http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Batten down your hatches en Thu, 21 May 2026 11:52:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-41109 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:25:20 +0000 chdot 41109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Welcome Jenispen!</p> <p>I wasn't <em>that</em> wet - just a bit disappointed that my 'proper cycling' waterproof was a bit wet inside the arms!</p> <p>WAS glad to be away from the wind though!!</p> <p>I didn't realise from our conversation that you were (partly) camping too - impressive!</p> <p>I'm sure some people on here would be interested in what you were riding and general kit.</p> <p>Perhaps you'll be adding to the <a href="http://www.fareham-wheelers.org.uk/flunge/show.php?f=0&amp;topic=20110728163728&amp;u=80<br /> ">thread on your club's forum</a>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-41105 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:09:07 +0000 Jensipen 41105@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hi 'chdot'! Its the girl doing LEJOG. Thought you might like to know I finished yesterday. It's been an amazing trip. It was really nice to meet you, I hope you dried out after that horrendous rain! Jenny </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-40775 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:42:36 +0000 crowriver 40775@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Main danger from suicidal drivers at Haymarket wholesale jumping the red lights (again) at bottom of Dalry Road and driving straight into stream of oncoming buses, cars and cyclists. Scary stuff.</em></p> <p>Oh they do that whatever the conditions. I witnessed exactly the same at Waterloo Place. One driver creeps past a red light, another is determined not to let the first get away with it, so does the same. Before you know it, they're all at it! Lemmings! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-40770 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:53:41 +0000 wingpig 40770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Innocent clear between Duddingston Road West and the end of the tunnel.</p> <p>[innertube]Green line clear between Samson's Ribs station and Duddingston Road West station[/innertube]. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-40768 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:26:22 +0000 kaputnik 40768@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One large old tree down at west end of the Meadows, by the croquet club.</p> <p>Main danger from suicidal drivers at Haymarket wholesale jumping the red lights (again) at bottom of Dalry Road and driving straight into stream of oncoming buses, cars and cyclists. Scary stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880&page=2#post-40765 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:30:36 +0000 wee folding bike 40765@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Airdrie to Glasgow was fine. Windier than normal but nothing outrageous. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40764 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:13:16 +0000 amir 40764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That was a hard commute! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40761 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:14:57 +0000 wee folding bike 40761@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A bit dull out there and I got a flat on a Kojak yesterday so I might use the old Brompton M6R with Marathons and Schmidt today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40759 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:55:42 +0000 Darkerside 40759@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why thank you LaidBack. Haven't we met before...? </p> <p>Hello all! </p> <p>Still brisk today. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40746 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:40:23 +0000 chdot 40746@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Latest gusts include; 76 mph at Edinburgh Blackford Hill"</p> <p><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/edinburgh_gogarbank_latest_weather.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/dg/edinburgh_gogarbank_latest_weather.html</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40745 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:38:12 +0000 LaidBack 40745@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Darkerside</strong> Welcome to forum (if you haven't been welcomed before)- you may be our furthest west poster...? Apart from US ones.</p> <p>Having pedals at front end of bike is one advantage of a non standard bike when it comes to standing it on back wheel... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40739 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:09:50 +0000 DaveC 40739@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycled to the train st, and got soaked, as my waterproofs were in my bag and I was at risk of missing the train. Luckily I had spare clothes inmy locker at work. Then on the way home hopped up a kerb on the way home, through the Ind Est behind our estate and pinch punctured my rear tyre.... It was thrillng riding home from station with a tail wind though ;D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40728 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:46:39 +0000 Darkerside 40728@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Survived a thrilling journey, including getting a recumbent on a bus replacement service by placing it vertically between the seats. Who needs folders? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40717 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:18:48 +0000 chdot 40717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fife was fun until it started raining. </p> <p>Abandoned scenic circuit. </p> <p>Back on train (as planned).</p> <p>We weren't alone - woman heading for JoG and found Tay Bridge shut to cyclists - </p> <p><a href="http://www.fareham-wheelers.org.uk/flunge/show.php?f=0&amp;topic=20110728163728&amp;u=80" rel="nofollow">http://www.fareham-wheelers.org.uk/flunge/show.php?f=0&amp;topic=20110728163728&amp;u=80</a></p> <p>and a guy touring Fife libraries for charity! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40716 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:10:02 +0000 Darkerside 40716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can confirm it's really quite breezy on the west coast. Here's hoping for a tailwind on the way home... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40704 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:42:41 +0000 steveo 40704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I really need to move to the other side of the city, the wind always gets up in the afternoon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40703 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:42:22 +0000 wingpig 40703@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Whatever direction the wind's supposed to be blowing in it's inevitably right in your face just at the crest of the road up the hill and right in your face just at the start of the wee incline up to the castle-view gap before the downslope. It's blowing downwards besides the crags so heading up the Scotsman-Pollock track might get a bit tedious. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40697 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:26:19 +0000 ruggtomcat 40697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Im going for a <em>walk</em>. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40695 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:15:43 +0000 crowriver 40695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not venturing out on two wheels today. It's the gale force gusts, sideswiping you into the path of HGVs/buses/BMWs that I'm not keen on!</p> <p>Also strong wind's a beggar for blowing one's hat off and carrying over the nearest fence/wall... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40694 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:15:24 +0000 LaidBack 40694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>should be out on the bike then</em></p> <p>Yes... semi low racer ideal for this;-)<br /> Plus you'll get underneath fallen trees if you're lucky.<br /> Maybe worth wearing a h****t today as lots of debris flying off roofs (<em>or is that comment not allowed?)</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40688 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:36:02 +0000 kaputnik 40688@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Day off</em> you should be out on the bike then, soaking up some hurricane vibes! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40687 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:31:47 +0000 LaidBack 40687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Min</strong><em> will be good training for the Coast to Coast.</em></p> <p>Good luck on that Rate Race event... plenty of jelly babies required! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40683 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:00:13 +0000 ruggtomcat 40683@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Day off here :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40676 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:39:48 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 40676@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I did at least this morning leave the waterproof in the bag, riding in in just a t-shirt and short troos and so wasn't overheating too much. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40675 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:35:44 +0000 Instography 40675@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unpleasantly hot coming in although some quite heavy rain. I suspect it will be a slog back to the airport for me and then some fun sitting in traffic, although it means I get to listen to PM and then the news on R4. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40673 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:19:47 +0000 wingpig 40673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It took me about three minutes to coast down Johnstone Terrace on the way in. Thankfully there was no corresponding wind trying to blow me back down Ramsay Lane on the way up.<br /> A colleague is suggesting popping out for some laps of the hill over lunchtime. Considering it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40672 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:15:05 +0000 Min 40672@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a nice easy ride on the way in and plan to run home which should be interesting but will be good training for the <a href="http://www.scotlandcoasttocoast.com/">Coast to Coast.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40671 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:14:32 +0000 amir 40671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I came in by bus - the bikes are safely wrapped up in the garage and I seriously need a rest after yesterday. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40670 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:12:02 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 40670@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had to pedal to get <em>down</em> Johnstone Terrace this morning. And it's only got windier since then. I'm on the 7th floor of our building with a nice big flat glass surface angled, it would appear, exactly perpendicular to today's wind. It's noisy.</p> <p>Still, should fly home. If the swirling and crosswinds don't fire me under the nearest available bus. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3880#post-40669 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:05:44 +0000 Stepdoh 40669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took the car today, was crap, but wasn't keen on the cross winds with the tot seat... and slept in :) </p>