http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: extreme commuter - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:35:58 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8982#post-92019 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:56:23 +0000 kaputnik 92019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had some stuff to do during the day and didn't get out on my ride as intended in the daylight. So I headed up the Water of Leith path to Balerno as the sun set, just for a bit of a laugh I kept on going up to Harlaw. And so for a bit more of a laugh and as it was starting to rain, I kept going up the rough path towards the Pentlands. It was dark and I had my light on low to conserve power, so got slightly dissorientated, took a wrong turn and instead of taking the easier, longer route through Green Cleuch and coming out at Loganlea Reservoir, I went straight over Cock Rig and came down the cleuch between Hare Hill and Castle Law (which is no real place to take a bike in the dark given how wet it was, never mind a single speed road bike conversion!)</p> <p>Going up was the easy bit. Going down was slip, slither, slip, freewheel, slip, slither for about a mile down a rather steep, wet, muddy, stony hill. As I got towards Glencorse Reservoir, saw something reflecting in my light ahead. As I got closer realised it was the jacket of another cyclist, coming UP the way in the dark. He had a proper MTB with him, and we exchanged greetings as we passed on a bit of the path that required the bike to be carried.</p> <p>"Are you commuting?" he said. "No, just being stupid" said I.</p> <p>"Are <strong>you</strong> commuting?" I said. "Of course!" he replied and trotted off up the hill.</p> <p>Chapeau. Edinburgh's most extreme commuter I think. Certainly justifying use of an MTB for his ride. Unless anyone can better going over the Pentlands in the dark and rain as a route? </p>