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What SRD said. Bike and you to the doctors, yes?
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Me, turning right from Roseburn Street to Roseburn Place, I was following a car doing the same manoeuvre which had obscured the cyclist coming the other way on Roseburn Street who I caused to brake and shout at me, apologies, totally my bad.
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Turns out a broken arm minor break just out of I and e think the adrenalin stopped pain cycled home hour later very sore
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Ouch Ed1. Nasty. Hope you and bike get better soon.
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@Ed1 - I hope you recover well very soon - I have also experienced the same and cycled back quite a long way with a broken arm - I hope it's not too serious
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Eek. Heal fast @Ed1
My Mea Culpa was exiting Riversdale Crescent this morning. In my haste to make a gap between motor vehicles, I failed to correctly process the cyclist coming from my right and partially obscured by head height roadwork sign.
Only my slow takeoff speed saved me from T-boning him. I'm very sorry...
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School boy turning into Duddingston Road West on Monday heading towards Holyrood school - on the wrong side of the road, hugging the corner I was turning talking to his pals on pavement next to him.
If I was on my bike I'd have given him an earful. I was in the car however, and only just managed to avoid a head on collision as i was first round he corner after the lights. Wee safety.
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Me today. After battling the wind for most of my ride I pulled off Kirkliston High St to go down to Bug Alley and relaxed, as I thought I was out of the firing line.
Turned blind corner into Wellflats Rd (one of those roads where there is "never" traffic) too shallow and straight into a 4x4's front bumper. It was a low speed collision- only walking pace, but definitely my fault. No damage to either party.
Driver couldn't have been nicer. But lesson learned...
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Wellflats Road looks like it was taken straight out of the bucolic world of Greendale! Those are some tight corners.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Arellcat. Agreed- all the more reason for me to take more care.
There is (probably) a better way to get onto/off Bug Alley, joining about 200m further N from the bridge, so maybe I should use that.
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Overtaking/undertaking cyclists whilst going round a roundabout - am I being a bit precious or this this pretty stupid?
Happened twice to me yesterday - one time by a group of roadies who went around both sides of me.
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If over took on the right would have thought that would be ok if roundabout was wide, if a small one may not. If a big wide one then may be 3 times as wide as canal path in each lane so someone could overtake safely if was narrow may be not. I always thought undertaking on a bicycle is not allowed unless traffic stopped or stop start, although may be if cars moving very slowly (or if separate bike lane in which case allowed, in same way as bus lane is allowed to undertake) but thought a bike a is never meant to undertake a bike on a road if in the same lane.
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Roadie this morning heading downhill to Cramond Brig from, closed, Burnshot flyover, proceeded to cruise down the bus lane and straight through the red lights then headed off and filtered onto the Queensferry Rd.
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fiefster those are the only red lights I routinely run - admittedly at a weekend when it is quiet - the alternative is to pull out in to the car lane to go the other side of the traffic island - those lights are just there to give buses priority. Obviously I don't know what the traffic conditions were like this morning and if there was much jamming on of brakes as a result of the cyclists actions but if they ran through more out of the drivers' way than they would have if they'd gone round the island then I think there are worse red lights to run...
I'd be interested in the thoughts of others who know the junction.
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@fimm- I always join the pavement above the traffic lights to avoid that scenario.
Closed flyover means that except for buses and the odd car from Dalmeny Estate, all drivers are those trying to use the slip roads as a short cut to gain on those who stayed on the motorway.
Had a bus toot at me this morning as I was being cautious of ice on the descent in the bus lane.
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@fimm, like paddy I tend to hop back onto the shared path before the lights (use the bus lane as the path is quite narrow and overgrown and you can easily come across peching cyclists coming up the hill).
Whilst it may undoubtedly be safer there is a perception thing. I could just imagine the 'bloody cyclists always going through reds' thoughts of the drivers queuing at the lights. Both sets of lights were red, for the record. Not sure if a bike is enough to trigger the bus lane ones?
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They are the only red lights I run on my bike (excepting sensor driven ones that don't seem to be working). As fimm says, they are purely there to prioritise buses, and can usually be by-passed by going the over side of the traffic island. Jumping them does not put you into conflict with anyone else.
