http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today's rubbish cycling and driving en Tue, 19 May 2026 03:26:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-363840 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 13:50:47 +0000 SRD 363840@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>bah! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-363838 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:05:02 +0000 chdot 363838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/politecycling" rel="nofollow">https://tinyurl.com/politecycling</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-363837 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:45:19 +0000 SRD 363837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>also - yesterday - older guy on well kitted out bike with spokes sticker, ringing his bell every 20 seconds. no idea what or who at, but presumably pedestrians on shared path. </p> <p>it was a nice bell, but honestly, it sounded like Santa Claus had arrived early. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-363835 Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:02:49 +0000 SRD 363835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>annoying more than rubbish, but what an annoying short commute</p> <p>1. parent and late primary child cycling along Polwarth gardens (yay!). Parent cycling outside child (yes, I do this too sometimes). Child in wrong gear, moving so slowly that there was a queue of 12 cars by the time I joined it... cars that overtook only did so when oncoming lane empty and went very wide (to be fair, I find they almost always do this now anyway - at least on that stretch). </p> <p>2. cyclists weaving through pedestrians crossing valleyfield. I stop for the guy who is near the kerb and wave him on. another cyclist goes through while he' crossing. I point out that bed had priority. Cyclist tries to tell me the guy was on the kerb and I shouldn't have waved him on. he was on the road, and even if he wasn't he still has priority. bah! </p> <p>3. tonnes of pedestrians heading onto NMW after crossing Melville drive. NMW cyclist stops to let them cross. I patiently wait for them to carry on along NMW, only for them to turn onto spur. WHY DON'T CYCLISTS SIGNAL???!! I'm not a mind-reader. </p> <p>SHEESH </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-354276 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:47:19 +0000 SRD 354276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>everyone (including me).</p> <p>various bits of rubbish driving and cycling en route to George square. </p> <p>but my bad bit was when a cyclist overtook me on MMW and i then noticed her back wheel was criminally flat. </p> <p>mention it. (politely 'wee bit flat')</p> <p>she almost came to a dead stop, pulled over into pedestrian side of path, said she didn't have a pump. i came up beside her and tried to explain she could still get to work, I just thought I should mention it. Meanwhile I must have got distracted, didn't see oncoming cyclist who whumped me in the arm. luckily I managed to swerve a little before the impact. no one came off. just left me feeling like a total idiot. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-351358 Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:19:46 +0000 chdot 351358@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>World is full of entitled/idiots. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-351357 Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:12:48 +0000 SRD 351357@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mountain biker dude slams on brakes / skids and then charges through Mum and two primary school kids crossing Valleyfield at Leven street. </p> <p>I yell "they had priority you idiot". He probably didn't hear (was already half way down the street. Then charges through pedestrians and calmer cyclist crossing Melville Drive. </p> <p>Last I saw of him was jogger talking evasive action as they crossed from Lauriston Gardens onto Meadows. </p> <p>Maybe he was trying t avoid me catching up with him and giving him (another) piece of my mind? </p> <p>(Given speed he was going at start, I suspect he also rode through red at Kings junctions, which I had walked through and remounted). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-320316 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:42:42 +0000 gembo 320316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, I watched Brogue Wearing EBC Countryman and what you do is sail out into the oncoming traffic, but just before it hits you tack hARD IN THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL and apply brakes, let it sail by then take off again when the lights have actually changed. Gets you to the next set of traffic lights ahead of the plebs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-320312 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:24:57 +0000 I were right about that saddle 320312@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is a breed of very posh young ladies who can survive such cycling . I have seen them on Lothian Road, all hair and upright wicker baskets breezing through lights and lanes unscathed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-320301 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:22:45 +0000 gembo 320301@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was contending with a number of drivers pulled out beyond the white lines, turning in front of me, coming at me from rhs, driving into the ASB etc<br /> high winds too</p> <p>So I was using all zen powers when a chap on old EBC Upright undertook me on lhs when lights turned green going into semple st from Evans shop side. He then powered through a red lioght into on coming traffic att eh next junction.</p> <p>brogues and everything. Just having a bad day or regular offender?&gt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17356#post-241165 Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:38:38 +0000 nobrakes 241165@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tonight I saw a taxi driver pull a horrific move screaming through a red light and turning right straight into the path of an oncoming cyclist, he was lucky not to be hit.</p> <p>Meanwhile I also watched another cyclist in front of me who was making his view of the taxi driver known rather graphically with his fingers - only problem being that you couldn't really see him or his angry gesticulations because he was cycling down a very busy road with no lights whatsoever.</p> <p>The irony. </p>