http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Kindness near canal en Tue, 19 May 2026 20:27:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278375 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 11:31:10 +0000 gembo 278375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp</p> <p>I am too pedantic </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278355 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 09:56:29 +0000 jdanielp 278355@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo you're too kind. The swipe action for complimented just worked fine... Too much haste, too little thought. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278293 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:25:28 +0000 gembo 278293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe auto correct? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278207 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:26:04 +0000 I were right about that saddle 278207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp</p> <p>Worry not. I have muddled penance and penitence in this thread. It's a mess. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278206 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:17:10 +0000 jdanielp 278206@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo oops... I can't even claim that it was a typo since 'i' is distant from 'e'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278200 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 08:10:17 +0000 gembo 278200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp, is it unkind to say that what I did was compliment you? Dependent on how pedantic one may be? ( dependant is someone's child, or similar subordinate who relies on you I usually go for that one too, it is very finicky that one as the dependant is dependent on you until they become independent aged about thirty five?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278187 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:41:15 +0000 Frenchy 278187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Let the man enjoy his hobbies, @rider73 </em></p> <p>How distinctly un-presbyterian. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278182 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:12:48 +0000 jdanielp 278182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>gembo kindly complemented me on my bell-ringing as we passed one another under the eastern-most bridge on the canal earlier. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278162 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:44:00 +0000 unhurt 278162@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Let the man enjoy his hobbies, @rider73 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278129 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:31:38 +0000 rider73 278129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>as long as we learn from our mistakes one should never need continued penance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278108 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:53:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 278108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As part of my perpetual penance I will post here again;</p> <p>I once refused help to a distressed lady with a small child. I was running against the clock and wholly caught up in my own trivial task. I don't think the shame will ever leave me, and I have tried to atone by offering help to strangers whenever I can since that day.</p> <p>I have basic mechanical competence and have tweaked many broken bicycles since. My favourite was mending a puncture for a Goth on the canal at Hermiston. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278107 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:51:56 +0000 algo 278107@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll add that to my dinner-party vocabulary.</p> <p>I am predisposed to like it such was his demeanour at this meeting - you are a discerning fellow sculptor - I am pleased to know you do approve. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278105 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:48:14 +0000 I were right about that saddle 278105@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I am not sure is his work would be met with approval by IWRATS</em></p> <p>I am not so rhadamanthine as you fear. That looks like a rather wonderful piece. I'll bet bicycles are very difficult to sculpt. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278104 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:43:37 +0000 algo 278104@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I once helped a couple push their stricken campervan off a busy cross-roads in Helsinki - they were very grateful but spoke no English and my Finnish failed to spontaneously materialise, so we just nodded happily at each other and the gentleman gave me a postcard which I still have, with a drawing of me pushing a campervan, and he turned out to be a sculptor called Rafael Saifulin - I am not sure is his work would be met with approval by IWRATS, but I am a fan of this:<br /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/d2KxoQ"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8038/7896093136_658b243f01_n.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/d2KxoQ">Hanko, Wind from the Sea 2</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pentlandpirate/">INNES</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278081 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:14:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 278081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stories of kindness are almost as good as kindness. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278080 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:21:18 +0000 rbrtwtmn 278080@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had one last summer. Shortish day out with family and a friend... who was on something of a run down bike. On the way back up the NEPN, with still some considerable distance to home, it became apparent that the workings of one of the wheel hubs were coming to pieces. I was making some very slow just-get-home progress, but of course without any proper tools. Gentleman stopped, we chatted, turned out his job was with bikes so he popped home and came back with proper tools. We were 'back on the road' in no time. Beyond the call of duty.</p> <p>Which reminds me of the day I stopped to assist a man way out in East Lothian - standing with a dérailleur in his hand looking distinctly oily and entangled and stuck with a repair... who it turned out was only trying to mend a puncture. A bit of magic with a hex key to put things back together, quick puncture repair, and he was on his way too - full of complements and thanks.</p> <p>Feels good :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278074 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:58:33 +0000 unhurt 278074@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is genuinely nice. Humans: you may live a little longer... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18676#post-278071 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:09:34 +0000 gembo 278071@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I stopped at meggetland to help a comrade whose mudguard bodge with cable ties had split. He was taking the mudguard off. I leant him a hex tool. However his QR skewer was stuck. Salt corrosion. Was getting nowhere until a woman shouted from her balcony then sent her husband down with tool box. Pliers shifted the skewer. Alas it would not then tighten again which was a pity. The samirtan then provided some Wd40. Very kind </p>