http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Kaputnik's New Bike en Thu, 21 May 2026 13:49:40 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49152 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:43:04 +0000 kaputnik 49152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I stopped counting after 4 passes, but 3 of first 4 groups of pedestrians we passed all offered friendly hellos / good mornings and didn't scowl at us when they called their dogs to heel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49149 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:27:08 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 49149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That was a lovely moment. Pure Glasgow. Friendly, but reekin' o' booze and meandering aimlessly. That said, we did remark on how much friendlier the cycleroutepath walkers were than in the 'civilised' east. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49128 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:18:49 +0000 kaputnik 49128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think he did. Staggered up to us just before we got here as we waited to cross Toucan crossing - all Jamesy Cotter, reeking of booze, with a Sunday Mail folded under one arm. </p> <p>"<em>Scuze me pal, you don't know where the &lt;&lt;insert name here&gt;&gt; Hotel is do you? Only I wuz on a stag do and I'm no too sure where I am or where it is?</em>"</p> <p>We had to apologise for being soft east coasters who also didn't know where we were and bid him well. He thought we <em>wiz a bit mental</em> for cycling a whole 10 miles from Glasgow to Clydebank... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49126 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:01:39 +0000 Cyclingmollie 49126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think you're lucky the owner didn't catch you. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49114 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:11:13 +0000 kaputnik 49114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>also has cantilever brakes pressing on tubular tyres and mudguard eyelets on the (vertical) dropouts. Lovely attention to detail but assume the artist may not also be a cycling mechanic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49113 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:07:07 +0000 Greenroofer 49113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>His new bike appears to be a strange combination of single-speed and front suspension with (I assume) carbon fibre wheels and those old rubber pedals. From this angle it looks as if the handlebars are on back-to-front as well.</p> <p>At least it's securely locked to the stand. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49097 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:19:09 +0000 kaputnik 49097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I call this pose "holding on for dear life" - it wasn't easy for an antigymnast such as myself to get any purchase on rubbered &amp; cleated soles on a slidy metal tube at a 45 degree angle! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4629#post-49095 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:16:22 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 49095@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think he needs to shrink it in the wash...</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6454034255/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6454034255_55b60f547e.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackpuddinonnabike/6454034255/">Bankie's Bike</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/blackpuddinonnabike/">blackpuddinonnabike</a>, on Flickr </p>