http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Idiot Down - Morningside Drive en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:42:00 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102194 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:27:44 +0000 Uberuce 102194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I doubt I'll ever get tired of throwing monkey poop at it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102191 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:17:35 +0000 chdot 102191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090403132150AAMIS8P">BMI is strictly a weight vs height measurement. It doesn't take into account muscle mass, different skeletal types or anything. </p> <p>BMI is one of the worst possible ways to evaluate your condition.</a></p> <p>"</p> <p>Think 'we' have had a similar 'conversation' before. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102190 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:13:14 +0000 Uberuce 102190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rugg: <em>Bet you wish you didn't mass so much now eh? </em></p> <p>88kg/1.78m = 49.44.<br /> 49.44/1.78 = 27.8.<br /> 27.8 = overweight. </p> <p>Come back, BMI, all is forgiven... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102184 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:41:10 +0000 Dave 102184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've periodically used grease, on the grounds that any degradation of the material is likely to come a distant second to mechanical trauma in terms of lifespan limiting factors. Will have to give this a go, as it's getting tight again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102182 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:37:32 +0000 Uberuce 102182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only pencil to hand was an HB, but plainly this merits further study. </p> <p>It's mentioned in the instruction leaflet for the Carry Freedom, Dave, so I can't claim credit, except for the fact it's talking about the old mechanical hitch's moving parts, not the acrylic's inner surface. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102174 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:58:13 +0000 Darkerside 102174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Presumably towards the high B end of the scale for enhanced graphite content?</p> <p>Also works well on sticky D-lock mechanisms - sharpen a pencil into the holes and try and avoid dropping the work shavings in as well... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102152 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:23:52 +0000 Dave 102152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Self-Hijack: Dave, I scribbled on the inside of the hitch on my Carry Freedom with a pencil the other day and it's now slick as you like for connecting/disconnecting, even with the bike not parked directly upright. I will report on the longevity of this graphite lubrication as and when. </em></p> <p>Sir, you are a genius!</p> <p>I must ask though - what grade of pencil is optimum for the task? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102148 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:08:42 +0000 Puzzle 102148@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oooops indeed! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102140 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:27:35 +0000 ruggtomcat 102140@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bet you wish you didn't mass so much now eh? Get well soon mate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102054 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:39:05 +0000 Cyclingmollie 102054@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You really don't do things by halves Uberuce. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102037 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:38:48 +0000 Uberuce 102037@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just a bruise update. The ghouls will need to head over to Twitter and look at my profile picture stream for the contents of the dressing.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uberuce/8510351822/in/photostream"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8103/8510351822_5fb7aa3be2_m.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102026 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:39:15 +0000 kaputnik 102026@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>This made me laugh out loud in the office. Brilliant.<br /> </em></p> <p>I didn't get past "84 litre jobbie" before I stopped reading and started chortling </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102022 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:01:56 +0000 Darkerside 102022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sanitary towels and gaffa tape generally do the job. Although it does make for a slightly unorthodox bike first aid kit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102020 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:39:19 +0000 Cyclingmollie 102020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love the smell of the gum they use in steri-strips in the casualty dept. It's like concentrated Elastoplast smell. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-102013 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:52:38 +0000 Snowy 102013@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No idea how I missed this thread the other day. Glad you're okay!</p> <p><em>The box was a Really Useful 84 litre jobbie, which I was taking home because it was unwanted at work and *deep breath because of irony pain* a near-perfect fit for my trailer. </em></p> <p>This made me laugh out loud in the office. Brilliant. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-101997 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:56:44 +0000 Uberuce 101997@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mrs Twinspark was asking after me kindly yesterday, although completely baffled as to how twinspark had the first clue I'd done it.</p> <p>A woman who'd been walking her kids to the park had stopped to look with that <em>Am I witnessing something here</em> cast to her body. She turned out to be a parent at the school too.</p> <p>Colleagues laughed and/or winced. Not too impressed by the dressing applied. I'd not seen it till my boss changed the dressing for em and took the obligatory photo-for-Titter and it looks like there were some steristrips lying on the ground which I fell on. In the nurse's defence, the other wound complicates matters. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-101721 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 19:13:48 +0000 Uberuce 101721@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Self-Hijack: Dave, I scribbled on the inside of the hitch on my Carry Freedom with a pencil the other day and it's now slick as you like for connecting/disconnecting, even with the bike not parked directly upright. I will report on the longevity of this graphite lubrication as and when. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-101704 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 17:22:19 +0000 Dave 101704@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Would it have been easier to zip tie a paddle on the long axis of the bike? </em></p> <p>Yes, when I've needed to do this since (once or twice only), I just tape the shaft onto the top tube and let the blades sit above the wheels.