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  1. fimm
    Member

    As I understand it, "Enduro" as an event is where you are timed for short sections of the route and have a time limit for the whole thing but your position in the results is dependent on your performance through the timed sections only. A bike developed for this kind of thing might be branded an "Enduro" bike.

    Strathpuffer and other similar events are completely different - how many laps can you/your team complete in whatever time (24 hours for Strathpuffer). These would usually be ridden on a "hard tail" (i.e. bike with front suspension only). Downhill bikes are "full sus" (i.e. front and rear suspension).

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I'm trying to read this but I just want to burn the 'charity' Sustrans to the ground.

    Please do not spit, especially where people need to wheel, as this transfers onto their wheels, gloves and hands.

    Right you are, thanks for the heads-up.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    https://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1358817277110607875

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    Love that automatic bike lane though the road was also very smooth

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. neddie
    Member

    That ain’t no bike lane

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. ejstubbs
    Member

    No workies on Lanark Road yesterday, unsurprisingly.

    No apparent progress on the westbound bike lane since last week, and the road was again parked up solid from the Longstone lights as far as Redhall View. Eastbound looked to have had some progress: bike lane from the WoL walkway bridge as far as the bus lane at Redhall View, including a group of marked parking spaces near the bridge. Not much westward from there until the ever so mildly controversial Cranley Nursery parking/drop-off spaces.

    Even allowing for the weather, this scheme does seem to be progressing in a rather leisurely and piecemeal fashion.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/edinburgh-spaces-people-scheme-morningsides-braid-road-stays-closed-despite-vote-reopen-3130109

    Consultation boot is on the other foot now :)

    Cue conniptions from the Tories

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. Stickman
    Member

    @algo’s pal Paul Bailey gets an outrage quote at the end of that article.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    “

    But when Colinton/Fairmilehead Tory councillor Jason Rust contacted the Spaces for People team to ask when the change would be implemented, an official pointed to part of the motion agreed at the meeting which asked officers to "continue consideration of measures on Braid Road; manage intrusive traffic in neighbourhood streets with solutions such as modal filters; take a holistic approach alongside nearby initiatives including the Greenbank-Meadows Quiet Route and Braidburn Terrace ...

    “

    Well I knew that.

    Must have read it on CCE.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    My bold.

    “

    Now, despite the recommendation and the massive local opposition to closure, no real action is being taken at this time to reopen the road at all and no proper timescale.

    “

    Well indeed.

    Like too many AT proposals held up by spurious objections...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. neddie
    Member

    Ha ha.

    "You can have your Braid Rd reopened once there's a full set of modal filters installed in the Clunys and segregated cycle lane on Hermitage Dr"

    (not from the article)

    Nice one!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. ejstubbs
    Member

    My schadenfreude detector is off the scale...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  13. Morningsider
    Member

    We voted for consultation by mistake!

    Posted 3 years ago #

  14. ejstubbs
    Member

    Ah yes, the Withnail plea. Might just about sum up some of these folks...

    Posted 3 years ago #

  15. gembo
    Member

    Two way consultation process. Like it

    Posted 3 years ago #

  16. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/edinburgh-councils-emergency-cycle-paths-hit-snag-snow-falls-and-gritters-cant-reach-them-john-mclellan-3130651

    Posted 3 years ago #

  17. Morningsider
    Member

    Aren't the mini-gritters that fit in the cycle lanes busy sorting out pavements, which is what the Tories asked for after the last snow fall.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    @morningsider, remember he cannot write a straight piece it must contain the message Driving Good, otherwise Ford and Shell withhold his retainer.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  19. SnowyTheWolf
    Member

    https://www.facebook.com/106024958042373/posts/133236775321191/?d=n

    https://youtu.be/dE_F__LeqxU

    Posted 3 years ago #

  20. gembo
    Member

    Oooh, have to be careful about demanding consulataion.

    Once in will require more consultation to remove

    south west edinburgh in motion to try to keep every inch of tarmac outside our houses for us

    Strangely given their mission statement is to reclaim the streets for parking there is no way to spot any parking in their amazing infographic?

    I am a somewhat keen that this one is successful as that is where andrew died because the road masquerades as two lanes and has a too high speed limit and dreadful island crossing poimts that narrow the lanes even before all the slow lane free parking.

    In snow there is no way to clear the inner lane as cars are parked there.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  21. SnowyTheWolf
    Member

    A stunningly bad and vey selective info graphic with the guffest music possible.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  22. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Global pandemic, healthcare workers flat out for a year, climate chaos looming and here is the cycle infrastructure to get those health workers home after, not before it has been cleared.

    https://twitter.com/overlandertheb1/status/1360149935145054208

    Posted 3 years ago #

  23. boothym
    Member

    "Binmen have to navigate parked cars" - do they not have to do that already?

    "Too little space on traffic refuge" - surely this hasn't changed, so they'll be campaigning for its removal and a single stage crossing added, right?

    "Ambulance blocks the cycle lane so cyclists must use the carriageway - safety audit needed" - wonder what the audit would say about the current situation having to go around parked cars.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  24. Frenchy
    Member

    "cyclists must use the carriageway - safety audit needed"

    Someone wrote these words thinking they were an argument for...cyclists continuing to cycle in the carriageway...?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    More paint spotted on Lanark road.

    Car park at marks and spencer aLDI at Chesser THE busiest I have ever ever seen it

    Posted 3 years ago #

  26. Dave
    Member

    [+] Embed the video | Video DownloadGet the Flash Videos

    Posted 3 years ago #

  27. Dave
    Member

    I think it stands to reason.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  28. jules878
    Member

    Not sure this is the appropriate thread, but I ust spotted this....

    https://www.change.org/p/stop-edinburgh-council-making-dangerous-road-changes-cycle-lanes-parking-cuts-permanent

    Posted 3 years ago #

  29. chdot
    Admin

    Exactly right thread.

    Link contains usual arguments and a click through to this -

    “

    Keep Edinburgh Moving

    We, the communities of Edinburgh, are uniting the voices of residents, workers and businesses to push for freedom of movement and democratic consultation for all those affected by Spaces for People schemes.

    “

    https://sites.google.com/view/keepedinburghmoving

    So, as ever, “freedom of movement”.

    Obviously (primarily) for people with cars.

    It’s hard enough to remember’ life before Covid’, impossible to remember the “democratic consultation” for car dominated streets.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    That video above, nice bit of satire.

    Posted 3 years ago #

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