http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: What do you just love about cycling? en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:25:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-8229 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:06:37 +0000 Stepdoh 8229@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the real joy of cycling though, pork pies and twixes. Or Spicy Bean pies if you're a veggie. #nomnomnom </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-8225 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:14:19 +0000 miggy_magic 8225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Knowing <strong>exactly</strong> when I'll be home to see the kids when I leave from work - 18 mins later no matter the traffic! :-)</p> <p>Seeing my flab sloooowly disappear thanks to this extra exercise I'm getting. (It would be a lot quicker if I didn't keep shoving pork pies and Twixes in my gob.)</p> <p>Learning how to fix things on the bike myself. Still a lot I need to do, but it's fun. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-8223 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:43:59 +0000 LaidBack 8223@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Doing 30 minute bus journeys in 15 minutes.</p> <p>Carrying shopping (safely) over back handlebars of tandem bike. (Non-technical you see) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-8213 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:02:55 +0000 Stepdoh 8213@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know if it's the sun or the coffee or the fact today's the first time I've ridden in over a week, but I'm almost uncontrollably excited about the ride home tonight. </p> <p>Don't remember ever feeling that way about the drive home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7790 Fri, 28 May 2010 16:15:24 +0000 recombodna 7790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Filtering through traffic on my fixed gear</p> <p>Playing polo on my beater</p> <p>taking part in the odd alleycat with guys 10 years younger than me</p> <p>cycling the kids to school</p> <p>building my first wheel with only sheldon for advice!</p> <p>arriving at a gig with a drum kit in my trailer</p> <p>sorry that's 6 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7782 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:35:46 +0000 Dave 7782@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure I can get five...</p> <p>Getting places faster and with much more convenience than driving/bus?</p> <p>Being much fitter than someone 10 years younger?</p> <p>In fact I can boil it down to one - getting more than my RDA of exercise while saving time getting places I was going anyway!</p> <p>It doesn't hurt that it's cheap and saves the world, but to be honest I'd do it if it was expensive and wrecked the world, so I won't lie and put them as reasons! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7778 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:17:02 +0000 Stepdoh 7778@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>oh it's the constraints that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_Restraint_9">make it truly art</a>... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7777 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:07:51 +0000 wee folding bike 7777@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not on Apple hardware. Ctrl-Command-Esc on old machines or Command-Option-Esc for OS X.</p> <p>Picking up my first Brompton from BikeTrax then trying to work out how to fold it in the hospital car park.</p> <p>Spending nearly as long looking for Panmuir Place as it took me to cycle from Ayr (it was 1991 so no Google Maps).</p> <p>Taking a folded up bike into the castle.</p> <p>Seeing lots of Bromptons in town.</p> <p>Sitting in Princes St Gdns with a bun and a trike the day before I turned 30.</p> <p>That would have been easier without the geographical constraint. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7776 Fri, 28 May 2010 15:06:25 +0000 Smudge 7776@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>1. Canal towpath/old railway. My dose of countryside every day.<br /> 2. Cycling always make me feel (a little) like I did when I was a kid and it was my first real freedom.<br /> 3. It seldom rains on the East Coast! :)<br /> 4. The hills aren't *that* bad but it does keep me fit(ter) than I otherwise would be.<br /> 5. Did I mention it's just fun?</p> <p>edited to add, AND I can have a pint without sweating that I'm over the limit (not that I advocate drink riding!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=874#post-7771 Fri, 28 May 2010 14:57:00 +0000 Stepdoh 7771@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ctl Alt Delete... Reboot.</p> <p>So in a High Fidelity style... Top 5 things you love about cycling in Edinburgh... </p>