http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Edinburgh-East Lothian en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:58:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341331 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:03:05 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341331@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Never saw that coming. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341328 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:18:53 +0000 gembo 341328@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Crowriver you have recalled correctly, One of the very best. Mark E really pushes the boat out in his screeching-Ah on-Ah that-Ah one-Ah</p> <p>He also adds very many Ahs to the ends of words-Ah </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341327 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:17:51 +0000 crowriver 341327@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>(A digression as I had to share these startlingly erudite Fall lyrics: Mark E Smith RIP)</p> <p>Wireless enthusiast intercepts government secret radio band and<br /> uncovers secrets and scandals of deceitful type proportions.</p> <p>Aghast goes next door to his neighbor, secretly excited, as<br /> aforementioned was a hunter whom radio enthusiast wanted<br /> friendship and favor of.</p> <p>A new face in hell<br /> Nearly a new face in hell!</p> <p>A muscular, thick-skinned, slit-eyed neighbor is at the table<br /> poisoned just thirty seconds before by parties who knew of<br /> wireless operator's forthcoming revelation.</p> <p>A new face in hell!</p> <p>A prickly line of sweat covers enthusiast's forehead as the<br /> realization hits him that the same government him and his now<br /> dead neighbor voted for and backed and talked of on cream porches<br /> have tricked him into their war against the people who enthusiast<br /> and dead hunter would have wished torture on. A servant of<br /> government walks in and arrests wireless fan in<br /> kitchen for murder of his neighbor</p> <p>A new face in hell!</p> <p>The dead cannot contradict<br /> Sometimes the living cannot</p> <p>A new face in hell! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341325 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:02:26 +0000 crowriver 341325@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, New Face In Hell was a song by The Fall as I recall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341322 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:03:36 +0000 gembo 341322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don’t disagree with Prof French’s analysis. I just point out you cannot stop so you cannot break down or get off for a pee. Perpetual motion at all times. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341320 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:57:16 +0000 ejstubbs 341320@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo: <em>Tiers people come on. You should not cycle to tier 2 from tier 3.</em></p> <p>Tut tut my boy: "tiers" are the work of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel on't'other side of the border. In this part of the realm Nicola has decreed the use of "protection levels".</p> <p>And Frenchy had it right. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341318 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:38:34 +0000 gembo 341318@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is an outside chance you also get all of The New Face In Hell (though you might only get some of it). Real name Minervois La Liviniere L’Enfer from Chateau Maris. Grapes picked at midnight by a bona Fide Witch </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341317 Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:24:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341317@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Deal to be done. Never spoken lightly of a mudguard in my puff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341293 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:09:15 +0000 gembo 341293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Veggie fine for me, will swap for cider unless you are serious about that mudguard </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341292 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:23:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341292@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Puds are veggie mate. Discussed veganising with my mate's vegan boy the other day. He muttered 'flax seed' but did not look convinced. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341291 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:57:24 +0000 gembo 341291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tiers people come on. You should not cycle to tier 2 from tier 3. You can if you want to but wh6 would yo7 want to?</p> <p>Organised groups have to stick to Bill’s Boundary, exercisers can roam free but should they really?</p> <p>Puddings, any vegan or veggie for an old ex leper? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341290 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:03:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341290@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://goo.gl/maps/NktE526mXxGpyRzs5">This thing? </a>Always wondered what it was. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341289 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:00:47 +0000 mcairney 341289@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Illicit handover at the Booker Cash n Carry? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341288 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:59:53 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341288@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@MediumDave</p> <p>I found some lovely stainless steel ones. Bit too lovely, the pudding recipients seem to have retained them....</p> <p>@urchaidh</p> <p>In what way has the thread 'drifted'? Going quite well from my point of view. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341286 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:30:59 +0000 urchaidh 341286@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Frenchy - thanks, just been reading it all again, I've had it all wrong. D'oh!