http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Ridiculous Reekie Roll (aka Castle to Docks without pedalling) en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:29:30 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-326169 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:22:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 326169@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You'd have to go though the Kirkgate and wriggle left or right, Constitution Street being off limits. Real shame that, it's a goer otherwise. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-326167 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:15:28 +0000 wingpig 326167@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bump. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189571 Thu, 28 May 2015 13:56:43 +0000 dougal 189571@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We'll have to see what the new road surface &amp; junction at the foot of the walk reveals. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189549 Thu, 28 May 2015 11:53:53 +0000 AKen 189549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree with Dave. I'm convinced, even with obliging traffic lights, that you wouldn't get much past the foot of Leith Walk. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189522 Wed, 27 May 2015 23:34:39 +0000 Cyclingmollie 189522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The way I was planning misses out those two sheer drops. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189521 Wed, 27 May 2015 23:08:45 +0000 chdot 189521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8763/17554157993_5c0a6ab0cd.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189520 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:57:49 +0000 SRD 189520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Easy way to find out.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189519 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:51:51 +0000 Dave 189519@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't think it would be possible to get as far as the foot of the walk, let alone the docks. It's hardly downhill at all by the bottom. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189518 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:46:52 +0000 chdot 189518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Actually I don't think it would need 'continuous green lights' and max speed. </p> <p>If lights are at red slow down enough to keep rolling when they are green. </p> <p>Crucial one is North Bridge/Leith Street. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189517 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:36:47 +0000 Cyclingmollie 189517@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a great idea until you think about the traffic lights. That and the speed you would have to take the left turn onto North Bridge. But essentially I think it would work quite easily. It <em>is</em> all down hill. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-189512 Wed, 27 May 2015 22:27:07 +0000 chdot 189512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has this <em>ever</em> happened?? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-174175 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:31:12 +0000 Kim 174175@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This strikes my as something that would be best to try in June when it is light from 3am onwards. So maybe it would something worth adding as an event as part of <a href="http://www.edfoc.org.uk/">EdFoC</a> 2015... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-174019 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:25:22 +0000 chdot 174019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Has anyone <em>ever</em> done this? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-112156 Tue, 28 May 2013 15:58:23 +0000 EddieD 112156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reminds me of the time I tried the Glorious Glencoe Glide - which is vastly easier, as there are no traffic signals down the glen, but it's still a blast.</p> <p>East wind, lunch in the Kingshouse, and a recumbent. And a walkman which will annoy folk, but it worked for me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-112154 Tue, 28 May 2013 15:15:38 +0000 Coxy 112154@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Friday 21 June is midsummer and obviously a nice bright early morning.</p> <p>It WILL be sunny and warm!</p> <p>And I fancy a fry-up on the Trangia! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-109999 Thu, 09 May 2013 14:55:34 +0000 earthowned 109999@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I couldn't possibly comment whilst on a publicly available forum. But it would be fun. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-109976 Thu, 09 May 2013 11:22:08 +0000 Coxy 109976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm up for it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-109961 Thu, 09 May 2013 00:53:48 +0000 kaputnik 109961@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>we should </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-109928 Wed, 08 May 2013 17:30:42 +0000 crowriver 109928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shall we try and make this thing happen this summer? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=3#post-83115 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:05:34 +0000 Uberuce 83115@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I endorse crowriver's plan, if only because my alarm buzzes me at 5.30 most mornings anyway so it's less of an insult to the system to make that 4.30.</p> <p>Nelly, if you're good at yoga, then you could curl up in a ball on the trailer? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-83114 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:02:51 +0000 gembo 83114@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Sunday night before a Monday holiday? There is one coming up, for schools anyway </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-83113 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:59:35 +0000 crowriver 83113@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Would you not be better doing it on a weekday, say Monday/Tuesday?</p> <p>1. No drunken clubbers/revellers sprawled/crawling/drifting across the street.</p> <p>2. Not so much in the way of broken glass/vomit/beer cans/items of clothing left in the road by the above.</p> <p>3. Festival over (including the Mela which kicks off tonight in Leith) so quieter all around.</p> <p>On the other hand:</p> <p>Z:- School/work/getting up shortly afterwards. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-83108 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:25:11 +0000 Nelly 83108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@uberuce, I am a tad over 85k, but dense? Leave you to decide ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-83092 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 17:48:45 +0000 Uberuce 83092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been too busy to arrange any suitable loads for the trailer, so unless someone happens to have 85kg of dense material lying about that I can collect tonight, I'll sit this one out for another weekend. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-83085 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:47:35 +0000 Roibeard 83085@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry guys, Pino is off the road (rebuilding the front wheel), and a lack of stoker volunteers suggests that tomorrow is off for it.</p> <p>A lack of sleep earlier this week suggests tomorrow is also off for me - I hope to be unconscious this time.</p> <p>In my defense I did try to get the traffic light phasing changed so that you could ride a green wave...</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-82810 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:16:40 +0000 cb 82810@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cyclopedia lists a 1978 Sabliere which had centrifugal weights built into the back wheel. These would move outwards with increased speed to counteract side winds hitting the wheel.</p> <p><a href="http://velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx?ID=D8C3195C-B746-497B-9A39-896D716C6E01&amp;Enum=101&amp;AbsPos=3">One of these</a> although it's not clear from that that the weights move automatically. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-82787 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:36:43 +0000 wingpig 82787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@lionfish Just a little kick just to slightly speed you up if you had trickled to an almost-stop on a nearly flat bit of ground at a red light might be enough. Flywheels seemed too fiddly but sliding weights could conceivably be somehow wangled onto a radially-spoked wheel without too much modification (apart from the slight problem of some sort of linkage to move the weights in and out whilst allowing the wheel to spin). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-82785 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:18:12 +0000 lionfish 82785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good luck guys :P</p> <p>@wingpig: I like the idea... but actually thinking about it...: Assume the weight in the wheels that you're moving is (say) 10% of the whole weight of you + bike. At the rim this weight will be going as fast as you. So will have a proportional amount of energy (i.e. 1/10th). Sadly, because KE is proportional to v^2, when you give the weight this energy (from your forward velocity), it will only slow you down by about 5%...</p> <p>To make this work a geared momentum wheel within your bike wheels might do the job? To store enough to get you to 10m/s, if it weighs 10% of you+bike, you'd need it to spin to about 1000rpm. Annoying gyro-effects could be cancelled by ensuring there are two wheels inside each wheel (rotating in opposite directions). I've no idea how the gearing etc could work :/</p> <p>I'd prefer it more for getting up hills, but at 1000rpm it'll only help get me up 16 feet of hill, then I've got to lug 10kg of pointless weight around with me...<br /> 10,000rpm would be more effective (160feet of hill) but air resistance and the noise of something with a edge speed of 185mph is not going to work (and would present a considerable health hazard)... back to the drawing board (or work!). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-82783 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:50:29 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 82783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm gonna stop promoting this and someone else can take over - been invited to a birthday shindig for my sister's birthday in the Borders. Not something I can get out of (not that I want to you understand, just that it's annoying - but let us know how you get on!). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=6676&page=2#post-82780 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:10:18 +0000 wingpig 82780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had avoided bumping this as I can't do this weekend. </p>