Purely hypothetical, right? Do you even own an Elephant Bike?
EDIT: Really rubbish parenting would be making the child ride the Elephant Bike (and tow the trailer).
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Today's rubbish cycling
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@Frenchy purely hypothetical, of course.
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Someone popped out from a side road on a lovely Enigma bike but right in front of me today. More annoying than the non-acknowledgement of her evil act was the spray into my face due to an unguarded rear wheel.
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I was busy musing that I'd never actually been hit by a car as I turned right at Hope Park Terrace into the path of a small hatchback.
The driver was looking down at her phone so she wasn't going that fast and I was able to recover the error.
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Apparently there was a head on collision between two cyclists on the crossing at Saughton Road North last night.
A colleague was in the traffic queue at the red light and saw them both join the road from their respective paths - then just hear a crash and screams. Both the male and female victims had a lot of blood on their faces.
Hope both are OK.
Apologies if neither were guilty of rubbish cycling.
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Young foreign-looking chap riding a loaded touring bike in a strong primary position...
...on the A9 near Dalwhinnie.
He was causing traffic chaos and a considerable tailback. The HGVs, coaches and cars waiting behind him were being amazingly patient.
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On the way back from work on Friday evening, I witnessed the worst 'follow through' of traffic turning right from Home Street to Gilmore Place after the lights had surely turned red that I have seen in a while. A bus was turning right at the point that I'd assume that the Home Street lights were changing, so I wasn't surprised to see a car following through behind it as my lights were changing to green. As I started to push away, I was more disappointed than surprised to see a taxi was following the car, but I was surprised that a cyclist was also following the taxi!
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Fellow in a black beanie, black jacket, black shorts...basically, black everything, including his MTB, heading in to town along Dalry Road at about 9:45 this morning. Two buses were stopped at the Springwell Place bus stop (opposite the empty lot where the petrol station used to be). It's a wide stretch of road and there was nothing coming the other way. Chappie decides to take to the pavement to pass the buses, slaloms his way through the people trying to get on and off the buses (including a mum with child in buggy), then proceeds along the pavement as far as Springwell Place where he uses the speed table to rejoin the road (because, of course, mountain bikes can't go up or down kerbs) - smack in front of the bus which had just departed the stop.
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OUTTAMYWAYCOMINGTHROUGH man on a black space-framed Moulton on the NEPN just before Craigleith about 545 today. So desperate was he to get passed that when went for a non-existent gap that happened to have a pedestrian in it as another cyclist approached us in opposite direction that he went right out onto the grass and overtook the lot of us; 3 cyclists and 2 pedestrians plus passing the oncoming cyclist and pedestrian.
It was a shame that there hadn't been a Moulton-wheel-sized hole in the verge to teach him a lesson of patience.
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This may not be the right subject, it's more rubbish bike maintenance! There are sooooo many noisy chain sets about. All they need is a little bit of chain oil to reduce the scream from the poor bicycle.
I can't ride a bike with any repetitive 'squeaky' sound, the ride needs to be whisper quiet!
It's annoying me so much, I'm might need to set up a stall on the path, offering free chain oil to negligent bike owners!
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yesterday walking with pushchair and other child on scooter on the narrow pavement by the bus top at the wet end of Melville Drive, we encountered a man on his bicycle who felt put-out by having to wait for us to make it through the narrow gap so we could carry on. He muttered something about me being ungrateful for him stopping as we past... I didn't say anything as I was with the kids, but my older daughter is pretty vocal about adults cycling on the pavement, so this may have annoyed him. Still - it's a pretty daft place to ride your bike if you ask me.
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last night called out a Deliveroo cyclist running a red and forcing pedestrians to get out of the way as he crossed Royal Mile from George iv bridge. Forced has way through two sets of crossing peds. Was really poor.
Caught up with him on The Mound - the usual pleasantries were exchanged.
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I fear there is no solution for the canal.
Two fast passes so close that had I stretched an elbow I'd have knocked the bike riders in the water.
At one of the Sighthill bridges I was being over taken at end the of bridge by a must get past man when a must not stop woman approached from the front. Neither willing to give ground I had to stop.
