http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: kit - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:10:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-291418 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:07:02 +0000 I were right about that saddle 291418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>if anyone wants to see?</em></p> <p>We all want to see. </p> <p><em>chipper trip report has been delayed</em></p> <p>Not required. Nothing but truth typed into CCE remember.</p> <p>PS The cones were fine. Some joker undid my front skewer and I didn't notice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-291413 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:46:42 +0000 unhurt 291413@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Iwrats I'm not good at cones without ice cream in.</p> <p>Bike was returned five days late, at almost 11pm. Grumpiness about this has faded but the post trip blues descended hard (along with a return to the job I had been off sick from for <em>some weeks</em> beforehand because of issues as yet not properly resolved). Anyway, a chipper trip report has been delayed by this and by the now expected resurgence of an endlessly bleak internal narrative. (Might need to take a wee break from reading Twitter / The News.) Uh. I could put some pictures up after this work trip is done, if anyone wants to see?</p> <p>Primary food learning of holiday: toutons - fried bread dough - with molasses are <em>very</em> tasty. And why all baked beans aren't molasses baked beans I do not know, because they are five times nicer than "normal" baked beans (and I like those pretty well!). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290960 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:14:28 +0000 chdot 290960@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thought that was Wikipedia? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290959 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:12:34 +0000 I were right about that saddle 290959@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An intricate and long-running fantasy involving a small coterie of collaborators. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290958 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:50:55 +0000 chdot 290958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>FakeBook news? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290956 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:54:44 +0000 gembo 290956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Intel from Facebook corroborates that Ma Unhurt met the wean up Newfie and chummed her hame. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290952 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:41:35 +0000 I were right about that saddle 290952@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>Was the unhurt-mother really on the plane or are you just wigging out, hallucinating that you're chatting with @bax on a horse-poop forum?</p> <p>You can borrow the Scaffolding Bike if you like, especially if you tighten the cones on the front wheel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290950 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:20:46 +0000 chdot 290950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ u</p> <p>Suggest U tell BA, in no uncertain terms, that you expect them to sort courier out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290948 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:36:58 +0000 minus six 290948@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>anyway geezer, please now divulge tales of eisbaer nose bashing and general all-round arctic derring-do</p> <p>i got pished in Arkhangelsk while some locals eyed me suspiciously</p> <p>can and will blame theresa may's recent nonsense for that</p> <p>god save Novaya Zemlya </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290947 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:33:05 +0000 Frenchy 290947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's still a holiday from your bike's perspective, no? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290946 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:30:44 +0000 unhurt 290946@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not holiday, work trip via a wedding reception. (At which I am, for reasons of stupidity, camping - near Nairn in the autumn...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=4#post-290945 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:29:13 +0000 Frenchy 290945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Your bike clearly wanted its holiday to continue, which is a good sign. Have you told it that it's going on holiday again on Sunday? Maybe it'll make sure to be back if it knows. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-290944 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:28:19 +0000 minus six 290944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>your mother was on the plane also ?</p> <p>and you worry us with taunts of further imminent departures</p> <p>clearly a quantum bifurgency </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-290943 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:23:42 +0000 unhurt 290943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>But my mother was on the plane, o bax. Must be a doppelganger. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-290942 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:23:03 +0000 minus six 290942@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>well i'm relieved that you have arrived safely home</p> <p>your mother and i have been worried sick </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-290941 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:21:08 +0000 unhurt 290941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am home. I have been home since Sunday afternoon. </p> <p>Pity my bike is not home. It is... somewhere else. Still. Even more helpfully, having at least located it in the UK and brought it to Edinburgh BA gave it to a courier who texted me 45 mintes before trying to deliver it - while I was, you know, at work, in Glasgow - and who offers no apparent way to reschedule to when I know I'll actually be IN. They will, it seems, just keep trying to deliver it and then sending me passive aggressive "DO NOT REPLY" text notifications. </p> <p>They have a phone number. It goes to a crackly &amp; infuriating looped message that never offers any means to speak to a human person.</p> <p>I am not a happy bunny. Jetlag is not helping, nor is the fact that I need the bike &amp; stuff back in time to leave town again at 08:30 on Sunday for five days and at present I don't know if I'll have HAVE the bike back by then, or have had time to rebuild, clean &amp; check for transit damage. GRRRRR! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289714 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:20:34 +0000 steveo 289714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Plenty time for guilt once you're moving again, take time out enjoy your holiday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289713 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:18:38 +0000 unhurt 289713@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll still meet her! But, yes, well. Guilt at not meeting self assigned target aside this is pretty near perfect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289711 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:11:22 +0000 steveo 289711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mother bumped!! Sounds like a brilliant spot! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289710 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:08:33 +0000 unhurt 289710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I dont think children are bothered by pants. Or scarred?</p> <p>Meanwhile: Lomond campsite in Gros Morne has upset my plans. I was all out for St. Anthony (meeting the mother there at North Hotel) but...</p> <p>Campsite has osprey, terns, loons and now minke whales. I'm camped on the beach. The site is gloriously quiet. I've got spare food. There are hiking trails to other beaches. It's sunny. I have the option of spending an extra night here and finishing at Port au Choix inqstead... I think i might. Off for a long post breakfast swim to consider and decide. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289658 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:51:13 +0000 gembo 289658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yeah yeah, mostly Songs about buildings and food? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289656 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:44:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 289656@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So the stuff about lolling about motel rooms in underpants is good to go? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289654 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 17:07:13 +0000 gembo 289654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My children are a lot older now than when CCE started </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289650 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:35:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 289650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the way the <a href="https://twitter.com/bear_buffet">@bear_buffet</a> content is curated for CCE. I know @gembo's children read CCE, perhaps others do to? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289637 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:17:42 +0000 gembo 289637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, loving the reveal on Facebook of the reason why the gravel on top of the dismantled rail track had an annoying yet pretty uniform sort of bump every metre or so. Why oh why does this gravel appear to have such persistent corrugation? The answer lies sleeping deep down in your psyche. Though just under the surface of the gravel of the dismantled track. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289635 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 10:41:49 +0000 Arellcat 289635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>and also I'm KNACKERED and would maybe like to not have to ride till a bit broken every day</em></p> <p>They do say adventures suck when you're having them.</p> <p>@unhurt, I have one of those higher impact sports bras. I don't know what they thought of as 'higher', except perhaps sitting on one of those machines they test car suspension with. Maybe I need to ride more gravel tracks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289616 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 21:21:33 +0000 paddyirish 289616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just an awesome trip @unhurt, whichever way you decide to complete it from here. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289612 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 18:07:30 +0000 I were right about that saddle 289612@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy</p> <p>She's going to visit a room full of <em>insects</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289608 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:58:53 +0000 Frenchy 289608@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Can't get lost on the Peninsula - only one road!</em></p> <p>Your willingness to tempt fate is admirable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18917&page=3#post-289607 Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:52:27 +0000 unhurt 289607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This has been a learning experience so far. </p> <p>1. Note to self: next time you tour on gravel, bring a higher impact sports bra.</p> <p>2. When using Google maps to get approx distances disregard any time suggestions when on gravel. The computer does not understand how slowly you will be going and it's a bit soul destroying when it tries to tell you somewhere is 3 hours riding away when it's actually 6 (plus stops to look at the view / take pictures / eat something / filter river water to drink / pee) and your hands hurt and you itch and you just want to eat noodles and have a shower.</p> <p>3. The weather will always do something you didn't plan for. I'm out of sunblock! </p>