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New Year's Recyclutions

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  • Started 13 years ago by kaputnik
  • Latest reply from ruggtomcat

  1. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Apologies for the painful pun. I should get a job on the EEN with skills like that.

    Anyway, back OT, anyone making any cycling-based new years resolutions? Any where in particular you're going to cycle, any specific bike you've set your heart on obtaining, any new sort of cycling you're going to try? Or maybe just a general more / further / faster / fitter one?

    One of mine will be more along the lines of attitude. I'm going to try and relax more and get less wound up by the inconsiderate actions of other road users (yes, not just drivers but cyclists too!). It doesn't do anything but raise my blood pressure.

    I'm also going to cycle around Iceland (well part of it)
    I'm also going to cycle some of the Scottish Islands on what is currently being planned as the "Ten Malts Tour".
    I'm also not going to buy any bikes next year!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. Min
    Member

    Make sure I have brake blocks in stock to replace when I want them. My Surly melts through them like a hot knife through butter but needs thinner ones than are normally in the bike shop. Perhaps I can place a regular order, like with weekly veg box deliveries?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Ride more than just the daily commute.

    That's about it really. I think I managed two, yes just two, proper decent long leisure rides this year. Must. Do. Better.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. wingpig
    Member

    Improve my load-bearing options, leave no gap larger than a week and visit some more of the purple lines.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  5. wee folding bike
    Member

    Get a Carry Freedom Y large...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. recombodna
    Member

    service my bikes and RIDE MORE!!!!!!!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Kaputnik - you could cycle to Iceland - ferry goes via faroes. Takes a while I am told.

    Harris very good cycling island.

    Hope to come in somewhere behind you on the Kinross Sportive Black route 5500 ft of climbing is nothing.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  8. Smudge
    Member

    Continue building fitness, do a couple of audax/sportive type things in readiness for a Scottish tour in the summer :)

    Oh, and buy fewer toys... :-/

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    Spokes has a suggestion -

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1958

    Posted 13 years ago #

  10. SRD
    Moderator

    Collective SRD household resolutions: Look after bikes better: * more regular cleaning/lubricating * find a way to keep bike dry * learn something about maintenance...

    Posted 13 years ago #

  11. ruggtomcat
    Member

    I am leaving for the continent mid may with a show on a bike.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  12. recombodna
    Member

    Kaputnik - you could cycle to Iceland - ferry goes via faroes.

    You need a ferry to get to the top of easter road???

    Posted 13 years ago #

  13. wee folding bike
    Member

    CTC have info on Iceland, I picked it up for a friend in the spring, I think it was a bit out of date.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  14. LaidBack
    Member

    Smyril Line doesn't call in at Scotland (Shetland) or Norway now.

    They still do run from Iceland to Denmark.

    Smyril Line - North Atlantic Ferry

    So now gone for time being - as are the ferries from Newcastle to Norway/Sweden and the ferry from Rosyth to Zeebrugge.

    So contrary to what people may have expected flying is continuing to grow. Then again ferries are dependent on cheap fuel for the cars that fill their decks and the ships engines.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  15. ruggtomcat
    Member

    to Rosyth to Zeebrugge? boo! thats the route i was going to take, you mean i have to go all the way to pompy or somewhere?

    Posted 13 years ago #

  16. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Hull, perhaps.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. PS
    Member

    Newcastle to Amsterdam's still operating, I think.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  18. chdot
    Admin

    "From £29"

    http://www.raileasy.co.uk/go/09/dutch-flyer

    Posted 13 years ago #

  19. LaidBack
    Member

    rtc to Rosyth to Zeebrugge? boo! thats the route i was going to take, you mean i have to go all the way to pompy or somewhere?

    Well (Danish owned) DFDS bought the (Dutch owned) Norfolk Line. One reason was to consolidate the Rosyth-Zeebrugge traffic on the Newcastle - Amsterdam route (maybe using the extra larger ferries freed up by other routes being canceled.)

    Norfolk Line was smaller and won awards for its services. Despite its high fare structure there was enough business. Many of these buses, cars and trucks will now come up the A1. Plans are afoot to re-instate the route as freight only with government support (again).

    DFDS always objected to the original proposal of a direct link from Scotland to the continent. Not surprisingly it preferred to have a monopoly. With this takeover they have fulfilled their wish.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  20. ruggtomcat
    Member

    freight only? can i send my ortlieb (surely they must count as freight) over from edinburgh and then catch the train doon?

    Posted 13 years ago #

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