CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years 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.
Maybe it's just the fact the average Edinburgh driver doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together?
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10697#post-254530
to wit, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham and Glasgow drivers and their relative skillsets.
The Paul Doyle details were horrifying. Why a car can still accelerate and not be automatically made to brake after repeatedly colliding with objects (people!) is apparently beyond the ability of science to solve?
On a lighter note Bella served this up.
Next up, Chris Deerin appeared in the New Statesman where he gushed:“The last time I saw Lord Offord of Garvel in the flesh was a few months ago. We both attended a lunch for well-to-do business types, and as I left I was suitably impressed by the array of elite motors in the car park.”
“The best belonged to Malcolm Offord, though: a vintage, open-top Jaguar sports car, Bond-esque in its sleek lines and growling power. Offord, with his sunglasses and slicked-back, wealthy man’s hair, looked entirely fit for purpose in the driver’s seat as he roared off into the countryside.”
https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/17/admiring-malcom-offords-jaguar/
I was close passed by a driver on London Road this morning, which was bad enough that I'm considering testing out the new police reporting system.
I was in the right hand lane, as I was going straight on and the left lane is for left turns only. The driver passed me without leaving the lane, maybe a foot of space. Bad enough but itself, but the two hands on the phone and none on the steering wheel were what really, really annoyed me.
Some ridiculously close 'punishment' passes cycling up the Wisp from Old Dalkeith Road. Pretty sure there was a touch of retribution given I'd already played leapfrog with the 2 drivers at the Drum St and Ferniehill lights before the lights at the left-hand turn.
Loud-exhaust-BMW-convertible-M-series vanity-plated aggressive-muscle-gym-rat driving onto the pavement at Gibson Tce / Dundee St. Forced a woman walking to stop abruptly to avoid getting ploughed into.
Called him out on it, as he got out in some great hurry, "shouldn't be driving on the pavement, ya nearly knocked someone over!"
Got a load of F-word abuse and called a "gimp" for the pleasure of it. LOL. Aye, I wonder where he learned that word?
Later tonight, passed the Choobs and someone shouted “nice bike”. Laidback will know the one.
What a week it’s been! And it’s only Thursday!
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