I won't be along today, on account of being a lazy b who's still in bed, but for future reference - where is PY?
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PYyyyyyyy (Fri 31 May 2019)
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It's the only café in Edinburgh (possibly the world) with
A) no coffee
B) no hot water.But you can spend a weeks wage on a sticky bun.
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We are awake and heading PYwards. It's a damp holiday miracle.
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@EdinburghCycleCam - Peter's Yard - in answer to your question. Nice to meet/see folk this morning and arrive just in time for a @gembo high five. There was coffee eventually.
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@algo - Google is confusing me - has it been renamed to Söderberg at the meadows?
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EdinburghCycleCam, yes it is now Soderberg, but we keep calling it Peter's Yard to confuse the newbies ;-)
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Looked busy as I rolled by a little before 9 am.
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@fimm - It works! :D
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Ah of course, that's why I passed Gembo so early today. My fingers are still tingling from his gauntleted high-five...
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@gembo has timing.
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Good to see everyone this morning, and thanks to Algo for the Flat White once they had the coffee machine started.
Spoke to a chap on the canal who had a DIY build electric bike. Apparently it's fast but can only do 15miles.
I then stopped at the Edinburgh Park Novotel to pick up some breakfast that I had reserved by £2.50 via some app. It was good, they gave me a box and let me loose with what was left of the breakfast buffet.
This meant that I then had to negotiate the Edinburgh Park barrier, there used to be enough space to get by the side of the barrier, but this isn't possible. So I shimmied under the barrier. Edinburgh Park Management have just traced me down to my office, I think I'm going to get a telling off!
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What is the Edinburgh Park barrier?
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the Edinburgh Park barrier, there used to be enough space to get by the side of the barrier, but this isn't possible
Is this now blocked to bikes? If so, why?
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There's a chicane on the
pavementshared use pathPosted 5 years ago # -
Do Edinburgh Park still have a wee security man who stands out on Lochside Crescent noting down the registrations of ratrunning cars each day? I was never sure what the point was (I am talking 20 years ago though)
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I mean there is route around the barrier, but it has chicanes and no dropped curbs are provided, so the shared use path with chicanes around is actually quite long (1km on OSM)
I now have the official telling off - which aside from me going underneath this morning seems completely made up:
"our security have highlighted that on several occasions you have come to the barrier on your bike, but rather than go to the other side to where there is sufficient space on the path, you are forcing the barrier up to access and push your bike underneath! On one of these occasions, someone believed to be you was witnessed holding the barrier up for another cyclist.
This is completely unacceptable, as you do not have barrier access and should at no time be man handling the barrier. The space on the path should be used by cyclists to access the park.
Pushing the barrier is classed as criminal damage. If there was to be an issue or damage to the barrier due to your manipulation, you would be liable for all cost incurred. The price of a replacement is £2500.
We ask that you desist from this action and use the correct procedure and do not attempt to access the barrier as you do not have authorised access."
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Not sure I follow you, chris. There are dropped kerbs at both ends of that route. Yes, you do have to do a wee dogleg on Lochside Crescent, so am I missing something?
I can confirm that car park barriers are ruinously expensive and not in all cases entirely reliable.
Edit: did you mean your preferred route was via Edinburgh Park station, rather than the path atop the Lochside Ave bridge over the railway?
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There are dropped kerbs at both ends of that route.
Indeed, the dropped kerbs are visible on Google Maps. When heading North from Lochside Ave, there's one at the exit of the roundabout to Straiton Park to get you onto the path, and then another just after the barrier on Lochside Ave?
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I agree the shared-use path is horribly inconvenient and convoluted, but it only adds around 150m.
Or did I miss something?
I hope you will respond and let them know how inconvenient and second-rate the shared-use path is...
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lovely to see you all, also Fimm on the Lanark Road on the way and Snowy as mentioned on canal. Only wearing fingerless gloves today so soft hi 5
THen the cafe with no coffee gang
then Algo hi 5 on way out
then quite sore hi 5 off Kaputnik on meadows. Made ped laugh with my cheers.
Sri Chinmoy mile still chocker with motorised vehicles. I have a good mind to resurrect the wee Buddhist and get hinm to lift them out the way [Ref Sri Chinmoy used to lift you over his head if he liked you. He was small but very strong]
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Arellcat: I dont' go this way very often at all, I would normally take the Underpass before the station, but today I started at the Novatel and didn't join the path there.
Once you get to the mini roundabout it's too late as the dropped curbs are the other side of the barriers. So it's okay from Lochside Crescent onto path, around chicane then back to Lochside Avenue. Or I should Ihave gone onto the shared use path right at the start of Lochside Avenue.
But there isn't an option aside from jumping the curb and crossing the grass. Today I just through it would be quicker to jump off my bike and pass it carefully under the barrier. The seemed a bit OTT, a please don't do that again and it costs £2500 to repair would have been enough!
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“Only wearing fingerless gloves today”
Really??
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Yeah it was not cold. Though I was referring specifically to my hands. I had shorts jersey arm warmers socks et cetera on too
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