CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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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.
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resolvedMy old man has a favorite phrase when it comes to describing those who work in the insurance industry.
It starts with "all insurers are", and then concludes with a somewhat sweeping statement about the legitimacy (or otherwise) of their birth.
I have yet to find it proved wrong.
@Darkerside - agreed
@wingpig - glad that the end is in sight and hope that you get something suitable to replace your steed. Still agree with those who say that it's hard to quantify the "soft" disruptions (your time/phone calls/having to choose a less desirable way to travel)
I work in insurance. I'm going to get my mum to send me a copy of my birth certificate, there's something I need to check.....
I suppose a'body saw this story about a woman waiting an age for insurance to respond to the issue of her crushed bike? As usual you need a threat of bad publicity to encourage people to discover that the "paper work must have got lost" wasn't so lost after all.
@Darkerside
I've done a lot of work in insurance, and I can tell you that sight of actual claims gives you a different view of the business. You hear the word 'fair' in insurance back offices far more often than you would think if you'd seen some of the scams.
@wingpig
I have pair of use but perfectly serviceable silver mudguards that came off my trucker to be replaced by longer, blacker mudguards when I started its as yet unfinished overhaul. Welcome to them.
Cheers, but I fortuitously have a pair of nice fat brown Vaverts from Planet X's unwanted cheap mudguards department sitting on top of the kitchen cupboards since a week before the incident. I'm going for mish-mash colouration again to try and create a sort of lived-in, shabby look, to discourage thieves, hence going for the silver frame to show up muck more quickly.
ESure's cheque will supposedly clear today after four working days' mysterious banking adventures. Fortunately, replacement bits started arriving/being collected on Tuesday. Frame and fork were lugged to the Cycle Service this morning to be beheadsetted for collection on my way home. If all goes well (i.e. if the youngest wingpiglet can be persuaded to not repeatedly vomit straight after being put to bed) it shall be reconstructed into a rolling bicycle tomorrow evening.
Some good advice on Velonews <click here> which bears out a lot of what is stated on this forum (even if it is from the USA)
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