Was approaching the junction of A 70 that is just after the concrete aqueduct, the bone prince Charlie one. Near the Codfather chippy now dolmio's and the oor Wullie statue. Where the left lane goes u to craiglockhart and you have to get over to the right lane to go straight ahead. Fortunately I stayed left as the lights changed to red but this did not stop a driver speeding through. At red I then did go into the right lane where the ASB helps you do this. The second driver rolled forward into the ASB and gave me a toot. I was not sure why. He was all very smiley and I thought I recognised him as a regular commuter so I indicated that he should be on the bike not in a car. As banter. But it was not that guy and also he thought I was saying get out of the box and went into a curious rant. I think related to the previous ASB where I bumped on to pavement to get round the bus which had been stopped for ages and I was hugely surprised to find a car n the ASB. I think it had overtaken the bus then swung in front thinking it would get through the red light then changed its mind. This was not a problem just a surprise. Back at the Codfather, the lights changed and I went diagonally over to left to let second driver past at which point he called me a Tit. It was then I remembered I was wearing the pink top.
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Today's rubbish ASB box banter
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Curious - does the pink top provoke discourteous behaviour?
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I'm gonnae guess "pink top" x "bicycle" gets all sorts of abuse.
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I have a pink formal work shirt - French cuffs the lot - which I wear to meetings when I have a particular wish to wind up conservatively-minded colleagues. Never fails. There's a type of man who takes another man wearing pink outside of the confines of a golf club to be a direct attack on the foundations of the institution of masculinity.
Posted 6 years ago # -
Pink was considered high fashion for men in medieval times
Posted 6 years ago # -
@nedd1e_h
I also have an office codpiece for when the dial needs to go to eleven.
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I would love a pink anodised suit of armour.
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Pink is the best colour for bikes, so much so that pinkbike.com got there first.
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First bike I ever lusted after was a 1980s Cannondale racer with massively oversized magnesium tube frame in candy pink. Was in the window of EBC.
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My Charge Grater 3 has a pink sheen in appropriate light, which I like. Cycling work colleagues sporadically tease me about this. I've received some comments about it from other road users, most of which I took to be sarcastic.
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I also have an office codpiece for when the dial needs to go to eleven.
Also in pink?
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Are childish concerns about colours purely a US/UK issue? Our southern European pals don't seem to have any sort of hang-ups about it.
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Just been complimented on my pink short in the office. THe chap went on to say his sons ued to tease him when he wore a pink shirt back when they were teenagers.
I was sent home from work when I turned up for my shift at The Doublet Bar, Park Road Glasgow, 1986 for wearing a pink polo shirt
The pink cycle jersey gets one noticed, this is the idea, but I should remember this when going all Coal, Blue or Long Tailed on the asses of the drivers of edinburgh
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"Are childish concerns about colours purely a US/UK issue?"
Pretty much. I blame the royal family myself.
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