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.
I'm a new-ish user – I dip in now and then and have posted just a handful of times. I ride a 19th-hand blue Raleigh hybrid named Spud, who carried me across the Netherlands last year on a very gentle bike tour.
I interact with traffic as little as humanly possible, respond to council consultations like it's my job, and tweet about transport to an extent that's probably a bit baffling for the followers who are more likely there for the science journalism.
Have been a hanger-on for a few years now. I live in Dunbar, my commute is now 3-4 days a week. I ride a Ridgeback touring bike at home (5 minute-ish commute to station at that end) and a pretty standard Specialized hybrid type commuting bike in Edinburgh, normally left tied up at Haymarket. Cycle west thenceforth, for a few miles to Saughton. Normally try to avoid the Big Road unless I'm in a hurry. I'm an economic migrant to the UK but try not to hold that against me.
“but try not to hold that against me.”
Not a problem on CCE.
Suspect most CCEers have economic reasons for being in the east of S.
(And many weren’t born in any of the city’s hospitals.)
i pootle around on a stickered specialised. sadly, i haven't actually taken her to any of the places i have stickers from.
i'm spottable in the summer thanks to a cycling jersey based on my home province's flag.
i wear cycling gloves to combat a combination of poor circultation and not wanting to break a nail while wrangling the cycle. they possible make me look pretentiuos. oh well.
i have really appreciated all the helpful info in this forum, so thank you.
i am looking for a forum to help identify garden plants/weeds and mystery poo, if anyone has suggestions.
i am looking for a forum to help identify garden plants/weeds and mystery poo, if anyone has suggestions.
Here?
Cycling gloves not really pretentious if you are cycling
My cycling gloves have turned into golfing gloves (because I have a hole in one)
Ooooh snowy that is sooo bad I am compelled to say my cycling socks are in a bad way both left and right have a hole in them, well you will say, how else could i get my feet into them?
I ride a Brompton, a road bike, occasionally a mountain bike and very occasionally a TT bike (for the purpose of doing triathlons).
Hey fimm did i spot you yesterday at Balerno about 6ish, kind of tartan pannier?
Dark blue '51 Claud Butler.
Couple of black '90s Flying Scots
Black Longstaff TWD
Some black Bromptons
Black Pashley
A couple of Twenties and Kingpins. The Kingpins are better but nobody knows that so you can park them outside the pool and they don't get nicked. They're gold, red, brown and blue.
I'll be riding in the Brompton World Championships on Saturday. The S2L-X will go down on the over night bus with me.
Ohhh, Airdrie.
@wee folding bike, when you say some black Bromptons - how many?
genbo it would have been nearer 7pm by the time I was in Balerno - but I do have a tartan-ish pannier.
Let’s say 6.30pm ish? Or 7 if i was very late, left work 5.30ish thought i was motoring but WoL path mudd
Black top, black shorts? New garb bit like Sweet Gene Vincent as Ian Dury sang
Definitely sounds like me (black top with red squiggles on it, black shorts, grey helmet), but it was 6:45 - 6:50pm when I went through Balerno, according to Strava.
Your reference means nothing whatsoever to me.
Ok 6.45 at the traffic lights Strava proves it
Ian Dury and the Blockeads were a popular beat combo in the 1970s and 1980s
They have a song that starts off with an air of quiet melancholy about the original 1950s rocker Gene Vincent who popularised the Biker look. (Shall I mourn your decline with some thunderbird wine and a black handkerchief). But after a little pause Memento Mori style, it fairly rocks.
Off the album New Boots and Panties where he is standing outside the Clothes Shop (Woolworths reflected) with his wee boy Baxter (on the album). Baxter has some good albums now. THere is a bench in Richmond Park. You plug headphones into and listen to Ian.
"You plug headphones into and listen to Ian"
Will make a change from Wagner...
Hi,
I'm a newish member and can mostly be seen riding along the Innocent on either my Boardman CX (which now weighs a ton due to a pannier rack and Marathon Pluses) or if the weather is pleasant my Specialized Roubaix (which is considerably lighter and has no additional adornments other than lights and a bottle cage).
I'm normally wearing a light blue helmet and a variety of lycra outfits. Having taken the mick out of lycra in my early days I've now fully embraced the MAMIL inside.
