This morning around 07:30am, cyclist on car bonnet near the Great King St junction of Dundas St. Hope they're okay, let us know if you hear anything?
Ta.
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Cyclist Down - Dundas St
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Posted 11 years ago #
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mette baillie (@freja_fashion)
15/10/2013 08:33
Sending best wishes to cyclist looking like in a really bad state on corner of Cumberland Street and Dundas Street this morning #CarsLookOut"
Posted 11 years ago # -
this is the second time in a week at the exact same spot :/ there must be something wrong at this junction, but both times the road has been wet, so maybe an excess of speed.
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"#CarsLookOut"
Presumptuous much?
Hope the cyclist is okay, no matter what the cause and who was at fault. I have to admit to enjoying a fly down Dundas Street, but have to be very wary of the awful road surface at bits, and be very confident in your brakes, especially in the wet.
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Used to love charging down Dundas Street. But on a mountainbike. Wouldn't fancy it on a road bike in the wet!
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I have done it myself and the tail slide on a slick is somewhat scary, on an MTB there is a few raised ironworks that you can load up the shocks and get some good lift over @ speed :)
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EdinburghCityPolice (@EdinCityPolice)
15/10/2013 13:04
@CyclingEdin @policescotland @EdinburghPolice Haven't seen an update, sorry. Roads still damp in places, all road users please take care."
https://twitter.com/edincitypolice/status/390085853131051008
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@ Wilmington's Cow
We can all get a bit sensitive when a cyclist is injured but I think benefit of the doubt is due here. The tweeter has sent out best wishes for the cyclist, so "#CarsLookOut" could easily mean be responsible and aware of cyclists.
Had that person posted "#cyclistsLookOut", would it not look like she(?) was saying "Hey cyclists, pay attention!"?
As so often, the written word is open to misintreptation.
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"... so "#CarsLookOut" could easily mean be responsible and aware of cyclists"
"Had that person posted "#cyclistsLookOut", would it not look like she(?) was saying "Hey cyclists, pay attention!"?"
Erm, yes, kind of my point, immediately assuming that the coming together was the fault of the driver... Without the benefit of knowing if she saw what actually happened, and clarified in other tweets, is it not just as bad to say #carslookout as #cyclistslookout?
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is it not just as bad to say #carslookout as #cyclistslookout?
Is it bad to say either? Lookout should be printed on the steering wheel and handlebar.
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Absolutely not, but in reference to a specific event and thereby implying blame...
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I have "lookout" mentally tatooed inside my eyelids.
It's good advice for all on no, 2, 4 or more wheels.
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In the past when I have made the Dundas Descent, I have often been recording it on Strava and it pushes me that little bit harder, and I have almost had that altercation at that junction..... the car cannot see the cyclist approaching at speed due to parked cars, so begins to pull out, cyclist cannot see all the way into the junction so caries on, then "BAM" collisions occurs, the should make parking on junctions like that double yellows closer to the corners.
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@ Wilmington's Cow
"Erm, yes, kind of my point, immediately assuming that the coming together was the fault of the driver..."
You just illustrated my point then, since I seem to have misinterpreted your point! :-D
And in that case, I'm in agreement about apportioning blame, even by accident. #BeCarefulOutThere might have been better :-)
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Absolutely not, but in reference to a specific event and thereby implying blame...
Lawyers... :D
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The joys of the written word ;)
That's a hashtag I like, along with #BeExcellentToEachOther
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People ride down hills on that Strava thing?
I tend to ride down Dundas St with my brakes slightly on all the time, to try and keep my stopping-time within the 3' amber-period of the lights and to generally reduce the risk of finding out the empirical way what happens when you're forcibly dismounted on a tarmac hill at high speed when there are motor vehicles much less than a safe stopping distance behind.Posted 11 years ago # -
Well people are claiming Kings and Queens of "Mountains" for cycling Slateford Road, I'm sure rolling downhill is also up for grimpeur bragging rights.
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EdinburghCityPolice (@EdinCityPolice)
15/10/2013 14:17
@CyclingEdin @policescotland The cyclist was treated at hospital for minor injuries."
https://twitter.com/edincitypolice/status/390104251751333889
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I work at the bottom of Dundas Street and 2 colleagues mentioned this to me today. One had passed a cyclist lying still on a car bonnet on the way into the office, he said there was an ambulance in attendance but they were not treating the cyclist when he passed.
I've been unable to find anything in the news so hoping no news is good news.
Dundas is a bit of a tricky street, the cars rat running down the side streets often come flying out not bothering to stop at the give way line, I tend to cycle quite far from the pavement because of this.
There was a picture of an ambulance and the bin which the tweeter said obscured driver's view, I have to agree.
https://twitter.com/michaelbbski/status/388607973095776256/photo/1
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Just looked at this again. I see people are still whizzing down Dundas Street. Me personally, I don't go faster than I can comfortably stop in, where I can see. Can't see far/round a bend, don't go fast. I'm sad for the guy who appears to have come off not lightly against the other veh but I'm always very cautious on down hills for blind exits.
I used to collect a mate who lived on Dundas Street. I'd park facing up the Street and walk over the road to chap on his door. Once a school boy, who was whizzing down the street, inside a stationary queue of traffic, between the standing line of vehicles and the parked cars. Then past a bus waiting in the queue where he nearly ran me down, as I crossed in front of the bus to the kerb. He braked sharply and came off. He tore his grey blazer's elbow, and then the cheeky scamp then asked me for my details so he could send me the repair bill! Aye right mate!
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I cycle down (and up) Dundas St a lot. The only safe way down is to take the lane with the traffic. If you stay at the side, the road surface is bad, there are cars entering from the side streets, and there are often double-parked cars in the last block by Margiotta. There's a badly placed skip just uphill of the Dundas St / Cumberland St junction. It's further from the kerb than it needs to be, so cars and bikes alike have to emerge a long way from Cumberland St to see what's coming down the hill (and if what's coming is a bike keeping to the left, there's a good chance you'll be in its way).
Posted 11 years ago # -
My only KOM is for rolling down a hill DURING pedal on parliament. That's how badass I am.
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