http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Ooh, that scared me last night... en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:18:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15895 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:04:49 +0000 SRD 15895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>SRD Cateye Opticube on Sunday corrosion - yes.. you'd think making a waterproof light might be a good idea. Wasn't battery corrosion?</em></p> <p>Well, it looks like battery corrosion, except the batteries looked okay...the corrosion is just everywhere, not on the terminals...it is supposed to be waterproof, but the catch is definitely dodgy -- was nearly impossible to open, but this time the top just popped off. </p> <p>Anyway, the review chdot posted makes the new model sound really good, so will probably go for that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15892 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:34:00 +0000 LaidBack 15892@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Some other drivers seem just too keen to try out our crumple zones...</p> <p>Fixed that for you, LB. :-/</em></p> <p>Thanks Arellcat... I missed that one....</p> <p><strong>Liz</strong>... <em>They are very courteous and mostly polite...and some of the antics of other motorists must just amaze and astound them,</em></p> <p>You're right.... I have to deal with the odd delivery for LB at Argyle Place and they always give sensible journey estimates - unlike some drivers who believe everything is 5 mins away by car.</p> <p><strong>SRD</strong> <em>Cateye Opticube on Sunday corrosion</em> - yes.. you'd think making a waterproof light might be a good idea. Wasn't battery corrosion? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15888 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:31:05 +0000 Claggy Cog 15888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In my experience and also knowing a couple of HGV drivers, they drive every day, unlike many, and know that they are the largest thing on the road and can cause mayhem. They can also manoeuvre those huge trailers just using their mirrors - which just amazes me. They do not want to be responsible for squishing any other road users. They are very courteous and mostly polite...and some of the antics of other motorists must just amaze and astound them, it does me... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15881 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:20:47 +0000 SRD 15881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>NOT the day for me to decide to resume cycling to work....had put new batteries in my Cateye Opticube on Sunday, and it was lovely and bright, but there'd obviously been some corrosion over the summer, and it totally failed to work today...NOT the night for that either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15880 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:10:11 +0000 Min 15880@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>See you all in Kansas.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15879 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:02:46 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 15879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've got another half hour (5.30 finish y'see) in which time I'm hoping the rain stops. </p> <p>The occasional bit of delusion is good for the soul... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15878 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:46:36 +0000 ruggtomcat 15878@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For everyone about to leave for home tonight, i salute you. I am very happy to have enforced rest. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15869 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:10:50 +0000 kaputnik 15869@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>in the cold </em></p> <p>I was overheating last night, without waterproofs too!</p> <p>As for wet and dark, I can tick those boxes... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15868 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:47:43 +0000 Arellcat 15868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Some other drivers seem just too keen to try out our crumple zones...</em></p> <p>Fixed that for you, LB. :-/</p> <p><em>hunners of spray</em></p> <p>That really sums up today's weather, too. Only another two or three hours and I can enjoy my cycle home in the cold and dark and wind and wet! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15863 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:41:25 +0000 LaidBack 15863@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>splitshift</strong> <em>I pull right over to right hand lane, with indicator illuminated slows down to 27 mph so as not to blow them over and still cars behind me just stay in the bus lane</em></p> <p>Big thanks on behalf of those cyclists out on the Greenway. Foresight and courtasy doesn't cost anything and means we all get along better...</p> <p>Some other drivers seem just too keen to try out their crumple zones... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15862 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:38:19 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 15862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Splitty, it's great to know, however, there are lory drivers looking out for us (actually, 99.9% of truck drivers I come across are soooooooo much better than many others on the road). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15859 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:15:23 +0000 splitshift 15859@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was in the city about 6 oclock last night, queensferry road to granton and on to leith,in the lorry. Saw some peeps on bikes with amazing lights. Pouring with rain, hunners of spray from wind,zillions of spray from ma 18 wheeler and I could still see the cyclists lights better than some cars ! Later up to Sighthill and another well lit cyclist in bus/cycle lane thing, I pul;l right over to right hand lane, with indicator illuminated slows down to 27 mph so as not to blow them over and still cars behind me just stay in the bus lane ( it was well after 6 30 ) and expect the cyclist to get out of their way ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15852 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:50:42 +0000 Rabid Hamster 15852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Scarey weather last night!