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Posted 14 years ago #
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"You should have mentioned it on forums where people who cycle hang out..."
I did consider it! especially as after the snow I thought I might be left with all the food. Next time!
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"@chdot - no - but that would be funny"
Well you could slip it in after the other news...
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I have no intention of forking out on another pair wheels especially given the first piece of news...
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@SRD - I would have thought the church would have been in use for their most important day of the year? o.O
Well, yeah, but only for an hour.
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@SRD - ah no see I was rather thinking the entire day, plenty food prep time, several servings for several people and the kids getting to play for a while
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I think for Christian churches Easter is actually more important than Christmas.
I don't know when the FSM came to Earth so I don't celebrate it but I'll stick with Festivus.
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@wee folding bike - personally I turned my back on the noodly one but for a while I was a pastafarian dudeist priest
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Sitrep 1700hrs.
Stevenson Road eastbound fast and passable if you can keep up with the motorists. If you move off line, the thick slush is ready to trap your steering. I'm not sure how I stayed upright, actually.
West Coates eastbound also thick with slush on the bus lane, and not very well lit.
Princes St eastbound clear of snow but jam packed with buses and almost impossible to make any progress.
Mound is fine both ways.
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The Dude abides.
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If you move off line, the thick slush is ready to trap your steering.
That's what I found. You become a (mis) guided bike searching out tracks that look about the right firmness. Plus you need a certain amount of speed to push slush out of the way if you want to get off and on main road. With this extended period of snow, people on two wheels are improving their skills - but lumpy ice and sandy brown snow is beyond me.
My Marathon Winter tyre has arrived for rear of trike. Must see how it works.
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Where did you get one? David Hembrow has them but they're a bit more spendy than UK suppliers.
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At least this weather doesn't stop the chuggers.
This 'victim' was pushing - on her way to station!
I almost stopped for another one at 'compass' - assumed she was doing a 'what do you think of the gritting' survey...
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Either that or she was trying to raise funds for trousers to tuck into her Hunters, so that she didn't have to go out chugging in the cold in her pyjamas any more
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I am not cycling (if you can call it that) in that slush again. It is going to totally knacker my trusty steed for the rest of the year, this is just what came off it with a half arsed attempt with a dustpan brush:
"Brown Slushie Drink" by spytfyre, on Flickr
Might consider getting the MTB back on the road if I can afford both bikes getting repaired...Posted 14 years ago # -
The accumulated salt and grit is why I got a Pashley.
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Sigh. Awful commute home.
Came off on Princes Street, the tram tracks completely invisible in the dark with slush across the road. No harm done, a spectacular 10 yard slide, fortunately with an aware bus driver behind. I'd taken Princes Street a couple of times last week and presumably there weren't as many buses running as I'd flown along it. Tonight it was just a giant bus park with nothing going anywhere (almost wound up on the ground again, this time walking and hitting the pavement slush).
Then on Regent Road, heading downhill in front of the Old Royal High, where there's the railing between the lanes, an eejit taxi driver thought that it would be a good place to overtake, 10 inches from me, with me in a foot of exposed tarmac and nowhere else to go... I caught up later, after I'd got off to walk on the pavement past the stopped cars (nowhere to filter) and shouted "Too close mate, too close." That was it. And he gave me the finger.
All in all, with the roads being busier than they were, and the drivers seemingly more frustrated than they were before, and no margin for error at the sides of the road... I'm just going to stick to the bus tomorrow and walk home from work...
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And THEN someone on Twitter had the gall to tell me that cycling was probably too hazardous at the moment and that those in 4 wheels had a lot to contend with...
Ah yes, when the weather is bad drivers shouldn't be expected to have to look out for anything or anyone who might be in the road...
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Yeah, it's just not really worth it IMO. Scumbags
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I'm desperate to cycle tomorrow as I'm deeply frustrated at the lack of cycling, but deep down know that as it's now 2 nights after the snow and currently beyond minus 10 and the drivers have forgotten this fact and are out and about like it's summer (the only thing that seems to make them sit up and take notice is the actual presence of falling snow) that it's not a wise idea.
I'll try content myself with getting up a bit early and walking part of the way with the camera for company. Maybe I'll snap that annoying TomTom advert at Roseburn!
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Aye, it's the frustration that really kicks in, even with just one day off the bike, but I could do without the heightened blood pressure so will just relax tomorrow and leave the drivers to it.
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You need to look on it as a change being as good as a holiday. Listen to some music on the bus and look around you lots while walking. And, hard as it is, try not to dwell on the cretinous nerfherders. Let them be the ones to suffer high blood pressure and attendant cardiac problems.
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And yes, I know I am one to talk..
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I think you'll find the correct adjective for a nerfherder is "scruffy lookin'"
As for looking around lots while I walk, how on earth do you think I get all those bird photos??? ;)
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Not just looking at birds. ;-)
Besides you will be walking where you usually cycle so may see new things.
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@ant + @kaputnik if (people like) you are wary of cycling under present conditions it should be clear to those who (allegedly) want EH to be a 'model (or was it iconic?) cycling city' that it is VERY IMPORTANT that places like (and including) the Innocent and NEPN should be PRIORITY 1A (after the main bus routes).
I was out and about today, mostly in daylight and back before 5, so for me it was mostly pleasant.
I've been disappointed the last week or so by a few bus drivers who have come closer (behind) than they ought even in perfect bright/dry conditions.
I was surprised how much wet slush there was on main routes - Bridges - Newington - Minto, but no ice.
Side roads where very variable, mostly better than I expected (was on 'normal' 700c with zig-zag tread).
A few places had tyre track ice (polished/unridable) - worst was the first bit of St. Alban's Road just off Mayfield Road.
MMW was fine BUT should have been cleared completely for pedestrians (and cyclists).
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"how on earth do you think I get all those bird photos???"
ebay?
Posted 14 years ago # -
Oh sorry -
Forgot,
No deliveries.
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Threat of snow brought forward to Wednesday (was Thursday for most of today). Now read back up at chdot's post as it's got more substance than my "just another weather update" one!Posted 14 years ago #
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