http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Places you would miss in a car en Wed, 13 May 2026 05:09:29 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-186752 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:40:00 +0000 Arellcat 186752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Is the old concrete bomb shelter still visible on the glen road?</em></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rZAaju"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7660/17060624628_47c116ab3c.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/rZAaju">Hideyhole</a></p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/sh8Ht4"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7694/17247845181_21e3c3f9ab.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/sh8Ht4">Concrete evidence</a></p> <p>Still trying to find out if it was some sort of air raid shelter, or a 1950s culvert from the time of Blackford quarry. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-34875 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:55:23 +0000 chdot 34875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The thrust of this topic is continued <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3297&amp;page=3#post-34860">here</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27231 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:38:54 +0000 Cyclingmollie 27231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Speaking as someone who lived in The Forth until I was two I was amazed to hear the words Carnwath and espresso mentioned in the same sentence (in another thread). It's a shame they spoiled the best bit of the town with a dead badger (i.e. the road out).</p> <p>But back on topic, once the junior peleton gets over their bad colds we might make it to the Engine Shed. There must be more cyclists than drivers find that place by accident. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27230 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:27:41 +0000 gembo 27230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>90% of badgers dead on the road have been killed elsewhere (e.g. near Apple Pie Shop of Karnwath) then placed on road as artificial roadkill.</p> <p>Pandas are different. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27229 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:18:19 +0000 Cyclingmollie 27229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ha! I see so much road kill but badgers are unusual. A panda would be unique. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27227 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:03:50 +0000 kaputnik 27227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah I saw a dead badger at one point also. I thought at first it was a dead panda :/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27225 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:24:56 +0000 Cyclingmollie 27225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>kaputnik: There were already a few squashed frogs on the road between the left turn for Heriot and Innerleithen :/ </em></p> <p>I rode down that way this morning - turned left into Heriot though. Didn't see the frogs but did see buzzards and a dead badger. Maybe not one for the Wildlife Highlight of the Day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27224 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:17:44 +0000 amir 27224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>At Aberlady reserve (a wonderful place), the frogs and toads were at "it" the last couple of weekends. Later in the summer it's fun seeing all the young'uns leaving the ponds (then getting trampled on by nature lovers) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27216 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:52:10 +0000 kaputnik 27216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There were already a few squashed frogs on the road between the left turn for Heriot and Innerleithen :/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27215 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:45:22 +0000 PS 27215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>The Moorfoots are wonderful at this time of year - lotas of calling birds - curlews, grouse, lapwings, oystercatchers etc - you can only really soak in that atmosphere if you get out of the car. </em></p> <p>It's coming up to toad time (or is it frogs? I forget) at Heriot Water. Last year I cycled up there on the second weekend of April and the road was covered with them. You'd have missed them in a 50mph car, but you got a great view from a bike. Actually, you wouldn't have missed them in a car - several had been squashed by motors. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27209 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:48:24 +0000 kaputnik 27209@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hermitage was the first place I saw goldcrest and green woodpecker. Also used to be a regular haunt for kestrel and peregrine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27205 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:52:17 +0000 amir 27205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Love The Hermitage - used to walk there a lot when I lived in Blackford. Now occasionally I go at lunchtime at work. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27204 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:51:25 +0000 amir 27204@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Moorfoots are wonderful at this time of year - lotas of calling birds - curlews, grouse, lapwings, oystercatchers etc - you can only really soak in that atmosphere if you get out of the car. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27197 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:47:46 +0000 Arellcat 27197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Totally agree with chdot, the Hermitage is just lovely. Not as 'commuter route' as the WoL path between Colinton village and Juniper Green and Balerno, not as immaculately gardened as the Botanics.</p> <p>Is the old concrete bomb shelter still visible on the glen road? It's been ages since I was along that way, as I usually join at the Lang Linn Path bridge and walk or ride through to Greenbank. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27194 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:41:21 +0000 chdot 27194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Hermitage. </p> <p><a href="http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1005625" rel="nofollow">http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1005625</a></p> <p>Since the Access Legislation it's OK to cycle through - mind pedestrians and dogs etc. </p> <p>I was once told off for cycling on the road to the house by a ranger in a van - I was going to an official event there!!!