http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: NEPN - Recent Posts en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:50:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19983#post-319246 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:13:52 +0000 Try Cycle 319246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>there was a tree across the path between St Marks and Warriston at lunch time today, keep eye out in case it's not been shifted or other trees have come down today </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250100 Sun, 14 May 2017 19:38:50 +0000 sallyhinch 250100@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ha! The one time I came off my bike as an adult, it was a similar sort of thing - I was trying a bike with drop handlebars for the first (and last) time ever and hadn't quite realised how soggy my own brakes were and how effective other peoples' might be... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250099 Sun, 14 May 2017 19:34:38 +0000 dedekay 250099@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No casual factor lessons I'm afraid. A child cycling slowly towards me pulled across right in front of me. I braked hard and, partly because my brakes had been adjusted that afternoon as part of free bike servicing initiative at work(!), went flying. At least I missed the child completely and my helmet did its job. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250076 Sun, 14 May 2017 15:03:01 +0000 SRD 250076@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Glad to hear you're okay. that sort of thing can be really scary, even when no motorised vehicles involved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250075 Sun, 14 May 2017 14:57:39 +0000 Tulyar 250075@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any causal factor lessons from crash? Path issues, vegetation, bike problem? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250011 Sat, 13 May 2017 10:51:59 +0000 gembo 250011@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cheers dedekay, get well soon </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17735#post-250010 Sat, 13 May 2017 10:50:04 +0000 dedekay 250010@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi, this is my first post. I'd like to thank the 4 kind cyclists who stopped to help me following an over-the-bars incident on the NEPN near Boswall Place on Monday 8th May. I was in a pretty bad way after landing on my head and one called an ambulance while the other 3 helped me to the edge of the path and then to the ambulance. Fortunately x-rays confirmed only soft tissue damage so I'll be back on the bike soon. Anyway their kindness and concern just confirms and reinforces what I've always thought about 'us' cyclists being a considerate bunch. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15485#post-202966 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:43:01 +0000 559 202966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Monday morning, not a police car, but council van entering(slowly)at the north entrance from Wester Coates Terrace, just as myself and another cyclist swung into this exit spur, not alot of room!, luckily both of us going slow enough to take avoiding action. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15485#post-199901 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 13:06:07 +0000 threefromleith 199901@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You do see them every now and again around there - it's a popular escape route for local n'er-do-wells and footpads, as well as motorbike joyriders.</p> <p>I do worry that the police are sometimes going a little too fast on the path when there are so many pedestrians and cyclists around. (A few years ago I had to swerve off onto the muddy verge to avoid a fast, oncoming panda car and nearly came a cropper) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15485#post-199849 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:30:59 +0000 ih 199849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>About today, don't know, but saw one about a week ago just East of the red bridge. Didn't have lights flashing though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15485#post-199848 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:21:05 +0000 TheBaldyBullet 199848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Panda car with blues and twos passed me between Drylaw Park and Craigleith Junction on NEPN around 3pm today...anyone see it/see where it went to? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12530#post-148054 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:31:08 +0000 Radgeworks 148054@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Guydingle, aye i ken, but when you get through there, you "get the vibe" that drivers etc are glad your not in the road, and are not hindering them or the works either, time of day dependent of course.</p> <p>Radgeworks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12530#post-148053 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:18:56 +0000 gembo 148053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is the camper van still around too? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12530#post-148052 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 10:00:54 +0000 guydingle 148052@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I will be cycling this route tonight so that i can comment on this thread in detail tomorrow with my findings... Sounds interesting. Non cyclists just do not understand cycling in the cones ! :/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12530#post-148051 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 09:58:39 +0000 paul.mag 148051@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I cycled in this way this morning and agree that cycling up the side of the roadworks with the cones on my right was ok, just got to watch out when you merge back with traffic. I was also impressed with the original road surface, not a mark in it and not a hole in sight. With that kind of base it makes you wonder what rubbish they are using to lay the roads. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12530#post-148037 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:03:14 +0000 Radgeworks 148037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dear All</p> <p>Over the weekend the west coates access to the NEPN, roseburn terrace/kew gardens junction are restricted by the 1 lane east and west roadworks on the A8. Please note that the workies have helpfully left the roadworks signs in the Eastbound cycle lane, also i found cycling inside the coned off area safer than mixing it with the laned traffic. There is plenty room to move safely and your nowhere near the roadworks.