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.
Etiquette question -
How do early (novice) arrivers make sure that they 'connect' with the right group of bun eaters?
Also how do you deal with people too shy to reveal their username or those who don't want to be known by their 'real' name? (Perhaps such people don't come?)
"How do early (novice) arrivers make sure that they 'connect' with the right group of bun eaters?"
Link to the CCE Top Trumps thread so that those who used the card-style template and weren't too shy to use a photo showing their face there can be recognised, if they turn up?
I'm really rubbish at actually asking people what their username or real name is, so I tend to arrive and if there are new faces just chat away and hope that it comes out in conversation... :-/
QR codes - just bought some of the Bike Revolution Shepherd code stickers for the most valuable of the stable (yep, it's got to that stage! Bikes now outnumber people and storage space...)
I thought it more likely that interested individuals would have smart phones/QR readers than the constabulary having the time and inclination to use an RFID reader!
I'll aim to pop along tomorrow and see if they work - I don't have a phone myself!
Robert
Hmm, must do a new card!
oh, that looks interesting Roibeard!
That would make it simple (for me)....!
I'm going to try to bring two books. One is Bella for Anth - hopefully before he goes to his job.
Other is David Byrne for anyone interested.
That's if I get dog sorted etc....
"That's if I get dog sorted"
You said it was your daughter's dog...
She's got tired of him. Max is 'so last year...!' Plus he won't stay in her bike basket!
Latest from the Met Office:
0700 SUN 10 °C SW 6 mph Good
Is 10°C for sitting inside or outside?
Depends how heavy your wool jersey is.
"Plus he won't stay in her bike basket!"
Dog seatbelt harness, webbing loop attached to the basket, job done ;-)
I used to use a specific barcode/QR code app but now use the much more generic Google Goggles which is supposed to intelligently interpret anything you point the camera at (but in reality, I must confess, that this is not an app a have ever used for any serious purpose).
Morgern? Vielleicht - mal sehen ... ;)
Tried to do a QR - fail.
I will be there
ADMIN EDIT
Did fine - just needs to be an IMG
I need a tutorial - or wine !
I'm having the wine (Chilean)
Tutorial -
Press IMG instead of URL.
Yes, that seems rather obvious, now you mention it.......
Thanks, off to finish the italian.
Hurrah! Someone else has arrived! Been here since 7.15 and only John the Big Issue seller for company. cc and Amir have made it!
0715 the baby was still asleep therefore I was still asleep. Makes a change from the last time when he was ill. I think my attendance at these coffee meets will probably need full planetary alignment before i'll make it...
Well, hellooo, it was really good to meet such a bunch of friendly people! I ended up spending an hour and a half there. It was idyllic except for the noise of the huge diesel engine periodically roaring away beside us (the Quartermile window cleaner appeared with a sort of telescopic monster Thunderbirds spider tractor, remote controlled too).
If I was giving anyone strange looks it was probably because I couldn't hear what you were saying!
And now I've had my first cardamom bun, too. Mmmmm.
I was dead impressed by those on their way out to the Gyle or further. I just had another hundred yards to go - I felt like such a fraud :)
@cc I win the prize for commuter with least distance to go!
Very nice indeed to meet cc, roibeard and morningsider.
Very brief spot of you SRD!
I'd been collared by John the Big Issue man when I first arrived at PY (I was very early indeed) and he'd asked me to take a photo of him when I was leaving.
Also, another lady cyclist sat at a PY table outside first thing, I asked if she was part of the citycyclingedinburgh gathering since I knew a few new people were expected, but she wasn't. Strangely seemed very aware of us though, and thought we were usually there on a Wednesday. We had a brief chat but she didn't seem to bothered abotu the forum...
"she didn't seem to bothered abotu the forum"
You'll have to improve your selling technique.
Something like - 'it's a groovy place where cool bikers hang out and put the (Edinburgh) world to rights'.
@roibeard here's a thread on vehicular cycling
there was another one along the lines of 'what kind of cyclist are you?'
Sorry I missed you all this morning, I am ill, boo. :-( and going back to bed..
Nice to meet so many of you - I could have sat there all day (minus the cherry picker).
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