http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: TransPentland Manoeuvres In The Dark? en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:18:09 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275403 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:25:32 +0000 Ed1 275403@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was going to use my mates bosch electric moutain bike forgot it has no panniers and did not take ruck sack so would be a 11 mile with lidl bag on bars as looked like few/none going decided not with bags on bar </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275401 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:56:16 +0000 ARobComp 275401@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Having to ride earlier (in 10 minutes) because of some baby themed challenges. Sorry chaps and chapesses. I think in general I'm only going to be about 20% reliable for a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275400 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 12:37:11 +0000 Arellcat 275400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In a heroic effort of wrenching, my Stumpjumper is on the road! Long and low, just like we wanted in 1991. Blimey, people used to ride this stretched out? I will need to reacclimatise, perhaps in time for a warm dry summer's day.</p> <p>I am now absolutely freezing though. I want to insulate my garage.</p> <p>@unhurt, my head hurts too. I bashed it yesterday on the clamp of my workstand and it was still sore this morning, so I bashed it again just earlier in case it cancelled out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275399 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:54:10 +0000 gembo 275399@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like eldest is angling for a family meal out in honour of her birthday. (Next week) I could suggest the grey horse but somehow I feel she will want to be up town top ranking </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275398 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:46:43 +0000 unhurt 275398@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just rub it in!</p> <p>As far as I am aware others still going so you might still get a pint / fancy rum. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275397 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:33:41 +0000 gembo 275397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At this rate we could go over on a nice dry summer evening and I might even join the trip. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275396 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 10:29:53 +0000 unhurt 275396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>BAH. Hurts to move eyes and sinuses seem to be making a break for it through front of face. I will have to bail. On everything - looks like day on sofa with cold pack and drugs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275388 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:15:44 +0000 unhurt 275388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Woe. </p> <p>(Though I am full of solpadeine* and sudafed right now and hoping by the morning I won't need the former in order to be able to look at screens/handle daylight...)</p> <p>*codeine is the BEST. Take that, sinuses! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275387 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 21:10:24 +0000 Arellcat 275387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I will have to send my apologies for TPMitD. My Stumpy isn't ready. I was able to get a new chain and even a replacement shim in time, but I've had to spend today fixing my crank forward bike that I wasn't able to wash straight after the snow riding, and the rear mech had all but seized solid and the rear disc is now rusty. I also had to buy a new hosepipe because the old one leaked water all over my garage when I started washing the crank forward. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275375 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:02:10 +0000 unhurt 275375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. Allowing for coffee / pint at Flotterstone and building in faffing till about 3 at van... Half five? Six?</p> <p>I don't even know who else is coming at this point, they may have other estimates! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275374 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:59:45 +0000 gembo 275374@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What time does that mean you will hit the grey horse? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275373 Sat, 17 Feb 2018 14:53:11 +0000 unhurt 275373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reminder. I am sick and will be s.l.o.w. But I still want to. 14:45 at the coffee van tomorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-275013 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:41:43 +0000 Arellcat 275013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not yet. For a start I've lost the 25.0mm to 27.2mm shim for my USE seatpost. I'm also catsitting until tomorrow evening, which means I'm running out of evenings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-274988 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:09:24 +0000 unhurt 274988@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bump. Arellcat, have you rebuilt it yet? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-273958 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 23:41:31 +0000 unhurt 273958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Another democratic triumph: <a href="https://doodle.com/poll/pik34tdfz4kzx7bu">Sunday February 18th it is.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=4#post-273918 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:29:44 +0000 steveo 273918@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One major selling point of my old mountain bike is rack eyelets, poor weather on the other hand is still an exercise in getting filthy wet and probably muddy as hell. The CDF has full length guards (and a rack, which I rarely use at the moment) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273917 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:27:10 +0000 ARobComp 273917@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I completely forgot this was happening yesterday so good job it was <strike>called</strike> blown off. </p> <p>I've popped down my availability however my attendance can not be relied on 100% as ever it is with young kinders. </p> <p>Wind kept her up last night as our house was actually wobbling a little. Crazy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273904 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:38:41 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273904@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rack and mudguard combo on an MTB is a richt scunner. You see folk bolting the tip of a mudguard to the rack platform but it never seems quite right. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273900 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:30:52 +0000 unhurt 273900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This almost made my washing machine greet last night:</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JWEqbP"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4672/28185570659_9505984bfc_m.jpg"></a></p> <p>May need a rear mudguard (there's a solid-topped rack on there though, you'd think that would help!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273862 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:37:23 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273862@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>The Burns line that gars me greet is not from his poetry but from his life. </p> <p>To his friend Elizabeth Riddell as he bathed at Brow Well on doctors' orders, when he knew he had not long; 'Well, Madam – have you any commands for the next world?' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273857 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:11:51 +0000 gembo 273857@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, I find Rabbie at his most tender when he asks of his companion</p> <p>Oh wert thou in the cauld blast?</p> <p>Indeed. The burns society based in the grey horse is also called Let It Blaw </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273855 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:38:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo tauld his queerest stories;<br /> The landlord's laugh was ready chorus:<br /> The storm without might rair and rustle,<br /> @unhurt did na mind the storm a whistle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273853 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:58:18 +0000 gembo 273853@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is why we only made it as far as the grey horse and in very small numbers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273851 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:46:10 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The air is moving past my house at a great rate of knots. This is not a night to have been bicycling through the hills. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273842 Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:15:28 +0000 unhurt 273842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Arellcat we await your vote! (Though it looks like Sunday 18th to me) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273776 Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:29:14 +0000 gembo 273776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fourish fine </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273773 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:31:28 +0000 unhurt 273773@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm. Fourish? Awaiting some sort of reply from @sheeptoucher in case he's free. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273769 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:33:05 +0000 gembo 273769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Six is the earliest I am allowed to dine. Seven is more likely </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273767 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:31:11 +0000 unhurt 273767@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Six? You dine early. But that probably works quite well for my delivery plans... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18411&page=3#post-273766 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:29:32 +0000 gembo 273766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any time after lunch finishing about 2.30 and before dinner from 6 onwards </p>