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The "I had a lovely ride today, thankyou" thread

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  1. gembo
    Member

    Had spin out in late afternoon sun, out whang to top of Auchinoon Brae. Some of the melting snow was starting to freeze at the edges and the usual puddles were there but very small.

    Was near end of day so some commuting. Some wide passes at slow speed and some fast passes quite close but all in all it was glorious

    The sun on the snow covered Pentlands gave them a pink glow.

    The big Clydesdale hoss at ainville was in the burn having a drink on my way out. Three Clydesdales there at the moment

    Harperrig is frozen over.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    Roads much quieter today. Holiday weekend?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    Short ride today with skis and boots in cargo bike up to Dunsapie Loch. Then a combination of walking up hill and sliding back down x 6. Minority interest but conditions just right. Saw four people out with XC ones and several snowboarders.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    Any of the regular Auchinoonites venturing to the Brae today will experience not just one helluva quickening on return to Edinburgh but also the experience of cycling on the road cut through the glacier on the Col de Petit St Bernard between France and Italy. They cut it early June. Snowdrifts over the A70 have been ploughed on top of the existing bank of snow so there is an Into the Ravine feel about the route, as Anton Chekov may have observed.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

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    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    Ahoy

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. CocoShepherd
    Member

    Feels like spring. Touch wid.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. fimm
    Member

    mr fimm and I took yesterday off (I have annual leave to use up) and went for a cycle. Incidents described in the "rubbish driving" thread, and another puncture for me, notwithstanding, it was very nice. Saw our first snowdrops of the year, found some roads we have not cycled before, and got a nice bacon roll and coffee from Ferry Tasty which we enjoyed in the sunshine looking at the Bridges.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I cycled in daylight, in shorts for the first time in months and it was lovely. Stopped to chat to a Lithuanian lady who had admired my rucksack. Did a delivery and came home. Lovely.

    Still some pack ice in shaded bits of the Hermitage.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    It is a lovely rucksack though has a strap in the wrong place.......

    Went up the Clubbiedean mud fest. Heartened to see the biggest puddles at the gates have Been filled in.

    Met a retired colleague on his way up the hill to drink whisky with his pal. You can do that at lunchtime if you are retired

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    “You can do that at lunchtime if you are retired“

    Legally??

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    Two people outside from two separate houses taking exercise with a hip flask each,mi think that is not over the line Smokey

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. Greenroofer
    Member

    Along the Lang Whang to the Tarbrax turn and back this afternoon. Little ring/big cog on the way out, big ring/little cog on the way back, and Auchinoon Brae to the airfield without pedalling.

    Wet and windy, but with the right gear I was quite comfortable.

    Lovely to be outside again, after three weeks of riding in the garage.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    Spring has sprung. Lots of people out in. Bibshorts today. One farmer had the washing out to good effect local bike repairer (young lad not His Mattness) running down cockburn hill road. Tap aff.

    Still very blowy, top of Auchinoon to just before Kirknewton turn, no pedalling

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. Frenchy
    Member

    Cycled to, and then walked up, Hare Hill. Less than 40km cycling, plus an hour's walking, but I'm knackered and feeling like I used to after cycling 150km.

    Was a lovely morning, bit windy up the top. Still large piles of snow in places, and the burns were all in full flow with meltwater.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. gembo
    Member

    Nice one, Frenchy, after that a lot of ambulance arrived and one went up red road. Was exciting

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. bill
    Member

    @edinburgh87 and I went yesterday around the Pentlands along the Lang Whang,then to Biggar, Broughton, Romano Bridge, West Linton to Penicuick via Deanfoot Rd and back to Edinburgh.

    Windy (and a bit wet) heading out. Took us 2h to get to the Apple Pie. I had tea and a steak and haggis pie, @edinburgh87 nothing as he didn't like their 'cash only' policy. Road from Carnwath to Biggar nominally closed because it turned into a causeway at its low point. From Biggar we finally got an amazing tailwind and flew back to home. Lovely sunshine and warmth. Birds chirping, heaps of snowdrops, daffodils not far away. A grand morning out!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    Schlepped over Braid Hills Road today. The potholes en route were something else. The road of course is so good the views,, the space etc, returned that way too. Spring like

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. chdot
    Admin

    “The road of course is so good the views,, the space etc,“

    Yeah, should be closed to motors.