</p> <p>What I was trying to figure out was can people from different areas meet for exercise assuming household number and distancing rules are met? </p> <p>[sorry (not sorry) for thread drift] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341284 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:28:04 +0000 MediumDave 341284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD @IWRATS</p> <p>Foil pudding basin? Will stand up to oven temps (bain marie or not) and will (mostly) survive rough handling[1]. I'm assuming your puddings are of the very solid variety as is Good and Proper. </p> <p>[1] Though maybe not by baggage handlers </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341282 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:15:33 +0000 Frenchy 341282@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can go anywhere you like for the purposes of exercise as long as your journey starts and ends in the same location and that location is either inside of or within 5 miles of the boundary of your home council area.</p> <p>So if you start and end at your own house, you can basically cycle anywhere you like and not be breaking the law. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341281 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:13:14 +0000 acsimpson 341281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS, legally you can drive up to 5 miles outside your area and then take your exercise from there which must start and end at the same place. This is also taken to mean you can exercise in a loop from your home going where you like. There is no mention of being allowed to do anything but exercise while you are there.</p> <p>There are some who would rather you didn't travel to their areas at all. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341280 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:09:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341280@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have totally missed the law. I can go five miles out of my home zone is that it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341279 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:57:10 +0000 urchaidh 341279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can you go for excercise and do a dead drop?</p> <p>The kids and I have been venturing into East Lothian and Midlothian for exercise, limited opportunities within the city limits with kids. Haven't mapped pit the 5m/8km boundary, not sure if I want to know, but I suspect we're OK.</p> <p>Cockenzie Harbour is about 8Km along the coast, Tranent probably OK, and the Pencaitland path as far as the turn up to Elphinstone. Edinburgh bulging out to Sheriffhall is useful. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341277 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 16:29:43 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341277@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Proposed those coordinates to my mate and apparently it's legal for him to take his kid to basketball in a school up the road. So the handover will be in a car park.</p> <p>But thanks to all for the info. Must try that path. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341268 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 15:32:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341268@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh SRD more than once, more than once. Problem is I do my puds in the oven in a bain marie. Plastic, even at 140C, well I would have anxieties. </p> <p>Go fetch the rich morsels from the oven after eight hours only to find the basins melted Dali pocketwatch style? Eeeek. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341266 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:55:12 +0000 SRD 341266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats if you ever venture into an airplane with a pudding again, you might try a plastic budding basin? although I know that would be anathema to your purist tendencies (which have been known to get you into trouble...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341255 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:17:14 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341255@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, Pudding Boy is hardy. Used to ride over to Wallyford for the train. Thanks for the insight I will set up the drop. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341251 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:51:22 +0000 Frenchy 341251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Newcraighall Park isn't too bad to get to if you come from the Brunstane path rather than through Fort Kinnaird. This probably isn't a direct route for you, but is still considerably less distance than Pencaitland is.</p> <p>From Pencaitland, it's not too bad either. Pencaitland path, back road to Smeaton, through Whitecraig and onto NCN 1. Does involve the usual fun of barriers on NCN1 in Monktonhall. Getting on to NCN1 involves one of:</p> <p><ul><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/264003653">A flight of steps at Smeaton.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/27871571">A short section of probably unsurfaced track at Smeaton substation.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/226285076">500m of 60mph main road.</a></li></ul></p> <p>All or none of which may be problematic for the pudding receiver. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341249 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:36:24 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341249@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax</p> <p>I once nursed such a pudding through the upper reaches of the troposphere only to see it smashed as it landed on the baggage carousel at Geneva airport. Never again, man. This is not Nam. There are rules.</p> <p>@gembo</p> <p>WTAF? Is that right? I can take my disease-riddled carcass into Zone 3 as long as I keep going? Did not know that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341248 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:31:30 +0000 gembo 341248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Humbie hub. Or thereabouts, you can go to Midlothian is tier 3 you just can’t stop </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341247 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:27:50 +0000 minus six 341247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>it would be foolish to enter the death strip</p> <p>might i suggest drone delivery, or a big catapult </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20426#post-341246 Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:08:49 +0000 I were right about that saddle 341246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So every year I ride a mini pilgrimage to deliver a Christmas pudding to Pencaitland. This is now illegal of course.</p> <p>I shall request that the recipient take his bicycle and meet me on the boundary between the City and East Lothian. Looking at the map this is a 2km boundary from the sea at Joppa to the A1 at Newcraighall.</p> <p>Anyone know if that's accessible from both sides? The OS map just kind of shrugs. </p>