The descent on the pavement path there is not as fast, filthy cluttered with several years of leaf mulch, and has a couple of tighter spots and a slightly blind corner. I prefer to leave that for cyclists coming up the hill.
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The lights will sense bikes but only at some points. If you stick right on the sensor lines they will change, normally before you arrive but if for whatever reason they don't it's often too late to stop.
I commute against the flow so there is currently never anyone there when I'm heading into town. If I was heading into town when traffic was busier I would stick on the cyclepath rather than joining the A90.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Chap on a road bike snuck in front of me at the Gilmore Pl / King's Theatre ASZ, even though I was pretty much at the stop line already, then proceeded to run the red turning right even though the turn left arrow was already green, and ended up with metaphorical egg on his face as he had to stop and walk back to avoid a collision with the bus turning into Gilmore Pl. Unfazed, he went on to ploug through a crowd of primary school pupils huddled in the narrow shared use path at the Melville Drive crossing. A true gift to the 'bloody cyclists' brigade.
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Me - for rubbish bike maintenance. I knew my brake blocks needed replaced, and I think Saturday's ride took a lot out of them, but when swapping them today I found that one was so worn that it had got down to the metal of the thing that holds the brake block and actually taken a bit of paint off it.
I am mortified, and have vowed to inspect them properly more often rather than just giving the barrel adjuster another tweak.
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I'm trying not to lose the rag at fellow cyclists on the train. But it's not working well. Practically every day I notice a new chip where some incompetent has smashed their heavy steed against mine, removing paintwork, misaligning lights and generally costing me money. Last time the retailers were happy to replace my broken rear light which I'm sure came from someone smashing into it one too many times. That kindness will likely not occur again!
Posted 7 years ago # -
@dougal. Does this occur when bikes are being loaded or stored on the train?
Posted 7 years ago # -
Yeah when people are loading their bikes onto the train onto the bike rack.
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I'd say that conflict was built into the design of the racks. No way anyone would be expected to park their car in contact with anyone else's while both are shoogled around.
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Me, coming back late from work, without lights. I was ambling along the stretch from Ocean Terminal to ASDA, mostly traffic-free. Went up on the pavement briefly to stay out of the way of an oncoming delivery lorry at ASDA, turned off the pavement to cross the road once the truck passed and into the path a small motorbike/scooter that I did not hear due to the lorry. Only for a great reflex/avoidance by the scooter rider it would have been a lot more unpleasant. Fair dues to the rider who did not stop to give me a bollocking although he/she looked like they were considering it.
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Male cyclist (University of Edinburgh staff?), blue top on a black bike with white tyres cycling against the traffic on the wrong side of the road on Dundee Street towards town this morning. Karma kicked in when he passed a Police car who gave him a mouthful of "advice".
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Guy on a brompton-like bike on the towpath this morning who almost slammed in to the back of the lady cycling beside her scootering child.
He dinged his bell lots of times. Luckily, he locked his back wheel in time just to miss her by inches.
Yes, they were taking up the entire path.
No, they don't have to get out of your way as your ding your bell angrily behind them.I followed him for a while as he dodged past pedestrians. Not very nice cycling.
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Angry altercation between male cyclist and elderly female pedestrian with pram and dog, on the shared path near Balgreen tram stop (I was watching from my allotment). He had apparently dinged his bell but the lady hadn't got her dog out of his way so she shouted at him for ploughing through and he shouted at her (and stopped and came back and carried on shouting) that she wanted her dog killed because she hadn't controlled it. Quite intimidating and over the top. Both I and another allotmenter eventually shouted up for him to stop harassing her and off he went. No reason to get so aggro on a shared path, I suspect he was going too fast for the path.
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Chain came off the chainring as I set off from a set of traffic lights this morning. This caused my saddle to attack me where it really hurts, with some force.
Posted 7 years ago # -
The guy this morning northbound on Lothian Road who barrelled through a load of pedestrians outside kyloe to get to the right turn onto Queensferry St, which he ran on red. Not a good impression. Use that turn daily but far better to dismount/semi dismount and cross the pavement that way and wait at red, still quicker than going round Charlotte Sq (which to be fair is a crazy routing and encourages cutting of corners and illegal turns)..
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