http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: I hate.... en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:45:46 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69766 Wed, 09 May 2012 22:32:11 +0000 kaputnik 69766@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Arrelcat - I went home but my lack of Big Society to this particular problem weighed heavily on my conscience so after I had changed into more shop-suitable shorts I went back to remedy the situation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69752 Wed, 09 May 2012 20:03:01 +0000 Arellcat 69752@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kaputnik, I wonder if you passed them after I did? I pondered moving them to the pavement but was more keen to retain my inertia than be a good cyclizen. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69744 Wed, 09 May 2012 19:23:21 +0000 wee folding bike 69744@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He doesn't have one yet but he is due to leave for London, England, in a few months and he might get one then. </p> <p>I need one with a tow bar tomorrow afternoon but both of the 6 speeds have one so that's not going to be a decider. </p> <p>He says he will take them for a spin round the block later and see which he likes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69743 Wed, 09 May 2012 19:18:23 +0000 Min 69743@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That is very restrained of you. I always want to drag them out into the road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69742 Wed, 09 May 2012 19:03:24 +0000 kaputnik 69742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Feeling the obligation to do this</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaputniq/7166010718/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7091/7166010718_7d6f7359b4.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69741 Wed, 09 May 2012 18:33:57 +0000 chdot 69741@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You mean he doesn't have his own?</p> <p>Tandem? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69740 Wed, 09 May 2012 18:30:49 +0000 wee folding bike 69740@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Deciding which Brompton is best for Number 1 son to go cycling with his burd tomorrow.</p> <p>M6R - no punctures on Marathon/Plus but the seat pin is a bit sticky. It makes a screech when you pull it up and you sometimes have to hold the frame down with your boot.</p> <p>S6L - All works OK but it has a Brooks B17 <em>N</em> which he doesn't like the look of, prefers the B17 S on the M6R and he can't mend a puncture which might happen on Kojaks.</p> <p>S2L-X - Nahhh, he isn't getting that one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69739 Wed, 09 May 2012 18:10:30 +0000 recombodna 69739@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Finding out the brakes you bought dont drop enough....... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69736 Wed, 09 May 2012 17:39:31 +0000 Darkerside 69736@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cars not moving off fast enough to allow me to keep up the 'slow glide to avoid stopping', resulting in a last minute foot down, stop, reset pedals. Life is indeed full of sorrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69688 Wed, 09 May 2012 14:25:56 +0000 wingpig 69688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...nothing coming out when you squeeze your tube of puncture-repair glue, only to be momentarily relieved when it turns out to be because the foil at the top has never been pierced due to never being needed, only to subsequently discover that the glue inside has still turned into a single snotty blob due to the tube's extreme age. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69621 Wed, 09 May 2012 11:34:08 +0000 Uberuce 69621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hate the way I plainly can't trackstand on the black fix, but keep trying anyway, and I confess I've had to do the sheepish reverse red scuttle if I've lost the horizontal too close to the line. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69616 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:57:20 +0000 kaputnik 69616@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclists who attempt to trackstand at a red light, but can't trackstand, and just roll slowly and wobbily through the lights. Then once they're through, act as if it's all a big surprise "how did I get here? I was waiting, trackstanding at the red!" and then sort of shrug their shoulders and carry on.</p> <p>If you go through the red very slowly, <strong>you still went through the red</strong>! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69599 Wed, 09 May 2012 10:21:19 +0000 spytfyre 69599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>cyclists who use the green man to carry on their journey making everyone at the junction (vans and taxis) who want to turn right suddenly feel like they are justified to try to do so <em>before I get to the middle of the junction heading straight on</em><br /> thanks dumb@$$ - you made the drivers hate me </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-69584 Wed, 09 May 2012 09:18:55 +0000 wingpig 69584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Punctures caused by actual real-life tyre sidewall blowouts, which I'm sure has happened once before long ago but too long ago to actually remember.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wingpig/7163391738/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8163/7163391738_f4fac58500_m.jpg"></a></p> <p>Fortunately, it was a couple of seconds after I'd jumped off to foot-scuttle across the road after a light went red, not that it stopped the numptie behind me who trundled through. Might have been nasty if it had been when I was turning right across the West Approach Road into Canning St just before traffic going straight through got green. Unfortunately, it's on a day when I have to be home promptly to collect the child and when I already have a nice fresh replacement tyre already bought sitting at home, preventing me buying one at lunchtime. Booting it with the materials available in my bag and desk to stop the spare tube popping whilst I roll it gingerly home will be this lunchtime's fun activity. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-52720 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:12:25 +0000 TwoWheels 52720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...not being able to get to Edinburgh, the city I love more than any in the world. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-52704 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:36:58 +0000 Uberuce 52704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The way my chain is exactly the wrong length. </p> <p>[interchangeable with: (dropout is too short) and (wrong chainring/cog combination)] </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-52703 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:36:22 +0000 Arellcat 52703@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Amir, that's what white chinagraph pencils are for! In a pinch, a thin marker pen or even a ballpoint pen can be used instead.</p> <p>I hate being just well enough to ride my bike across town (albeit slower than usual) but just unwell enough to feel nauseous and with no appetite all through the day at work.</p> <p>I also hate Morningside Road's tarmac. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-52676 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:49:46 +0000 amir 52676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>... it when you can't find the p*** hole so have to resort to water. Then its so small that you lose it, and again and again ad infinitum </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169&page=2#post-38458 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:09:59 +0000 DaveC 38458@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Red light jumpers on Princes street. Just because the pedestrians have crossed, doesn't mean you can jump the red light..!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-38455 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:59:15 +0000 wingpig 38455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spoke faeries.<br /> I was all packed and ready to take my securely-attached new fork up to TBW with time to spare to get there right when they opened, too. No spares at the moment so chucking a new tube and tyre on my spare old wheel seemed the least messy and quickest solution. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-34599 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:02:55 +0000 chdot 34599@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't <em>think</em> AB is a hypocrite - optimistic/naïve when it comes the tram, probably. </p> <p>Certainly he/his party was a bit negligent when it came to getting the project rolling (sic!)</p> <p>But I don't think even the most anti-tram person could have predicted how much it would unravel in the past 2-3 years. This is above party politics. It's clear that the parties that happen to have been 'in power' for the last 4 years were never 'in control'. </p> <p>Whether tie staff, CEC officials or politicians have lied - or just been absurdly unaware of what has 'really' been happening is far from clear. Even the (probable) public enquiry is unlikely to discover all the answers. </p> <p>Today -</p> <p>"<a href="http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Labour-demands-heads-of-Dawe.6793683.jp">Labour demands heads of Dawe and Cardownie over trams fiasco</a>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-34585 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:45:39 +0000 spytefear 34585@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and also - what I would deem to be hypocrisy:</p> <p>Thanks for your e-mail below.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; ... as you may know, I was someone who supported the initiation of this project back in the early 2000's and continue to be a supporter of the 'in-principle' development of trams. But I agree that in recent years the current project has completely unravelled and we have watched in some despair, since being in Opposition from May 2007, as the project has rapidly gone over budget and over time. The capital cost for St. Andrew Square is now far, far beyond the available monies. In addition there is little, or no, prospect of any additional capital grant allocation from central Government. Such a financial 'capping' for a major infrastructure project like the tram is completely unprecedented and clearly outwith our control.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; Through all of this, from Opposition since May 2007, we (alongside the Conservative and Green Groups) have worked extremely hard to try and hold the current SNP/Lib-Dem Council to account, but their ultimate political control of the Council has obviously prevailed.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; As for the future, you're quite right to point out that anyone would be right to treat current cost-projections with a serious dose of scepticism, and I can only assure you that we are scrutinising every detail of what's now being proposed before coming to a final decision on which option we will support at this coming Thursday's Council Meeting.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; We haven't yet arrived at that final decision, but we will not support yet further unallocated borrowing (of some several hundred million pounds) to possibly get the project to St. Andrew Square. These monies would need to be borne by Edinburgh Council, which already has some £1.3billion worth of borrowing, requiring over £100million of annual revenue payments. That's 10% of our revenue budget going on interest payments every year, right now.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; Indeed, every option before the Council on Thursday is pretty unpalatable - no option before the Council on Thursday is good.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; And, in due course, searching questions do indeed need to be asked about how it all got to this position. But, on Thursday, a decision does need to be made between the choices that are available to us.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; Thanks again for getting in touch and making your views known to me. I will forward you a copy of our Group's final Amendment as soon as I can.<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; Andrew<br /> &gt; ____________<br /> &gt;<br /> &gt; Andrew Burns<br /> &gt; Labour Councillor for Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart Ward<br /> &gt; Leader, Labour Group, City of Edinburgh Council </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-34506 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:15 +0000 spytefear 34506@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ditto, pollen </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-34443 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:31:37 +0000 wingpig 34443@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shifter cables snapping, especially just after being diverted away from a route which would have required no further gear changes until reaching the office. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33704 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:52:53 +0000 Cyclingmollie 33704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...the Scottish weather. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33640 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:12:12 +0000 wingpig 33640@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...my padlock jumping out of my saddlebag on the way home. Six years' uncomplaining and faultless service and now it's probably being rolled up and injected by whichever passing Easter Roadite found it and picked it up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33587 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:49:39 +0000 wingpig 33587@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...that the hill isn't bigger and that going round it a couple of times in the evening doesn't even use up the cookies I ate yesterday lunchtime... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33586 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:41:51 +0000 Stepdoh 33586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...probably not helped by the fact i used up two spots pointing this out ;D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33585 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:41:04 +0000 Stepdoh 33585@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>uh uh, the iHates are catching up with the iLoves. Better get some love going. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3169#post-33584 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:31:40 +0000 kaputnik 33584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When the timetrial timekeepers make a mistake and you get your bubble burst by finding out you went a minute slower than you initially thought! </p>