http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: things I wish i'd said en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:38:43 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-98025 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:47:11 +0000 TriFiona 98025@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hard to have witty comebacks when you're concentrating on avoiding cars and school kids with a trailer attached to the back of my bike (with toddler inside). I'm wishing for less icy mornings so I can go back to more offroad commuting!<br /> PS like the sandals! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97996 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:30:51 +0000 recombodna 97996@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>yeah there is a red one parked on easter road that is also jacked up. I sort of know the driver. Was wondering if that was the one that buzzed Mr Direct then I could have had a word....... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97995 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:25:13 +0000 SRD 97995@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>one i originally posted about was dark blue </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97994 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:24:25 +0000 recombodna 97994@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>was it red or blue? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97950 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:51:06 +0000 retrodirect 97950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That jacked up Hilux did a punishment pass on me on the cobbles on Eyre Place about a week ago. Was pretty scary having wheels that large coming so close.</p> <p>I wish I had had a witty comeback, I just called him a penis. It felt pretty accurate </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97944 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:17:39 +0000 crowriver 97944@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Roibeard, I thought you needed a ballot box to go along with your Armalite?</p> <p>Победа в партизаны ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97940 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:32:41 +0000 SRD 97940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Who needs pickups when you have sandals made from tyres?</p> <p><img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/38/82927673_f049dd5b51.jpg"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97939 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:25:00 +0000 recombodna 97939@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah the Noble art of verbal abuse.... <a href="http://youtu.be/JnPfgX82GmM" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/JnPfgX82GmM</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97938 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:21:18 +0000 Roibeard 97938@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@SRD - Tiocfaidh ár lá!</p> <p>I've got the balaclava, now where did I last see my ArmaLite?</p> <p>Roibeárd </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97937 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:17:13 +0000 Roibeard 97937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Something I did say - to an idiot in a convertible BMW who left hooked me to get into the left turning lane was "does your father know you drive his car like that?"</p> <p>He then burnt off at the lights, undertaking the traffic to go <em>straight on</em>...</p> <p>But I was grinning!</p> <p>Robert </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97936 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:13:53 +0000 Smudge 97936@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Crowriver, they could... but on the other hand it wasn't a fleet of Toyota pickups that initially moved the stores down the Ho Chi Minh trail and helped defeat a well funded superpower!</p> <p>One should always try to select the most appropriate tool for the job ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97935 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:10:11 +0000 SRD 97935@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've definitely seen the jacked up Hilux. It maybe that the 4x4 just has monster tyres on. </p> <p>Acquaintance of mine - who lives well outside the catchment - was dropping off her kids and blocking the double gates this morning. she cycles sometimes too. I don't see why she can't park a little way off the entrance like most other sensible parents do. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97934 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:03:03 +0000 MeepMeep 97934@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wish I had more time and fore-thought to respond to those who insist on 'advising' me very loudly and aggressively through their open passenger windows that I should be on the cycle path/off the road/anywhere but having been in front of them with:</p> <p>"My safety is more important than ten seconds of your time <em>especially</em> since you don't look in full control of your vehicle mouthing off at other road users."</p> <p>I may start up this mantra in my head so it's automatically out of my mouth rather than the unladylike filth I normally go to for my retort. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97931 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:45:16 +0000 recombodna 97931@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"is it really" Assumng it's the same one I'm thinking about. It's the only jacked up 4x4 I've seen at the school ( and I notice these things coz secretly I would love one but I would drive it with respect Honest!!) There is a guy with a Landrover discovery that has a rattly pipe but it's not Jacked up. Anyway you think that's bad I heard some parent has been OPENING THE DOUBLE GATES!!!!! ;-) power indeed to the people! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97928 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:24:37 +0000 SRD 97928@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Awet n'hafash! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97927 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:23:19 +0000 crowriver 97927@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Smudge, are you suggesting Edinburgh parents affix anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers or heavy machine-guns to the back of their pickups as a kind of urban threat tactic to ensure they get the kids to school on time? Or maybe set up checkpoints to delay peds/cyclists out so drivers can get to school? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97923 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:57:44 +0000 steveo 97923@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only (other) vehicle I'd have after the zombie apocalypse! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97920 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:20:00 +0000 Smudge 97920@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well it works for insurgents all over the planet..!<br /> Toyota pickups, the mid range MTB of the car world. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97916 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:45:37 +0000 kaputnik 97916@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Toyota Hilux. Perfect choice for the school run on narrow urban streets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97915 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:32:36 +0000 SRD 97915@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>is it really? I have seen a hilux with similar wheels as well, but the shape of this thing looked different. but i didn't check details. has toyota changed the shape recently?</p> <p>(a jacked-up pickup truck I understand (everyone drives pickup trucks where I come from). a rangerover struck me as really silly.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97913 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:28:18 +0000 recombodna 97913@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hate to be pedantic but it's a Jacked up Toyota Hilux Surf and beleive the term for the exhaust would be "Big Bore"...... You never know it may come up n the quiz... ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97910 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:40:24 +0000 steveo 97910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Die Rebel SCUM? </p> <p>The number of times I come away wishing I'd used more forceful, direct but less sweary language. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97908 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:28:17 +0000 DaveC 97908@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Take the Reg and report to the police, School Head and Local Councillor. We do and they come round and regularly patrol the streets on approach to the school. Infact the street on aproach to the school routinely has Police Yellow Cones out to stop parents parking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9334#post-97902 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:16:26 +0000 SRD 97902@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>cycling up the hill to school. jacked up range rover needing a new muffler accelerates up behind us. then, of course, has to brake. he then winds his way through the secondary and primary kids to stop where he shouldn't and drop off kids. </p> <p>I ask if he realises that it's a 20 zone. he says he wasn't going more than 20. i then comment that in that case he needs a new muffler. </p> <p>what I should have said was 'why the hell were you accelerating up my rear-end, when you could see a car stopped ahead of you, and you had to brake 20 metres up the road anyway?'</p> <p>argh. of course, I had finished dropping my kid and was on my way long before he'd even gotten out of his car. </p>