CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
I have cycled to work,for leisure for over 40years, I don't bother with the helmet threads.
My issues on this site, as I said differ from the norm, by the norm I mean Iam critical of the standard of roadcraft, by pedestrians, cyclists and motorists, consider that all are poor. On this site there is IMO a particular blinkered attitude to our own failings.
"I am critical of the standard of roadcraft, by pedestrians, cyclists and motorists, consider that all are poor. On this site there is IMO a particular blinkered attitude to our own failings"
I could point you to the rubbish cycling thread, or note the innumerable number of posters - including myself - that freely confess to incidents of poor cycling, but I suspect it won't do anything to change your view. That's fair enough, you have your opinion, I have mine.
But I have to ask: does it surprise you? If you went to a car-based forum and said 'you all drive poorly, but so do bikes and pedestrians, so no hard feelings?' would you expect a warm reception? Would you be surprised to find a thread on say a runners forum discussing the problems they have with bikes?
If I wanted to see people raging about 'bloody cyclists road tax red lights...' I can find a forum for that. But I don't, so instead I'm on this bike-orientated forum that as noted has a pretty high proportion of drivers. I also assume we are all pedestrians at times as well.
Finally, I'm going to emphasise this again: the views on cycling expressed on this forum are almost without exception extremely moderate. You can find bike forums quite easily full of, well, nutcases. The type of place where news of a fatal car crash is greeted with positive glee - again, I've seen this - and that's just the start. You want to say those places are 'blinkered to their own failings'? That doesn't even begin to describe it. But it's a real, real stretch to apply it here.
@allebong - you have voted often and Differently which I think is good given your mythical demographic.
If you compare this site to other Internet sites it is a gentle pussycat
If you compare it to the non-virtual world it is focused on a narrow range of issues , not unusual given it is supposed to be about cycling.
I am reminded of the scene in the big Lebowski when the dude asks the polis returning the stolen car what steps are being taken to apprehend the perpetrator and the cop says they have two detectives working round the clock on it then laughs his head off when the dude thinks this could be real.
Not verbatim but happy to be corrected (which is lucky) :-)
The Dude abides.
Auto Circus Cop: [the Dude asks the Auto Circus Cop if there are any leads on who stole his beater car]
Leads, yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crime lab, they've got four more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts!
[laughs]
Auto Circus Cop: Leads!
[laughs as he walks away]
Auto Circus Cop: Leads...
From IMDB. You could put almost the whole script of that movie on there.
I got the Coen's True Grit in Morrisons for £3. Not watched it yet as I assume I have to have a no kid zone.
Well over the years this forum has caused me to buy a Brompton, install a dynamo, form a Bicycle Users' Group at work, have a position about helmets, go to Pedal on Parliament and write to my councillors. I might not have done any of those things without it.
You can't argue with people in writing, so I don't.
I've also been hugely entertained by the forum. It has a very high standard of witty, thoughtful and erudite discussion. I do hope that those who have contributed to that in the past feel able to continue to do so in future. Some of you have been a bit quiet recently.
I have watched Coen True Grit with 12 year old, he became bored and fifteen year old, she watched to the end, heroine is her age etc. I love the film, best on big screen but good on dvd. There is a very funny bit when he enters the store in the Indian Nation, well I find it funny 9actually when he leaves the store, trying not to give spoilers).
It is virtually a verbatim lift of the novel of the same name which is also superb, probably get for £1 in FOPP. Novel came out in 1968, was made into John Wayne version which is good, the lines you all know Mighty Big Talk For A One Eyed Fatman and Fill Your Hands You S.O.B are in the book and both movies, to great effect in Jeff Bridges version. Matt Damon good as the texas ranger. Played of course by Glen Campbell in the John Wayne version.
Enjoy
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