http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Christmas Morning Coffee / Evening Beer Meet-Ups en Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:52:59 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-205265 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 09:47:08 +0000 dougal 205265@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Christmas, a time for Christmas spices, bad jokes and hot beverages. Maybe I will be able to make it to a meetup at some point!</p> <p><img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/839/627/4a3.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-205231 Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:23:13 +0000 chdot 205231@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Can't find more recent thread. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-93720 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:21:31 +0000 Uberuce 93720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Given I can manage to forget meetups that I have organised myself, it should be taken with a pinch of salt when I say I'm good for 6.20 Mon-Thu and Fridays 5.20. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-93682 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:45:48 +0000 kaputnik 93682@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>With forewarning I could leave work earlyish and be there for c. 530. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-93673 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:19:06 +0000 DaveC 93673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes after work around 5 - 6pm would suit me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-93671 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:17:25 +0000 kaputnik 93671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was just thinking that 2 years running the gluwhein at the Christmas market plan has failed for one reason or another.</p> <p>Anyone want to break with tradition and try make it this year? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-51089 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:32:21 +0000 Stepdoh 51089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Och, was sleeping soundly at that point, rather than tidying the cottage I was due to leave at 10am. Coulda worn my festive red leg warmers too! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-50889 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:37:50 +0000 Roibeard 50889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The not-so-secret Santa appeared and an excess was left:</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2602&amp;page=2#post-50886" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2602&amp;page=2#post-50886</a></p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-50883 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:14:51 +0000 DaveC 50883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hiya guys and galls,</p> <p>Lovely to see most of you this morning. Appologies to those I didn't get round to saying hello to.</p> <p>Merry Christmas and a Happy Hogmannay to all,</p> <p>Dave C </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-50866 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:44:17 +0000 kaputnik 50866@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>P.S. See yiz the morra! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=3#post-50838 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:46:28 +0000 DaveC 50838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be there, <strike>bright</strike> tired and early... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-50829 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:18:59 +0000 Smudge 50829@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I shall be there (unless something catastrophic happens!) with surplus cycling item to gift/palm off, but almost certainly without a random Santa (or indeed satan!) :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-50822 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:51:18 +0000 chdot 50822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Possibly with added Random Santa. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-50821 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:50:40 +0000 chdot 50821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Statutory reminder -</p> <p>For newcomers (ALL welcome) -</p> <p><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6196/6053965483_2c1fd8ab96_o.jpg"></p> <p>AKA <a href="http://tinyurl.com/PY-Fri" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/PY-Fri</a></p> <p>"Normally from 7.30 to 8.30 for most folk."</p> <p>Some people hang on past nine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-50820 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:50:10 +0000 Roibeard 50820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think it's PY (by default) in the morning - not sure if there's an evening alternative.</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-50819 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:45:10 +0000 LaidBack 50819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Found it..... </p> <p>So what's the status for PY? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49800 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:46:12 +0000 Nelly 49800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@dave c, I think you are definitely at beer oclock! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49759 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:48:09 +0000 PS 49759@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not been to the German Markt this year. Must rectify that next week (if it and we survive the windy apocalypse). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49722 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:25:40 +0000 kaputnik 49722@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I work in the centre of the clock</em></p> <p>You're the man who makes sure that the hands go round?</p> <p>So. Post-worky german-markety mulledy-winedy wursty-munchy eventide? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49720 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:16:40 +0000 Uberuce 49720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Didd anyone else take 23 hours to process wingpig's post and get stuck with the mental image of Ed Norton and Brad Pitt struggling to heave a gargantuan bag of whale blubber over a fence, having scavenged it from the bin of a cetecean liposuction clinic?</p> <p>Drinkies works for me too; seems churlish not to take up the German market's offer of mulled wine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49714 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:46:10 +0000 DaveC 49714@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cheers Nelly, but I'm struggling to recall what numbers are where on a clockface...</p> <p>I work in the centre of the clock though so AN EVENING of DRINKS would be fine for me!!! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49633 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:13:35 +0000 kaputnik 49633@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>that's it "fixed" I take it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49630 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:47:55 +0000 chdot 49630@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A wee picnic on the central island of Princes Street?"</p> <p>You mean this one?</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/6473257339/"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6473257339_98ff4cb184.jpg"></a></p> <p>Fine piece of tramfrastructure with perfect drainage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49558 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:24:47 +0000 Uberuce 49558@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or a pig? If you slant it a little, then Princess Street is the spine, Pete's is in the middle of the torso, maybe the diaphragm, the Gyle is the nose, Portobello is the tail, Colinton and Gilmerton the legs and Leith the wings? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49551 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:34:27 +0000 Nelly 49551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>" Shurely it'd be easier to divide the city into a clock, with Pete's as the centre?"</p> <p>Or a dartboard ? With double 11 being the gyle, and anything outside double 5 being Fife (or lets just call it Dave C to keep it simple !!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49550 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:33:52 +0000 kaputnik 49550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Twenty past eight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49547 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:04:47 +0000 Uberuce 49547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shurely it'd be easier to divide the city into a clock, with Pete's as the centre?</p> <p>Thus, I work at 9 o'clock, although in the afternoons that's 12 o'clock?</p> <p>Hang on, that's already confusing me. Urm..I'll just say Streaky Clean for baconlube and get back to work.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49546 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:03:32 +0000 wingpig 49546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"Monitor your progress with up to 25 configurable announcements including distance, time, speed, elevation, and more."</em></blockquote></p> <p>A running total of time-spent-stationary would be interesting for city riding to compare routes for traffic-control-mediated time variance. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49545 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:26 +0000 chdot 49545@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Until we compile a Googlemap of everyone's favoured/possible to/from commutes and workplaces"</p> <p>Now there's an idea -</p> <p><a href="http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/048f/33df/4e16/457d/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20111205-1620.kml" rel="nofollow">http://maps.google.com/?q=http://share.abvio.com/048f/33df/4e16/457d/Cyclemeter-Cycle-20111205-1620.kml</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.abvio.com/cyclemeter" rel="nofollow">http://www.abvio.com/cyclemeter</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4648&page=2#post-49544 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:53:36 +0000 wingpig 49544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oinkfat might be susceptible to unacceptable viscosities at winter temperatures. Seals or whales might have fats which perform better in the cold.</p> <p>PY fine for now. Until we compile a Googlemap of everyone's favoured/possible to/from commutes and workplaces we can't even begin to start plotting potential other morning and other-time-of-day potential meetup locations with any hope of success. </p>