http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PY Nov 16 en Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:25:53 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-243373 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:50:32 +0000 gembo 243373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Obviously it ain't November but it is PY to Friday. Oh yes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-237468 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:25:54 +0000 SRD 237468@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope the knee heals Dave and Santa brings you some new biblongs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-237465 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:11:22 +0000 gembo 237465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Speedy recovery Dave, sorry to hear this, maybe diesel on road? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-237452 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:29:48 +0000 LaidBack 237452@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Dave - sorry to hear of wheel slip - always worrying when it isn't turning or braking induced. </p> <p>Sample of this morning's guilty suspects put through Samsung's steamed up filter. Looks cold outside. Some people at the back of the class larking about...</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/PA2EtB"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5446/31233853505_d48f8f2b32_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/PA2EtB"><br /> Peter's Yard Nov 16 (softened by Samsung)</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/">LaidBackBikes</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-237435 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:49:43 +0000 DaveC 237435@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Dave, Oh Man!!! Sounds rubbish!! I read Ago's post and felt a pange of responsibility as we usually head down to Leith St together, but after reading it was near your office... not anywherwe where I would have been able to help you..... Hope you are ok and not too injured.</p> <p>Last time I came down, I hurt my left elbow which means working without a silly cushion is painfull. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082&page=2#post-237422 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:13:30 +0000 algo 237422@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Dave - sorry to hear that. Hope you recover ok. Nice to briefly catch up this morning nonetheless. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237420 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:33:58 +0000 Dave 237420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I crashed down by Ocean Terminal. On the flat, not going fast, not manouvering, front wheel went spectacularly AWOL.</p> <p>Bike's okay but I put a hole in my last remaining set of bib longs and lost a fair chunk of knee :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237415 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:12:07 +0000 chdot 237415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Coldest day, biggest turnout. (About 20!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237410 Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:44:56 +0000 LaidBack 237410@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like a bright morning. Going to drop by. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237391 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:13:42 +0000 DaveC 237391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>But that's what one did back in the day.</em></p> <p>My mother did that with my in our small town, circal 1972, on the highstreet. My uncle came along, recognised me and my pram and wondered across the road with me. Meanwhile my mother came out from the shop and nearly suffered a panic attack while her sister ran off looking for me in my pram. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237386 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:16:52 +0000 Frenchy 237386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>But that's what one did back in the day.</em></p> <p>Still happens in more civilised places: <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=danish+babies+outside&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwif9e6a5cHQAhWpC8AKHVzGBrkQ_AUICCgB&amp;biw=1680&amp;bih=879">https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=danish+babies+outside&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwif9e6a5cHQAhWpC8AKHVzGBrkQ_AUICCgB&amp;biw=1680&amp;bih=879</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237384 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:12:23 +0000 Arellcat 237384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"I leave mine outside the shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour…"</em></p> <p>But that's what one did back in the day. You could leave your child outside in the pram, while you went in and got your messages*. Optionally you could use an elder child to watch over the little one. "And dinnae let the bairn outa yer sight!"</p> <p>* Quaffing overpriced coffee probably didn't count, on account of said lifestyle having not quite been invented in Britain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237381 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 17:00:04 +0000 UtrechtCyclist 237381@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I read this post starting from the most recent and working backwards.</p> <p>"Is there a no-baby/child rule?"</p> <p>was followed up by</p> <p>"I leave mine outside the shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour. If you lock it to anything locally, before someone notices and complains we'll be out of there."</p> <p>Not a parent so I'm not in any position to get all judgemental... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237378 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 16:41:25 +0000 Claire 237378@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello folks, I will try to make it along tomorrow if I can! :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237373 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 15:29:25 +0000 acsimpson 237373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Poundland sells ratchet straps. I wouldn't trust them to tie a load to a roof rack on the motorway but they're good enough for any light use I've put them too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237326 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:48:25 +0000 chdot 237326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know that webbing has advantages and bungies disadvantages, I like old inner tubes. </p> <p>Can be firm 'enough' if pulled tight, and easy to tie to things and themselves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237324 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:37:30 +0000 wingpig 237324@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have a bag full of bits of webbing salvaged from various dead bags, with a couple of spare straps from car-related strap things and a few things with clips on the end taken from the seatbelts of a child-buggy. B&amp;Q/Homebase/Wickes sell nylon webbing by the unit of length or in ready-made packets. Also workwear shops or military surplus shops or Screwfixes or Toolstations? Lidl/Aldi occasionally have ratchet-strap things in their non-food offers.</p> <p>Those ratchet-strap things are easily-tightened. I have a few spare nylon belts wjth slide-tightener things from old pairs of bicycle baggies. If no tigheners or belts or whatever are available, a few good knots? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237321 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:25:18 +0000 neddie 237321@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where does one get non-stretchable webbing from? How do you secure it (tightly)?</p> <p>Honest questions. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237317 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:10:59 +0000 chdot 237317@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Any hints for transporting a 14" child bike?"</p> <p>Courier bag.</p> <p>Or, wheels in panniers, frame bungied on top.</p> <p>EDIT</p> <p>wingpig is right about being wary of bungies. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237315 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:03:00 +0000 acsimpson 237315@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Webbing sounds good, probably easier than trying to attach it to a backpack. Although I suppose I could fit it into a 60l pack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237313 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:22 +0000 acsimpson 237313@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a chance of a passenger but I'm hoping to negotiate picking them up later. The small bike will be riderless tomorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237312 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:59:45 +0000 wingpig 237312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Use non-stretch webbing if attaching to the rack, as the weight of a bike on a narrowish rack with bungees only needs a bit of wobble before it tries to dive into the wheel. Take off one pedal and wear it like a rucksack, or even attach it to a rucksack and wear that? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237310 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:56:29 +0000 SRD 237310@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We've transported many a small bike on our rack with bungees (but I guess you have a child in a seat as well/?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237309 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:53:06 +0000 acsimpson 237309@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any hints for transporting a 14" child bike? I could use the trailer but it seems like a lot of effort compared to attaching it to the rack/handlebars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237290 Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:56:21 +0000 chdot 237290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tomorrow </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237178 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 23:06:13 +0000 chdot 237178@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Is there a no-baby/child rule?"</p> <p>Absolutely not. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237177 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:30:58 +0000 Roibeard 237177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Left, I meant left...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237172 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:57:53 +0000 Roibeard 237172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surely the only rules are to the right...</p> <p>I've brought mine before, as have others, so you should be fine!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237171 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:48:29 +0000 dessert rat 237171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there a no-baby/child rule?</p> <p>I may have miniMcR in tow as MrsMcR has driving test. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17082#post-237124 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:13:23 +0000 DaveC 237124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I leave mine outside thwe shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour. If you lock it to anything locally, before someone knotices and complains we'll be out of there. </p>