I also ride my bike primarily to squeeze in an hour of exercise each day and get to/from work without resorting to public transport.
I still occasionally wrestle with my inner petrolhead and my dislikes include being overtaken and not being top of my usual Strava segments.
Three working Bromptons and some of a 2001 T6.
S6L
M6R
S2L-X
Ohhh, clothing.
Usually a Madness t shirt, Craghopper pants and Cons.
In the winter a fleecy, Craghopper pants, Docs and Lowe Alpine mountain cap.
Pashley Parabike - my favourite bike, but it really is rubbish.
Pashley little black bike - actually my wife's but I ride it more than her.
Planet X Kaffenback - custom built commuter, on at least 2nd of everything bar the frame.
Planet X Pro Carbon Evo - another one custom built by me, with fancy carbon wheels.
2008 Cervelo Soloist carbon frame on my home office wall. It is the most beautiful carbon framed bicycle ever built in my eyes.
Used to commute a lot from Fife to Edinburgh, now just getting back into it after 4 year hiatus because of child -young child and nearly 2 hour commute each way not conducive to each other. Hoping to get back to 3 days a week one way on the bike.
I have a midlife crisis convertible BMW sports car which I probably love more than my bikes.
The boy (4) did his first 10 mile bike ride yesterday. Just before falling asleep he opened his eyes and said to Mrs B "mummy, I can't stop thinking about cycling".
#prouddad
@Baldycyclist, love the bit at the end with your wee boy.
I had band practice. Last night at Canonmills. The young guy running the rehearsal room asked us how many gigs we had over the festival. I said every night and he accepted this (he must like accordion blues).
Anyway I then cycled home to Balerno (fox at BAlgreen, rabbit at sighthill) and I cant stop thinking about cycling, though my headset has a bad Jah Wobble
Tough pil to swallow, that.
gembo's public image is strong.
Is this gembo??
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Genres
Post-punk experimental rock dance-rock noise rock dub new wave
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and bells
Early memeber (name has changed a couple of times, and I've flounced a few times, but approach to this and Facebook is similar - divvint post much). As alluded to by chdot in the anniversary thread, we had conversations over coffee about what CCE could be.
Used to run .citycycling online magazine - probably more savvy to make it work now, but less time-rich.
Generally commute on a turquoise Elephant Bike, sometimes helmeted, sometimes not; currently using my orange Kinesis Crosslight, cos I've got a job to do on the Elephant, and the cross bike is fun to deputise occasionally. Still got a 30s Sunbeam hanging in the garage, post Mercian respray, when the bike shop I organised it through lost the (seemingly one-off) bottom bracket assembly. Have recently been put onto someone who can 'definitely' help make a new one. Forever regret selling my Cotic Soul mountain bike. Long-term Bamboo Bike build scuppered by life so far (front triangle built, most parts in boxes awaiting impatiently).
Also drive a classic ('91 Neon, but with a 1275 engine) and a modern (2011 Clubman Cooper S) Mini (one orange (I like orange) another white).
Slowly getting faster at cross (generally into the top half of the field now - my old aim used to be 'not last', which I succeeded at usually, though sometimes only by a place) with the help of a coach and a turbo.
Right arm broken three times, twice while a member here, once while riding cycle speedway, once while commuting, speedway necessitating metalwork, commuting ripping half that metalwork out and completely snapping the arm creating an open fracture for good measure.
Current bete noir: poor parking (generally meaning parking on pavements or in parks).
Two nice John Lydon related puns there PiL are always worth a listen. Couldn’t call himself Rotten initially as McLaren said McLaren owned that name or indeed public image. This tells you all you need to know about Malkie.
This tells you all you need to know about Malkie.
Famous antiestablishmentarian who could have become the 13th Baron of Troup, but scuppered his chances by shouting "Jesus was a sausage" at the electorate.
Welcome to the forum @totels
I'm another one led astray by CCE.
Rode a blue hybrid when i got here, now have a folder, a luath cross, and tandem.
and at least two other members of my immediate family also have CCE accounts.
I currently commute part time in London and part time in Edinburgh. which is interesting...
“I'm another one led astray by CCE”
I think you’ll find that after asking if it's ‘ok to cycle in Ed in winter’, (and being told YES), all subsequent decisions on transport options were your own.
(Led astray by LB of course.)
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