http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cycling related Xmas prezzies en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:07:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357&page=2#post-298755 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 22:37:16 +0000 gembo 298755@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have 12 bottles and cans of cider left from new year when the cider drinking relatives did not drink enough. I wish to give this away if anyone wants it. I only drink Gilfillan's cider (home made in Currie, very dry). The leftovers are a mix of Thatcher's Gold (7), Kopraberg red fruit? (3) and for some reason I cannot explain 2 cans of scrumpy Jack. None of this will be consumed at Gembo Towers. Not had any alcohol so far this year but not doing dry January just balancing the books. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298680 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:13:32 +0000 neddie 298680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Beaumont's RTW book is less boring than most, mostly due to his naïevity </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298679 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:08:18 +0000 Arellcat 298679@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I gave my Mum a copy of Ishbel Holmes' "Me, My Bike and a Street Dog Called Lucy", after her inspirational talk at Recyke-a-bike last month. Mum gave me a copy of Mark Beaumont's "Around the World in 80 Days", signed by the man himself.</p> <p>I did receive a book about unusual things to see in Glasgow, which might form a connection with a psychogeographic dérive, perhaps performed on Brompton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298669 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 11:45:03 +0000 SRD 298669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My only bike-related prezzie was a pollution mask! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298648 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:36:47 +0000 fimm 298648@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The book I couldn't remember is Chris Boardman's autobiography. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298598 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:53:11 +0000 gembo 298598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I need to source the actual film Sunday In Hell as we will be showing it if Edfoc are desirous in June 2019, hopefully with Belgian beer tie in. Warning This Film contains a lot of mud. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298597 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:30:59 +0000 fimm 298597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>&lt;Volunteers Mr fimm for the left-handed cyclists club&gt;</p> <p>We got a lot of books about cycling, including Geraint Thomas' first book. Yes, its is ghost-written and light, but it is funny and interesting as well. Still to read; one about Eddie Merckx, one about the film "A Sunday in Hell", and another one, I think. Also I gave Mr fimm a book of cycling photographs and my sister gave him a rather fetching cycling cap. And I got a fancy rucksack for mountain biking.</p> <p>I think that's it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298581 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 19:34:30 +0000 crowriver 298581@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A belated January sales type pressie from Mrs crowriver of an official Tour de France bike ride journal. For recording rides, including start and end point, distance, and average speed (!). That latter will be very much a relative term I should think.</p> <p>Suppose I'd better make time to ride my bike a bit then... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298555 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:10:30 +0000 Trixie 298555@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a lefty moment while assembling Mr Trix's new bike speedo. I screwed things together entirely backwards without even considering the lefty way is not the way things are usually designed.</p> <p>Back in my school days, I earned PE certificates for golf and basketball despite not attending the classes. My absolute leftyness gave the teacher a headache so we came to an agreement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298554 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:01:02 +0000 sallyhinch 298554@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lefty too. My Crane bell is on my left bar, and I operate it with my thumb. It never occurred to me to use my index finger to ring the bell.</p> <p>There used to be a shop in London called 'You've a right to be left' - my mum used to buy me all sorts of left handed things from a fountain pen to scissors and rulers (although I actually cut with my right hand). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298551 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:49:03 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@paddyirish</p> <p><em>Wahoo elemnt bolt bundle</em></p> <p>That's not a tub of stainless machine screws is it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298548 Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:53:46 +0000 paddyirish 298548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Santa got me a wahoo elemnt bolt bundle , which will hopefully mean that I don't have to spend time stopping to get a map (paper or electronic) out every couple of junctions on longer journeys.</p> <p>Will be interested to look at cadence and heart rate data post ride to see if I learn anything, but not interested in that during a ride. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298539 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:16:36 +0000 Trixie 298539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>*Raises left hand* I would join this club. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298538 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 17:06:52 +0000 jules878 298538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good to know I'm not alone in my struggles in a right handed world. </p> <p>We need a left hander's club to offer to test out all new cycling products whilst they are at the design stage! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298535 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 14:30:37 +0000 Greenroofer 298535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jules878 (and Arellcat) hear hear! Everything from microwave doors to pouring ladles. I get my revenge by leaving left-handed scissors all over the house. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298523 Tue, 01 Jan 2019 01:28:33 +0000 Arellcat 298523@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the Crane bell is designed to be operated ("trung"?) using the right index finger, but if it was turned around perhaps us left-handers could use the left thumb instead? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298521 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:51:21 +0000 jules878 298521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A lovely Crane bike bell which has wonderful tone.</p> <p>Only problem is that it is a "right handed" bell.</p> <p>The world is designed by right handed people for right handed people. Guess what. Yup - I'm completely and utterly left handed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298479 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:28:31 +0000 sallyhinch 298479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I find other people's families much less stressful at Christmas than my own, probably because I'm deaf to the subtexts. I'm sure the power of the Internet could be harnessed to allow people who like a nice festive Christmas, but not necessarily with their nearest and dearest to celebrate with people who like a full house at Christmas but are short of suitable guests. </p> <p>My only bike related present was a nice jute-and-inner-tube duffel bag from Cycle Of Good. I like to think that it's got one of the inner tubes collected by MiniSRD in it, but I don't know how quickly they turn them around. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298478 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 17:21:59 +0000 Edinburgh Cycle Training 298478@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A rather natty Hibernian cycling jersey.</p> <p>It'll be a few months* before I can wear it on display mind</p> <p>*because of the weather, not last evening's result </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298472 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:51:49 +0000 amir 298472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I received lots of books, perhaps to encourage me to cycle less. Though one is about cycling routes in the Netherlands :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298466 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 13:20:42 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>During her recent sojourn the IWRATS-mother reminded me that she succumbed to peer pressure to celebrate Christmas only when she had children. It's a fixed point in the year for me as a result - for them it was a half-day at most.</p> <p>Our festivals should suit us and we are free to spurn Christmas if it feels false. I think it increasingly does feel wrong.</p> <p>I suggest that we recover the solstices and equinoxes for natural purposes. The autumn equinox should be the Day of the Dead and the spring equinox the Day of New Life. I already tricked you into participating in a summer solstice festival in Glen Feshie.</p> <p>Hogmanay is to be retained as a mark of artificial and voluntary conviviality but you must stray no more than two thousand paces from your own home and no money should change hands. Everyone should sleep behind someone else's sofa. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298461 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 10:42:46 +0000 gembo 298461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt, that sounds like a rubbish present.</p> <p>It used to be you could head into the hills to a remote bothy and spend the time on your lonesome getting away from it all.</p> <p>Nowadays these bothies in remote places are rammed at Xmas.</p> <p>Everyone appears to be trying to get away from it all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298459 Sun, 30 Dec 2018 00:34:43 +0000 unhurt 298459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got the same thing as every year: an escalating annual reminder that I find Christmas incrementally harder to deal with every time it comes around. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298441 Sat, 29 Dec 2018 15:23:08 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298441@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The gifting window slams rapidly shut and yet no one has offered me one of these. Mysterious.</p> <p><a href="https://vervecycling.com/why-infocrank/" rel="nofollow">https://vervecycling.com/why-infocrank/</a></p> <p>@wingpig</p> <p>The cat is pictured in happier times. A likeness in death would be too awful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298410 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:59:38 +0000 wingpig 298410@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Depicted as dead, or died since depicted alive? A former colleague once declined the opportunity to paint a former boss's dead dog, albeit from a photo of the dog from before it was dead.</p> <p>I received no cycling-related gifts. I still have to sell one from last year which didn't fit. I usually get myself a cassette or two in sales around this time of year, so might get a new chainset for the singlespeed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298409 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:56:47 +0000 I were right about that saddle 298409@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A canvas bond print of a dead cat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298402 Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:16:12 +0000 ARobComp 298402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>3 bottles of whisky. You know. For cycling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298375 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:35:28 +0000 LivM 298375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New RED (!!!) pedals for my newish bike. DMR V8s. Pins are quite aggressive - advice on getting tamer ones or am I going to have to file them down? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298368 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 13:14:46 +0000 wishicouldgofaster 298368@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>3 long sleeved cycle tops - can never have too many :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19357#post-298363 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 10:24:26 +0000 Trixie 298363@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have a nice little pair of binoculars. Nothing fancy or expensive, just for slinging in my pannier to hopefully enable more posts in the wildlife thread. </p>