http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Edinburgh Circular Ride 7th September 2014 en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:10:36 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162775 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:02:16 +0000 chdot 162775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Touché! You have me there."</p> <p>Perhaps not. Your proposal was -</p> <p>"Some sort of city circular"</p> <p>Circling the city doesn't have to be within it at all!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162772 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:38:21 +0000 kaputnik 162772@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>At least my suggestion was inside the city as proposed ;) </em></p> <p>Touché! You have me there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162727 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:14:33 +0000 gembo 162727@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Flotterstone to Bavelaw has 1.5 miles off road where you can push or take it easy. WoL path a little muddy at mo. Innocent then Bingham Musselburgh white Craig Dalkeith fine. The Roslin path stretch used to be very muddy. If stay on the path to Penicuick there is a very good sweet shop to get you over the hill back to flotterstone again in a </p> <p>Away alone a last a loved along the</p> <p>Riverrun by swerve of shore and bend of bay brings us by a commodious vicious of recirculation back to hoŵth castle and environs</p> <p>Wrong city </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162716 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:47:36 +0000 LaidBack 162716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did this one for EDFOC earlier this year and we were in basement bar at Argyle Arms by 9pm.</p> <p><a href="http://www.edfoc.org.uk/events/event/an-evening-at-the-proms/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edfoc.org.uk/events/event/an-evening-at-the-proms/</a></p> <p>Maybe not ambitious enough but a good evening circuit with range of obstacles and surfaces. </p> <p>Got a few people out including DaveC from here.... was about 20+ miles which is nothing for Audaxers but enough for newbies.</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/14263031377/"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3876/14263031377_27477ab07d_z.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/14263031377/">An Evening at the Proms</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/66067108@N08/">LaidBackBikes</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162710 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:05:06 +0000 crowriver 162710@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One circular route (anti clockwise) is:</p> <p>Portobello - Leith - Granton - Cramond - South Queensferry - Kirkliston - Ratho - Balerno - Colinton - Gilmerton - Musselburgh - Portobello</p> <p>Okay, strays outside Edinburgh proper on the eastern leg, but the alternative, Newcraighall-Portobello is a bit dull.</p> <p>Could be done clockwise, but the relentless RR route in the south of the city might be a bit wearing for the first half of the journey. Better to have sea views and a bit of nice A90 path to lift the spirits on the outward leg? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162708 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:36:58 +0000 amir 162708@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Some sort of city circular?"</p> <p>"@Amir with regards to the RR route and my suggestion for a place "more pleasant to cycle" - now you're just being silly! ;)"</p> <p>At least my suggestion was inside the city as proposed ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162706 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:53:22 +0000 wingpig 162706@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've never yet successfully followed the RR route (using only on-street signage) clockwise, always running out of signposts around Oxgangs/Colinton/Baberton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162702 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:50:16 +0000 chdot 162702@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Part 1</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/42118989" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/42118989</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162701 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:44:40 +0000 kaputnik 162701@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Perhaps railway path to Penicuik, Flotterstone to Bonaly?</em></p> <p>Nice suggestion. "Official" tour of the Lasswade Road railway access.</p> <p>I've always fancied, and never done in its entirety, Flotterstone to Bavelaw. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162699 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:38:40 +0000 cb 162699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>256km route (spiral not circle though):</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6154&amp;page=2#post-66137">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6154&amp;page=2#post-66137</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162696 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:32:56 +0000 chdot 162696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"somewhere far more pleasant to cycle than those streets named above!"</p> <p>Suspected you might!</p> <p>New 'infrastructure' to Roslin?</p> <p>Incorporating</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/14740838670/"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5556/14740838670_5379b8b923.jpg"></a></p> <p>Perhaps railway path to Penicuik, Flotterstone to Bonaly? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162695 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:32:12 +0000 kaputnik 162695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Amir with regards to the RR route and my suggestion for a place "more pleasant to cycle" - now you're just being silly! ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162693 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:26:45 +0000 amir 162693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Follow the RR signs? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162692 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:25:01 +0000 kaputnik 162692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was thinking a little bit further out from the centre, i.e. somewhere far more pleasant to cycle than those streets named above! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162691 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:13:43 +0000 chdot 162691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Some sort of city circular?"</p> <p>Haymarket-Queen St-Picardy Pl - Princes St? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162689 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:10:28 +0000 kaputnik 162689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"We" (the Royal, C-C-We, that is)should get a ride in before the weather turns and the nights draw in. Some sort of city circular? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13316#post-162686 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:05:20 +0000 chdot 162686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.pedalforscotland.org/Edinburgh-Circular-Ride.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.pedalforscotland.org/Edinburgh-Circular-Ride.aspx</a> </p>