http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PY temp relocation to Cramond Sat 27th Aug en Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:13:37 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718&page=2#post-39485 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:51:39 +0000 SRD 39485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We were too busy to take many photos, but here's one of the kids, which gives a good sense of the day:</p> <p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6075/6092403960_a3f0ef61f2.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718&page=2#post-39445 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:51:02 +0000 SRD 39445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I had 4 families try out the Helios - in addition to forumers. </p> <p>Very good fun. Sorry to hear that the smallest Roibeard got tired-out. He was sooo full of energy and enthusiasm. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718&page=2#post-39439 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:31:03 +0000 Roibeard 39439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Definitely great fun was had by all - we did seem to intrigue all that passed by!</p> <p>My daughter Mhairi did indeed enjoy riding everything and discovering that she could pilot our Pino... The fact that Joel could stoke the Helios was then a bonus - I think he grabbed every passing adult to pilot him!</p> <p>I could easily convince Ruth that we need a Helios for the kids to ride, if only we had the space for it!</p> <p>I'd echo the thanks offered to SRD and alanr, the kids thoroughly enjoyed the Sprint and Helios and sharing the ride back home made it go so much more smoothly...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718&page=2#post-39434 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:34:54 +0000 Morningsider 39434@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very many thanks to SRD, Roibeard, alanr, partners, children and others for a really fun time - and for keeping an expert eye on junior while trying your various steeds.</p> <p>The Pino was incredible fun - cycling as a solo pilot initially felt like steering a single-decker bus from the back seat, but quickly feels quite natural. Being stoker is ace - like cycling an armchair.</p> <p>The Helios feels ridiculously luxurious compared to my road bike - like cycling on marshmallows.</p> <p>Of course, you are all welcome to experience the bone shaking joys of a carbon forked aluminium road bike at the next meet up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39433 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:31:48 +0000 DaveC 39433@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry I missed this. We had to hand back our rented place and it over ran, plus when we got up today if was pourning down with rain, but only slowed around 12 so the missus wasn't keen on heading across the river.</p> <p>Next time... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39432 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:31:37 +0000 SRD 39432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Roibeard - meant to say, if you're trying to get to RussellRoad again (its a great route to the botanics etc with kids), follow the reverse of the route I showed you, past Harrison Park and come straight down Ardmillan and then onto Murieston road, crossing Dalry at the lights. Much less stressful than the return. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39431 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:48:58 +0000 LaidBack 39431@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sounded like a good day out!</p> <p>Rabid Hamster spotted Alanr on trike at Slateford. We were in Berlingo with Helios tandem on top and bikes in back on LB business.<br /> Stirling was fun too but hard work.... only just back now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39430 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:42:23 +0000 SRD 39430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>we must have just missed you. although we did cross paths with another of LB's customers close to russell road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39429 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:41:00 +0000 alanr 39429@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where were you down South? Tell us all about it, if you're willing? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39428 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:39:52 +0000 alanr 39428@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I left at ~13:30, I don't know about the others - sorry we missed you! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39426 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:37:39 +0000 Arellcat 39426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>...and maybe we could do it again sometime - or do a laidback tour for the forum-ites?</em></p> <p>The past few days I was down in t'south, getting rained on, riding 15 miles of the scariest and least pleasant cycle path I've ever known, and looking at posh bicycles and cathedrals and windmills, and didn't get back to Embra until about 2pm today. I wasn't sure if y'all would still be at Cramond or not, so headed on over to find out. Well, I pretty much answered my own question. :-(</p> <p>Sounds like you had a great time though! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39425 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:16:42 +0000 alanr 39425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes, it was a lovely day. And it was nice to put faces to names, eg SRD Roibeard and morningsider. Junior Roibeard (Sarah) certainly liked the recumbent trike. So thank you all for a lovely time, and maybe we could do it again sometime - or do a laidback tour for the forum-ites? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39421 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:23:19 +0000 SRD 39421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>whee!! We had FUN. As did various random strangers who tried the bikes. Especially, the kind gentleman visiting from London with his family who bought all the kids ice-creams :)</p> <p>And junior SRD thinks that Junior Roibeard is very clever for cycling very fast and in traffic. She is tremendously impressed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39407 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:14:20 +0000 DaveC 39407@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll se if I can find my laminator and print out</p> <p> CCE<br /> Try-Ride</p> <p>and nail it to a small wooden stick. I'd like to suggest we make our was a little east from the Cramond river as we have very young boys who will want to explore and if we're somewhere safe I'll be happyer, like adjacent to the beach on the safe grassy area.</p> <p>Dave C </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39406 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:08:07 +0000 LaidBack 39406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope it goes well - I'm in Stirling at their Bike Fun Day. Cafe pictured will appreciate any support. It sometimes doesn't look open but it is. Plus they have key for toilets here. Not first time the owners have seen various bikes... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39404 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:18:19 +0000 chdot 39404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'll be using my Spokes map to navigate via NCN route 1 to Silverknowes to the Silverknowes Esplanade"</p> <p>No need. As long as you get onto NEPN path at Russell Road it's follow NCN1 signs (bear left at Sustrans Milepost) until they point sharp left.</p> <p>Then <a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/1053894" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/1053894</a></p> <p>and turn left at</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/393175761"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/78/393175761_d4afae9225.