http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cyclist down - Roseburn path en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:54:29 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100522 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:28:56 +0000 DeathbyPompino 100522@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope all the injuries heal soon enough - along with the hurt pride!</p> <p>So far that bike lane as cause three punctures, an ice induced paint scraper (serves me right for skinny tyres) and broken collar bone/scapula. All in the space of three months! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100257 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:31:54 +0000 LaidBack 100257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Best wishes for speedy recovery. Terrible thing to have happened on what I would say was a safe route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100205 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:05:27 +0000 MeepMeep 100205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeezo. Wishing Billy a swift recovery from his injuries.</p> <p>Well done those that stopped to help (or intended to but were not required). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100144 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:33:30 +0000 misterbee 100144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was sorry to see the aftermath of the accident this morning before the ambulance arrived - when I passed a number of fellow cyclists were already assisting. Billy was being helped to his feet (not in the First Response manual that one) and being held up and he looked seriously dazed, bloodied and battered and no doubt in shock. </p> <p>I hope he recovers from his injuries soon. Nasty fall.</p> <p>I think at times like this its good to reflect on some of the words from Captain Lance Murdock. "Bones heal. Chicks dig scars."</p> <p>Get well soon Billy.</p> <p>(I hope the bike turns up.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100135 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:46:12 +0000 DaveC 100135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sorry to read about Billy's injury and loss of bike! I saw the tree cutters on Thursday and a few weeks earlier along the path nr the water of leith. I'm glad they are thining out the tree cover but its needed as some lights in the Craigleith area are obsqured by tree cover. I saw Harts van too. There was a guy cyclist stood next to the side door. At least the van was off the track.</p> <p>Don't wish to sound smug but my studded Schwabe snow tyres make short work of the muddy sections. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100133 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:24:09 +0000 remberbuck 100133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just before Coltbridge heading south I think, but Insto will know better. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100129 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:23:58 +0000 wingpig 100129@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Eeps. Nasty. Doubt there was any ice there this morning but there's plenty of mud been dragged onto the path by the tree-thinning squad and the giant van which was lurking by Sainsbury's access this evening. Whereabouts exactly was the incident? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100128 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:21:26 +0000 Diarmid 100128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I put in a call to FixMyStreet a couple of weeks ago requesting that last autumn's rotting leaf litter be swept up - just as you come onto the track from Roseburn. Nothing done last time I came down on Friday</p> <p>'Reported in the Street cleaning category anonymously at 07:14, Tuesday 29 January 2013</p> <p>The Roseburn to Blackhall cycle track is particularly muddy and slippy especially at the Roseburn end. This is due to unswept leaf debris rotting down to create a layer of mulch.' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100126 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:51:01 +0000 ARobComp 100126@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fair point Blueth, That's a bit of a nightmare situation. I almost had a (surprisingly large) bunny wabbit under my wheels this morning which could have been a bit of a nightmare - not sure what would have happened if I'd hit it.</p> <p>Also really hope his bike turns up and his face gets better fast. Horrible injury. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100125 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:47:10 +0000 Blueth 100125@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't mean to be funny, and I'm glad to hear that he is fit enough to get out, but I once had a near incident on the path due to a squirrel running out and missing my wheel by a hairsbreadth. Could be something equally impossible to assess on viewing the scene that was the cause here.</p> <p>Then there was the time a police car pulled on to the path from behind a hedge without the driver looking properly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100124 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:29:59 +0000 Min 100124@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Jeez, poor guy. Glad he is getting out tonight though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100121 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:15:37 +0000 remberbuck 100121@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Billy lost his two front teeth, smashed his nose, and took general facial damage. He got the full works at the Western, and probably will be allowed home tonight. It sounds very much that he went over his handlebars - tree debris in the spokes could be the cause, but was there any lingering ice around that might have caused the fall? He can't remember anything. </p> <p>And to round off a bad day, someone offered to take his bike to the hospital ... who can't find it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9478#post-100004 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:09:22 +0000 Instography 100004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looked like a serious incident on the path at about 7.35-7.45. Rider with nasty looking head injury lying in recovery position to the side. Bikes stopped on either side taking care. No obvious reason - no other mangled bikes or injured riders. Guessing perhaps tree debris in spokes but only because I've been avoiding twigs and branches left over from tree thinning recently. Hope the guy's OK. </p>