http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Another weather week en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:17:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=5#post-19856 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:28:45 +0000 Smudge 19856@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cb, quick enough for legal UK speeds, warm (good heater) and a lot less draughty than the bike ;-)</p> <p>or if RPI Engineering have been at it, fast, warm and draughty-ish ;-)</p> <p>Love them... but my bank doesn't love the fuel consumption :-( hence my S3 being taken off the road a couple of years ago, and currently sitting in the drive awaiting a diesel conversion before going back on the road, no doubt in time for all the snow to have dissapeared and for us to enjoy and unexpected decade of mild winters...(sigh) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=5#post-19851 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:00:08 +0000 Arellcat 19851@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.4wdonline.com/Mil/LandRover/FC101.html">Land Rover Forward Control 101</a> at 4WDonline. Three and a half litres of Rover V8 power, or perhaps with sundry upgrades courtesy of RPI Engineeering. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=5#post-19850 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:55:26 +0000 kaputnik 19850@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>FC101 </em></p> <p>Forgive the land rover illiterati, but what's an FC101? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=5#post-19849 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:39:42 +0000 cb 19849@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"FC101 which must be quite the machine for winter"</p> <p>Slow, cold and drafty? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19838 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:47:22 +0000 kaputnik 19838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Lix Toll</em></p> <p>Just where you turn off the A85 for Killin (between Lochearnhead and Crianlarich)</p> <p>There's one of those general garage / petrol station / shop / agricultural vehicle dealer businesses that you get oop north </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19837 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:47:16 +0000 Arellcat 19837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=lix+toll&amp;sll=55.94497,-3.194275&amp;sspn=0.181491,0.453873&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Lix+Toll,+Stirling+FK21+8,+United+Kingdom&amp;ll=56.440624,-4.358482&amp;spn=0,0.028367&amp;z=15&amp;layer=c&amp;cbll=56.44064,-4.358247&amp;panoid=5KApbvJMTnMXfHuIDDrTCQ&amp;cbp=12,318.18,,0,15.76">Lix Toll</a> is on the A85 and east of Crianlarich. Gugol's camera car didn't capture any specialist Landies, though. A friend of mine has a FC101 which must be quite the machine for winter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19834 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:40:54 +0000 recombodna 19834@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly those Landys are no longer there!!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19828 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:23:32 +0000 spitfire 19828@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Want the yellow one (partly cos it is yellow) and cos you could fit a few nice bikes in the back, drive it up a mountain and drop the riders off then race them back down - oi Clarkson!</p> <p>Where is Lix Toll?</p> <p>No we are not green, it's the iphone that hates yuo<br /> <a href="http://www.UploadScreenshot.com/image/199613/3193772"><img src="http://img1.UploadScreenshot.com/images/thumb/12/35308224264.png"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19823 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:12:12 +0000 Smudge 19823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Spitfire, fixed it for you ;-)</p> <p><em>"@smudge - old Landy's are COOL!"</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19822 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:11:48 +0000 chdot 19822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5276703909_2b37ba3e1b.jpg"></p> <p>Has the Met Office got a sense of humour, or have all the Scottish weather stations stopped working!? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19820 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:07:38 +0000 cb 19820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3575656423_5f85d4ede8.jpg"></p> <p>This is the other one that was/is at Lix Toll:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/3575657581/" title="HBW 956D - 1966 Land Rover Series IIA- Forest Rover @ Lix Toll by homer----simpson, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3634/3575657581_7ea44b10e7.jpg" alt="HBW 956D - 1966 Land Rover Series IIA- Forest Rover @ Lix Toll" /></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19755 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:38:37 +0000 spitfire 19755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@smudge - that Landy is COOL! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19726 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:08:58 +0000 Min 19726@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The BBC were filming in Melville Drive this morning, they showed people cycling through the snow on the news. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19724 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:05:00 +0000 kaputnik 19724@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5274232934/"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5274232934_cd53bf0e2d.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/5274232934/">Beam me up</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19701 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:46:31 +0000 Smudge 19701@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CB afaik it's still there, and yes, I believe they worked, it is/was a Cuthbertson Tracked Landrover as seen here:</p> <p><img src="http://www.4wdonline.com/LandRover/Series/Cuthbertson/PiCs37/LwbS.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19700 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:54:40 +0000 wee folding bike 19700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Landy might indeed still be there but I rarely get that far along the road these days. I usually only get as far as Ben Ledi (be there next week). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19699 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:50:59 +0000 Anonymous 19699@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Given that there is very little for Parking Attendants to do with all their yellow lines under a pile of snow and many parking bays unuseable or filed with cars where the permits are covered by a layer of snow, would it be that difficult to reallocate the resource to making the streets safe by sweeping up the snow as quickly as possible after it has fallen? This smart move sees the snow easier to clear before it gets packed down by (foot) traffic and thus saves a substantial amount of the salt/grit needed to melt the stuff once it is packed hard. Looking at the Copenhagenise 'winter 2009' video at 00.25" a council street sweeper zips along the cycle path with its brush spinning and snow shooting off to the sides, leaving a black strip of cleared path behind, rapidly filled by cyclists - a little later 00.35" a tractor goes past with its brush raised on a cleared street.