    If not, engineered to make 20mph impossible.

    Segregated cycleways not enough if still fast road - faster = noisier.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. gembo
    Member

    The golfers are all parked in the vicious camber at Wee Briads. The speed does come down to 30mph with a smiley face speed sign.

    As i was heading west a person was cycling east at the entrance to Big Braids. Camber bad, surface bad, drive overtaking felt need to shake head, cyclist was wobbling a little.

    So yes as it is reopening as a rat run looks like much work needed.

    If it was that wide without camber it would have room for all but cycling you need to take primary to get a flat bit of road

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. Frenchy
    Member

    The Liberton Association is currently gathering views on the council's proposals for Braid Hills Drive: https://t.co/4ABJOj80zd?amp=1

    Posted 3 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    I completed the survey saying room for all if drivers go slowly, even Golfie Parkers.

    I dare not read the comments

    Posted 3 years ago #

  23. wingpig
    Member

    I got out for a nice purposeless trundle yesterday evening, going sort of one of the ways to work to remind me of hazard/pothole positions, road positioning tips/tricks etc. following the recent Twitter activity around horrifying cycling features like the Haymarket mincer lane.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  24. gembo
    Member

    My lunchtime pootle round Clubbiedean was fantastic. Strong wind assist and drying wind.

    Many things happened but none dampened my mood.

    Ran at by five of the manydogs out on walks on long strings (or they just wandered in front of me whilst their gormless owners looked on)

    The best one on the section with the wooden bridge. Great craic with the women in their electric wheelchairs and their two wandering dogs. We laughed at my suggestion the dugs don’t understand English.

    Told to get a new bell by four old chatterboxes out for a potentially Covid busting walk. I just laughed. (Strangely everyone else could hear it)

    Two big horses at Harlaw

    Two skateboarders at jK Rowling stable.

    Very new dods of tarmac in the potholes at Blinkbonny. The bin lorry stuck behind the boys from the black stuff at Currie Kirk cemetery who were still filling potholes.

    I got through when the clennie became stuck

    All happening out there

    Posted 3 years ago #

  25. Greenroofer
    Member

    Much of this seemed familiar...

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    Posted 3 years ago #

  26. gembo
    Member

    Certainly Beech Avenue in the snow. First he goes up the tarmac then the clever telly people make it look somewhere different by having him repeat the route but on the running/dog path

    Posted 3 years ago #

  27. nobrakes
    Member

    Got out with mrs nobrakes today for the first tandem ride of 2021. Beautiful light up at the granites. Lovely day.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  28. amir
    Member

    It was a lovely light @nobrakes

    We went out for a Pentlands walk then I did a cycle Gladhouse way. The temperature dropped very quickly though from 10 degrees to 3, cold fingers! Roads gritted as well

    Posted 3 years ago #

  29. ARobComp
    Member

    Picked daughter up from nursery in the cargo bike. Wonderful light on the water of leith just as the sun was going down and the moon was out in full force. Lovely.

    Got my gloves a little wet wiping down the saddle before starting (parked outside without cover today whoops) and suffered from SUPER FROZEN FINGER syndrome for the ride, but didn't spoil it. Kids loved it. Young one shouting MOOOOOOOON most of the way there, or MIAOW because he saw a cat. Great stuff.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  30. Greenroofer
    Member

    Just back from a ride with no purpose, which was lovely. The passenger-carrying e-bike was still not put away from earlier, mini-Greenroofer fancied a spin after tea and so we went out 'just because'.

    From Morningside up Comiston Road in the SfP bike lanes, which was unstressful, past Mortonhall to Lasswade and then back on Braid Hills Drive. Lovely calm, crisp evening. Nice clouds. Lots of people out exercising. Civilised vehicle traffic. Huge skein of geese at one point. Realisation that if you increase the mass of a bike by adding a 50kg passenger behind pilot you don't increase the wind resistance and so you do increase the terminal velocity...

    Posted 3 years ago #

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