What about Edinburgh Critical Mass?
Are we going to meet this Friday? :)
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Critical Mass
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Posted 14 years ago #
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Fate always conspires against me - got a work leaving do. :( I'll be in the rough area with a bike so if I see it heading off I might break away for half an hour or so...
Posted 14 years ago # -
it will be dark, I asked people several times through the daylight weeks too... so no thanks
Posted 14 years ago # -
What's wrong with it that it's dark? We all cycling in the evenings:) So bring as many lights as possible and come along!
Posted 14 years ago # -
I cycle in the evenings because I have to not because I want to, nor do I want to add into the mix angry drivers frustrated at being forced to speeds of 4 mph aggresively over taking in the dark.
Thanks, but noPosted 14 years ago # -
I cycle in the dark too and sometimes because I want to. However I'm with Spytfyre - I don't think it's safe to go so deliberately slow that it will aggravate drivers, particularly when it's dark. It doesn't matter where the right or wrong lies, I just don't intentionally put myself in danger if I can avoid it and trust it to the actions of others to avoid me. It doesn't matter how well lit up you are, if someone hasn't dipped their eleventy-billion lumen headlights and they are shining in your face then drivers and cyclists alike are effectively blind.
I'd happily cycle a critical mass around town in the dark if it were to do something over 15 and approaching 20 mph.
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Posted 14 years ago #
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nice video, but really, who would watch that? :P
Posted 14 years ago # -
I don't understand why you are so unwilling to cycle in the evening? As you all do it anyway?
Posted 14 years ago # -
@ememka they are obviosly willing to cycle in the evening, just not at unicycle speeds (for a 20" at least not a Coker). Hey, lets all walk our bicycles to the bridge at the castle espy and then mount up on mass and cruise down to the shore in leith taking a whole lane about 15 mile an hour or so. Pint and punt off home. call it the GravityFedSocial or something equally ridicularse. Im up for riding and not racing or training but being visible as riders together, but not as hooligans. This place is too stiff, you have to work around things, its not a lawless cycle city and I like to cycle at a good pace, otherwise i would walk.
Posted 14 years ago # -
@ememka - I didn't say I was unwilling, I said I didn't do it if I didn't have to. Unwilling suggests I wouldn't if I had to.
Oh and I currently have more lights than the ISSPosted 14 years ago # -
"Hey, lets all walk our bicycles to the bridge at the castle espy and then mount up on mass and cruise down to the shore in leith taking a whole lane about 15 mile an hour or so. Pint and punt off home. call it the GravityFedSocial or something equally ridicularse"
I'm in!
Posted 14 years ago # -
@ememka - likewise I never said I was unwilling to ride at night. I said I was unwillingly to ride in a group at night going deliberately slow with the objective of slowing up traffic. I also amn't up for riding in a mixed ability group in such circumstances. No thanks. I said I'd happily ride at night at a faster pace and with a different attitude to sharing the road with other users.
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