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I'm through in Glasgow tomorrow to work from our fancy new office. I was thinking of riding my bike through and getting the train back/vice versa.
Any thoughts on the best route bearing in mind I'm on the roadie and therefore the canal is going to be off limits.
Heading out from Roseburn to the new office which is next to the apple store in Glasgow.
Any suggestions (or GPX) gratefully received.
I've used this. It's dull.
http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1124174?privacy_code=NbZzVOVzTe5Bh06W
I'm interested too - was planning the same thing and normally work in Haymarket or our office near the Apple store in Glasgow.....
I'd use the A89 but I live a few hundred metres from it and use it for getting to work.
You'd get to see the ground works for the M8 upgrade at Bargeddie.
Ther was an earlier thread for hankchief who was on road bike I think. Out the Clyde to uddingston then over to Coatbridge and a89. Gets you to Blackburn easy and then you have choices?
Check wind direction, usually westerly so usually best to get train there and cycle back. Except the day. I Did it.
M8 getting big upgrade. Roundabout that takes you from m74 to m8 is mental at the moment. Spotted guy cycling over the roadworks there tonight but was actually a designated path of a temporary nature. The roundabout is also the one for Strathclyde country park.
I'm going to get two new roundabouts on the way to work. One in Bargeddie where the current A8 will join the A89, a spur is being built from between the cinema and the M8/ M73 interchange. The second one will be on the section east of the Baillieston lights where the A89 will join traffic from the aforementioned interchange.
At the moment I have no idea how busy these will be. The one in Baillieston might make the lights a bit better. Just now it's a bit tricky west bound if you go from the A89 onto the Edinburgh road. The junction is complex and it's slightly up hill. Not enough to see it but enough to slow you down leaving the traffic lights.
Do you mean the guy was cycling on the bridge over the A8 just east of the interchange? That was a cycle path anyway but it's so indirect for me that I never use it.
I've had to put it off today as the logistics of what I'd have had to cycle home with got weird. However It's in the GPS now in case I want to do a impromptu ride home (yes decided to go with the prevailing wind) once the trains are back on track!
@weefolds no down at the roundabout to go on to the a
M74 he was cycling through the roadworks but on closer inspection this is a cycle route.
In a curious turn of events I cycled home from Glasgow today, though took train to car stairs for a good start. Basically I had agreed with chair of the meeting that I could leave early to catch train. Meeting then spent very long time trying to define what a promoted post is. I bailed, go to central, earlier enough for the fastest train via Livingston but without the stops. However on the platform and just about to leave was the Ayr to North Berwick train. I took this and then various back roads from carstairs. Was fret but better with westerly wind. Also thought with marathon plus tyres, suit shoes and laptop in pannier etc. had nice chat with guy in pedal power livery and even more curiously, the guy who I said hello to from my garage as he cycled past this morning, was coming down through harburn as I was heading back to the whang.
I was in Edinburgh finding that I need to update the satnav which tried to send us along Princes St. east bound in a car. Somehow it hadn't occurred to me that cars are driving over the tram tracks and the trams might be held up by the cars.
I'll probably be taking a Brompton to the Uni Cafe tomorrow unless the weather really stinks.
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