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SpokesLothian:
June 22 - Spokes Bike Breakfast, 8-10am, at City Chambers Quadrangle ... please download and use poster ... http://bit.ly/spk_breakfast2011
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Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/SpokesLothian/status/74455484601597952
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Events, rides etc.
Spokes Bike Breakfast
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Free bacon rolls you're damn right i'll be there! Have to try harder to find people this year.
Posted 12 years ago # -
...with QR codes tucked in our spokes.
What? And unbalance my beautiful wheels? :-) Perhaps I'll turn up on my visiblebike for a change. It'll be easier to park for one thing.
Posted 12 years ago # -
"And unbalance my beautiful wheels?"
It's alright - you don't have to ride with the card in place...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Och, it always seems to be the day before the highland show. I'll be firmly white van man by then.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Given the Royal Mile is forming my commute route at the moment (gotta love hill training) I'll be there!
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I've never quite understood the purpose of the Spokes Bike Breakfast. Is it supposed to encourage new bike commuters or what?
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"Is it supposed to encourage new bike commuters or what?"
It tends to be more like a party for Spokes members with refreshments coming out of the pothole budget (I made that up).
Obviously there will be new(ish) bike commuters who can get a free Spokes map if they turn up early enough and get help/info at various stalls.
In addition it's a fairly useful lobbying opportunity - various councillors, officials and people from cycling organisations turn up.
Cycling Scotland has used it as the start of its MSP rides.
So - 'it's a multi-faceted promotional event for cycling' (with free food).
And it usually rains some of the time.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'll be there sharp for 20 minutes or so.
Posted 12 years ago # -
It is for bargain hunters, liggers, and freebie junkies like me. In my defence I tend to distribute the freebies on my travels.
THe hand rail that used to run along the wall and led to many overlapping bikes being locked to it has been replaced by a number of sheffield stands perpendicular to the wall so the stalls will protrude more into the rain.
Kappers - I spotted a nice yellow bike Frontspiere? {not certain] at Haymarket 5pm It was like totally yellow man.
Posted 12 years ago # -
a yellow bike? How crude! It's all about accessories!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Tempted to extend the school run and drop by with my 2 year old daughter.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Sheesh, always with the freebies while I'm elsewhere (rolls eyes), I shall just have to console myself with pleasant company and the scenery/history/attractions of the Isles instead ;-p
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Tomorrow -
Posted 12 years ago # -
I thought it was Thursday, when I'm out of town (as I was last year), but if it is tomorrow then maybe I will come with daughter as well!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Might even escape the rain -
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm holding out for a free Spokes map!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Queue before 8...
Posted 12 years ago # -
I've got a gym session tomorrow moring but if I can drag myself out of bed early enough I can come afterwards.
Just one question, why is the transport convener booked for a time when surely most people will have left for work?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Just one question, why is the transport convener booked for a time when surely most people will have left for work?
I think that's a self answering question!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Can someone pick me up a spokes map? South Lothian for preference.
Posted 12 years ago # -
i've got a full collection so if I get offered one, will keep you in mind....
Posted 12 years ago # -
Woo! thanks SRD :)
Posted 12 years ago # -
The chances of me getting there in time to get away in time to get to work by the time I need to be at work this week are slim. Although it's thin and papery I picked up a Bike Station-flavoured map at the Better Ways To Work thing to supplement my older but proper map-thick paper (and waterproofedly-laminated) Spokes map. Wouldn't mind a chain-clean but I expect there'd be a queue for that, too.
Posted 12 years ago # -
a que of recumbents....
Posted 12 years ago # -
Surely the collective noun for a group of recumbents is a "recline"?
Posted 12 years ago # -
If they are going downhill is that a decline?
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Surely the collective noun for a group of recumbents...
...was actually discussed at length on another forum! Suggestions included:
- a coven of recumbents
- a breeze
- an iconoclasm
- a nonconformance
- a bevy
- a comfort
- a reclination
- a whirl (as in Washington Happily Independent Recumbent Lovers)
- a kindness
- a break
- a recumble
- a fog
- a teem
- a brigade...
but by concensus it was decided that a breeze was the best one.
Perhaps I ought to bring the monstrousbike after all. I have to get my secret QR code made up, too.
Posted 12 years ago # -
never seen a bent there before
Posted 12 years ago #
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