<br /> You can see they have stripped the tarmac back the original setts, interesting.<br /> Radgewroks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100522 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:28:56 +0000 DeathbyPompino 100522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope all the injuries heal soon enough - along with the hurt pride!</p> <p>So far that bike lane as cause three punctures, an ice induced paint scraper (serves me right for skinny tyres) and broken collar bone/scapula. All in the space of three months! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100257 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:31:54 +0000 LaidBack 100257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Best wishes for speedy recovery. Terrible thing to have happened on what I would say was a safe route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100205 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:05:27 +0000 MeepMeep 100205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeezo. Wishing Billy a swift recovery from his injuries.</p> <p>Well done those that stopped to help (or intended to but were not required). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100144 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:33:30 +0000 misterbee 100144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was sorry to see the aftermath of the accident this morning before the ambulance arrived - when I passed a number of fellow cyclists were already assisting. Billy was being helped to his feet (not in the First Response manual that one) and being held up and he looked seriously dazed, bloodied and battered and no doubt in shock. </p> <p>I hope he recovers from his injuries soon. Nasty fall.</p> <p>I think at times like this its good to reflect on some of the words from Captain Lance Murdock. "Bones heal. Chicks dig scars."</p> <p>Get well soon Billy.</p> <p>(I hope the bike turns up.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100135 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:46:12 +0000 DaveC 100135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to read about Billy's injury and loss of bike! I saw the tree cutters on Thursday and a few weeks earlier along the path nr the water of leith. I'm glad they are thining out the tree cover but its needed as some lights in the Craigleith area are obsqured by tree cover. I saw Harts van too. There was a guy cyclist stood next to the side door. At least the van was off the track.</p> <p>Don't wish to sound smug but my studded Schwabe snow tyres make short work of the muddy sections. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100133 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:24:09 +0000 remberbuck 100133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just before Coltbridge heading south I think, but Insto will know better. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100129 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:23:58 +0000 wingpig 100129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eeps. Nasty. Doubt there was any ice there this morning but there's plenty of mud been dragged onto the path by the tree-thinning squad and the giant van which was lurking by Sainsbury's access this evening. Whereabouts exactly was the incident? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100128 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:21:26 +0000 Diarmid 100128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I put in a call to FixMyStreet a couple of weeks ago requesting that last autumn's rotting leaf litter be swept up - just as you come onto the track from Roseburn. Nothing done last time I came down on Friday</p> <p>'Reported in the Street cleaning category anonymously at 07:14, Tuesday 29 January 2013</p> <p>The Roseburn to Blackhall cycle track is particularly muddy and slippy especially at the Roseburn end. This is due to unswept leaf debris rotting down to create a layer of mulch.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100126 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:51:01 +0000 ARobComp 100126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fair point Blueth, That's a bit of a nightmare situation. I almost had a (surprisingly large) bunny wabbit under my wheels this morning which could have been a bit of a nightmare - not sure what would have happened if I'd hit it.</p> <p>Also really hope his bike turns up and his face gets better fast. Horrible injury. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100125 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:47:10 +0000 Blueth 100125@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't mean to be funny, and I'm glad to hear that he is fit enough to get out, but I once had a near incident on the path due to a squirrel running out and missing my wheel by a hairsbreadth. Could be something equally impossible to assess on viewing the scene that was the cause here.</p> <p>Then there was the time a police car pulled on to the path from behind a hedge without the driver looking properly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100124 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:29:59 +0000 Min 100124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeez, poor guy. Glad he is getting out tonight though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100121 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:15:37 +0000 remberbuck 100121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Billy lost his two front teeth, smashed his nose, and took general facial damage. He got the full works at the Western, and probably will be allowed home tonight. It sounds very much that he went over his handlebars - tree debris in the spokes could be the cause, but was there any lingering ice around that might have caused the fall? He can't remember anything. </p> <p>And to round off a bad day, someone offered to take his bike to the hospital ... who can't find it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100004 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:09:22 +0000 Instography 100004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looked like a serious incident on the path at about 7.35-7.45. Rider with nasty looking head injury lying in recovery position to the side. Bikes stopped on either side taking care. No obvious reason - no other mangled bikes or injured riders. Guessing perhaps tree debris in spokes but only because I've been avoiding twigs and branches left over from tree thinning recently. Hope the guy's OK. </p>