http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Red moss boardwalk en Mon, 18 May 2026 13:54:31 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150420 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:25:32 +0000 chdot 150420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22north+shore%22">Take your pick</a>! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150418 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 19:22:36 +0000 Charterhall 150418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Anyway if you're riding it on an mtb I understand you would call it North Shore rather than boardwalk. Don't think that fits very well into any songs that I know of. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150403 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:26:52 +0000 gembo 150403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Up until the rain this week you could have gone under the redmoss boardwalk but now it will be muddy again. Obviously you would have to crawl.</p> <p>Carol king wrote another The Drifters song - up on the roof. I maybe prefer her version, it is joyful </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150255 Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:36:46 +0000 chdot 150255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqrlR7hkDU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTqrlR7hkDU</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150092 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:47:27 +0000 gembo 150092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the new board on the north side make this more doable. I fear that the guy my workmate encountered felt he had as much right to be on a boardwalk as a family walking. Now we can agree to differ but the thing is not called a board cycle and there is a clear sign requesting that bikes be left before the boardwalk. I can see no advantage in cycling it, you would be better able to spot wildlife on foot. </p> <p>Good to know that there is boardwalk at Glentress so this might cause spill over to any bit of boardwalk?</p> <p>Maybe more bike parking could be provided to encourage. </p> <p>Maybe little slippers could be left to encourage those that are cleated to take their shoes off.</p> <p>Maybe they keep having to replace the wood as it is being pummelled by bikes (I don't believe this, the wood rots as it is on a bog).</p> <p>Just because something is possible doesn't mean it is a good idea. In case I am sounding Po-faced I admit I will sometimes disregard the cyclists dismount sign on the aqueduct.</p> <p>Pointless bit of fun that must stop now (again I am joking)</p> <p>The original board cyclist appears to have reacted, not aggressively, but as if the walker was hassling the cyclist. I think he said something like c'mon man I get this hassle all the time or something like that.</p> <p>Good for us all to see things from other people's perspectives and then see if the things we do should continue being the things we do.</p> <p>Plenty of roads and tracks in pentlands, numerous little circuits popping up around Edinburgh for budding Danny macaskills etc. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150086 Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:14:03 +0000 Charterhall 150086@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I often cycle around it, for the same reason that people walk around it, to look for wildlife and to enjoy the gorgeous views. With it being a board walk you can cycle it without causing any damage. So long as you ride no faster than walking pace and are happy to give way to other users there's no problem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150073 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:42:39 +0000 barnton-to-town 150073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Someone's pointless cycling will always be someone else's bit of fun.</p> <p>Red Moss would be a matter of minutes on bike ... but places like glentress have a fair bit of boardwalk cycling now ... as it's a feature.</p> <p>That'll be why the occasional mtb'er in the Pentlands will see the Red Moss boardwalk as a bit of fun. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-150046 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:53:42 +0000 gembo 150046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>AKen good point re pointlessness and indeed good link to enforcement, or impossibility thereof</p> <p>I bought the first copies of 2001 AD in 1977 or whenever they appeared. Each copy had added freebies such as spy ID card etc, which I used. If only I had not used them and kept the comics they would be worth pounds.</p> <p>Gembo Strontium Dog </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149923 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:21:16 +0000 AKen 149923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You could very easily cycle round this - but what would be the point? It only takes 10 minutes to walk the full circuit and, as it's a boggy moss, there's nowhere you could cycle from it unless you've got really, really fat tyres - like this:</p> <p><a href="http://starwarsrpg.pettycomp.net/Images/lawmaster.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://starwarsrpg.pettycomp.net/Images/lawmaster.jpg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149915 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:43:55 +0000 gembo 149915@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe they need a bigger sign. World moss day in September sometimes gets celebrated. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149912 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 22:13:45 +0000 riffian 149912@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was there with family sans velo on Saturday. We also encountered an adult and child cycling round. Shouldn't really do it as it's pretty narrow and obviously been upgraded to be accessible for people using wheelchairs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149882 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:50:43 +0000 gembo 149882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was three planks wide before renovation but now two people wide all the way round. Wood covered in chicken wire. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149880 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:42:32 +0000 chdot 149880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Not for cycling on"</p> <p>Legally speaking that's almost certainly not true. </p> <p>But probably reasonable to leave it for amblers. </p> <p>I assume it's not particularly wide. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12640#post-149877 Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:51:51 +0000 gembo 149877@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My mild mannered but fairly stocky workmate wishes me to register a complaint.</p> <p>He was up at thriepmuir reservoir last night with wife and small child. They were walking round the red moss boardwalk which has been recently renovated. </p> <p>They met a cyclist on the boardwalk - prior to renovation the north side of the walk would have been tricky as planks run east west. Now looks like you can cycle a bike round.</p> <p>There is a sign at the entrance that says Leave bike here. My workmate who is reasonable said but there is nowhere to lock it. I said what about on the sign?</p> <p>Further it is a board walk - boards suspended, usually over seaside or sphagnum moss for walking on. </p> <p>Not for cycling on </p>