</p> <p>Although it is odd, because when you turn the bars, a large part of the front of the bike doesn't turn any more! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-101700 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:45:08 +0000 Uberuce 101700@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Box is very exploded. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558&page=2#post-101698 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:26:06 +0000 gembo 101698@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@uberuce, is the box ok?plastic shards? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101671 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:54:31 +0000 SRD 101671@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes. Jousting style would definitely have been my preference under these circs. Easy enough with a modern/lightweight paddle. Or a canoe paddle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101668 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:11:55 +0000 wee folding bike 101668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Would it have been easier to zip tie a paddle on the long axis of the bike? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101662 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:13:29 +0000 SRD 101662@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I managed to cycle and kayak pretty much every ice free day for over 2 years, without ever needing to carry a bike in kayak or vice versa... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101661 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:11:44 +0000 Uberuce 101661@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why were you carrying a kayak paddle, Dave? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101658 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:09:09 +0000 Uberuce 101658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I appear to have gotten well already, in the sense that it's not started to hurt more.</p> <p>I will need someone to replace the steristrips on it, but as I explained to the nurse practitioner, I happen to work in an environment where you are always in line of sight of at least one qualified and experienced first aider. The only issue is picking the one whose hands are going to shake least from giggling on Monday afternoon.</p> <p>I lay some of the blame for this on the aforementioned job. I swear I've become more reckless in daily life in some kind of backlash against the constant harping of the safety elves on my shoulder all day at work. </p> <p>Things aren't as bad as they used to be, in terms of lunatic health and safety in the field of childcare. Any anecdotes you hear of stuff like conkers being banned or kids not being allowed to run in a forest in case they hit a tree are either a decade old or examples of what is now considered bad practise. </p> <p>Buuuut, it's still my name on the wee piece of paper saying we as an organisation reckon the thing we're doing is on the right side of the balance between giving kids the chance to learn the vital skill of managing one's own personal safety, and actually ensuring their personal safety. And after a long week of it, I just CBA doing it for myself, so I just go <em>it'll be fiiiiiiine</em>. It frequently turns out to be true. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101657 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:07:35 +0000 Dave 101657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've done (at least) a couple of these. </p> <p>Once as a student, when I popped a bag of shopping onto my handlebars and as I set off, it jammed the wheel causing me to powerflip over the handlebars.</p> <p>Once much more recently, when I needed to get from the old office to Rosyth station carrying a kayak paddle (don't ask). Although I knew I couldn't ride on the road like this, I thought I could at least get out of the tech park and up to the dual carriageway carrying them flat across my handlebars.</p> <p>I forgot that paths have lamp posts too! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101654 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 06:13:13 +0000 twinspark 101654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ouch! Sorry to hear that Bruce - Get well soon.</p> <p>As an early Saturday confessional - I've glided to a halt on the old commuter converted MTB thinking "I'm sure I've forgotten something" - "Aye putting a foot down (clipless pedals) is a good idea". Cue comedy splat to the right (fortunately no traffic) and then struggling to unclip on the ground.</p> <p>Also been over the handlebars as a Primary 3 (many moons ago before P3 was even thought of!) on somebody elses old bike with binding rod actuated front brake only - knew there was a problem and still rode it!?!? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101650 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:05:59 +0000 Tulyar 101650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Well I can tick the "silly carry over the 'bars" job - doing approaching 25mph, errant strap picks up a treat and I get a lovely slow motion view of bike stopped and disappearing into the distance as I deliver a textbook, high velocity forward roll to rise muttering unprintables.</p> <p>Very glad to notice that the following car had managed to stop before trashing the bike, but the female driver was near hysterical that she had not hit me. So I had to convince her that it was all my own (un)doing.</p> <p>And have I learned anything since.....</p> <p>Well last year I piloted along from Lochrin Place to the cut-through replacing the lane though to Fountainbridge blocked by the Napier flats many years ago. Spotted too late that there was a grey unmarked chain suspended between the bollards on the gap I had aimed for - bike stops and another forward roll, bashing my thumb badly on the brake lever as I left the bike - should I claim? Debating that one, companion I was leading to Haymarket Station saw the issue and went through the unchained gap. Markings needed?</p> <p>The other detail which happens less at present due to almost exclusive use of the Brompton, is dismounting, especially as I'd normally otherwise be riding fixed wheel, and a combination of forgetting the fixed gear AND a step-through dismount gets you well tangled up with a diamond frame. Generally more embarrassing, than injurious, rather like forgetting to unclip when you stop. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101649 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:44:09 +0000 Cyclingmollie 101649@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Uberuce: "Drunk cycling and box-carrying are done..." </p> <p>I would miss out seeing what happens when you swap hands around on the handlebars. Get well soon. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9558#post-101647 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:17:52 +0000 Darkerside 101647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In the spirit of Friday confessional, last year I completely stacked an ambulance bike on a muddy field right in front of the rugby guys I was responding to. Really heavily loaded bikes don't respond well to sharp braking on slippy slidey surfaces.</p> <p>Still. Soft landing. </p>