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CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Events, rides etc.
PY Nov 16
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Posted 8 years ago #
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Coming soon.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Planning on making my very first PY.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Should be able to mosey along
Posted 8 years ago # -
Where will people be locking up their bikes?
Posted 8 years ago # -
Is that the irony question referring to 'recent events'?
Posted 8 years ago # -
I leave mine outside thwe shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour. If you lock it to anything locally, before someone knotices and complains we'll be out of there.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Is there a no-baby/child rule?
I may have miniMcR in tow as MrsMcR has driving test.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Surely the only rules are to the right...
I've brought mine before, as have others, so you should be fine!
Robert
Posted 8 years ago # -
Left, I meant left...
Robert
Posted 8 years ago # -
"Is there a no-baby/child rule?"
Absolutely not.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Tomorrow
Posted 8 years ago # -
Any hints for transporting a 14" child bike? I could use the trailer but it seems like a lot of effort compared to attaching it to the rack/handlebars.
Posted 8 years ago # -
We've transported many a small bike on our rack with bungees (but I guess you have a child in a seat as well/?)
Posted 8 years ago # -
Use non-stretch webbing if attaching to the rack, as the weight of a bike on a narrowish rack with bungees only needs a bit of wobble before it tries to dive into the wheel. Take off one pedal and wear it like a rucksack, or even attach it to a rucksack and wear that?
Posted 8 years ago # -
There's a chance of a passenger but I'm hoping to negotiate picking them up later. The small bike will be riderless tomorrow.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Webbing sounds good, probably easier than trying to attach it to a backpack. Although I suppose I could fit it into a 60l pack.
Posted 8 years ago # -
"Any hints for transporting a 14" child bike?"
Courier bag.
Or, wheels in panniers, frame bungied on top.
EDIT
wingpig is right about being wary of bungies.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Where does one get non-stretchable webbing from? How do you secure it (tightly)?
Honest questions.
Posted 8 years ago # -
I have a bag full of bits of webbing salvaged from various dead bags, with a couple of spare straps from car-related strap things and a few things with clips on the end taken from the seatbelts of a child-buggy. B&Q/Homebase/Wickes sell nylon webbing by the unit of length or in ready-made packets. Also workwear shops or military surplus shops or Screwfixes or Toolstations? Lidl/Aldi occasionally have ratchet-strap things in their non-food offers.
Those ratchet-strap things are easily-tightened. I have a few spare nylon belts wjth slide-tightener things from old pairs of bicycle baggies. If no tigheners or belts or whatever are available, a few good knots?
Posted 8 years ago # -
I know that webbing has advantages and bungies disadvantages, I like old inner tubes.
Can be firm 'enough' if pulled tight, and easy to tie to things and themselves.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Poundland sells ratchet straps. I wouldn't trust them to tie a load to a roof rack on the motorway but they're good enough for any light use I've put them too.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Hello folks, I will try to make it along tomorrow if I can! :)
Posted 8 years ago # -
I read this post starting from the most recent and working backwards.
"Is there a no-baby/child rule?"
was followed up by
"I leave mine outside the shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour. If you lock it to anything locally, before someone notices and complains we'll be out of there."
Not a parent so I'm not in any position to get all judgemental...
Posted 8 years ago # -
"I leave mine outside the shop, on its stand. I can lock it, but its in sight, and I'm only in for 1/2 an hour…"
But that's what one did back in the day. You could leave your child outside in the pram, while you went in and got your messages*. Optionally you could use an elder child to watch over the little one. "And dinnae let the bairn outa yer sight!"
* Quaffing overpriced coffee probably didn't count, on account of said lifestyle having not quite been invented in Britain.
Posted 8 years ago # -
But that's what one did back in the day.
Still happens in more civilised places: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=danish+babies+outside&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif9e6a5cHQAhWpC8AKHVzGBrkQ_AUICCgB&biw=1680&bih=879
Posted 8 years ago # -
But that's what one did back in the day.
My mother did that with my in our small town, circal 1972, on the highstreet. My uncle came along, recognised me and my pram and wondered across the road with me. Meanwhile my mother came out from the shop and nearly suffered a panic attack while her sister ran off looking for me in my pram.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Looks like a bright morning. Going to drop by.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Coldest day, biggest turnout. (About 20!)
Posted 8 years ago # -
I crashed down by Ocean Terminal. On the flat, not going fast, not manouvering, front wheel went spectacularly AWOL.
Bike's okay but I put a hole in my last remaining set of bib longs and lost a fair chunk of knee :(
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