http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cool Veloviewer annual summary en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:03:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-363639 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:07:51 +0000 Frenchy 363639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some low hanging fruit to be had filling in gaps from previous rides to Stirling/Doune areas. Looking forward to getting up into the East Neuk too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-363638 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:29:34 +0000 paddyirish 363638@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well done Frenchy- I remember the RSPB car park and Devilla well! Once and done for some of those tiles... </p> <p>Will give you a chance to up the cluster North and West - the Stirling end of the Forth is very doable.</p> <p>I've been chipping away in all sorts of areas. My Max square is one awkward tile away from being able to Cross the Tay and the Ochils are yielding some of their secrets in the NW corner- mainly forestry roads and farm tracks. </p> <p>I'm also 2 rides away from covering Mainland Fife - after that, a few coastal tiles can only be accessed from the water and a few islands are needed as well for full completion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-363637 Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:19:28 +0000 Frenchy 363637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21127#post-363613">@acsimpson surmised</a>, I joined my Lothian cluster to my Fife cluster today, with a cycle around the inner Forth. West along some roads I'd not been on before between Linlithgow and Falkirk, a brief detour to the RSPB Skinflats car park, over the Kincardine Bridge then back to the Forth Road Bridge via Devilla Forest and Crossford. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-360786 Wed, 25 May 2022 13:06:42 +0000 acsimpson 360786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, sorry to say I had forgotten that particular post.</p> <p>The plane wreck sounds interesting too:<a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17974#post-256215">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17974#post-256215</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-360780 Wed, 25 May 2022 11:45:42 +0000 gembo 360780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ac and@frenchy</p> <p>i dont expect you to hang on my every word but i have posted a bout cycling that road from the farm by first taking train to stow.</p> <p>there is a hurdle at the east end you need to brake for otherwise all fab and a wee tower half way? and of course karine polwart out walking her wolfhound </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-360776 Wed, 25 May 2022 10:52:11 +0000 acsimpson 360776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy, That's a useful road. It certainly looks easily passable on a gravel bike, although I'm sure it gets muddy at times. It looks quite similar to most of the southern end of the road south from Mount Lothian. I did ride that one on my road bike, although it wasn't much faster than walking would have been.</p> <p>I've come across a few odd stretches where Streetview works unexpectedly. I think they tend to turn down any tarmac road which isn't obviously a private access. When the tarmac stops they only turn if there's an easy way to do so, otherwise they keep going as far as they can. In this instance they seem to have come to a gate and given up there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-360694 Sat, 21 May 2022 21:50:00 +0000 amir 360694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps one of those humans fitted with a Google 360 camera </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-360693 Sat, 21 May 2022 16:15:40 +0000 Frenchy 360693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycled to Fala, then walked along the Moor Road to Nettlingflat and back this afternoon. This filled in a fairly big hole in my cluster quite nicely.</p> <p>The Moor Road is actually cycleable, although I wouldn't take a road bike on it. Somewhat unexpectedly, it is on <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8121681,-2.9225736,3a,75y,198.04h,83.89t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQpL1wWgWgl7VnaA36Fm0nA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DQpL1wWgWgl7VnaA36Fm0nA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D288.97058%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656">Streetview</a>, which gives a reasonable idea of the surface. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=4#post-359348 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 19:55:25 +0000 Frenchy 359348@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Do you think you could have got a bike up the path behind Heriot? </em></p> <p>Not the way I went - steep, fences, burns and clambering through fairly dense wooded areas.</p> <p>There might be more sensible routes, though - I was relying on brute force and ignorance.</p> <p>EDIT: Fairly sure you could cycle it using these:</p> <p><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859963#map=16/55.7630/-2.9499&amp;layers=G" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859963#map=16/55.7630/-2.9499&amp;layers=G</a><br /> <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859892#map=15/55.7546/-2.9688&amp;layers=G" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/373859892#map=15/55.7546/-2.9688&amp;layers=G</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-359346 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 19:25:10 +0000 acsimpson 359346@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice one. It's starting to look tricky to go south from there. A few tracks on the map but not a well covered area.</p> <p>Do you think you could have got a bike up the path behind Heriot? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-359345 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 19:02:25 +0000 Frenchy 359345@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycled to Heriot and then walked over the hill to the south, and did a short loop through the sheep parks. That took my square to 17. 18 looks fairly straightforward to achieve from there - a few more days cycle/walking in the Pentlands and Moorfoots. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357790 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:28:24 +0000 paddyirish 357790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes for sure. With my paddleboard, I have sorted Loch Leven and am working on the Forth and the Tay. Will take some time... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357789 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 20:04:44 +0000 acsimpson 357789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It would make a large square a bit easier for us though if you could cycle over the Forth (and Loch Leven) in the winter though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357788 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:50:59 +0000 paddyirish 357788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I thought that was awesome. So much common sense in his thoughts. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357787 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:24:06 +0000 acsimpson 357787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was reading the interview yesterday and while his tiling is impressive I was more disappointed that we don't have an equivalent for his job.