http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: ticks picks tricks - Recent Topics en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:16:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13183#post-160350 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:54:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 160350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think it must have been when I was crashing through the foliage of Greenroofer's railway snicket from Myreside Road to Colinton Road down the side of Watsonian's cricket ground that I picked up a tick on the back of my thigh.</p> <p>Now my doctor gave me a formal instruction to take ticks seriously after learning that I got them regularly whilst running. Shorts and short sleeved tops are <em>verboten</em> to avoid tick-borne encephalitis or even Lyme disease. Any ticks got are to be removed by no means other than a tick-pick;</p> <p><a href="http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick" rel="nofollow">http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick</a></p> <p>Now I don't keep a tick pick in the office, and in fact I left mine at my mate's in Northumberland at the weekend. So I'm oddly proud of the improvised pick I just made from a sheet of Diet Coke can. Quick trip to the disabled toilets and the unwelcome arachnid has been consigned to the sink intact and alive.</p> <p>I think I'll add the improvised instrument to my toolkit. </p>