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When is 'enough' enough?

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  • Started 9 years ago by Arellcat
  • Latest reply from fimm
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  1. minus six
    Member

    impossible to countenance a life bereft of cycling daily

    regardless of the idiot savant dominating the road

    necessity is the drive

    ... as jacques derrida said

    tout ça finira très mal, de toute façon

    Posted 9 years ago #
  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    'I'm reading poetry now instead of working'

    Then neither my day nor yours was entirely wasted.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  3. gembo
    Member

    @bax nice quote from Derrida

    I have just finished my flacons d'avoine

    And am now off to

    Faire les quatre cents coups

    At Peter's yard

    Posted 9 years ago #
  4. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    "Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity." WB Yeats

    Arellcat, you always seem to me on this forum, to be the centre.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    A flask of oats, a book of verse and thou....

    Posted 9 years ago #
  6. TwoWheels
    Member

    After due consideration of the full scope of Arellcat's malaise, the perils of urban riding and the phase of the moon, I would like to suggest to the young lady that she pack her panniers, fly to Canada, and spend a week or so on the Route Verte.

    Though I know next to nothing about this province-wide cycle path, and not even being Canadian, I would be more than happy to serve as a somewhat bumbling guide for her journey.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  7. gembo
    Member

    That is a very wide cycle path. Ho ho

    Arellcat has a good bag to pack a bike in.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  8. gembo
    Member

    Ah yes, arellcat has sent me back here.

    Speeding up towards roundabouts a d indeed giveaway junctions seems to be the norm. Are these manoeuvres part of driving instruction now or is that just to get you through the test?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. gembo
    Member

    Give away was a typo but I am leaving it rather than giveway

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    Up thread I notice I am banging on about the Slug Road out of Stonehaven having lots of slugs on it.

    However, when I was at the Cauldstane Slap at new year. Some signage ir maybe googling suggested slap was the anglicising of Slocht meaning pass in Gaelic? Is it? If so, I assume slug could also come from Slocht as slug road out of Stonehaven is a kind of pass, in that you go up and over and down into next valley etc

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    On the Roy map of 1755 (my favourite) it's marked as 'Caldstane Slapp'.

    The Slug Road is one of the Mounth Roads, well sketchy on that map.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I started this thread six years ago, and we are still having to hold vigils for people killed while riding their bikes.

    Posted 3 years ago #
  13. LaidBack
    Member

    Today was the largest I have ever seen.
    @algo got the news out and people from all over city headed up to the crossroads.
    Well done to him and his small team.
    Vigil for James Harrison

    Posted 3 years ago #
  14. fimm
    Member

    James was associated with both triathlon and running clubs; the vigil was certainly posted on the Edinburgh Triathletes Facebook page and I saw at least one person in Pentland Tri kit - I know he had connections with that club too. Scottish Athletics also posted about his death. So I think there would be a lot of people there who would (like me) have known him slightly as someone they met at races or in their club.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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