http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Commute Full of Win en Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:34:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102493 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:04:10 +0000 wingpig 102493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My day was mostly going nicely with a worn-drivetrain-friendly-no-rapid-accelerations-in-traffic-required trundle anticlockwise round the NEPN until my rear mech killed itself with my spokes on Russell Road. Hopefully this will serve as a warning to the betighted bloke who turned in in front of me at Ravelston Dykes then rear-mudguarded me the rest of the way to not go quite so close behind people in case their rear wheel suddenly stops rotating. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102488 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:38:27 +0000 shuggiet 102488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took the Alpine route to Edinburgh Park via Torduff and Currie... Absolutely magnificent. Can't think of a coastal city equivalent in Britain with the views. Maybe San Francisco or Sydney...Extra interest due to coming across about 200 soldiers doing their yomping exercises complete with guns.. Very courteous at making way for a cyclist! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102483 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:26:43 +0000 DaveC 102483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have Winter tights and summer shorts (usually onto of tights as they are low underslung) Might just wear the shorts home this afternoon for a wee change :-)</p> <p>Going to head north from St Andrew Sq to the sea at Trinity then west to Cramond, up and over Cramond Brig before cruising back down to the coastal track through Dalmeny and on through S Queensferry. Hoping for no wind and the sun playing out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102480 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:20:15 +0000 Charterhall 102480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm in the lucky position of being able to finish work at lunchtime on Fridays, and boy did I enjoy it today - a glorious ride home via Riccarton Garden Centre/Currie Hill/Clubbiedean &amp; Torduff reservoirs :-)</p> <p>I didn't go as far as kaputnik but I was very comfortable in roubaix 3/4s, no overshoes and mitts instead of gloves. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102462 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:05:03 +0000 Nelly 102462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Totally different commute this morning - about 3 hours later than usual as the Sciennes 'cycle to school day' was on.</p> <p>Went Leamington Lift Bridge, Canal to Harrison - all lovely and sedate, sunny and relaxed.</p> <p>Cut down to my usual route and as there are a load of roadworks on Broomhouse, I beat everyone in a car from Stenhouse to Makro - easily - a great feeling. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102461 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:01:25 +0000 kaputnik 102461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This morning was lovely. Avoided all the traffic snarls, down the Telfer Subway, through Murieston and Russell Road (normally a rat run, but strangely quiet today) and then Roseburn Park, Corstorphine Path and past Gylemuir School before school run stupidity.</p> <p>Could feel warming sun on my back, cool breeze on my face, birds singing in the trees. It were lovely it was.</p> <p>Oh, and first day of the new year in shorts too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102455 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:19:29 +0000 Darkerside 102455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Glassford/Stockwell St in Glasgow is always hideously snarled up with slow moving buses, cars, taxis and all sorts of stuff, and the lanes go from 2 to 1 to 1+bus lane with left and right filters. It's also got 4 sets of traffic lights.</p> <p>There are times when everything is just so, and the alert cyclist can breeze through the lot at full speed. </p> <p>Such a time was last night.</p> <p>Bliss. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102450 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:39:47 +0000 Radgeworks 102450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye its a rare and beautiful thing the unstressful commute,as ive now realised.<br /> The normal commute is ordinarily fraught with the stresses,situations and obstacles that the not really awake,the unobservant,and the downright plain rude/ignorant/aggressive or dangerous individuals all seem determined to foist upon me, either willingly or un(half)wittingly.</p> <p>Enjoy the sun folks, non illegitimi carborundum<br /> R :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102445 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:07:15 +0000 cc 102445@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm in awe! When I was younger I used to do that, but half the time I would end up at my destination furiously angry. These days to preserve my sanity I cycle gently through the back streets. If I had to take main roads, well, I wouldn't. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102444 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:45:42 +0000 Radgeworks 102444@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had one of these rare and zenlike commutes early this morning, just the usual Roseburn to work, but was immensely enjoyable at half 6, not a red light all the way, virtually nae traffic of any kind, all was good, and then the sun came oot at 7am to round things off. Am i looking forward to the 3pm commute hame? We shall see..... R :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102314 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:59:57 +0000 deckard112 102314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Have to admit I too am full of smugness when watching people scrape their cars. That is until yesterday when I had to take my car to a meeting in Glasgow and ended up scraping my windscreen and watching jealously as a cyclist went by.</p> <p>Karma? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102281 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:07:49 +0000 kaputnik 102281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I took the Telfer Subway and the Roseburn Street pavement path and felt very full of the joys of win of managing to find a route that was (largely) free of roadworks muppetry.</p> <p>I remembered one of the Scottish newspapers once coined the term "numptocracy" to refer to the Scottish Government. It came back to mind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9587#post-102276 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:13:30 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 102276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So cars being scraped this morning (or drivers not bothering in a few worrying cases) had me nice and smug. Went past and dropped at least 5 or 6 buses.</p> <p>And finally the Charlotte Square end of George Street snarled and not moving despite the green light, but plenty space for a bit of weaving filtering, all the while paying attention to the possibility of movement in the queue; carry on filtering towards Princes Street, and fortuitously choose the correct lane and not the one closed at the end of Princes Street; more gridlock at the bottom of Lothian Road to filter past; then on the turn to Fountainbridge a muppet crossing has moved before it's clear and got stuck when the Lothian Road lights go green so motorised traffic held up, but not me.</p> <p>Smug? You bet, why on earth wouldn't I be? </p>