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Dogs in a bike cage - where are they going...?

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  1. skotl
    Member

    With huge apologies if this chap is a member here, but... why?

    So you're not taking the dogs for a walk. You're not taking them a mile down the road (cos then you'd walk them), so why? If I was taking two largeish dogs ~10 miles then I'd stick them in the car.
    Where do you go, where you want to take your dogs, that is too far to walk and not far enough to drive?

    By the way, this was taken at Blackhall so it's not someone living in the inner city looking to take the dogs somewhere nice for a walk.

    Slightly bemused but I'm sure some folks on here recognise / know the pilot!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. Instography
    Member

    Vet on Queensferry Road. http://www.oaktreevet.co.uk

    I see him sometimes on the NEPN. I assume they're his dogs and he takes them to work. Has done for years. I assume he lives somewhere not within walking distance of his surgery and further assume that he likes to ride a bicycle. I also assume he is a committed environmentalist on the basis that he has gone to the bother of getting either a specially built or customised cargo bike for transporting his dogs. So I'm guessing he doesn't have a car.

    I think the question you meant to ask on a cycling forum is why not?

    My name's instography but you can call me Sherlock.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    That man is a legend. His website gives details of the two cages he has built over the years. He has been mentioned here before.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. Kenny
    Member

    I've always been impressed by how calm his dogs are, whenever I have seen him on the Queensferry Road. It is an impressive cage.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. Firedog
    Member

    You can hear his dogs barking from quite a way back -always helps keep my speed up on the way to work!

    Think it's an electric bike - what a great way to travel.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. Roibeard
    Member

    @Firedog - but if I were transporting you, I'd prefer the cage to the rear...

    Although perhaps any excess heat could be harnessed into forward motion!

    Robert

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. le_soigneur
    Member

    I saw him quite a few times, looks like he comes off the NEPN track at Craigleith and goes out Queensferry Rd to Oaktree Vets at Barnton. I guess he comes from Roseburn on the NEPN as I've never seen him on the North side of the cycle path.
    Some good information, (incl his name) here (clicky linky):
    The benefit of having the dogs on the back is that it calms down the motorists a lot. Motorists tend to get a lot less angry with dogs, horses and children than adult cyclists ;-( And going up the hill on Queensferry Rd to Clermiston at 10mph, less angry motorists is a big concern.
    Good on him for not having latch-key dogs, I say.
    For

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. algo
    Member

    I think this is totally brilliant - not sure I understand the objection I'm afraid.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. Min
    Member

    I have spotted this dog bike and I think it is great too. It is a great example of not needing a car.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. skotl
    Member

    Thanks for the responses, folks!

    I certainly don't have any objections, @algo, quite the opposite - I was simply bemused, partly because I guessed he *couldn't* be going to work because you can't take two largeish dogs to most workplaces.

    Unless, of course, you are a vet! See - the internet answers everything :)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. algo
    Member

    @skotl - sorry I completely misinterpreted your first paragraph... bemused I understand :-)

    Posted 10 years ago #

  12. skotl
    Member

    Bemused is a permanent state of affairs for me!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  13. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I semi-often see a guy heading between Fountainbridge to Gyle (morning) and back again in the evening on an orange-branded, orange-coloured cross bike. He has a large kiddytrailer in which is an even laerger black poodle. Poodle either lies down in the trailer or can put it's head out a hatch in the top.

    If I were a dog I'd love to go for rides in the fresh air rather than in the boot of someone's car where there's no view and no breeze.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. chdot
    Admin

    "rather than in the boot of someone's car"

    Illegal?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. Min
    Member

    That's children. Easy mistake to make. Didn't do me any harm etc!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  16. Stickman
    Member

    That is absolutely awesome!

    I read his article on building the trike and it's really impressive.

    (Incidentally, I clicked on a few of his links in that article and found Kinetic Bikes in Glasgow - it turns out that Ben who runs it was in the same university physics and astronomy classes as me. I remember him cycling his recumbent out on the Switchback to get to the labs at the old observatory! I haven't seen him since leaving uni, but I recall him being a really nice guy and it's good to see him doing something he clearly loves)

    Posted 10 years ago #

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