CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years 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.
@gembo
That works. Quelle heure?
@ARobComp
It'll be available from the big shed in Dunfermline belonging to the tax thieves of Luxembourg. However if you come along on the 28th you get to meet the author and buy a signed copy from Lighthouse Books. A signed first edition I mean that's an investment man.
@SRD
Excellent Facebook promotion - cheers!
@LaidBack
I've e-mailed you. Sorry for the shambolic thread title but there is rhyme in my reason.
Nice.
Now get on and tweet about it so I can retweet.
@unhurt
Hud on a mintie quine. Will do flurry when the book comes through my letter box. This is an advance preview. VIP.
7.30pm?
Ok, I grudgingly retract my impatience. Just don't write anything rude when I buy a copy & present for signage. (Though if it's signed in Doric I probaby won't know if it's rude or no...)
@unhurt
You are a Capable and qualify for a Level 5 Dedication in the language of your choice.
Hoping the postie comes up with the goods the morn, eh?
@Morningsider
Yes, that is the holy trinity of McOutdoor writing. I almost felt like a fraud trying to get them to take the time to read it but then all three came up with different yet complementary takes on a text I always meant to be readable in multiple ways and now I feel that the book has in some weird way been annointed.
@gembo
Ainsi soit-il.
I've booked your launch into my diary, I trust the venue will be licenced to provide a sly half and half.
@Iwrats, Amen to that.
@steveo
No part of my life is sober if I can help it. See you there!
That's the first edition printed.
CCE, quite naturally, takes its place in the acknowledgements.
Six weeks this Thursday, in the diary.. Drink, you said Drink
This Thursday too
That's the first edition printed.
Is that your phone on the table beside your book?
@steveo
Guitar tuner mate. Phone only shows up in Daguerreotypes.
I left the tuner there to freak @algo out - don't tell him, eh?
Texts from IWRATS:
EGAD, A DEFACED CABBAGE, BAD FEED.
-AB
I can't do a B. My fingers just won't have it. State of me, eh?
Iain and I were talking about a bit of bikepacking round the Cairngorms, my advice was to avoid the two big passes and they're not really rideable.
To that end, boredom got the better of me this morning I reckon most of this would be rideable and I'm tempted to have a go myself but I'll invite some of the committee to comment.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/31381683
I'm less confident in this one, the Glen Tilt to Blair Atholl is a classic which I've not ridden, there is a bit of dull road from there to get back into the hills on one of the smaller passess which I've also not been up.
@Steveo - awesome.
Think I'm free next weekend. It'll probably be warm and dry. IWRATS said something along the lines of it always being sunny in the Cairngorms. Well I think thats what he said.
I have invited Madame to ride up Glen Tilt to observe the place where the pink granite of the magmatic phase of the Caledonian Orogen is injected into the grey Dalradian metasediments. I'm a big Hutton fan.
So we might chum you the first hour or two.
Disclaimer - I have ridden virtually none of those paths. I have walked a few, but not enough to be useful.
I assume you are aware of:
https://bikepacking.com/routes/cairngorms-loop/
Sorry. I have to do some work. I'll come back.
So we might chum you the first hour or two.
in my current condition, I'd be dead after the first hour!
I assume you are aware of:
https://bikepacking.com/routes/cairngorms-loop/
Yeah this was Iain's starting point but 200 miles of the Cairngorms would kill me and I'm never ever taking a bike over the lairig an laoigh again.
I'll let Iain speak for his group but I doubt they'd manage it either.
i do not yet have a group. Press-ganging to commence imminently
I'm less confident in this one, the Glen Tilt to Blair Atholl is a classic which I've not ridden, there is a bit of dull road from there to get back into the hills on one of the smaller passess which I've also not been up.
brain fart edit: Just realised the smaller pass is the Gaick Pass, less silly than the ghru or laoigh but not to be underestimated (from what I've read)
I am very keen to ride the Loch Builg section from Glen A'an to Deeside. It looks much more tractable that the Lairig an Laoigh and opens up some interesting north-south nonsense.
you have both shown sufficient interest to now be deemed part of the 'core team'.
onwards.
The Gaick is fine in the dry. With the Allt Gharbh Ghaig in spate it would be nigh-on impassable.
@fimm-
"the southern part of Glen Tilt was a good Land Rover track the last time I was there but that was about a decade ago. "
That description still applied 1 month ago- I went up there with Mrs Paddy, right to what we called the "pink rock bit" and @IWRATS called
"the place where the pink granite of the magmatic phase of the Caledonian Orogen is injected into the grey Dalradian metasediments"
It is a lovely Glen and the road through to Braemar is on my to do list.
This might be the opposite extreme from bikepacking but I think it'll be appreciated here.
I almost regret disposing of my trailer after watching that.
This inspirational, belter of a video has created some plotting in the chief household...
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