I think so - would have to check my camera. Was around 8.15.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I have a mate who does this occasionally - timings sound about right...
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Me this morning, heading SB from the FRB was passing the bus stop at the Control Centre on the Edinburgh side, clearly wasn't paying attention when I nearly collided with a poor chap riding in the opposite direction!
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Me this morning, misjudging my speed down MMW and that of a guy approaching to my right from NMW. Realising that if neither of us took action we were likely to collide, I braked too little too late and came to a halt directly in the path of the other cyclist who it turned out was going straight on while I was turning right. I apologised and pulled away and around him (in retrospect I should have stopped braking as soon as I realised I was overshooting). He accepted the apology and/or apologised back graciously.
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Me again this morning, after I nipped to the front of the traffic queue to gain access to the ASZ at the Slateford Road, Lanark Road and Craiglockhart Avenue junction - I positioned myself in the middle of it awaiting the green light. When the left-hand filter came on I checked behind to make sure that the vehicle that was waiting could make it through. It could. Shortly afterward it became apparent that the bus that had arrived behind me couldn't. I began to shuffle to the right and then missed my light turning green so held up the straight ahead traffic a little too.
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@jdanielp - how many hail marys do you want to be issued with?
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No-handed canal path cyclist passing pedestrians at speed :(
The cycling equivalent of the cereal eating motorist? (if they were simultaneously eating cereal with both their hands and their feet, or something)
PS bike wasn't a fixie...
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@algo how many would you recommend?
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@jdanielp 1.3
Tonight I was walking with my 15 month old and 4 year old down the pavement on Warrender Park Road. A man on his bike cycled at us so I got in his way and told him he'd have to get off. I didn't expect he'd want to fight someone with two small children, but it shows how wrong I am about some things. Needless to say I removed us all from the situation with but was not happy....
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OOOFT I did a bad one this morning.
At junction at Kings theatre heading waiting at the right filter from Gilmore Place to head to the meadows. Calmly watched a load of buses go through then our light went green. I moved out at which point a bus (double decker) ran the red and swung around to head along Gilmore Place from toll cross.
I paused to avoid getting mushed by the back end then as it passed I was so busy being a bit distracted by the bad driving I completely forgot that it's a two way filter and rode in front of a slow moving car causing him to brake. Felt incredibly foolish!
I really really hate that junction.
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@ARobComp I wonder if the timing of the lights is part of the problem at that junction? The regularity with which a driver runs what would seem to have been a blatently red light from Home Street, at least from the perspective of having seen the light changing to green opposite Gilmore Place, beggars belief. Can that many drivers be that bad?
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@jdanielp - you might not be wrong. the bus in question had not been waiting nor had he tried to brake. He went straight through AFTER I'd started moving off so perhaps what might be considered "amber gambling" for him was far too late for people in our sequence.
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Me, having come down two big hills at high speed wondering why the steering felt a bit mushy. Turns out the QR on the front wheel was completely loose.
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"@jdanielp - you might not be wrong. the bus in question had not been waiting nor had he tried to brake. He went straight through AFTER I'd started moving off so perhaps what might be considered "amber gambling" for him was far too late for people in our sequence."
This. The variation in interstitial period between amber-red stop for one direction and amber-green go for the next is extraordinary in Edinburgh between different sets of lights.
In fact, you can go from 15 seconds all directions red at Abercromby Place/Dundas St (which actually causes problems - the long delay makes peds uncertain and they often resolve to 'go for it' just as lights turn green) to basically Queen St and Hanover St effectively having zero seconds between (resulting in amber gamblers causing loadsa near misses), just 50 metres away.Posted 7 years ago # -
Witnessed a near miss at ardmillan tonight. I was at lights near the caley sample room side. Woman came up ardmillan Tce on sit up and beg bike. Junction is a nightmare. She wanted to go right, car in her way wanting to go right (but towards me)and car to the left of it going straight on, car behind her fancied driving through her but just at the last minute applied brakes.
I think she needed to be further right and further back waiting at the edge of the junction but then I like to take that right turn on the pedestrian lights.
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To the cyclist riding an MTB up Regent Road this morning towards St Andrews House, dressed like a character from Mad Max:
1. When turning into a side street, you are supposed to give way to pedestrians crossing.
2. If you have a bell, use it to warn the pedestrian of your approach.
3. If you had hit me and caused a serious injury, I'd have seen you in court. Hope you have insurance.
4. If you had hit me and not caused a serious injury, I'd have punched your lights out, Mad Max costume or not.
Let this be a warning to you: do not cycle at pedestrians as if you're driving a 4x4 with a "get out of the way" attitude. Or else!
