CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 16years old!
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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.
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I doubt one's hardest acceleration means much compared to the levering/trapping action the studs gets from broken tarmac. I'm down 5-10 studs, even with my best efforts to stay on the sunny side.
Ride in this morning was fine; the Broomhouse/Gyle cyclepath was untreated and pretty frosted over, but that just means my tyres are quiet.
I lost a few studs during the initial 20-30 miles, but after that they seem quite secure. The absolute worst time seems to be when they are just in, *any* sort of skid wil pop them out then (eg spinning the wheel then putting it back down before it stops. As I say they seem quite secure now they have had fifty miles or so of clear road use, noticeably quieter as well, haven't had a chance to try them today as I am at home, but I suspect they may prove useful tomorrow B-)
On Cleich Hill between Dunfermline and Kinross yesterday.
OS NT 10007 95519
I know I managed all last year without studs - my commute is so short that they aren't necessary as I can just slow down a bit.
However, this thread is bringing out the consumer in me.
Particularly with photos like DaveC's above...
Robert
"OS NT 10007 95519"
10 figures? Is that the front wheel or the back wheel then ;)
Irate callers to Call Kaye (urgh) this morning seemed to be outraged that a council somewhere had cleared a pavement BEFORE ALL THE ROADS HAD BEEN GRITTED!!!1!
Another caller (or maybe it was the same one?) was complaining, what is the point of gritting the main roads if you can't get out your estate, blah, blah, blah. But as he was on the phone a gritter went past his front door. lol.
Some people just don't see the big picture. Gritters do the bus roads, then non bus roads, then side roads, then cycle paths (grumpy)...
I clicked on the intersection of the path were we stopped on the link below the grid ref and then just cut n pasted here. (it was prob the front wheel)
(from my days in the b'Army)
6 fig grid ref acurate to 100m (good with 1:50000 - red/pink cover)
8 fig grid ref acurate to 10m (good with 1:25000 - Orange/yellow cover)
10 fig grid ref not accurate, as map is not accurate to that.
1:25000 only accurate to ~100m. i.e. one thing I recall was anything within ~60m of a road is marked on map as coincident with road edge. Any buildings within 30m of each other merged.
I used to have some of the old green paper 1:10000 maps where I lived in Leeds. I'm a map geek.
"then cycle paths"
If only.
CEC seems to regard these as 'leisure routes' so 'not important'.
@DaveC "10 fig grid ref not accurate, as map is not accurate to that."
Hmmmm, perhaps on paper maps, but they do have their uses ;-) I use a couple of items at work with 10fig grids (and the "sleeping figures" which always confuse me when I'm overtired and grumpy!)
But then, you can thank my predecessors at work for the grid system and the fact you had to work with Mils instead of degrees minutes and seconds in the b'Army ;-))
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