...when some chump comes up behind you when you're doing 27 in a 30 zone, gets on the horn, you keep your cool and give them a shrug of the shoulders, they floor it past you at 40, trip the speed camera and then you sail past them at the junction 150m down the road giving them your best smile and thumbs up :D
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Commuting
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... having a bad day at work and then going out for a fast ride to work it out of my system. -
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Riding along the banks of the silvery Tay in the sunshine.
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"Riding along the banks of the silvery Tay in the sunshine"
Or sunset.
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.... that the I Love list is getting longer than the I Hate list! :-)
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I love the Innocent path in summer, and my friend recently showed me a way (which I'm sure I've promptly forgotten and will get lost next time I try it) to go from there in a nice gentle sweep around to Duddingston avoiding the big hill, where you can sit by the beautiful loch surrounded by bunnies and ducklings - perfect. :)
(The way home for me is great too, again a gentle climb with stunning views to get back to the Commonwealth/Pollock Halls bit of the Crags and then the nice long whoosh down Queen's Drive)Posted 13 years ago # -
...when I'm on one of the bits of my commute that tracks alongside the M8 and I look across to see I am overtaking the motorway traffic. Puts a smile on the face and an extra zing in the pedals. Especially when considering a lot of the drivers are probably going from and to roughly the same places as me !
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"Some people may regard this as sacrilegious - I think there is a need for a bit of tree pruning/removal."
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... struggling in thinking your legs have given up on the day only to find out, coming down the steepest part of the ride, that there's a headwind strong enough to warrant pedalling to keep moving then realising you've got to work faster than usual.
Confusing...
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...competitive commuting.
But only when I win!
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Tell all... who'd you scalp? How many points?? :-)
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A chap on a non-suspension MTB with average kinda tyres for his bike. He was a third of the way up Drumbrae South last night when I set out up the hill from the PC World roundabout. Caught up with him about halfway up and left him trailing in my wake by the time I reached the car wash.
To be fair, the only competitiveness there was in all probability my own and there have been many times I've just been thankful to make it up the hill on my ridiculously heavy MTB with its chunky MTB tyres without any cyclist (hill)walks of shame.
How many points would that warrant?
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http://www.itsnotarace.org/scr-rules/
I'll let you work out the points yourself ;-)Sounds like a very satisfying scalp though :-)
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... when the first thing that you try to fix a squeak/rattle/other noise works
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...routes with dedicated cycle path alternatives in case of roadfail...
"@edintravel: Holyrood Park - Queen's Drive closed between Parliament & Meadowbank until further notice. #edintravel"
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Ooh, I wonder what's happened there - just basic flooding? Or a more impressive landslide? Might have to ride home that way (using Wingpig's cyclepath alternatives).
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Is this the bit of road next to the waffle arrangement you posted a wee while back? (computer says no to opening Streetmap) There was no flooding this morning. The cat's nick has been closed for a while because of rock falls though.
It did look as if some sort of do is about to happen since there were tents and stuff around this morning. But "until further notice" is a bit mysterious.
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There have been reports of the Foodie festival suffering from Meadows Festival levels of mud and bogginess, so it's possibly that rather than the micro-burn on the opposite side turning into a raging torrent.
@edintravel replied (by DM, unhelpfully for anyone else following them) that Historic Scotland have confirmed that both cycle and foot paths are open..
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