 +0000 gembo 383175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer, ok, gingerbeard must come past me though I thought I could show him how to use the ramp like a human being. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383174 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:45:46 +0000 Greenroofer 383174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo - none that spring to mind, sorry. I suspect that this conflict arises only in the special circumstances of that junction, and on a normal piece of towpath they would pass without incident. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383172 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:29:12 +0000 gembo 383172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer - any other distinguishing marks? Ginger beard, Head gear? Drop bars? Well keep my eyes peeled for a speed freak with a ginger beard heading east </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-383171 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:14:57 +0000 Greenroofer 383171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To the cyclist with a ginger beard who has twice in the past few weeks shouted 'get over' at me on the towpath near the bridge to the WoL path...</p> <p>I've been riding the towpath daily since 2009, accumulating many thousands of trips, and you are the first person who has ever felt the need to shout that at me.</p> <p>If you find yourself shouting it at other people too (and I suspect you might) then maybe look closer to home for the cause. I would respectfully ask to you ponder on whether bombing down the slope off the bridge over the canal and popping out onto the main towpath without, apparently, moderating your speed or, apparently, considering that maybe you are on the minor route and should be ceding priority to those on the major route, is the best approach to avoiding a collision in future. Speaking from long experience I'd say that people riding bikes on the towpath tend to ride in the centre of the path unless they see oncoming traffic in good time, in which case they move leftwards. If you are just going to pop out onto the towpath without warning, you may find that you don't give them time to move left as you so clearly want.</p> <p>Just a thought, anyway... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382495 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:08:36 +0000 mcairney 382495@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday's rubbish cycling was the young-ish chap riding a Halfords special mountain bike-shaped object along the Brunstane Burn path just before 8am with no lights/high-vis/helmets/etc.</p> <p>I'm not a member of the helmet/hi-vis police but the lack of lights along an unlit path with a generous coating of wet leaves seemed particularly reckless. He wasn't going very fast thankfully, probably due to not being able to see 10 feet beyond his front wheel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382142 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:22:23 +0000 bakky 382142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat get well soon! And I would happily send over Midlothian's active travel lead email address if you did want to raise with them, just PM. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382139 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:27:34 +0000 Morningsider 382139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@arellcat - really sorry to hear about this. Hope you are still feeling okay-ish, I find it is often the day after an off when you really feel it. Get well soon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382138 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:26:40 +0000 gembo 382138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@arellcat shop them if you can be bothered also GWS. Is it the old road that is the cut through towards Roslin?handy in summer but aint going nowhere near it now in winter </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382137 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:09:13 +0000 mcairney 382137@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to hear about your crash! If you haven't already get your hip checked out. I had a bad crash a few years ago which, although not broken, resulted in a large haemotoma and effectively stopped me playing football after that. I didn't know there was a shared-use path at Gowkley Moss but after this story I don't plan on using it anytime soon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382134 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:53:36 +0000 chdot 382134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>P.s. </p> <p>Clearly an experienced cyclist like you was using the shared path on the reasonable assumption that it would be safer - particularly from the ‘you should be on the cyclepath’ brigade. </p> <p>As you (and not enough people) know, cyclists don’t <em>have </em>to use paths or lanes. </p> <p>I understand about resources/prioritises - which is why side roads and pavements don’t get gritted. </p> <p>It took years for Spokes (and others) to get Edinburgh’s path network treated as a priority (or at all!) MidL need to understand it needs to do the same in key places. </p> <p>I’ll completely understand if you don’t feel like contacting MidL. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382133 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:40:10 +0000 chdot 382133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Arellcat</p> <p>Wrong thread</p> <p>That’s not rubbish cycling it’s rubbish grifting!</p> <p>Suggest you send MidL a provisional email, with photos, telling them they will be getting a bill. </p> <p>Or just let CycleLaw do all that. (Damage not just to bike.)</p> <p>Rest sensibly and recover as fast as you can. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382132 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:49 +0000 neddie 382132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ooft. Sorry to hear that arellcat. Hope you heal well and quickly </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-382131 Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:02:28 +0000 Arellcat 382131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My bike disappeared from underneath me this evening, at Gowkley Moss roundabout. The roads were fine and recently gritted but the shared path around it was an ice rink.</p> <p>I landed hard on my elbow which is now sporting a gash that I have mopped up and bandaged, and the impact tore both my nice merino jersey that was a present and my old but good Goretex jacket. I haven't broken my hip but there is going to be a huge bruise there tomorrow. I also landed on my rucksack which contained some Christmas presents I bought this afternoon. My lovely brake levers that lasted 15+ years without a scratch now have one that is pristine and one that is all scraped to hell.</p> <p>I'd report it to Midlothian but it's just not worth it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-381331 Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:00:38 +0000 gembo 381331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Name that klub? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-381326 Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:14:35 +0000 Frenchy 381326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Half a dozen road cyclists using the footway at the closed bit of the Duddingston Low Road. Most of them were fine - going slowly and prepared to stop. The one at the front was not going slowly and was also shouting "Get out of the way" at pedestrians. </p> <p>First time in a long time that I've sworn at a cyclist, but it was justified. Wish I'd insisted that he apologise to the folk he'd shouted at. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-380811 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:27:34 +0000 Arellcat 380811@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to hear you got bashed up, neddie. I have had scary slides on that roundabout too. Report it to Midlothian Council, but I can tell you that they will take absolutely no action other than recording the incident in their database, even if you are injured.</p> <p>I know this because I did a FOI to find out what action they took after I bruised and cracked my ribs in a fall on a roundabout that was similarly near a petrol station. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-380810 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:32:57 +0000 neddie 380810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So the bike disappeared from underneath me on the tight roundabout outside the petrol station at the A1 / Old Craighall Rd this morning </p> <p>Came down hard on my shoulder and now have a fragment of bone chipped off the top of the arm</p> <p>Suspect there was a diesel spill there, mixed in with a bit of water </p> <p>Even though no other vehicle was involved, I sort of want to report it, so it’s recorded and the powers that be hear that diesel spills cause injuries </p> <p>I guess Midlothian council and Spokes should be informed, but who else? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-380660 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:57:03 +0000 chdot 380660@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Edinburgh City Centre is likely to be very busy on Thursday, 21 August, 2025 due to several events taking place. Transport is likely to be busier than normal so please plan your journeys in advance. </p> <p>Read more here : </p> <p><a href="http://orlo.uk/4mPLA" rel="nofollow">http://orlo.uk/4mPLA</a></p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/psosedinburgh/status/1958065394469450081" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/psosedinburgh/status/1958065394469450081</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=7059&page=152#post-380651 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:33 +0000 gembo 380651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bakky good point plus nice new tarmac. I noticed many rocks have fallen off the castle cliffs and crushed the old fence. Thankfully the space has been created to cater for this.</p> <p>Going the other way you have to push until South Bridge. But the Cowgate whilst having many frolicsome tourists is sort of shut to motors which is lovely. </p>