http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Cyclists to get trained for trams after track troubles" en Sun, 17 May 2026 19:03:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-812 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:15:51 +0000 chdot 812@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New Princes Street thread here -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=141" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=141</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-808 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:31:18 +0000 SRD 808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm in a pink sustrans reflective vest (or whatever you call it - waistcoat??). not much variation in my route, sadly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-801 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:09:19 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 801@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Melville Drive would be a normal route for me, but I'm shaking things up a bit after getting bored with the same sights every day. I only mention cos I'm another in shorts (well, 3/4s) year-round. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-797 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:50:14 +0000 chdot 797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Professional ordinary cyclist then! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-796 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:43:32 +0000 Kim 796@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re: Ordinary Cyclists. I am an ordinary cyclist, well most of the time, it is just that I was being paid to be there on Sunday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-795 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:27:12 +0000 chdot 795@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"that was not me, I am not crazy, loony maybe but crazy no</p> <p>Well at least you're not alone.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-793 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:17:17 +0000 spytfyre 793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>that was not me, I am not crazy, loony maybe but crazy no </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-792 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:09:13 +0000 SRD 792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did I follow you onto Melville Drive this am? Or are there two crazy people out there? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-791 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:35 +0000 spytfyre 791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>hey - I consider myself an ordinary cyclist<br /> except for shorts in December... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-789 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:34:53 +0000 donnymurdo 789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Re: Ordinary Cyclists. It was a bit of a turn out for the usual suspects. The nearest they got was one chap who happened to be a member of Edinburgh Road Club he was quite eloquent too so a Ian Maxwell pounced on him and got him to do an interview for Tram Television so it might appear the following page soon. </p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghtrams.com/index.php/media/by_type/video/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghtrams.com/index.php/media/by_type/video/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-786 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:03:59 +0000 LaidBack 786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>On a tandem with a big bag of shopping over the rear handlebars? (Safe on a tandem y'know?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-781 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:44:47 +0000 chdot 781@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Did you have to take it while I was blowing my nose?!"</p> <p>Kim too??</p> <p>Any 'ordinary' cyclists turn up yesterday?</p> <p>Anyone know anything about the person who 'flew' along the tram tracks close to the Spokes contingent at Castle Street about 2.30? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-780 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:40:28 +0000 chdot 780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Call google"</p> <p>Yeah it missed Princes Street and High Street when doing Street View.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_malcolm/2867052692"></p> <p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/2867052692_d21c00dc2f.jpg"></p> <p>Photo Chris Malcolm<br /> </a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115&page=2#post-779 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:34:07 +0000 Kim 779@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did you have to take it while I was blowing my nose?!</p> <p>See previous page. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-777 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:30:52 +0000 spytfyre 777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Call google, we don't need no camera cars... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-770 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:16:46 +0000 chdot 770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"could almost make it 3D..."</p> <p>Panorama even</p> <p><a href="]http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/4184211051"><br /> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4184211051_7c3c14dcef.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-764 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:46:19 +0000 spytfyre 764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ARGH! my legs!<br /> Added to Flickr<br /> Amusing though both these photos taken at the same time - we could almost make it 3D... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-746 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:56:13 +0000 donnymurdo 746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another picture of "the bike rack." taken same day same time as one above. </p> <p>Is that spytfyre?</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36657300@N00/4182467025/"><br /> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2582/4182467025_f071c9c2b1.jpg"><br /> </a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-745 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:07:18 +0000 Kim 745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So are you going to add it to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cyclingedinburgh/">Cycling in Edinburgh pool</a> on Flickr? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-744 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:29:00 +0000 chdot 744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4181513478_3707a54eed.jpg"></p> <p>AHA</p> <p>It's down to the coding</p> <p>Needs to be [img] not &lt;img src etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-743 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:23:58 +0000 chdot 743@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Sorry this site seems to autocrop"</p> <p>Hmmm, set up to auto<em>resize</em></p> <p>can't explain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-742 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:12:03 +0000 Kim 742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-738 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:22:38 +0000 spytfyre 738@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kim: Sorry this site seems to autocrop and when I tried to go to a new firefox tab and grab the image url and came back the whole thing had scrolled the centre blog column to the left so I couldn't see the Send Post button<br /> Go here:<br /> <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4181513478_3707a54eed.jpg">http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4181513478_3707a54eed.jpg</a></p> <p>It was useful - it helped me decide to avoid in dark and wet conditions when there is more traffic and trams finally running </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-736 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:34:18 +0000 DaveC 736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I see Santa got on on the training - I'm guessing his sleigh was parked behind Kim's bike then? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-734 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:43:39 +0000 Kim 734@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only half my front wheel made it in to the picture! So did people find the tram track training useful? Remember always try to cross the tracks at an angle of 45 deg or greater. Do not be tempted to try and drift across the tracks a shallow angle, you might get away with it in the dry, but if they are wet you will go down. Should do so, try to make sure there is not an Evening News journalist standing on the pavement next to you...</p> <p>;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-730 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:49:59 +0000 spytfyre 730@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4181513478_3707a54eed.jpg" /></p> <p>Edinburgh's newest and biggest bike park - Airport to Leith </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-727 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:06:04 +0000 chdot 727@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's tomorrow (Sun) 11-2</p> <p>'meet at Castle Street'</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_malcolm/4175044005/in/pool-cyclingedinburgh">Though I think it will be a whole block further west for the coned off bit.</p> <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2769/4175044005_0659264574.jpg"><br /> </a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_malcolm/4175044005/in/pool-cyclingedinburgh">Photo Chris Malcolm</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-615 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:24:33 +0000 spytfyre 615@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good LORD I am not getting into that EN comments stramash, I've not even read halfway down and I have lost the will to live not to mention run out of lunch break...</p> <p>SRB - re the Preston St school - I used to work there and yes it is a nightmare. As I also drive from time to time and know that junction even in the quiet times I can honestly say my eyes are often looking front and not in wing mirrors all the time (or I would crash) which is probably why I was knocked off my new bike in June coming down Dundas St and passed a double parked delivery lorry only to get body slammed by a driver who had seen me in the split second he had the chance.<br /> Point I am making is I learned great though it may be to have the advantage of speed and size through gaps no driver is ever aware of 306° perception</p> <p>On another note - how many of the people on here will be down at Castle Street for this "training"? I am curious and will probably pop along (mostly because I want to speak to the bike station folks abour donating a pile of old bike bits left behind by the local Napier building (bless em)</p> <p>I just read some more - Anth you really volunteered to meet people at the Commie? How did that go?</p> <p>*reads more*<br /> *gapes*</p> <p>Can't we all learn to just "get along?" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-604 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:50:43 +0000 DaveC 604@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Link to the article here:</p> <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8403502.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8403502.stm</a></p> <p>Dave C </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=115#post-530 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:20:30 +0000 chdot 530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've bunged part of the BBC report on Flickr.</p> <p>I assume someone has a better version.</p> <p>(Flickr only allows 1 1/2 mins whole thing 2 mins - rest interview with TIE saying they will repair road at w/e)</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/4169165837">LINK</a> </p>