http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PY Friday 30th with special visitor en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:32:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-93029 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:38:21 +0000 gembo 93029@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had to leave PY for a meeting at riddells court and when I came out of the meeting the feugo had followed me there! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92990 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:22:37 +0000 sallyhinch 92990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As an interloper from Dumfries ... thanks for the warm welcome (and the amazing brownie from SRD). It's getting to the point where I know and recognise more cyclists in Edinburgh than Dumfries. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92945 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:01:21 +0000 twinspark 92945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes - have broken my PY Friday duck!</p> <p>Nice to put some faces to names. Hope to make it to December's meet although it is the same day as the work Christmas Dinner at night so I may be sans bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92939 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:31:04 +0000 ARobComp 92939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a nice few cups of char and good chat.<br /> Thanks to some helpful people who pointed out that 52/16 is NOT the 72 inch gear I thought I was pushing on my single speed. It turns out it's an 86 inch gear. This makes me feel significantly better that I was struggling up the mound the other week. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92933 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:50:02 +0000 cc 92933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got to work just before ten. Oops. </p> <p>In my defence I did somewhat unusually also get to work before seven. PY was my coffee break. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.</p> <p>I enjoyed myself; thanks all. It was good to meet more people and put more names to faces. And to have a cardamom bun.</p> <p>Edit: I'm now the proud possessor of a first edition Spokes Edinburgh Cycle Map, too! (Thanks!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92931 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:42:51 +0000 Uberuce 92931@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The floor was fair teeming with Orts...</p> <p>Nice to meet PY newcomer twinsparks, who, like Greenroofer has raised good kids and saved me the excruciating awkwardness of socialising with parents of unruly children who seem to have been placed on this earth to break your will..<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uberuce/8232413872/in/photostream"><br /> <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8208/8232413872_d38b4e412b_m.jpg"></a></p> <p>Sally isn't rudely blanking Steveo; she's talking to(and obscuring) mini-SRD. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92930 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:39:36 +0000 chdot 92930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8231183231/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8486/8231183231_fb5f69847e.jpg"></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8232246366/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8232246366_8615fa5bf7.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92922 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:08:47 +0000 fimm 92922@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was nice to stop for coffee and bun. I could actually get away with staying a bit later than I did - I got to the office just after 9.<br /> Uberuce and I seemed to mostly discuss people who use the canal path with insufficient lighting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92909 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:54:31 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 92909@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big rotating turnout today! Always an excellent spread of conversation: this morning, down our end of the table, was ice; cyclocross; dancing in panto and staying up till after 10pm (oh to be 6 again!); carrying kids on your feet; roundabout design that works abroad but is seen as 'whooooaaaaah!!!' in the UK; Leith Walk; and cool old chainrings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92896 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:22:03 +0000 Smudge 92896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Brrr, <strike>could</strike> will be chilly riding down to the station today! :-o<br /> See you chaps and chapesses in an hour or so though :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92864 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:38:31 +0000 gembo 92864@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kapps</p> <p>PY coffee is janzoon from artisan roast now so Scandinavian ness is a figment of the past? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92823 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:31:37 +0000 DaveC 92823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>May have to turn up on foot. I have my work christmas do tomorrow afternoon and I don't feel like cycling home afterwards.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92791 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:01:25 +0000 cc 92791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>MMW was perfectly dry this morning, no problem at all. On the other hand the path between MMW and PY was covered in ice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92785 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:44:26 +0000 Arellcat 92785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll try to put in an appearance too (9ish is more my time than 8ish!). Will I need spiky tyres for MMW? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920&page=2#post-92764 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:55:36 +0000 Min 92764@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Darn I will have to be gone by then but it will be nice to have almost met you. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92762 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:41:38 +0000 sallyhinch 92762@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Planning to be there from 8ish (emphasis on the 'ish'), avec Brompton. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92737 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:16:37 +0000 Min 92737@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I should be able to squeeze in a quick visit tomorrow. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92718 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:34:41 +0000 Uberuce 92718@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do admit to being spoiled by Zazou's teensy tariffs, but agree the PY baked stuff is winnity win. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92717 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:34:11 +0000 kaputnik 92717@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh yes, cards questions.</p> <p>Set of 6 designs, £11. 5x7 inches, 280gsm linen-finish card. I haven't been able to work out logistics of splitting up the sets yet. Hand folded by me and packed in fetching copy of 1985 Cycling Weekly magazine for that vintage newsprint smell.</p> <p>Full details and pictures of finished item <a href="http://shop.magnificentoctopus.com/product/cycling-themed-christmas-cards">here</a> - also webshop if you want to pay online (or later, if that suits).</p> <p>My train is at 12:30 so I can hang around until whenever. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92711 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:24:17 +0000 kaputnik 92711@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In terms of price, I don't imagine PY is any more expensive than the Starbucks next door. However the quality of their bakery means its far better value and more than makes up for the slightly odd (to my taste) Scandinavian coffee blend! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92709 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:03:10 +0000 cc 92709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly I can't make it tomorrow :-( I popped in this morning on the offchance but didn't see any familiar CCE faces. Still, I had a very nice cardamom bun.</p> <p><strong>Puzzle</strong>: it's maybe a bit out of your way but PY is <a href="http://www.petersyard.com/">Peter's Yard</a> on Middle Meadow Walk, between Edinburgh University / George Square and Quartermile / old Royal Infirmary. It has CCE morning meet-ups now and then. And cardamom buns. Did I mention the cardamom buns? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92707 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:38:53 +0000 Uberuce 92707@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's normally a pleasant, albiet steeply priced, coffee and baked produce vendor located halfway up Edinburgh's picturesque Middle Meadow Walk, but roughly once a month it undergoes a nightmarish transformation and becomes a festering pit of velocipdal fetishism, as hordes of lycra-swaddled freaks huddle in dank corners and spit in the face of all that is good and internally combusted and true on this Earth. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92705 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:28:10 +0000 Puzzle 92705@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wont be able to make it - what on earth is a PY *scratches head* </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92704 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:22:16 +0000 gembo 92704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kapps when you staying in PY uNtil? I am aiming for 8.45 until 9.30, hoping WC will remember his jersey for sizing/ feeling the schmutter </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92680 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:41:51 +0000 DaveC 92680@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh that would be nice Kappers, how much? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92607 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:24:54 +0000 kaputnik 92607@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If anyone wants some Chrimbo cards, I'll be there with a box of them that I'm en route to London to flog. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92550 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:49:31 +0000 chdot 92550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Send Roibert round with the oddcycle."</p> <p>Or -</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8966#post-91901" rel="nofollow">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8966#post-91901</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92548 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:47:52 +0000 steveo 92548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Send Roibert round with the oddcycle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92547 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:46:39 +0000 PS 92547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ WC Nice offer, but 9 weeks of muscle wastage is unlikely to have made me any lighter - I'll have put on at least as much useless weight as I've lost in useful weight. 80+kgs extra up the Bridges would be a challenge. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8920#post-92544 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:44:53 +0000 chdot 92544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Are pedestrians allowed to attend?"</p> <p>Well that's one of the attractions of PY it has its own dedicated/segregated pedestrian and cycle lanes. </p>