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All this bonhomie on the eastern paths is making us folks on the other paths look positively stand offish.
So who does the Ferry Road / Roseburn path? I'm usually heading towards roseburn there around 8-ish in a blue jacket, blue helmet on a black MTB and usually looking very cycle un-chic.
Would offer to wave on St John's Road, but what with the buses, taxis et al...
shall we conduct a 'frendliest path' study??
yeah! Could we get cycling scotland funding for that :)
Maybe someone should design badges for all main paths.
But they'd have to be sewn on like Scout badges - and 'earned' somehow.
Points for days cycled? Extra for ice?
I'm putting together another site (slow progress so far).
What about the canal towpath / old railway to Balerno??
(me red jacket, varied headgear but seldom plastic, clunky green hybrid...)
It's like a very local and two wheeled version of foursquare.
@Stepdoh I do the Roseburn -> Ferry Rd -> Tesco Tunnel path every morning around 9am Mon - Thu, Fri I drop through the roads for added time
The return journey usually will be around 5pm Mon - Thu and earlier on Fri
Looks like our paths may not be timed to meet
Nope, probably not, i leave leith about 7.45, get to work in ingliston about 8.45-50 ish depending on the wind. Usually go through town and through the tunnel to Tesco on way home, but again this aint till about 5.45.
I know i'm late when I see the oak tree vet guy with his cargo bike and the two barking dogs!
Actually, may see you on the Friday morn if I opt to take the rail path rather than toon
Not tomorrow though, me throat currently feels like I swallowed a brillo pad
"oak tree vet guy with his cargo bike and the two barking dogs!"
Photo please!
You've never seen the oak tree vet guy with the cargo bike and the two barking dogs? As far as I know he comes down from roseburn then cycles along queensferry road causing a brilliant level of traffic disruption. :) Though the buzzing it made was a dynamo, but think it's electric assisted.
There's info about it here: http://www.oaktreevet.co.uk/Trike/trike.htm
that reminds me of the crazy little woman with a cargo trike and two small dogs - between them they successfully fill the entire width of the Goldenacre path
Is there an aspect of cycling in Edinburgh that chdot can't find a photo for?? ;-)
I'm going to wave at everyone I pass on the Roseburn -> Ferry Road cycleway tonight (around 6pm). I better get some waves back!!
I'm the guy wearing hillwalking boots and no helmet (I'm buying a new one tomorrow before you all nag!)
NOOOOOO! please edit out that last reference before everything goes crazy here again.....
@davidmhodgey no need to buy a new one, they are really not necessary.
"Is there an aspect of cycling in Edinburgh that chdot can't find a photo for?? ;-)"
Welllll
Clearly haven't got one of the OTV bike.
Problem is remembering all the stuff I've already put on Flickr - never mind the ones on my hard drives!
@ Smudge: I head west on the Union Canal daily, leaving Shandon 0735ish. I'm the one in the fluorescent Night Vision top and black trousers.
...on second thoughts that's probably not much of a clue to my identity...
@davidmhodgey we don't nag on this forum, we have evolved into higher beings through a lengthy process of analysis and the result is that should you wish to wear a helmet or not wear a helmet we are both in agreement and in disagreement. I am wondering why you have gone for hillwalking boots? I am sure there will be a very reasonable reason or indeed no reason of which I will be very relaxed and chilled to hear about.
I used to take the two legs of the hypotenuse of a summer evening out to muirhouse and then up to Russell Road and saying hello to all cyclists a with a nod, wave or hello (some might say even overly friendly and indeed some cyclists totally ignored me to which I silently intone well foxtrot you but I am from the West of Scotland).
alas the council has moved me to Chesser and it will be Water of Leith only from now on or massive detour to canal at Hermiston despite pointless new speed bumps on the beautiful new surface.
@chdot AAAAGH! Yes that's her... clearly I see you admire the lunacy
she was also tootling along with the red light on the front and the white light on the back in the winter...
I wonder what part of Edinburgh has the optimum wave/recognition opportunity. Somewhere central obviously but where exactly...?
I know that I have seen Dave at the top of Leith Walk as he shot up like a ferret up a trouser leg in his recumbent. And I think I've seen Anth once on the big roundabout at Picardy Place as I remember he has unusual handle bars on a white fixed gear effort. So that little area has at least 3 CCE'ers.
I am about to don my summer plumage for the next few months - my "SanDisk" cycling jersey that my employers kindly paid for.
So if you see a distressed buffoon in a red/black cycle jersey with SanDisk on it, give me a wave! I can be found in Leith, the Bridges, Chambers Street, the Meadows or Tollcross.
"if you see a distressed buffoon in a red/black cycle jersey with SanDisk on it, give me a wave"
I thought there was a whole team of you...
@Greenroofer you're probably away before me! I leave Haymarket about 0735, along Dalry Road, Ardmillan Terrace then Harrison Road before joining the canal going West, by 5 to eight I can generally be found having a cup of tea on the park bench before the Hailes tunnel :) before arriving at work in Colinton :/
Quite like the T-shirt idea, a bike club I'm in got bright orange t-shirts done with the logo on, they were instantly recognisable even at a distance due to the unusual colour, should there maybe be a standard Citycycling Edinburgh T shirt?? we could always add names...
T-shirt has legs. We could all arrive at Cockburn St shop at same time and get the design and our names added (it is like 25p a letter or some such, they have the lovely lightning strike for miggy magic etc)
@gembo
I've just moved house and the padding inside my helmet seems to have gone AWOL - no helmet is as much use as a poorly fitting helmet!
I wear hill walking boots pretty much every day, all day despite protest from my girlfriend. In fact all my gear (waterproofs, rucksack etc) comes from hill walking. No point in buying the same stuff twice!
Aye it is daft to wear shoes that weigh almost 1KG but.. I'm daft :s
Also, I waved to about 20 people on the Roseburn cycleway last night and every one of them looked at me like I was a lunatic and didn't respond! Mean.
Waving at people is probably a bit full on. You could try just smiling. I get loads of people smiling at me on the Innocent so I smile back. It could just be barely concealed laughter though..
@davidmhodgey
Sometimes I go for the full on Good morning, this gets a. replied to with a smile, b. replied to grudgingly c. ignored. On a sunny morning toot;ling down the water of leith path I still go for it big style. I maintain (doubtless erroneoulsy) the number of [a] responses far higher in the west of scotland
I generally go for a smile or a cheery "Morning!"*.
Most of the lady cyclists smile back or reply, about 50% of the blokes manage a response, the other 50% I think believe the hype in the magazines and are far to busy doing "serious" cycling/training to engage in such frivolity. That or they are just miserable B's!
Never understood why so many people look miserable on a bike, ever since I was a kid cycling has always been fun!?
Oh and Gembo, West coast seemed to be the same sort of split unless you had the wrong colour jumper/scarf on in which case it's be fast or be in trouble! :-o
;-) ;-)
*Also for dog walkers, I worry about how some other cyclists must be behaving, because acknowledging them (the dog walkers) and slowing a little always seems to get such an appreciative response :-/
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