I'm a fan of pink bikes
And you accused me of being an Obree fanboy!
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The "I had a lovely ride today, thankyou" thread
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Posted 13 years ago #
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its a 'fetish'
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The only way to improve on the pink may be to tape lace over bits of it and then spray in a contrasting colour. (and then removing the lace!).
Would make a cool and one off scheme :)
In fact I quite fancy a purple and black frame done that way, Hmmmm
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I'm keen to keep the original 80s fluorescentness! To be
worn with legwarmers and a headband. ;-)Posted 13 years ago # -
Posted 13 years ago #
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Lovely commute home. Lots of people everywhere, walking & cycling. Tee-shirt and shorts and too hot almost.
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after our on road experience with white van man we headed alon union canal to Linlithgow, very nice, ducks n stuff. Stopped at viaduct and chatted to an elderly chap on a older bike, with just the correct amount of spares cable tied to the bars. Cool !
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Nice day on the bike in between a few planned 'meetings' (even if the first one fell through). First ride since changing the bars over from the Peacemaker onto the Kaff - revelation, no (broken and healed) elbow pain, and the bike's stability was superb. Drops be damned, I'm a moustache boy...
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Lovely weather. Lovely ride from Porty to Ratho and back via Innocent and canal. Stopping every so often to annoy the fishes. Really nice day.
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Had a great ride today - glorious weather. Went around a loop through Midlothian and the Borders - Carrington - Gladhouse - Shiplaw - Lamancha - Deepdyke - Pencuik - Roswell and back.
I have never seen so many cyclists in this area - not in groups just ones and twos. A couple were somewhat overdressed - coats & such - must have been suffering. I had to take a shorter route than I would have because I was going through my water too quickly.
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Out to North Berwick via Newcraighall Road and Coast Road.
Lots of impatient cars (around 2pm) and a few cyclists - roadies in twos and hybrids on pavement. Lots of motorbikers in large convoys.
I saw a couple at roadside fixing a tube as I was coming into North Berwick. I normally would have stopped but the woman looked like she had it under control and I was going moderate speed. Also it wasn't far from civilistation and just afterwards I saw a tandem and solo heading by in other direction. Hope they got sorted... if not I'm sorry - I only had wider tubes anyway.
Met a German guy who was just coming back from round trip to Eyemouth. He had a nice Australian road bike (but also liked single speeds). Handed him a leaflet with CityCycling info!
On way back I went looking for some hills so went round Law Road tthrough Athelstaneford and also Phantasie hill with a nice high speed run down to Haddington...
Entering town had many comments from the all day drinkers... (forum rules forbid me repeating many of them). All in all an excellent afternoon out.
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Recumbent trike yesterday heading. Towards lochailort, trikist had long hair and beard in something of a captain beefheart fashion. Green safeway box on the back full of shopping. They get all places! Our wee audax peleton said hello and waved.
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Lovely trip along the coast to Cramond yesterday, complete with picnic en route. I got a bit of a tan :).
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I decided to go down the length of the River Esk path from Whitecraig today (I usually turn off at the footbridge). The fog magnified the intensity of wildlife, by shortening the view and echoing the birdsong. It was wonderful.
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Today's great ride was just the ride to work. But. First ride in almost 2 weeks. Nobody tried to kill me. Had a nice chat with another cyclist in an ASL. The cycle parking here is MASSIVE and I didn't even get asked to dismount by the security guard to get there. Left the house at 8, at my desk at 8.30. Okay, 8.40 by the time I'd changed. And I just feel good (nanananananana I knew that I would...).
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I don't often go cycling in the week at lunchtime but today I had to go to get a refund on a revolution wireless computer that went hairwire. But it were lurvely.
Plus I think that I can now justify a muffin (passed some foggy mileage criterion).Posted 13 years ago # -
Recently started commuting home (to Bellevue) from Livingston. Left work early today as the servers were totally kaput and no sign of getting fixed. Got overtaken by a South African lady who said she had been chasing me for ages. She might have been just saying that to be nice as she probably thought that I wouldn't appreciate getting passed by a girl with a pink, wide-brimmed straw hat under her helmet! We ended up riding together and chatting all the way along the canal from Wester Hailes to Fountainbridge. She only moved over from Cape Town about a month back to join her husband who is working here, and said she was looking for a job and gets out a few times a week on the bike. Didn't occur to me until we went separate ways that I should have directed her to this forum to meet some folk to ride with. So if anyone sees her about (the headwear is distinctive!) then do give my regards and point her in this direction.
