Lots of sounds of motorbikes drifting over from Seafield way almost all day. One impatient motor car driver passing too close on Mountcastle Drive South.
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(11328 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Went out very early to try and avoid any of the nonsense and so I could look after the kids and give the wife her day of leisure.
Only one shocker as I approached the bypass by the A702 passing hillend entrance, Grey Renault van in an incredibly close pass with oncoming traffic. Driver looked harried, angry, hot, bothered, and was myopically leaning close to the windscreen as if he was struggling to see. Slightly concerning.
Irony - number plate "T23 BAD"
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Even the RAC shocked.
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I have a theory that, apart from the chancers obviously taking the mick, a lot of the "low grade" speeding that's been happening during lockdown is basically down to the average UK driver's apparent inability consistently to control their vehicle's speed sensibly and safely. Far too many seem to take their speed cues from other vehicles - principally the vehicle they happen to be behind at any particular moment. With the roads being much quieter, such cues were much scarcer and there was a tendency to go at any old speed that felt about right until they come up behind someone else they could tag along behind in their sheep-like fashion. So basically it's down to laziness and carelessness - the marks of poor drivers everywhere.
(An example of what I mean from more normal times would be the individuals on motorways who use lane two to craaaawwwllll past ~70mph traffic in lane one at roughly 70.5mph and then, when past the traffic, although they do pull over in to lane one their speed drifts gently up to 80mph+ for no obvious reason. I reckon it's because there's no-one in their immediate forward view for them to take cues from that they effectively lose control of their speed.)
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Agree if road empty the vehicle speed creeps up
However the motorcyclist overtaking the cyclist heading east into edinburgh at 100mph was having a laugh. This morning. I was in a better position going the other way as I could see him coming
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As I said: "apart from the chancers obviously taking the mick".
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Small update on the Braidburn Terrace situation: the barriers are still there :(
I did notice today, however, that there are now permanent-looking signs up on lampposts clearly indicating the restriction on motor vehicles only being able to use the road eastbound. Which suggests that some permanent infrastructure will eventually be put in place to enforce it - but in the mean time cyclists still have to cross on to the wrong side of the road at each end - which effectively gives eastbound motor vehicles 'priority' at those points :(
Surely it wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to provide a gap in the temporary barriers for cyclists to filter through, as they have at the Braid Road closure (which AFAIK is only temporary)?
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There's a blue Transit van parked directly outside the Hermitage (in the Braid Rd closure) almost every day. With a fake notice in the windscreen saying they have permission from the council (with fake council header).
They must drive over the pavement every day too
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Please tell me I'm not overreacting to label the below as rubbish driving if not downright negligent:
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neddie - the van outside the Hermitage will be the cafe owner's van.
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Just saw Clip on YouTube of a close pass being immediately pounced on by a Polis car tat was behind it. UK for sure. Presumably will go viral in our bubble
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heartwarming, that.
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Sunny in Lanarkshire. North or South, occasionally cycle in North Lanarkshire but often in South Lanarkshire (tho it stretches from Glasgow to Dumfries and Galloway)
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@gembo etc: I suspect that the polis were reacting to the fact that the driver had crossed the solid white line, rather than the closeness of the pass. Unfortunately.
(Unless of course the poster of the video was privy to their conversation and can confirm otherwise.)
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Was out on a family ride today with the Mrs (her first bike ride in 7 years) and three kids (6, 4 and 2). Quiet country lane, no pavements so we were on the road. Out of nowhere some absolute [rule2]ing [rule2] driving a soft top Porsche FLIES past in a low gear with the engine screaming, his foot must have been on the floor the whole time as he passed us. No consideration at all about the kids and what could have happened if one of them had taken a wobble. Kids were scared [rule2]less as was the Mrs. And of course all that to overtake us, only to get caught behind a van travelling at a more reasonable speed. Genuinely don't understand some people.
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CocoShepherd
That’s really grim, I hope you’re all alright.
Did you report it? If you and one other witness give statements, you might get some justice, or at least the driver will get a visit from The Police.
All the best.
Cheers
ColinPosted 4 years ago # -
Heading to Cramond from Maybury Rd green light for me and traffic opposite. The idiot driving from Cramond just decides to take a right turn across my path. Thankfully my brakes are really good or it could have been very nasty.
Seems to be a regular occurence these days that a lot of drivers just don't look as they think there's nothing else on the road!
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@cocoshepherd I had similar over take on corner out herperrig, soft top porsche big vrooom noise but you were I think in Fife?
Probably two a-hole Porsche drivers? Just possible
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@CocoShepherd sorry to hear this that sounds terrifying and unbelievably selfish. I hope it doesn't deter your family from cycling. I always enjoy my rides round there too...
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@redmist
Why does the cafe owner at the Hermitage feel the need to park there and not 20 yards around the corner on Hermitage Drive?
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Guy on the wrong side of the locked gate at Torduff reservoir, trying to head for town. Don't even know how you'd get a car there.
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Must've come up Kirkgate from Currie, and past Clubbiedean reservoir?
Which is a route with at least a couple of interesting manoeuvres, each of which would have taken a significant amount of thrawnness to plough on with.
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That's the way I cycled out and it didn't seem like somewhere you'd drive a saloon car but I guess you can.
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Once maybe but i doubt he will do it again tho anything is possible for those with an X and a Y chromosome pairing.
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@gembo
It's the Y mate. The little stubby one. Gives us our unique charm and murderous twinkle.
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Perhaps he drove through & then someone subsequently shut the gate?
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One assumes that the chap in the flat cap driving an utterly lovely vintage Rolls Royce* (Silver Ghost? and actually silver [or polished aluminium]) through Currie this afternoon was making an essential trip**.
*Quick Google says you too can have one, if you have £200,000+ lying around.
**this is where @chrisfl pops up again to say that it's actually a neighbour who is regularly seen taking their Rolls Royce to the tip stuffed with bags of rubbish.
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There is an old ROLLS. In garage of a wooden house near the turn down to Blinkbonny is out once a year. Same with most Rollls. If they break down the replacements are crippling and the fuel consumption is poor.
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Back in the 1980s when I lived in a bedsit near Parliament Hill* my landlord - a builder/minor property magnate (like many others at that time) who was getting on in years - drove a Rolls. I believe he'd bought the car for a song during the fuel crisis in the 1970s when the bottom dropped out of the market for thirsty cars. He didn't use it much, just left it parked out front of the house most of the time.
He had a triple heart bypass during the time I was living under his roof; on his return from hospital he proudly showed me his quite impressively extensive and actually fairly gruesome scars. (All above the waist, nothing "Uncle Monty" going on.)
* Round the corner from The Magdala pub where Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely. That was a bit before my time there, though.
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