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39402 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:42:18 +0000 alanr 39402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll definitely come via the Roseburn Path to Silverknowes Esplanade, starting at Russell Road. I'll assume that's the NEPN (North Edinburgh Path Network?), but I'll be using my Spokes map to navigate via NCN route 1 to Silverknowes to the Silverknowes Esplanade.<br /> Thanks for your help. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39397 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:02:40 +0000 chdot 39397@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'm not sure if Cramond is big enough to get lost in?"</p> <p>Definitely. </p> <p>Though perhaps not the old bit where the Almond meets the Forth. </p> <p>If you are arriving by road - down the hill until you reach the bottom and turn right. </p> <p>If you go via the NEPN (from Russell Road) go straight on 'over' the roundabout, down the lovely smooth tarmac and turn left at the Tea Rooms. </p> <p>Keep going until you see strange bikes. </p> <p>Alternatively spot Cramond Island and keep going until you find the nearest bit of tarmac to it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39396 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:52:34 +0000 alanr 39396@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lovely, so I'll see you all at or after 11-30. My mobile number is 0788-161-3247 so you can call me to check where I am if I don't turn up (it'll be because I'm lost if I don't - I'm not sure if Cramond is big enough to get lost in?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39386 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:14:42 +0000 DaveC 39386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I' m handing my old house back around 10 so I should be able to make it on time. I'll also have thw family in tow so hope to be there in time. I'll try to get a CCE A4 sign ro hwlp you id me.</p> <p>God this andeoos keyboard ia pants. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39350 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:52:29 +0000 SRD 39350@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We've got a sick baby, but hopefully some of the bigger people will make it along with the tandem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39349 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:41:58 +0000 Roibeard 39349@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep - I'll have some kids so my arrival time will be in the "or so" range! Either substantially earlier due to enthusiasm or a few minutes late due to dragging heels/pedals...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39322 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:12:47 +0000 alanr 39322@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thank you all so much for your help. A quick look over my Spokes map which I now have shows me that I can use the Roseburn path all the way to Cramond (and back), and that I can get to the Roseburn Path from Dalry Road via Russell Road, as chdot says (thank you for that). So I'll be there, then, with no steps needed. Carrying a recumbent trike up or down steps could be a fitness training in itself ... thank you very much, SRD and Dave Crampton for your help. Are we saying, arrive at 11:30 or so? That should be easy from Baberton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39132 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:22:17 +0000 DaveC 39132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drumbrae, both ways... groan..</p> <p>Alanr, WARNING, I would not advise the riverbank route down to Cramond, as it is littered with steps, and not just one or two, but in one place you climb only to descend 10m later... many steps = not nice with a recumbent, if its a Trike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39130 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:16:31 +0000 SRD 39130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>if we can get the trailer along to Cramond from Russell Road (which we can), then your trike should fit no problem. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39113 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:34:30 +0000 Roibeard 39113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Like Arellcat says, a recumbent trike is *reasonably* risk-free to lend and mine (an ICE Sprint 2FS) is fitted with easy-adjust kit, so would there be any interest if I were to turn up with it?</em></p> <p>I'd be interested, the Pino has whet my appetite for trying a recumbent...</p> <p>Feel free to come by some other means anyway!</p> <p><em>My only question is, what's the best way from Baberton (near Gillespie Crossroads on the Lanark Road) to Cramond? </em></p> <p>Sorry, not my part of town, so I can't suggest anything beyond browsing CycleStreets.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39112 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:31:23 +0000 chdot 39112@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Options seem to be direct via Drumbrae </p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044955" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044955</a></p> <p>or go to Russell Road </p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044988" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044988</a></p> <p>and then on the cyclepath with no troubling barriers</p> <p><a href="http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044996" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/1044996</a></p> <p>(Other star points are available - <a href="http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/55.979923,-3.298813/Silverknowes+Esplanade" rel="nofollow">http://edinburgh.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/55.979923,-3.298813/Silverknowes+Esplanade</a> ) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39111 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:13:43 +0000 alanr 39111@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Like Arellcat says, a recumbent trike is *reasonably* risk-free to lend and mine (an ICE Sprint 2FS) is fitted with easy-adjust kit, so would there be any interest if I were to turn up with it? I'd be pretty happy to offer rides. And it'd be a lovely chance to meet up with you all. My only question is, what's the best way from Baberton (near Gillespie Crossroads on the Lanark Road) to Cramond? I ask, because I normally use the trike on roads rather than cycle paths and I did go on one of LaidBack's tours, including Cramond, but we returned to the Meadows and I'm not sure of the best route from Baberton; does anyone have any suggestions (bear in mind that my trike is about 60cm wide)? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39110 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:26:27 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 39110@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just a couple of FYIs : </p> <p>The Cramond Inn used to do good food but it's been less impressive in that department for some time now. </p> <p>I've used the Cramond Falls cafe a couple of times recently - they seem to struggle with anything close to a rush and the last time we were there even the limited menu was.. well, limited. And a request for a slight variation to their surviving toastie range was met with a horrified 'Oh! No, I can't do that...' A pity, as it's not a bad location, but the Cramond Gallery Bistro cafe thingy may be a better bet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3718#post-39109 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:15:01 +0000 Arellcat 39109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I might - or might not - catch the end of the meet, as I'm busy until Saturday afternoon. Will anyone still be around by 2pm or thereabouts? </p>