<br /> Headed along by Buccleuch St and Causewayside last night and can usually pick up a fair speed going down past the Map Library to Mayfield; however a blustering southerly put paid to that; luckily I'm fairly invisible in the dark and persisting rain so wind drag was reduced considerably.<br /> However this morning was a very different story as was getting a handy shove from behind by a sou'westerly along St Leonards when a 'scabby little white van man' pulls out of side street (New Oakfield Pl) onto Pleasance right in front of me; didn't even look, so he got a real fright when I hammered on his upper sill as I took offside avoiding action and passed him at speed with a serious sideways glance! Just because I'm invisible, I even had my front light on, and he missed seeing that too! Must get a headcam! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15842 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:51:17 +0000 steveo 15842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd say it was probably a westerly. It normally is when i'm trying to fight my way home.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15833 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:26:17 +0000 Stepdoh 15833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>her her, the wind split arthurs seat :). he'll have to get the needle and thread out.</p> <p>But no, definitely didn't feel any noticable drag and felt assisted. it may have just been a side wind that I didn't notice. Guess a westerly (or easterly) fits with Min being blown sideways on North Bridge </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15823 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:57:17 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 15823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stedoh, that's another example of the wind doing weird things. I guess it was more southerly than anything, but going West End - Meadows - South Arthur's Seat - Duddingston I had a headwind most of the way, and most certainly almost got blown off going round the back of Arthur's Seat as the wind hit them split. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15822 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:44:36 +0000 chdot 15822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"chic cyclist'</p> <p>Maybe it's a fair weather thing... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15820 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:42:43 +0000 Stepdoh 15820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a weirdly enjoyable ride last night, but I was fully kitted with new <a href="http://www.highonbikes.com/chiba-classic-windproof-winter-cycling-gloves.html">gloves</a> and <a href="http://www.feryn.com/prorace/clothes/overshoes/neopreneovershoes/index.html">overshoes</a> and new batteries in my lights so all my extremities were pretty toasty and dry-ish and I felt seen.</p> <p>I'm also lucky I can go the relatively traffic lite route of Ingliston&gt;Maybury&gt;Cramond&gt;Granton&gt;Leith and I had a tail wind.</p> <p>Admittedly I wasn't looking the most chic cyclist on the road :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15804 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:49:42 +0000 Min 15804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a huge gust of wind blasting me sideways across North Bridge at one point which was a bit disconcerting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15802 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:46:35 +0000 steveo 15802@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I didn't think to check the weather in the morning so come home time i had nothing even resembling water proof... Soaked to the skin by Morrison Street, trench foot by Murrayfield. Spent the entire ride on the drops trying to get home as quickly as possible and trying to keep out the wind. Irony is i just got wetter by going faster since i've still not got round to putting the mudguards on yet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15799 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:42:21 +0000 wingpig 15799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will that be the same incautious unisprocket kaputnik spotted cheating down George IV and Forrest Road?</p> <p>I'm quite glad to have had some recent practice in various combinations of wet/dry, windy/still and busy/quiet through the tramline/cobbles/bus-logjam pinch-point heading east along Princes Street prior to yesterday's trundle home, when all accompanying cycles were illuminated and cautious in contrast to the somewhat desperate-feeling motor traffic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15797 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:37:06 +0000 SRD 15797@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Could we print up your last two paras on a big poster and wave them about on MMW? </p> <p>Doubtless the oblivious one would just ride on by.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1628#post-15794 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:19:04 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 15794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll openly admit that if the first night after the clocks have gone back is also very very wet, and there happens to be a wind whipping about all over the place around the back of Arthur's Seat that has you worried for your basic state of uprightedness, well... It was more than a little concerning.</p> <p>I prefer to have a few days getting back used to the darkness on the commute before the weather gets in on the act - last night it had completely different ideas.</p> <p>Also, to the moron on the fixed without any lights, dressed in black, cycling through the Meadows (at what can only be described as a 'leisurely' pace), if you're going to ride without lights while dressed as a ninja do NOT go jumping red lights. Three times I saw you, twice at junctions with cars coming from either side on that sequence. Twice I shouted at you to get lights on AND to stop jumping the reds (it would have been a third but I hadn't caught again by that one and you turned left while I went straight on) and twice you either ignored me, or were plugged into a world completely distinct from this one.</p> <p>Every other cyclist I saw was lit up, but the irony is that the one who isn't is the one all the drivers will see, then say they couldn't see, and use it as a reason for hitting me. </p>