</p> <p>Quite a lot of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/5542068731/">woodland and path work going on at moment</a> to make it even better. </p> <p>If you've never been, route continues along Blackford Glen Road (not a single moving vehicle yesterday) to the foot of Liberton Brae.<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/5542581218/"><br /> <img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5542581218_5cf8aed748.jpg"><br /> </a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27182 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:53:31 +0000 Smudge 27182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lol, in the car (or indeed on the roadbike!) I miss my ten minute meditative peace and quiet on the old railway before finishing my run into work every morning. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27166 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:48:28 +0000 splitshift 27166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I reckon in a car you might completely miss the point of this thread and go wildly off topic !!!!<br /> just joking !!!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27157 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:24:58 +0000 Smudge 27157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I use the short strip wrapped around the back of the clamp first to cover any deficiencies in my wrapping technique ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27152 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:40:47 +0000 kaputnik 27152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I can't work out how to get it round the brakes</em></p> <p>Flip the hoods back on themselves then do a sort of figure-of-eight loop around them. Youtube videos are much better at explaining than I </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27151 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:38:24 +0000 gembo 27151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't work out how to get it round the brakes, the gel tape was a big disappointment - just same tape but with bits of jelly padding underneath, making it trickier to wrap the tape correctly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27148 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:15:26 +0000 druidh 27148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've just transferred some bar tape from an old set of bars to a new set. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27115 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:51:27 +0000 chdot 27115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'm also loath to spend any money"</p> <p>Old inner tubes should cover that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27113 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:25:33 +0000 wingpig 27113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Travelling too fast and in too enclosed a thing distorts the impression of the distance covered, the altitude gained or lost and generally detracts deom experiencing landscape at the human scale.</p> <p>I need new bar tape but I'm still not sure everything's set up optimally. I'm also loath to spend any money to re-upholster the never-used drops. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27110 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:04:17 +0000 Smudge 27110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ahh, top tip time, for conventional handlebar grips (motorbike or bicycle) firm hold hairspray is the business, liberal application to the inside of the grip and it will slide onto the bar easily, once there it dries off and the tack/stick ensures the grip doesn't move under any provcation I've encountered, once it's time to come off there is virtually no residue.</p> <p>OT, My grandfather was a chemist and their labs spent a very long time trying to make a better household detergent than Fairy, they failed and our family have used it ever since! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27109 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:02:56 +0000 kaputnik 27109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The first side of bar taping is always a faff for me, even though I've done it quite a lot now. The foamy, stretchy tape is much easier than the Fizik microtex stuff I now like using. Doing the "other" bar seems to take mere minutes in comparison as you can just reference the completed bar that took so long to get right. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27104 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:43:56 +0000 chdot 27104@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"is it just me that finds the "permanent" aspect of applying bar tape scary??!)"</p> <p>Probably not. </p> <p>I recently put some foam (Grab-On copy) on drop bars - real fiddle getting them over the brake cables - used lots of Fairy Liquid. (Other brands are probably available - but why bother...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27102 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:37:23 +0000 Smudge 27102@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Kaputnik, Sounds like you need to design a credible, stylish, practical and lightweight stand for bikes. Once you've done it let me know so I can copy the design ;-))</p> <p>(one side of bar tape done, pausing for a brew before the second side, is it just me that finds the "permanent" aspect of applying bar tape scary??!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27100 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:32:58 +0000 kaputnik 27100@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Old railway paths are my favourite places to go where cars can't. I like just jumping off the bike, propping it up against a tree or a hedge and going for a wee scramble around to find interesting bits of old architecture (concrete as well as bricks!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27096 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:48:00 +0000 chdot 27096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most parts of the <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/ch.edinburgh/exedBB/pdfs/EE/WOL%20leaflet.pdf">Water of Leith</a>.</p> <p>Thing about bikes is that it's easier to wander about, stop, look up go through gaps and down paths that cars can't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2547#post-27094 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:35:17 +0000 Cyclingmollie 27094@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycling to work yesterday I could smell roasting coffee and on my way home I investigated and found that Brodies has a factory shop, just across the road from the main entrance to Newhailes. I bought a kilo of Kilimanjaro beans. I doubt I'd even have smelled the coffee if I'd been in a car. </p> <p>Any other life enhancing places which you found because you were cycling and not driving? </p>