http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: Ouch - Recent Topics en Tue, 19 May 2026 08:38:48 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16645#post-225483 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:57:16 +0000 Morningsider 225483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Me - just cuts, bruises and some minor road rash though.</p> <p>Cycling on the new route between the Meadows and Innocent. Crossing Clerk Street towards St Leonards when one of the Easylet vans that mooch around there pulls a quick u-turn at the very top of Rankellior Street (no signal). I pull on the brakes to avoid running into it and the bike slides out from under me on the greasy paving slabs of the new infrastructure - cue superman along the ground.</p> <p>Van drives off.</p> <p>Thanks to the nice pedestrian that stopped and helped me up. </p> <p>Would be nice if the council used higher friction surfaces than these paving slabs in new infrastructure - they seem pretty lethal when they are wet. </p>