I'll do some Leith Links/NEPN/Restalrig Path/Seafield chalking. I found my printer ink yesterday so shall re-equip myself with handlebar flyers this evening.
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I hope to make some time to chalk the NEPN, assuming the weather is good enough.
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Just realised that our Corstorphine / Roseburn Feeder Ride will be going past the Russell Road ZigZags so we've added a new time to our Facebook event for anyone who wants to join us from NEPN.
11.05 at the ZigZags. All welcome :-)
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@HankChief Loop through Roseburn Terrace?
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If anybody is going to any of these bike (ish) related Science Festival events, and would like a bunch of POP2016 flyers to hand out while they wait, then please let me know..
Bikes v Cars Showcase (Saturday)
http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/bikes-vs-cars-future-vehicle-showcaseBikes v Cars Screening (Friday)
http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/bikes-vs-cars-a-pedal-powered-screeningFuel Poverty (Wednesday- today)
http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/can-we-address-fuel-poverty-and-respond-to-climate-change--Posted 8 years ago # -
As there is not a specific reference to getting home, can I start up a POP-ing off home on 23rd thread.
I've found a way that getting tandems back to Fife , and possibly Glasgow can be delivered, but also will highlight that because Queen Street Station High Level is closed, there are only 2 trains per hour on the route via Falkirk and the other services will be busier. The Citylink coaches will take the same time as trains via Falkirk High, and run every 15 minutes.
Noting the Dunwich Dynamo arrangements (50 bikes/train), and the 3 HST's that go beyond Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon, I've been doing some work on this to see if the reported delivery of up to 30 bikes on an HST can be offered for organised loading and very limited choice of destinations.
Loading coaches, and trains may require a few people to marshall cyclists to board each departure for a short period, and for coaches there is a detail of sourcing and circulating covers/sacks to cover bikes going on coaches.
I'll move on to POP-ing home.
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When I was packing my shopping onto the bike in Walter Scott Avenue (Inch) 20 mins ago, Labour just had set up a campaign stall in front of the Scotmid. One of the activists came over to me and asked if I had any spare PoP leaflets I could give them. I only had one laminated one with me which they are now showing at their stall.
Parking at the shops was total and utter chaos today. All three bike racks were used. I've never seen them so busy before.
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Many bikes at the farmers market in Balerno this morning, there is a bike maintenance stall. On my way to Scotmid, minding my own business I was waylaid by Jim the Tory. Jim likes a laugh. I asked him how mch money he had wth the bent accountants mossack fonseca in Panama. He found this funny. But the candidate torn faced Gordon lindhurst starts in with move along and doing that move along horizontally hand wave that tories do. I say, Jim stopped me, was minding my own business, how much have you got in Panamanian accounts? He then wilts under this very mild heckle and heads to st Joseph's hall / mill cafe. No ideas man. Jim is then shouting after me, where's your bike, hope you're not getting in a car (I was walking with two of my embarassed children). The tories are very taken with some Perth and Kinross council seat they have reclaimed from the tartan tories.
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@Stephan
Just nipped down with leaflets but Labour's presence in the Inch was ephemeral. Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?
There was a cyclist leaving the shops and I offered him a pamphlet but he refused then I realised it was the actuary that did the gender neutral annuity pricing for Scottish Widows but I let him go without reminding him that he has seen me naked.
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@IWRATS: I think I know who you mean - I will go round to his desk on Monday and put a flyer on it.
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@IWRATS, that actuary was having a laugh when he said you had to get naked because he was doing the gender neutral annuity pricing for Scottish widows?
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@iwrats I passed the shops again at ca 12.30 and labour had gone. I didn't see any naked cyclists.
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@gembo
Actuaries never have a laugh. Laughing is neither conservative nor reasonable nor always prudent.
@Stickman
Excellent work. Bob's your uncle ;-)
@Stephan
Thank you for this factually correct post.
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Actually IWRATS you are correct. I should have known this. There was a guy the year above me at school who became an actuary. Never laughed. Fast forward to maybe 2002 and I was at the bowling club in Balerno for a ceilidh. Cut into the wee cherry tomato that was garnish with my meal, it did that mad spurting thing all up the collar of my neighbour's white shirt. He did not find this funny and he was an actuary. You would have thought he would have been able to predict this likely tomato spurt from Gembo.
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If you haven't ordered your t-shirt and want to, you'd better get onto it as Angela will need to close the orders soon. She'll order some extra for last-minute purchase on the day, but that's always a financial risk for us so if you can get your order in it's better. Also I don't think there will be that many extra kids t-shirts available as there's very little margin on those
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Closing date is Wednesday ...
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Would any of the NEPN-using folks care to comment on the chalking on the path? I think the letters should be bigger?
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Visible enough on the way home yesterday evening, though as I knew what it said I didn't need to slow to read it. The giant chalk available in B&M would make thicker lines but even the huge sticks are used up after three date/time/name/location chalkings.
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The last couple of years I have put posted on the NCN1 route from Whitehouse Road to the Bridge. However I am currently off the bike due to a non cycling injury so if anyone else is able to put some posters on this route that would be good.
I also wonder if some chalk signs on the climb away from the A90 might be a good idea.
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I can provide blue spray chalk which is easier/faster to write with and has great staying power in rain. just PM me.
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Met Ian Murray as he was walking through Bruntsfield this evening.
Said he'd be at PoP - seemed quite enthusiastic about the idea!
Any politicians (etc.) need a tandem this year?
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@chdot I saw, and flyered, Lesley Hinds at the Edinburgh Community Solar Co-op AGM. She said she'd be there, but that she may be walking due to injury. Tandem potential?
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Kezia Dugdale mentioned PoP during her stint on Call Kaye this morning.
This was in response to a caller who highlighted some terrible pot holes on her cycle between Haymarket and the West End.
Kezia said she "hoped to be at Pedal on Parliament this Saturday".
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I'm provisionally aiming to get to the east end of the Slateford Aqueduct by 8am on Thursday morning. Anyone fancy joining me to help flyer the morning rush hour?
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Somebody's blue spray chalk was looking magnificent today on Middle Meadow Walk.
LARGE
CLEAR
MESSAGE
WHICH EVEN
I COULD READ
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Just heard from the Police that they will support the Corstorphine/Roseburn Feeder Ride crossing the King's Theatre Junction.
They're also helping the Harrison Park Feeder ride - @greenroofer will have more details.
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Speaking of the police, be careful if you're chalking a PoP notice on the WoL path on the path beside the new flats at the back of Quayside Mills. A gentleman in the second-or-third-floor flat may threaten to call them.
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I had a voicemail to the same effect as the message that @HC relays above. We (the Harrison Park Feeder Ride) have got Police to help us across the King's Theatre junction but we'll make our own way there.
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"
Aberdeen Cycle Cam (@ABZ_Cyclecam)
19/04/2016, 21:33
Pedal on Parliament, Aberdeen.
When? This Saturday at Noon
Where? Starts at Hazlehead, going to Broad Str.
#POP2016http://pic.twitter.com/vYm1MCNaXi
"
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I think I got another "OI!" whilst chalking this morning on the Holyrood Park path. Didn't see who it was; it was within sight of the wee hut by the car park by the palace, but as it was brief and not followed-up it was perhaps more likely to have been from a passing car, by someome who perhaps mistook the chalk for a spraycan and the cycle path for an ancient and delicate stone monument.
Further up, beyond the Scotsman/Rockstar roundabout, there is a lot of chalking for something else, some of which looks to have decayed naturally but some of which is deliberately-scuffed. Anyone know what that was for?
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