<br /> <blockquote>I'm an urban well-being engineer focused on even further improving the everyday cycling and walking conditions here in Oulu, Finland.</blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357786 Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:21:22 +0000 paddyirish 357786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great work acsimpson and both you and Greenroofer have some exciting projects for 2022.</p> <p>I'll get my stats and picture together soon- a pretty pathetic year on the bike, but have accessed a number of blocking tiles by the water. Need to think of some goals for 2022.</p> <p>Finally, if we think we are hardcore tiling, take a look at <a href="https://www.strava.com/clubs/279168/posts/19352722">this guy</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357773 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:58:36 +0000 bill 357773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer "from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet Head"</p> <p>Sounds lovely! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357771 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 17:04:34 +0000 acsimpson 357771@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a useful thing to say. And I definitely need to ramp up the mileage this year so within range. However having visited both last year I'm not sure I would get lucky enough with the weather again this year. I also think I will be prioritising range over altitude this year.<br /> That's not to say I'll be shying away from hills, I just won't be actively hunting them as much as I otherwise might. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357770 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:55:45 +0000 Greenroofer 357770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson - a route that starts and finishes in Edinburgh and takes in Green Lowther and Great Dun Fell is ~450km with ~4,800m of climbing (it goes out via the A70 and returns on the A701. Looks a nice route, although a bit long. Just saying.</p> <p>Alternatively, if you're after just Great Dun Fell in a 'day' ride, then going down via Gala and Hawick and back via Carlisle and the A701 is just 415km, although there's an extra 500m of climbing that way. Just saying that too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357763 Tue, 04 Jan 2022 01:15:38 +0000 acsimpson 357763@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer, that sounds like the sort of adventure your "friend" enjoys. If you also did LEL you wouldn't be far off a Randonneur 5,000.</p> <p>I rounded off 2021 with an unplanned visit to Balado. By which I mean it hasn't occurred to me that I would be passing another radar dome. I wonder what it would take to link Lowther, GDF and Balado. At least the latter isn't at the top of a hill. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357761 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:13:42 +0000 Greenroofer 357761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice work @acsimpson. My highlights of the year were an ascent of Great Dun Fell en route back from a holiday in the Yorkshire Dales and doing a 240 mile RttS via Berwick upon Tweed (although on the weekend of the solstice rather than the 'official' event the following weekend).</p> <p>LEL is a great goal to have. I too have been ruminating on the guaranteed entry email, but I have a mind that 2022 might involve a ride from Mull of Galloway to Dunnet Head and then to Inverness. This makes a round 1,000km and it seems quite practical to use the train to get to/from each end. That might lead to an SR 2500, which seems an interesting goal for the year... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-357760 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 22:10:28 +0000 acsimpson 357760@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I added several longest rides last year including RttS out and back and the Fred Whitton Route. I've managed to record some activity on all but 4 days and ridden a 200km route each month since September.</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/1litDPL.png"></p> <p>My one target this year is LEL. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329737 Mon, 11 May 2020 19:00:51 +0000 Frenchy 329737@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good effort. Straightforward enough to extend eastwards from that, but those squares at Auchencorth Moss and to the east of Gladhouse reservoir are trickier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329722 Mon, 11 May 2020 16:47:37 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 329722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Does that mean you have the sea square just north of Musselburgh?"</p> <p>That sea square is easy to get from Fisherrow at low tide, it also becomes clear how the town got its name. The sea square northeast of Portobello beach eluded me the same day by a matter of metres, will have to consult tide tables for the lowest tide and return</p> <p>"You've certainly been off piste in the Pentlands from what I can see."</p> <p>There are very few squares, if any, without rideable tracks in the northern Pentlands. Looks a bit harder towards the Carnwath end... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329720 Mon, 11 May 2020 16:00:38 +0000 acsimpson 329720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does that mean you have the sea square just north of Musselburgh? You've certainly been off piste in the Pentlands from what I can see. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329719 Mon, 11 May 2020 15:27:46 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 329719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Certainly - top left is the freight terminal at Edinburgh airport </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329718 Mon, 11 May 2020 15:03:07 +0000 acsimpson 329718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well done Murun, care to share an image or let us know what the top left corner is?</p> <p>I'm not far off 13 but currently stuck on 7 overlapping 11x11 squares. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-329711 Mon, 11 May 2020 13:07:03 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 329711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Got up to 14x14 on Saturday. Getting harder now </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-320067 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 19:36:11 +0000 Arellcat 320067@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stiltskin, I use Flickr for sharing photos, and imgur for ad hoc things. Both websites give, for any image you want to share, and for any common size of thumbnail image you want to use, a handy preformatted chunk of 'BBcode' for pasting into your post on a forum like CCE.</p> <p>I was trying to use Strava religiously this year, to get an idea of my total mileage in order to sense check with my malfunctioning Cateye Micro. But after July I stopped bothering with Strava (and my GPS) because no-one cared. All I know is that I cycled 3064 miles in 2019, of which two-thirds were in the torpedo. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15863&page=3#post-320063 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:37:33 +0000 stiltskin 320063@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm useless at posting images!! </p>