Just put this together as an example of how much rural/urban riding can be done with short joining road sections.
Not suggesting this for 'the ride' more a 'have you ridden all these bits?' (I have, but not in one go.)
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Ride on 19th May?
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Posted 13 years ago #
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I'll bet you all get audax routes then contact the organiser to suggest how it could be better... ;)
Got a few ideas for some nice bits of road, but also places I've just wanted to cycle along for a while and never have. Aiming to map it tonight if I can work out some shortcuts and hidden links.
50 miles is pretty easily achievable within the city. I once mapped out a 100 mile ride within the confines of the bypass, trying to avoid going over the same road twice. I think it crossed itself only 2 or three times - was mapped on kaputnik's basis of a spiral into the centre.
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"shortcuts and hidden links"
OSM/CycleStreets is pretty good at these.
I added all the ones I knew a couple of years ago, but it already had ones I had never noticed in 'real life'!
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Yeah, it's gonna take time to sort through them all - but I think it's one of the things that will make it all the more interesting. Getting off the beaten track within the city. Urban adventuring. City calm.
Meant to say as well, @ExcitableBoy, I'm deeply flattered by the assumption of speed on my behalf, but I've ridden with the likes of kaputnik, and I know I'm slower than most! And trust me, photo stops will be encouraged!
@559, I've posted here before about my love of football, but with no real interest in the Scottish Cup final (nor Scottish football as a whole - despite growing up with it, and Aberdeen which I used to go to regularly over 20 years ago, my Geordie birthplace and persuasive father mean my passion lies elsewhere) it was the excuse I needed to try out the idea of this ride. :)
Posted 13 years ago # -
Scottish cup you say?
Posted 13 years ago # -
I've claimed the space in the diary so unless there's a much better claim on the time, I'm in. Don't mind where.
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Is a Scottish Cups an association football contest of any importance? Will the route avoid any alcohol-vending viewing-sites so that someone wearing clothing of or riding a bicycle painted with the 'wrong' colour will not find themselves being swedged at?
Posted 13 years ago # -
I've got an old school knitted green and white cycling jersey that looks very like a 1950s Hibs shirt. I vote for making a detour through Gorgie!
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That's one way to get your average mph up...
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I managed to come up with a 256km spiral route, starting at Bonaly, going anti-clockwise and finishing at the end of George Street (which wasn't planned; just where I ended up).
Edinburgh Spiral by ccbb7766, on FlickrThere are a couple of places where the spiral touches, but it never crosses or runs side by side. I could fix the touch points with a bit of tweaking.
Going out to Turnhouse looks a bit untidy.
There are possibly bits on the route that go against one way signs or no left turns etc. I'm more confident on the bits to the west and south.
Water of Leith, canal and Arthur's Seat were the trickiest bits to work around.
This was just for fun of course; absolutely no intention to ride this.
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We should go down to Turnhouse on the ride, it's a wide, straight, quiet road and now that the dump is closed there's very little traffic (apart from early morning and late evening express mail truck rush to the airport).
You can cut through the old dump site and come out in the middle of Cammo Park. We could explore the ornamental canal.
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There'shardly anything of that ornamental canal left. But you've hit on one of the roads I want to ride down!
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@Anth, I think your idea of a bike ride on the 19th is a good one, taking advantage of what will undoubtedly be a quiet city, leastways between 3 and 5.
As a native Edinburgher of maroon persuasion there is no way Iam going anywhere near my bike on that day.
Enjoy the bike ride:-)
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cb, that is genius.
Posted 13 years ago # -
Hopeful bump.
Posted 12 years ago # -
There's hardly anything of that ornamental canal left.
Mostly planted with reeds these days to keep it together:
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm family-less on Saturday, so am entirely free to enjoy the ride, however long it takes me!
Robert
Posted 12 years ago # -
Will, during the week, be posting a route that I will be riding. People are more than welcome to complain and suggest alternative routes and say things would be much better done a different way. They are also more than welcome to ride their alternative routes instead. :P
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I have planned an alternate route. It's the same as yours, only a few dozen yards back and a little slower, so I've got breath to shout 'YOU'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY' at regular intervals.
Posted 12 years ago # -
@anth - if you post the start time in addition to the route, I'd join you.
@Uberuce - excellent, when I get dropped by Anth, I'll join you instead...
Robert
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Ah, in that case I'll have to turn back and shout "YOU'RE GOING TOO SLOW" every so often as well.
Urm...Anth, we are going to have lots of photo stops, right? I've been a bit lazy recently and I dunno if I've got the cardio to fit all the bellowing in.
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I've realised that I actually got round to claiming this in the diary. I'll do my best to cling to Uberuce's wheel and avoid the spittle backdraft as he bellows. Are we bringing sandwiches or is there a lunch/pint stop planned?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I reckon leaving about 9ish. Probably somewhere nice and central. Aiming to finish up about 4-5ish (we're going out that night for dinner for my father-in-law's birthday so I'm pushing it as it is, luckily the actual birthday is the day after so I'm making sure I'm around all day for that!).
That should leave ample photo + pub/cafe lunch stop (trying to figure out the lunch timing/route crossover).
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Hmm might be too long 'time wise' for me. Start time is ok but All day out will be bad especially as I'm away the following weekend doing an Audax.
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In truth it'll probably finish earlier than that - thinking on it, 8 hours for a 50 mile ride, even with lunch stop, is quite some time. Likely to be closer to 3, although that does then negate the total beneficial aspect of the city being indoors watching the football, which kicks off at 3!
Posted 12 years ago # -
See previous about me being dropped. I've not timed myself for a long run with anyone other than the kids (5mph average, including stops).
I know I pootled to Livingston (10mph for 2 hours without stops), and my weekly average from dodgy computer was ~12mph.
Hmm, 5 (10mph) is still closer to 3 than to 8, so maybe I'll be OK.
That said, dropping me somewhere in the city won't be so bad - I can make my own way home! I wouldn't have been so quick to sign up for a 50 mile out and back...
Of course, if this proves a success, Über-organiser Anth, it will need to be 100 km the next time.
Actually, I'm wifeless this weekend, so padding out the ride to 62-and-a-bit miles might be possible time-wise. Legs-wise, however...
Robert
Posted 12 years ago # -
@Roibeard If I can cycle 100km then I'm pretty sure anyone can!
I'm almost 3 stone over weight, and still managed 63 hilly miles in about 5 hours the other weekend.Unfortunately I am digging holes in the garden this weekend so can't make it - although Mrs Baldcyclist is working Saturday, hmm, wonder how much trouble would I get into if there were no holes in the garden when she got home?
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'll be very happy not to race around town, stopping regularly to take photos, drink tea, catch my breath etc.
Posted 12 years ago # -
The advantage of it being around town rather than out amongst the rurals is that you get frequent micro-recovery-stops at junctions. Also, depending on the route, the density of roads in the urban environment might make it possible for people to cut corners or swap in milder versions of ascents in a way which isn't often possible out where roads are few and far between.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm in. Don't care what the route is really. Have bike, will ride.
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