CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years 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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Health and Safety Notice
The activity depicted in this video was carried out by a trained eejit. Please do not attempt to replicate the activity at home, as it is unlikely you will have a giant hill in your back garden. Note, all blind corners and rises were taken slower than would have been the case in order to avoid conflict with walkers (there were none the whole way down) while a clear view lead to gay abandon, a few whoops, occasional swearing, and an endorphin overload...
That looks fun! I was up that way a couple of weeks ago but it was too busy to go faster than a slow jogging speed.
Fastest was only really about 27mph-ish, but with drainage ditches and rocky gravel it's somewhat exhilirating!
Where is that? Cna you highlight it on a map - I've been CXing in pentlands all winter and don't think I've found that bit!
Tis the opposite side of the climb from Dreghorn - it's like that all the way up and down (though the climb from Dreghorn is more gravelly and definitely a push). Comes out at a farm the junction for which is a little further north than Flotterstone.
Will try to map up the exact route tonight.
Thanks! Looks great!
Looked like fun. It's almost as bumpy as the A90 path
Just got round to watching the vid. I wonder if a mtb would've been any quicker, seems like you were fair shifting. I've never ridden a crosser off road, would the bigger mtb tyres help or hinder...
Could be wrong but looks like coming down from the saddle between Allermuir and Capelaw down the east side of Castle Law in direction of Castlelaw Farm (car park at the end)
Brilliant stuff.
I did the same route in the opposite direction on Sunday. I enjoyed it and was looking forward to the descent to Dreghorn. When I got there it was just too steep / gravelly.
I'll be back soon doing it the "proper" way!
Steep it was!
Steep! by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Can highly recommend descending the way you climbed - only 4 minutes or so, but pure fun.
I think that the track up from Dreghorn has deteriorated over the years as water run-off has stripped away the smaller material and left a lot of rutted gulleys. I remember cycling down it in the 80s without too much bother. Not sure I would be quite so happy nowadays - and glad to hear that I am not the one who can't manage to cycle up it.
Do the army still go up this track? It used to be smack in the middle of the training area but I'm not sure if they use it since they removed the Dreghorn rifle ranges.
did that both ways a few years back ,whoops swearing and pure fun !My mum lives near colinton , so we had good reason to return for soup , n buns. My friend managed to ruin a wheel, but we didnt care !
I reckon Smudge would be best to answer military secret type questions relating to the ranges !
Army still uses the track to post the range flags and during exercises. The Army built the track originally!
ps some of you might remember the old Sherman tank chassis that sat at the back of the Dreghorn grenade range in the '70s, and had sadly been used as a target over many years. Was eventually removed (a lot of steel in that for scrap value)!
Loving the music in the background...what was it and was it actually in dutch or are my ears deceiving me?
In the 70s, my brother and I used to regularly go up to the rifle ranges to see what we could find - usually came back with spent cartridges, bits of machine-gun belts and the charging-soldier target that seems to have been standard issue in the army for many years. If you dug around in the berms behind the target bunkers you could find loads of fired bullets.
I remember playing on the tank chassis - although I never realised was a Sherman Tank (too full of holes by then probably).
The ranges seemed to have been erased from the face of the earth now, with no traces that I can see. I was trying to find some photos online of them recently to remind me what they looked like but couldn't locate any. Presumably, once the by-pass was built it wasn't such a great spot for a rifle-range any more.
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