</p> <p>Would it be beyond the wit etc to run a patrol as snow was falling or after a light fall of snow, of the city's mini street sweepers on a circuit of essential footways and cycle routes.</p> <p>A further comment on roads came from someone whose father ran a small N Yorkshire haulage company - at the nod from the Council he had mini ploughs to fit to his trucks which were making regular trips around the local roads. in doing this his trucks kept the build-up of snow within manageable levels. Perhaps we should look at buses and the Edinburgh-Glasgow coaches having small brushes to keep the snow cover down, or perhaps a de-icer kit to hook on the back, and thus deliver a far more intensive service that any council could hope to achieve with a handful of trucks (incidentally I saw a gritting truck in full Kent County Council livery working on the M8 the other day!). </p> <p>Finally with many building sites unable to operate but some of the staff presumably paid, and stood down how about a public spirited offer from the construction industry to make these guys available and if there are likely costs agree that this is settled up without the delay of haggling as the snow gets deeper. (Oh and lets hope we don't see the really callous image reported from the London rail network - ticket checking staff out in force whilst no labour apparently available to make the platforms safe by clearing the snow &amp; ice) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19697 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:12:54 +0000 cb 19697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"There used to be a Land Rover like that at the Lix toll"</p> <p>Is it not still there? Not sure it ever actually worked. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19696 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:46:49 +0000 chdot 19696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>World perspective. </p> <p>Aberdeen -12 - same as Moscow. </p> <p>Edinburgh -3 - same as London. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19694 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:53:28 +0000 wee folding bike 19694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There used to be a Land Rover like that at the Lix toll</p> <p><a href="http://www.lixtoll.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lixtoll.com/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19693 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:22:08 +0000 spitfire 19693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alas poor tractor<br /> I watched the vid thinking "I want one" then saw the related vids and thought "no... I want THAT one..." </p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDNLUzjkpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTDNLUzjkpg</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19691 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:06:35 +0000 chdot 19691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339632/Big-freeze-Arctic-conditions-month-AA-warns-dangerous-driving-conditions.html">Arctic freeze to last another month</a>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19690 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:12:23 +0000 chdot 19690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5269217761_55cf9e0e80.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19689 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:37:01 +0000 chdot 19689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ 1:50</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA4pUalceVE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA4pUalceVE</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19688 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:20:21 +0000 Arellcat 19688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps they lost it in a crevasse. Those piles of snow are pretty big in places.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/Marketing/Trade/Trade%20Subject%20Catalogues/Arctic%20&amp;%20Antarctic.htm"><img src="http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk/ImagesMaster/W150/1877058661.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19687 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:19:19 +0000 cb 19687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>chdot</strong>, 4 hours ago: "20 mini-tractors"</p> <p><strong>chdot</strong>, 1 minute ago: "19 mini-tractors"</p> <p>It is with great sadness that we lament the loss of a mini tractor. Please add your condolences.</p> <p>R.I.P.</p> <p>No flowers. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19686 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:16:09 +0000 chdot 19686@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>THEY'VE LOST ONE!!!</p> <p>"<br /> Preparing for what the weather may bring this weekend<br /> Published Friday 17 December 2010<br /> The Council is working hard to prepare for bad weather this weekend.<br /> Edinburgh has been forecast to receive further snow showers on Saturday evening into Sunday morning with the likelihood that this will continue throughout Sunday and into Monday.  <br /> Nevertheless, the Council's 31 gritters will be out in full force, along with 19 mini-tractors, a range of other vehicles and hundreds of staff and contractors. Since early Friday morning a gritting crew has been continuing to work on Category 1, 2 and 3 roads and pavements. </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/290/preparing_for_the_weather_may_bring_this_weekend" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/290/preparing_for_the_weather_may_bring_this_weekend</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19677 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:39:01 +0000 chdot 19677@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"This week, the Council has the same resources in place to deal with the snow, including: 600 staff, 20 mini-tractors"...</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/718/emergency_planning_and_information/1167/severe_winter_weather_information/5" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/718/emergency_planning_and_information/1167/severe_winter_weather_information/5</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19635 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:53:48 +0000 Min 19635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I doubt it's THAT accurate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1877&page=4#post-19633 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:52:02 +0000 spitfire 19633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or they use the entrails of a goat... </p>