http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: A Lothian Road Cyclist Survey (ish) en Thu, 21 May 2026 10:29:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36284 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:28:00 +0000 amir 36284@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Most bikes are Taiwanese? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36283 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:51 +0000 steveo 36283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>No, no, no.. thats the race</em></p> <p>Surely that depends if its a road bike or not... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36276 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:03:10 +0000 DaveC 36276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@chdot..</p> <p>No, no, no.. thats the race (or ethnic origin)... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36273 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:54:01 +0000 chdot 36273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"You're marking the gender of the bike?"</p> <p>You can tell by the colour... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36266 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:12:59 +0000 Smudge 36266@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"...and type of bike into gender..."<br /> You're marking the gender of the bike? Blimey! :-o </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36254 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:35:00 +0000 SRD 36254@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Emergency socks?! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36253 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:20:21 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Are the photos up on Flickr yet?</em></p> <p>Not yet, but what were you riding and I can check! :)</p> <p>Starting going through the shots at lunchtime, but planning on breaking down things like helmet and type of bike into gender as well as overall, so I need more time for it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36247 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:33:04 +0000 wingpig 36247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@anth General dingbattery: after the roundabout cutter-up at Lochend, when I reached the town centre there was non-looking lane-switching, RLJing (using the 'really slowly doesn't count' technique), pavementing, gutter-hugging, inter-bus slaloming and a perhaps-not-deliberate-but-<em>very</em>-daft completely undone shoelace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36245 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:32:23 +0000 kaputnik 36245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Must have just missed you!</em></p> <p>And here was me thinking of looping around Morrison Street back onto Lothian Road, just to get "into" the survey and skew the results by adding a "replica retro kit and matching cap but with emergency non-cycling socks on" category... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36241 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:22:19 +0000 mgj 36241@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oooh, ooh, that might include me today. First commute back after holidays and I probably went through about 8:30. Didnt see you taking photos though, so I may have just missed you. Are the photos up on Flickr yet? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36229 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:08:32 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was an exhibition of August Sander photos at Dean Gallery a wee while back <a href="http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/1015745">here</a>...</p> <p>Hmmmm, there's an idea Instography. 'Cyclists of the 21st Century'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36224 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:59:21 +0000 chdot 36224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sander">August Sander</a></p> <p>Had to look up! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36222 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:48:53 +0000 Instography 36222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great idea for analysis and blipping. There's an August Sander typology in this. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36215 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:56:04 +0000 Arellcat 36215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can I be an honorary 'Melville Driver'? I had to visit someone before work today and afterwards sped towards Tollcross and past a whole load of queueing cars, but missed the CCE survey by about 20 minutes.</p> <p>The roadworks at the top of Henderson/West Approach Road approach are causing pretty impressive tailbacks, so I cycled past them too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36212 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:48:18 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36212@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Must have <em>just</em> missed you!</p> <p>@wingpig, you have a built-in thermal-reactor so I'll leave the winter counts to you... What happened this morning? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36211 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:38:41 +0000 kaputnik 36211@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> today 8.12 to 8.30 </em></p> <p>did you miss me? I think I left about 8.09 this morning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36208 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:33:14 +0000 wingpig 36208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd sit at the bottom of a tree on Melville Drive in the pleasant briskness of November.</p> <p>I might also sit next to one of the tram power-poles on Princes Street at some point one morning to try and catch some of the many instances of cycle-stupidity such as were exhibited this morning. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36207 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:30:20 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And tomorrow will be from the comfort of Peter's Yard... ;)</p> <p>Princes Street could be interesting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463&page=2#post-36205 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:27:15 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well one thing I can promise is I'm unlikely to be found sitting at the bottom of a tree on Melville Drive for 20 minutes in the cold of November... ;)</p> <p>Locations will all have to be reasonably central. Of course I got rid of the pictures from Lothian Road yesterday so I probably need to do that again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36203 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:06:39 +0000 steveo 36203@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where next? West End? </p> <p>Be interesting to repeat the experiment in October/November.</p> <p>Cue lines of CCEers going round the block in different attire to try and skew results. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36202 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:03:40 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually, might try to do the breakdown at lunchtime. At a rough guess I'd say about 35-40% were female, 75% were wearing helmets, and there were two folders. It'll be interesting to see if those observations bear up...</p> <p>I think what I might do are a series of these for the rest of the week in different locations and then collate the figures together for a reasonably representative sample (then offer the results to Spokes). Of course these stats are only really relevant to July, with the schools off and the uni students away, with the weather dry. The stats are incredibly subject to sway! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36201 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:45:00 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36201@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The survey moved to Melville Drive/Middle Meadow Walk this morning. Roughly the same time period - yesterday 8.15 to 8.30 gave 42 cyclists; today 8.12 to 8.30 gave... 109 cyclists! Got all the photos to go through to pull out the data, but will get there tonight! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36200 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:36:25 +0000 amir 36200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Probably best to adjust this properly if it's going to have any effect."</p> <p>Perhaps you could record angle of helmet (appropriate vs jaunty). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36172 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:33:40 +0000 amir 36172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Last one is carrying someone on his back. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36171 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:08:51 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974433569/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6121/5974433569_fa642e7d38.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974433569/">Trackstand</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>To be fair to this chap he held the trackstand pretty well - it was also obvious he'd seen my snapping away and was showing off...</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974434923/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5974434923_1a7beed903.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974434923/">Fitted Helmet</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Probably best to adjust this properly if it's going to have any effect.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974435511/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5974435511_997c00d5f2.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974435511/">Contrasting Styles</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Contrasts, though both had headphones in.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974436997/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/5974436997_5a801e50c9.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974436997/">Filtering</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Filtering was more confident than this photo makes it look.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974438475/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6124/5974438475_3efc277a8d.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974438475/">Flowery</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>Here we go, some proper Copenhagenization, unlike...</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974439799/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6143/5974439799_644b29ecc0.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/5974439799/">The Fly</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36170 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:59:19 +0000 SRD 36170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>anth - curious to know the genderr breakdown. Ta </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36133 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:59:51 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 36133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You obviously missed <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3404">this thread</a> Crowriver... ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36132 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:52:50 +0000 crowriver 36132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When is a 'road bike' not a 'racer' and vice versa? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36131 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:51:48 +0000 cb 36131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"There's a whole new debate on classification right there"</p> <p>Yeah, the racer category was controversial enough!</p> <p>Interesting reading. Looking forward to phase 2. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3463#post-36130 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:47:58 +0000 Smudge 36130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Retro or Modern"</p> <p>There's a whole new debate on classification right there ;-) :-) </p>