Don't know how any of the East Lothian schleppers got on yesterday but I was nearly taken out by tractors on two separate instances, both when I had right of way and both when the driver had looked straight at me. The driver of a car behind the first tractor suggested I wasn't visible enough [I was wearing Team Tunnocks colours which are lurid]. He was joking with me. This all happened out West Lothian way.
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Tractor Terrors
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Posted 12 years ago #
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"This all happened out West Lothian way"
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First incident at T-junction where road from Kirknewton joins the A70 [near where the boot tree used to be]. I was on A70, tractor was turning right with no regard to the traffic on the road he was turning on to.
Second incident was on Leyden Road - one of my favourite West Lothian descents. Sight lines so good that from at least 500 yards away I could see the tractor coming up the track, I had a premonition brought on by the previous incident that I should ca' canny. Old guy looked straight at me, did not register anything in the visual field and pulled out onto Leyden Road from the farm track.
All this happened in the Kirknewton district of the county of West Lothian
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Amir and I were "oblidged" to get off the road by a farm lorry full of chickens, in the mist.
Came head-to-head with a pair of giant tractors somewhere in the backroads of East Lothian on Wednesday night right in the pitch dark. However 32 cyclists with a dazzling array of light weaponry won the day and the tractors pulled in for us.
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The only problem I had on a fantastic 48 ride in East Lothian yesterday was mud left on the road by tractors. The farmers are supposed to clear it up.
I did see this though:
Unidentified Flying Object by Cycling Mollie, on FlickrIt's a UFO in that I've not been able to identify what it is yet. It might be a tethered bird scarer.
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Ooh that reminds me, there was a hot air balloon driting low over the hills on Saturday morning, roughly in the region of Dalhousie Castle, with sun rising behind it. It looked very cool.
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Ahahaha.
"The farmers are supposed to clear it up."
I've never seen any up here but back in Lincolnshire, after installing replenishing the lumps of frozen mud along the road between farm gates the farmers would erect white-on-red "
MUD ON ROAD" signs as if mud was permitted and had to be worked around like any other natural hazard.Posted 12 years ago # -
I am sure that there is some law against leaving mud on the road. kaputnik and I also went though a long stretch of mud. Took me ages to clean my bike when I got back. Going to have to start using mudguarded bike at the weekend. There is a lot of work going on in the fields at the moment.
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West Lothian backroads also v muddy - fermers are planting our food in the fields. I think they would laugh at suggestion of roads being cleaned up. I had to clean bike even with mudguards. Lots of little rocks in middle of road on corner of Leyden Road descent. OK if you know they are there. Looks like washed down by a stream. What with the freezing fog and the darkness I am coming round to the conclusion that winter is approaching. Opticians in Currie have their Xmas Window display up today
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Pigeon Control Resource Centre - nice
quite practicable to wait and see if it rains?
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had a wee natter with one of my archers type mates, you know the type, ruddy complection,tartan shirt,straw constantly in the mouth .Tractor ! He agreed, (tounge securely in cheek ! ) yes removal of anything from the public highway is important, as soon a s is practical...............he reckons about 2017, when hes no more subsidies, no more animals, no more money for fuel, no more health and safety checks and surveys to do,when hes no more quad bikers or mountain bikers to chase,no more eggs to collect, no more children to show round, no more fences to repair...............i sensed a pattern forming ! It is , GENERALLY, signed, as am sure insurance companies take a dim view to paying out all the time ! He was joking, hes got a nice old treck that he uses when his 4 kids are in a playfull cycling mood ! oh and a nice dutch barn ( I think, the round things !)His workshop is still belt driven , ie belt driven machinery, drills lathes etc, its all covered in grain dust but its glorious ! Many happy memories, sitting in a field, in stunning summer weather lifting bales, by hand, his mum would arrive with a kettle, a tea pot and cakes she had made that very morning ........ah, oh well of to the rat race, be safe !
scottPosted 12 years ago #
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