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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PY Jan18 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PY Jan18 en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:04:22 +0000 gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273756 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:31:10 +0000 gembo 273756@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ In 1987 I put a rear mech through the back wheel of a beautiful big white raleigh with a brooks saddle on the great western road Glasgow. That bike was worthless then (well cost me £20) and priceless now ( well as Sir Rod sang, I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger - I would have paid for the repairs) chdot on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273754 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:22:25 +0000 chdot 273754@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ 1989 groupset. gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273753 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:19:19 +0000 gembo 273753@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Oooh, I knew as I typed that it was 1987 and I was constructing an experiment looking into the concept of Anaphora chdot on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273750 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:54:36 +0000 chdot 273750@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Whole platoon of cats?? gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273747 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:45:11 +0000 gembo 273747@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Postman Pat has one cat. Dad's Army a whole platoon. Both shows good. chdot on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273745 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:23:41 +0000 chdot 273745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ The nearly round version! Arellcat on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273742 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:09:36 +0000 Arellcat 273742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Biopace, eh? :-) chdot on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273740 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:04:29 +0000 chdot 273740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4746/26034758488_d7cd83446e.jpg"> Arellcat on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273719 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:24:29 +0000 Arellcat 273719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Dad's Army is really just Postman Pat with rifles and marching. gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273717 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:17:06 +0000 gembo 273717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Ring Dem Bells is a great episode of Dad's Army don't you know. (Attached to this thread is a twine and attached to this twine is a rope - Wilson fires the arrow up to the city hall clock tower where the platoon in stranded) I were right about that saddle on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273703 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:39:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273703@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Big up to @wingpig for the hub dynamo that will allow completion of the <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2602&page=15#post-257800">amateur Franco-Scottish hydroelectric scheme</a> this summer. Also a pack of burst inner tubes that may well find their way onto the wall of an art gallery in Dundas Street shortly. wingpig on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273696 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:37:34 +0000 wingpig 273696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ We should think ourselves lucky it was only a mechanical bell, not a <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjtuobVtvXYAhXFmLQKHfnvBfUQ0gIIVSgAMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehornit.com%2Fthe-mini-hornit%2Fthe-mini-hornit&usg=AOvVaw1x9QfoI0CFZ9uCHfxtLynU">Hornit</a>; they'd've kicked us out without letting us finish our coffees. unhurt on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273693 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:19:30 +0000 unhurt 273693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Almost barred from PY for excessive belling. A new experience for me. I were right about that saddle on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273692 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:19:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273692@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ That was good. Lifted the leaden pall of gyratory-induced gloom a bit. gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273688 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:54:00 +0000 gembo 273688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ twelve I think in total with one drive by by SRD making bakers dozen. Ring dem bells wingpig on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273686 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:35:53 +0000 wingpig 273686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Did. I think that's the first time I've seen what your hat does when you turn. SRD on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273683 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:54:05 +0000 SRD 273683@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Sorry. waved as I went past. Did I spot wingpig? Arellcat on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273680 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:10:56 +0000 Arellcat 273680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Just me so far. :-/ gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273674 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 08:06:33 +0000 gembo 273674@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Lazy bones lying in the sun How ya gonna get your day's work done? unhurt on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472&page=2#post-273673 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:10:06 +0000 unhurt 273673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ That's more like my timescale too. chrisfl on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273672 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 01:05:53 +0000 chrisfl 273672@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ planning on arriving something between 8 and 9, depending on when I make it out bed. gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273655 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:48:13 +0000 gembo 273655@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Aiming for around 8 too I were right about that saddle on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273654 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:36:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Didn't want to grass you up, but if you're blabbing to all and sundry be my guest. unhurt on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273651 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:58:10 +0000 unhurt 273651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ "(or Red Red Rose as I have renamed it for Burns' Night)" ahem. I were right about that saddle on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273647 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:33:59 +0000 I were right about that saddle 273647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @Arellcat <pedant>Classically it's à vélo although en vélo is becoming commonly accepted. You're probably unique in Edinburgh in being able to correctly say you arrived en vélo in the Torpedo (or Red Red Rose as I have renamed it for Burns' Night).</pedant> Arellcat on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273645 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 19:17:09 +0000 Arellcat 273645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Hoping to be there 8-ish, en vélo d'éléphant probably but depends on precipitation and level of desire to go to the cinema after work. unhurt on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273581 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:52:38 +0000 unhurt 273581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ @SRD I will try to bring your stitch ripper back in case you make it tomorrow but I've tidied it and so of course now I'm not sure to where... chdot on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273277 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:14:51 +0000 chdot 273277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ I hope you'll be wearing them. gembo on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273276 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:06:35 +0000 gembo 273276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Will be there with bells on unhurt on "PY Jan18" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18472#post-273268 Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:46:59 +0000 unhurt 273268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ Should be about!