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Queen St and Hanover St effectively having zero seconds between (resulting in amber gamblers causing loadsa near misses)
See also Western Corner, particularly those attempting to turn right from Saughton Drive onto Corstorphine Road, who are entirely secondary to the majority of vehicles that, on the same green phase, cross from Ellersly Road to Saughton Drive. Add in three drivers amber gambling or RLJing, and if you're beyond the stop line you have about two seconds to fully cycle across the junction before you're collected by east/west traffic.
It should be an efficient alternative to Baird Drive and Roseburn Park, but the junction is so busy and so dangerous that I've stopped using it.
Edinburgh really should make more use of green filters.
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Idiot in lycra on a high-end mountainbike who barged pst me, within reach of my elbow - despite road being clear in both directions - just as I tried to divert slightly around a pothole on Polwarth gardens. i said something profane but not particularly offensive - out of surprise - and he then shouted abuse back at me.
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I was escorting two German mountain bikers at around 5.30. They were over on visit from Hase in Waltrop and had ditched the company van as traffic was so slow in city.
Ended up escorting them on my lit Fuego as they had no lights through Meadows.
One of them went out of Lochrin Place to do a right turn a bit aggressively weaving through stationary traffic. A horn was sounded.Posted 7 years ago # -
Mrs edd1e_h reported yesterday that a cyclist collided with her car.
This time it really was genuinely, seriously, in all honesty, the bike that collided with car, since Mrs edd1e_h was stationary at the time.
It seems the cyclist was too busy looking at his phone. Didn't seem to be any damage and cyclist went off with tail between legs
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An MTB-riding turkey tearing along the London Street pavement at 6pm last night, swerving around two or three pedestrians. As I was enjoying a podcast I didn't notice him until he five yards in front of me and dramatically swooping out of my line of travel. He was going plenty fast enough to have been on the road, but presumably couldn't be bothered and so instead has probably given folks a shock and led to anti-cyclist grumbling in the Broughton Spurtle...
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Guy cycling along the Western Approach Road at peak time this morning. Taking great lungfuls of fumes.
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2 younger lads on MTBs cycling down towards Colinton from Bonaly with no lights and helmets swinging from their handlebars. One on road and one on pavement. Hope when they got home they got a bollocking!
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Witnessed this morning:
If you're going to cycle the wrong way down Canning Street and ignore the no right-turn sign to get onto Shandwick Place then at least look out for the tram coming straight at you.
Don't think there was any immediate danger (other than the tram driver ringing the bell), but it was a bit rubbish.
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The last part of canning street, where it meets shandwick place, isn't "wrong way" for a cyclist (nor bus or taxi, I think).
But it is a no right turn at the end of it. And you should definitely always be paying attention anyway.
Although the signage there is appalling.
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The last part of canning street, where it meets shandwick place, isn't "wrong way" for a cyclist (nor bus or taxi, I think).
Yes, my mistake. Slightly less rubbish than I first thought.
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Was me yesterday. Coming down Lothian road in right hand lane. As I approached stationary traffic at the junction to the Western Approach, I cut left between waiting cars and almost took out a mountain biker coming down the inside. Sorry mate!
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Came of on way home from work on the b7015 I hit the kerb and lost front wheel. Luckily put my hand down as sore the ground coming closer. Sore knee and elbow very stiff and sore from pushing road away but no visible bruising on wrist. Knee bleeding a little but ok.
Bike mud guard broken, handle bar out of shape still rides. Only elbow that that means cant use left hand that may be a slight issue for few days could not change gear on left handle bar as no strength in hand. managed to ride home slowly with wheel scraping mud guard a bit.
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sorry to hear that Ed1. hope you're not too sore tomorrow. best get bike (and you?) checked out?
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The pair of cyclists this evening who decided that the 'CYCLISTS DISMOUNT' sign beside the Porty Prom gas main excavations didn't apply to them.
'What's the big deal?' I hear you cry. A stretch of the prom, towards the eastern end, is currently at least 2/3 narrower with the addition of a temporary metal fence on clumpy feet that just ache to trip up cyclists - so its even less ideal for cyclists, peds, children and dogs to mix. Walking your bike adds no more than 3 minutes.
The trackstanding behind a pedestrian until you can s-q-u-e-e-z-e past didn't look ideal...
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