CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Message:-
"I just wanted to warn fellow cyclists that the Midlothian roundabout where Lasswade Road meets Gilmerton Station Road has something slippery on it. I just lost the back end of my bike and crashed for no reason while approaching it from the north, crashed in the middle. There is new construction work further up the hill, I wonder if something greasy has flowed downhill."
Horrid. I had a bad crash exactly like that years ago. I think there is fuel overflow in large vehicles and you get diesel all over the place when they've been going around roundabouts if they've been overfilled. You get a similar sheen on the roundabouts at the bottom of the Holyrood Park by the palace and parliament where the buses do big swinging turns and apparently just leak diesel everywhere.
Yeah, that'll be diesel. Myriad campaigns to persuade HGVs to keep their fuel to themselves have all failed.
It's only two-wheelers that go down so nobody cares.
Hgv fuel costs a fortune !! Overfill is however a serious problem. Although it’s not only 2 wheelers that get crunched!. A previous splitshift family car was seriously rear ended when another car slid into it while stationery. Derv was found to be all along the local bus route, both directions! My insurance asked me to, and I did take photographs of the road, someone else paid for my car repairs , but the crashing cars insurance company( sentient beings insurance dot com ? ) claimed against first, second, stagecoach or whatever they call themselves. I don’t know the outcome, my car was fixed! Most of our fleet of hgv have stickers on the fuel tanks reminding drivers not to overfill. I do notice the smell quite quickly if my bike gets close to a spill, fuel, not impending off!!
Not sure about fuel spillages, but mud in road is an offence, covered by Section 95 Roads Scotland Act 1984.
Diesel plus water provides a great growing medium for microbes with a taste for cetane, & this is what makes an old spill plus rainfall deadly.
Ouch, that's on one of my two main commute routes. Always think that roundabout is too tight..
@ tulyar
Anything that falls from an hgv is an absolute offence of dangerous or insecure.
Specific fuel or oil leaks ? Not sure, but suspect there are specific offences.
Was once stopped in Belgium, by dramatic chasing gendarmes types, I was driving a race transporter coach, think Italian job, it had a shower that was being used as we travelled, no fine but the politzie were not impressed! Soapy water dropping on their highway
@splitshift
Belgium has the lowest driving standards of all the countries I've driven in. I always wondered what you had to do to get hauled.
To be honest we weren’t exactly discrete, 53 seat coach converted to motor home/ race car transporter, very gaudy paint scheme, running in convoy with other vehicles of varying description , most with racing cars( stock cars!) in various states of, write off ness!
However cycle lanes were in great evidence, protected by concrete barriers,although that might have been in Holland, it was however on the way home to the ferry!
Lothian Buses say that they cannot be culpable for diesel spills as they have installed anti-overfill devices on ll their buses.
Of course the emperor has no clothes on this one, because this does not factor in injector leaks, frayed hoses and operators ingenuity in getting more fuel in. If a diesel spill starts in a bus stop and follows the bus route and ends at the number 26 at a traffic lights, then it is the number 26.
You must log in to post.
Cycling in Edinburgh Flickr group
Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin
posts