http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Corporate cyclist en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:35:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23064 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:25:12 +0000 Stepdoh 23064@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To be fair I've had them on since Feb 2010, so they're not that bad :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23063 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:23:17 +0000 ruggtomcat 23063@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yah my citycontacts holed after about 200 miles :( </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23062 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:20:09 +0000 Stepdoh 23062@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a real shame it sucked, as I was really keen on giving it a go. Will try again next time I have to go and see folk in Glasgow.</p> <p>Service was pretty dead in the middle, glasgow folk going to outer glasgow, and outer edinburgh folk heading into embra. Nice change to the usual shuttle route.</p> <p>Was a juniper train, the 334 (recycled from my old home route to Port Glasgow), i was in the disabled bit, but just chained it into the curved wasll of the vestibule, at the toilet. Wasn't really room if I put in in the hallway bit. No bike hangers or anything useful like the turbostars.</p> <p>Not a second glance from the guards though. Queen St Low Level even had a poster about taking your bike on the train!</p> <p>My Conti CityContacts were fairly robust at first, much more so than the Schwalbe CityJets but by looking at the number of hacks and cuts on them they do take a pummeling on my 'mute route, and think they are becoming a little less effective. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23055 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:04:00 +0000 wee folding bike 23055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I took a Brompton on the Airdrie - Edinburgh train last month.</p> <p>People frequently take cumbersomes on the Queen St - Airdrie section. It might not be popular at rush hour but I've never had any grief and I have occasionally taken a cumbersome or a trailer on there. I fold the trailer but leave the wheels on so it just sits against the wall. </p> <p>I don't remember putting a cumbersome on at Queen St, I'd usually got it in place at Charing Cross or somewhere further west where the train was quieter.</p> <p>When I used it for getting to the Mysterious East it was busy in the morning from Bathgate to Waverley. I got one back around 1700 in the afternoon and it wasn't busy. </p> <p>The Glasgow Queen St to Bellgrove section can be busy if the footballists are playing at Parkhead.</p> <p>The newer Class 334 trains have a wheel chair area beside the toilet. Bikes can fit in this area but it's not designed for them. The older Class 320s have a sideways flip up seat which fits a bike when flipped. They are at the ends of the 3 car units. I don't think 320s will be running as far as Waverley as they have no facilities, indeed I don't know if they're still running on the line at all now.</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_334" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_334</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_320" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_320</a></p> <p>And I use Marathon Plus if I absolutely have to be there on time. They're not fast but they will get you there. Looks like the Pashley at least three days a week till the end of June as I have to be back at the nursery with the trailer and on at least one of the days I don't have time for a flat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23039 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:01:55 +0000 LaidBack 23039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well done though on your multi-modal exploration.<br /> Sorry to hear about the P thing. Almost guaranteed to get two holes if glass is sneaky enough.</p> <p>My WL customers like Marathon Plus.</p> <p>Quite an achievement as I thought the railway may have fallen apart - risk of overhead lines coming down by now I expect.</p> <p>Was your bike welcomed on board - or merely tolerated? Was the service busy? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23020 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:25:33 +0000 Stepdoh 23020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just my bike possibly, and a certain more haste, less speed state of mind when it comes to puncture repairs, or buckfast quaffing Uphallians. Haarumph.</p> <p>Other that that tiny bit of glass it would have been great, even with the horrendous cross winds and broken up bike path, oh and that gravelly pink s*** all over one bit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23004 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:57:26 +0000 chdot 23004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So</p> <p>You're saying trains are more reliable than bikes??</p> <p>You'll be hoping for a variation on <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2092&amp;page=2#post-22901">this</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-23001 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:45:16 +0000 Stepdoh 23001@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So here's how it really went down.</p> <p>Bike to waverley &gt; take on train to glasgow &gt; do meeting &gt; take train back to uphall on the new line &gt; Get a puncture from a big hunk of glass on the bike path &gt; Half arsedly fix puncture and break pedros tyre lever while putting tyre back on &gt; Pump up tyre to discover I hadn't actually fixed it &gt; Repeat previous two steps minus hadn't &gt; Get going &gt; find bike path cut in half by housing development &gt; Track back to main road &gt; Bike downhill to Ingliston &gt; Feel back rim rubbing against ground &gt; pump up &gt; ride a bit &gt; pump up &gt; ride last mile on rim &gt; do work &gt; put bike in post room for night &gt; get lift home.</p> <p>Sigh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-22931 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:50:15 +0000 chdot 22931@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Ah, is that the bit round the back of the ticket office?"</p> <p>If you mean escalotors - yes, that's main way down. </p> <p>Can't answer (previous) Q2 - but I expect trains will cope! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-22930 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:47:44 +0000 Stepdoh 22930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Braw, thank Chdot!</p> <p>Ah, is that the bit round the back of the ticket office? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-22929 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:45:51 +0000 chdot 22929@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Quick query though, is Queen Street LL okay for taking bikes down into, and does the Airdrie Bathgate line take em."</p> <p>Yes</p> <p>Yes</p> <p>LL has escalators round the corner from main concourse AND lifts from main station platform - which took me years to notice. </p> <p>A-B trains have no 'bike spaces' (went to Uphall on Monday!) lean bike in vestibule - think all stations have platforms on same side. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2175#post-22928 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:38:44 +0000 Stepdoh 22928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Doing the corporate cyclist route today. </p> <p>Bike to waverley &gt; take on train to glasgow &gt; do meeting &gt; take train back to uphall on the new line &gt; Bike downhill to ingliston &gt; do work &gt; go home.</p> <p>Quick query though, is Queen Street LL okay for taking bikes down into, and does the Airdrie Bathgate line take em.</p> <p>Question 2, is West Lothian under a ton of snow :)? </p>