http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today's rubbish ASB box banter en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:49:19 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266163 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:50:28 +0000 crowriver 266163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Are childish concerns about colours purely a US/UK issue?"</p> <p>Pretty much. I blame the royal family myself. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266156 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 13:17:01 +0000 gembo 266156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just been complimented on my pink short in the office. THe chap went on to say his sons ued to tease him when he wore a pink shirt back when they were teenagers.</p> <p>I was sent home from work when I turned up for my shift at The Doublet Bar, Park Road Glasgow, 1986 for wearing a pink polo shirt</p> <p>The pink cycle jersey gets one noticed, this is the idea, but I should remember this when going all Coal, Blue or Long Tailed on the asses of the drivers of edinburgh </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266152 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:29:18 +0000 Ed1 266152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_sources_for_pink_and_blue_as_gender_signifiers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_sources_for_pink_and_blue_as_gender_signifiers</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266149 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:19:48 +0000 PS 266149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are childish concerns about colours purely a US/UK issue? Our southern European pals don't seem to have any sort of hang-ups about it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266142 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 12:00:45 +0000 unhurt 266142@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I also have an office codpiece for when the dial needs to go to eleven.</em></p> <p>Also in pink? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266139 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:57:25 +0000 jdanielp 266139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My Charge Grater 3 has a pink sheen in appropriate light, which I like. Cycling work colleagues sporadically tease me about this. I've received some comments about it from other road users, most of which I took to be sarcastic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266138 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:42:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 266138@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>First bike I ever lusted after was a 1980s Cannondale racer with massively oversized magnesium tube frame in candy pink. Was in the window of EBC. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266137 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:36:13 +0000 dougal 266137@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pink is the best colour for bikes, so much so that pinkbike.com got there first. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266136 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:25:17 +0000 glasgow megasnake 266136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I would love a pink anodised suit of armour. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266133 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:13:47 +0000 I were right about that saddle 266133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@nedd1e_h</p> <p>I also have an office codpiece for when the dial needs to go to eleven. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266131 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:05:27 +0000 neddie 266131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pink was considered high fashion for men in medieval times </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266130 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:03:15 +0000 I were right about that saddle 266130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have a pink formal work shirt - French cuffs the lot - which I wear to meetings when I have a particular wish to wind up conservatively-minded colleagues. Never fails. There's a type of man who takes another man wearing pink outside of the confines of a golf club to be a direct attack on the foundations of the institution of masculinity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266129 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:00:51 +0000 dougal 266129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm gonnae guess "pink top" x "bicycle" gets all sorts of abuse. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266127 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:56:17 +0000 earthowned 266127@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Curious - does the pink top provoke discourteous behaviour? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18353#post-266112 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:26:06 +0000 gembo 266112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was approaching the junction of A 70 that is just after the concrete aqueduct, the bone prince Charlie one. Near the Codfather chippy now dolmio's and the oor Wullie statue. Where the left lane goes u to craiglockhart and you have to get over to the right lane to go straight ahead. Fortunately I stayed left as the lights changed to red but this did not stop a driver speeding through. At red I then did go into the right lane where the ASB helps you do this. The second driver rolled forward into the ASB and gave me a toot. I was not sure why. He was all very smiley and I thought I recognised him as a regular commuter so I indicated that he should be on the bike not in a car. As banter. But it was not that guy and also he thought I was saying get out of the box and went into a curious rant. I think related to the previous ASB where I bumped on to pavement to get round the bus which had been stopped for ages and I was hugely surprised to find a car n the ASB. I think it had overtaken the bus then swung in front thinking it would get through the red light then changed its mind. This was not a problem just a surprise. Back at the Codfather, the lights changed and I went diagonally over to left to let second driver past at which point he called me a Tit. It was then I remembered I was wearing the pink top. </p>