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Another bike stolen outside Portobello baths
(24 posts)- Started 11 years ago by SRD
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Poster on the Innocent today as well - three bikes stolen from a yard in Porty. I need to start locking the bike when I pop into Findlay's and Earthy...
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That Dawes is quite distingtive. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
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Editor of the Scotsman reports his bike stolen " a rare Haro Porter frame/ white Circus Experts."
http://pic.twitter.com/Sgm69tnHbt
probably not from porty prom
vaguely positive that he has a bike that he obviously cares about. or not, given that it looks like it's never seen tarmac...
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I'll wager the only time that bike's seen tarmac it's been hanging on a bike carrier behind his 4x4, en route to Glentress or similar.
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Damn him for having a bike and not using it the way we do! He'd be better off not cycling! How dare he! We're right, he's wrong!
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I just read it as a Harry Potter frame and had an image of the Scotsman editor in his sorting hat on the black route.
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It's very spendy for rolling down hills.
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I'll wager the only time that bike's seen tarmac it's been hanging on a bike carrier behind his 4 x4, en route to Glentress or similar.
Major shock as mountain bike is revealed to be used entirely off road!
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It's very clean. Maybe the speculation should be whether it's used at all.
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well its not going to do us any good if the Scotsman has a strong pro-mountain biking editorial line, is it?
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Crikey! MTBers are easy to wind up, eh?
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This thread has revealed a very interesting side of CCE with regards to how 'real' cyclists with road bikes or commuters are treated in the event of theft, compared to mountain bikers.
I thought we didn't approve of blaming the victim?
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allebong - I would humbly suggest that it reveals a lot about what I think of the Scotsman in general and its coverage of transport cycling issues in particular, and rather less about my position on mountain biking
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'real' cyclists with road bikes or commuters
Surely no real cyclist should have only one bike, or only one type of bike?
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"Crikey! MTBers are easy to wind up, eh?"
That was entirely your intention? Not at all an insight into what you think of people who take an MTB to Glentress and don't cycle otherwise?
"well its not going to do us any good if the Scotsman has a strong pro-mountain biking editorial line, is it?"
Thing is that sort of line could be taken with all sorts of arguments. The Editor can't do everything that might influence his editorial line in every direction. [I'm struggling to explain just what I mean here, which is frustrating (for me)].
However this, "I would humbly suggest that it reveals a lot about what I think of the Scotsman in general and its coverage of transport cycling issues in particular" I think is absolutely true (maintaining this weird hinterworld of me and SRD agreeing on things) - my wound-upness was in response to crowriver's post (which by the later post appears to have been the intention, in which case I fell for it).
p.s. though I haven't mountain biked properly for years.
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"Surely no real cyclist should have only one bike, or only one type of bike?"
Now now!!
Was talking to a brother and sister at Sciennes yesterday.
He didn't seem to have come across 'such thin tyres' (staring at my 700X28 slicks).
His sister didn't quite understand why he 'needed' 3 bikes (she only has one).
I have a few and the person I was with said he had 10.
They were definitely impressed with his track stand skills and now have a wider understanding of 'cycling'.
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"Surely no real cyclist should have only one bike, or only one type of bike?"
Surely/absolutely not. Unless you meant to write 'real', then it depends what you mean by 'real' and what you mean by 'cyclist'. I managed to be a perfectly cyclisty cyclist despite owning only one bicycle up until I got my spare a year or two ago.
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real cyclists are the ones who ride bikes (or trikes, or unicycles).
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or a bike, of course
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Or a unicycle. Or a footbike. Or a dandy-horse or balance bike.
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or just talks about it on forums :-)
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Oops, sorry that was meant entirely in jest - I blame the internet.
Cycling in all its forms is equally valid.
Can you cycle a balance bike though? Surely there's no cyclic motion? Maybe they should be referred to as aspirational cyclists?
Posted 11 years ago # -
@rust, you try telling my 4 year old that: she'll moiyderise ya!
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