Cheers!
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Well that was a thoroughly enjoyable ride home, the police had fountain bridge closed so I routed along the canal at a slow crawl, nice and pleasant and slow never got above 3rd. Pootiling along on the top of the bars felt like an old tourist. Big grins.
Shame some people come along there at such pace i was over taken on a couple of occasions.
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any idea why fountainbridge was closed?
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"any idea why fountainbridge was closed?"
Not exactly -
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lesault:Fountainbridge #Edinburgh closed between Viewforth (?) and Grove St. Partially collapsed building being made safe. Buses diverted.
Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/lesault/status/76367381013864449
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Brewery?
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Probably, everything else at that section is pretty new.
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Dropped borrowed car in Currie then jumped on the folder to get to Colinton, sun shining, roads dry, temp comfortable and the wee Dahon astonishingly fast*... Lovely :-)
*I'm not by any standards a fast rider but was holding a comfortable 24mph along the Lanark road from Currie to Gillespie crossroads, it is about the bike in this case :-))
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Smudge, how does the folder handle at that speed e.g. with road imperfections?
I recently saw a Moulton on a sportive and it was going very well.
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To my mind it's very nervous/twitchy at speed (though bear in mind I'm used to a LHT!). I try to avoid any moderate to serious holes just to preserve the wheels.
I find it no use for climbing/hard acceleration as I like to stand up and haul on the handlebars and the long stem has way to much flex for that to feel safe/sensible but to sit down and spin it flies.
Above 35 it's scary nervous at least to me, but I've not fallen off so far (touches wood), I guess if you *just* rode one it would fairly quickly become normal.
Definately a "Q" bike for silly commuter racing though ;-))
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I almost started something new to say I had a very pleasant ride to work this morning where there were no adventures and a lovely ride home where I managed to work out how to get through the mess at Gogar, over the RBS bridge and back to the Park and Ride. Also took the counter-intuitive drive back through Gogar to the Bridge and got home earlier.
The day was made even better by the fact that no one has stolen the bike rack off the car even though there's nothing securing it and a couple of drivers very courteously stopped - even a taxi on the airport slip road, holding up a whole line of cars - so I could cross the road.
So, I had a lovely ride today, thank you. I'm sure as I get the legs to stretch them to do the whole run from home and back, it'll get better and faster.
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After sitting on the groyne, enjoying a coffee, the sun, the sea and the sand, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. I made it all the way along to the next groyne until the soft sand piling up infront of it sunk me.
Anyway. I had a lovely ride today. Thankyou.
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Portobello?
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yep! I didn't make it very far on the sand, but was fun while it lasted
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Had a nice spin in the Pentlands this morning. Super muddy so we had to push in places to avoid making it worse than it was, which was bad.
Lovely morning.
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I had originally been intending to try and get out to Linlithgow in time to intercept Instography and companion on the P4S but didn't get away nearly soon enough. I went out anyway on a vaguely Linlithgowish heading as I hadn't been much beyond Ratho on the canal for a year or two. The nicer surface within the city was balanced by the less pleasant people; once beyond the Almond, despite slowing and pulling over every time I neared a dog-walker, all of them stepped aside and waved me through first. Despite the ruttiness of the path it's still very nice (and better to face a headwind on a quiet path than a busy road) but I decided to escape at Winchburgh rather than carry on to Linlithgow (as it looked more straighforward to get back via roads) only to discover that I'd inadvertently escaped onto the P4S route, which I'd briefly looked at (to pick an interception-point) but not converted to real-map form. As they were going the same way I stuck with it to see what riding in a group was like until Barnton, whence I escaped to Cramond for some flask-coffee and oatcakes, spotted Anth at Granton, went from Newhaven round the paths to Roseburn (having to escape the P4S again at West Coates) then trundled round a bit more to get the mileage up to a P4S-equivalent 51.54, or 52.4 after I'd corrected it after not correcting the default circumference in my computer after changing the battery last week. (Note to self: 2130ish for future reference, though that's with the 25 I'll be replacing soon.)
Until I get something with chubbier tyres I think I'll give the canal a miss for another wee while and try some more westward-heading roads. Some of the surface going through Broxburn is almost as bad as the greenway on Leith Walk. Nice day, though.
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