http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Belated introduction from me. en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:00:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26837 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:10:57 +0000 Jackson Priest 26837@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Don't worry about rambing. It's what forums are for isn't it?</em> Ha ha CyclingMollie, it's just as well really.</p> <p>Hello again Anth, I should have realised you were from Wallsend by the packet of tabs tucked under your short sleeve. In November. </p> <p>Thanks for the welcomes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26602 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:58:29 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 26602@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hey JP!</p> <p>Now, if I'd known you were a monkey-hanger... ;) Originally from Newcastle (well, Wallsend-born to be exact). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26600 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:55:39 +0000 chdot 26600@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> cyclestreets: Proud to answer 'Bicycle' on the #census question about method of transport to work<br /> "<br /> Original Tweet: <a href="http://twitter.com/cyclestreets/status/46177608299331584" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/cyclestreets/status/46177608299331584</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26546 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:44:52 +0000 Cyclingmollie 26546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello Jackson Priest. Don't worry about rambing. It's what forums are for isn't it? I don't get the amazed/horrified looks I used to get when I cycled to work. When I moved to Edinburgh I remember saying to someone that I wasn't sure if I should turn up at a meeting by bike. He looked at me, as I remember now with a steely glint in his eye, and said "never apologise for turning up on a bike". Wise words. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26523 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:06:46 +0000 Jackson Priest 26523@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>So residents of Hartlepool are unlikely to be honoured to learn that the Hollywood director got his inspiration for the grim setting from the northern port.</em></p> <p>Ho ho. Things like that and the monkey hanging story make me wear my hartlepudlian-ness like a big enormous badge of pride. . </p> <p><em>'A perpetually dark and rainy metropolis characterised by widespread social decay... “filthy” industrial landscape'</em></p> <p>Yep - that's the one!</p> <p>Will have to watch Blade Runner now. I've never seen it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26515 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:54:41 +0000 chdot 26515@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I think the dark dank design of parts of the ship in Alien were inspired by his daily bike ride to the art college in Hartlepool"</p> <p>Very likely -</p> <p>"<br /> A perpetually dark and rainy metropolis characterised by widespread social decay, Ridley Scott’s futuristic Los Angeles in the film Blade Runner is one of cinema’s more depressing depictions.</p> <p>So residents of Hartlepool are unlikely to be honoured to learn that the Hollywood director got his inspiration for the grim setting from the northern port.</p> <p>Scott has revealed how his nightmare vision of the future was based on Hartlepool’s “filthy” industrial landscape.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2609437.ece" rel="nofollow">http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2609437.ece</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26514 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:36:01 +0000 Jackson Priest 26514@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll watch all that later. He's cycling round the Headland by the looks of it. Funny, I remember Hartlepool in monochrome too. I think the dark dank design of parts of the ship in Alien were inspired by his daily bike ride to the art college in Hartlepool. </p> <p>Thanks for the welcome btw.</p> <p><em>Of course 'we' are never "smug". Just cleaning up the wheel (Campag hub) that I got on ebay for not-a-lot.</em></p> <p>No, you are obviously never smug!</p> <p><em>Just think - it can't be that long since the last thing people mentioned at work was 'I ride a bike'... </em></p> <p>They just think it's a bit odd here. I get the "You must be mad to cycle [in the snow/the sun/the rain/the wind/not painted head to toe in flouro yellow/with a slight sniffle/insert other feeble protestation here] chat quite a lot. I think it's because they're secretly envious of my chunky thighs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26511 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:13:43 +0000 chdot 26511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"took up cycling on the laundry-strewn back streets of Hartlepool"</p> <p>Recognise any of them? -<br /> .</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwmwt02w_4c" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwmwt02w_4c</a><br /> .<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKhwqYreW8&amp;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKhwqYreW8&amp;feature=related</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26510 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:06:36 +0000 chdot 26510@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Welcome.</p> <p>"and allow me to be smug in conversations at work"</p> <p>Of course 'we' are never "smug". Just cleaning up the wheel (Campag hub) that I got on ebay for not-a-lot.</p> <p>Just think - it can't be that long since the<em> last</em> thing people mentioned at work was 'I ride a bike'... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26509 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:03:45 +0000 Jackson Priest 26509@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hello Dave - surely not, I think I may have droned on too much anyway! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26508 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:59:33 +0000 DaveC 26508@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi Jackson Priest, thanks for the bio, not sure if I gave as much info on mine or if should give another as I've moved to Edinburgh since I first joined.... I'll let others decide. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2502#post-26507 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:53:02 +0000 Jackson Priest 26507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>hello hello</p> <p>I did post first a couple of weeks ago I think, and meant to introduce myself properly then, but have never got round to it til now, being a bit useless. </p> <p>So anyways - took up cycling on the laundry-strewn back streets of Hartlepool in the 1970s, inspired by this:</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4OzPrskdqU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4OzPrskdqU</a></p> <p>(I love how he laughs it all off when deep down inside he's crying.)</p> <p>Had a variety of cheapo 2nd hand roadbikes (or racers, as we called them in those days) while growing up – Kalkhoff Concorde, Raleigh Arena, although what I really wanted was a Chopper - even as I cycled easily past them, I would experience a flash of Chopper-envy. Duh. But my dad said they were rubbish - and he was right.</p> <p>Escaped Hartlepool, and after meandering in other cities for a while, where my falling-apart Arena was mainly used for going to the pub (and back), moved to London, where I cycled, er, regularly – ie. about 10 times in 10 years.</p> <p>Then moved up to Edinburgh – Portobello - 10 years ago. I was amazed at how much space cyclists got on the road compared to London, so I bought a mountain bike (cheapie from Bike Repair Man) a few months afterwards to commute on. After a while, I decided it didn’t go fast enough, so swapped the tyres for slicks. But, it was still a bit like hard work. So… (I’m sure you know how this story goes.) Now have 2 racers (a black one and a blue/white one) and a sort of cyclo-crossy-roady-hybridy Trek thing (white) which has had much fiddling done to it, and is usually what I use to commute on. </p> <p>Taught – well, helped - my eldest daughter to ride a bike last year. A few manly tears fell down my cheek as she sped off. Not sure if it was from pride at her newly acquired chops or in my super-fantastic teaching skills (it only took an afternoon-and-a-bit!) - hopefully the former.</p> <p>I don’t cycle to be green or because it's cheaper than the bus* – these are beneficial side effect obviously, and allow me to be smug in conversations at work – I just do it cos I love it. Even today, into the 95 mph headwinds…</p> <p>So that's kind of my cycling life. Sorry if I’ve rambled...</p> <p>PS. Think I have chatted to the poster known as “Anth at Work” on t’road before. Conversation about Crud Road Racer mudguards/Edinburgh Nocturne/his white bike, by the end of which I was worried I sounded like an internet stalker. I probably do even more now. Oh well… (Maybe that should have been in Spotted, but it was a few months ago.)</p> <p>*Hmmm, not sure about this actually. </p>