If I had as many poor experiences on the road whilst cycling as I do running on the canal I'd surely have quit a long time ago. I realise its a false equivalence to being hit by a car but a fast moving cycle could easily cause a long term injury.
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It's annoying me so much, I'm might need to set up a stall on the path, offering free chain oil to negligent bike owners!
I suspect even if you handed a new bicycle to the severly negligent they'd not understand why.
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@algo - completely agree that your cyclist was out of order, but it does highlight a minor infrastructure problem there. Since Leven Terrace is one way, the best way to get from Spottiswoode Street to Melville Drive is down the cycle path which ends at Melville Drive beside the croquet club. There's no dropped kerb there, so it's either dismount or take a short cycle along the pavement to the pelican crossing.
From his attitude, it's of course quite possible your cyclist would have gone along the pavement even if there was a dropped kerb.
Absolutely no excuse for not patiently and politely giving way to pedestrians, of course.
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@Frenchy - yes you are right about that. In general your point is entirely correct - the disconnection of shared used paths does make some pavement use almost inevitable, and often excusable.... although as a point of pedantic fact, he was going the other way to the route you mention :-)
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Ha, well no excuse whatsoever. Good on your daughter for telling him off as well.
I've cyclescaped the missing dropped kerb all the same.
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female RLJ Morrison Cres onto Morrison Link approx 8:55
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Yesterday about 2:30pm. Stopped at the 3 ½ junction in Morrison Street. 2 young guys on mountain bikes behind me dashed through the red lights and went hooning to-and-fro down Morrison Street as if it was an off-road play park. It's not busy at that time of day but not a place for fun cycling.
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A collection of youths on BMX sort of things racing along the narrow path next to the lake in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Friday, then later whirring down the hill next to the wire rabbit lady.
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Some impressive, if slightly unhinged, riding here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40718677Posted 7 years ago # -
52, he has had a hard life?
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Stranded myself halfway into turning right into Craigmillar Park. Had to turn the bike sideways on the white line and hope for the best. No lights neither, meeting had dragged on. Shambles.
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Confession: I inexplicably overtook someone on one of the small paths coming off the NEPN at Roseburn this morning only to realise I was staring at a massive puddle and bike travelling in the opposite direction. Not quite into the category of near miss but certainly a miscalculation on my part. Apologies to any readers affected by this post.
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Me, thinking I'd retrace last weekend's off-road route in the dry. The farm road into Butterdean Wood was a quagmire - far worse than before. Caked in mud from head to toe.
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Two large HGVs were beside each other at the front of the queue at Haymarket this morning. My stomach churned as someone squeezed between them and positioned themselves in front of one, right in the blind spot. I caught the driver's eye and pointed her out - he gave me the thumbs up to show he'd seen her.
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various rubbishness this morning on Duncan street, but I was certainly party to it.
The bin lorries have been going down there the wrong way in the mornings, presumably to speed up their journey from Blacket Avenue. A queue of beeping cars had formed with the lead car stopping to remonstrate and prevent the cars behind from moving - indeed later stopping partially on the pavement to take photos of the bin lorries.
I had a tandem attachment passenger, and I attempted to filter past the queue, which mean my copilot almost fell off when a woman in a Porsche leant on her impressively deafening horn right as we were alongside. I should have just waited but we were in a precarious spot and I wasn't sure how long we would be.
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Don't worry algo, apart from Co-pilot needing grommets now, I rebalanced the cyclist Karma in St Mary's St this morning which was quite rammed, by dismounting as I could hear and indeed see an ambulance sirens blaring coming down the pleasance. What the motorists who could hear the ambulance did though was to drive into the queue making it worse, drive into the actual junction to block that up and err, decline to reverse or get out the way for the ambulance.
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@algo
The Transport Managers listed here are responsible for the driving standards of all LGV drivers employed by CEC.
One of their drivers driving an LGV down a one way suburban street the wrong way should pique their interest.
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"One of their drivers driving an LGV down a one way suburban street the wrong way should pique their interest."
Indeed. The police too if they can get their heads up from internal ructions.
I can't actually think where it would be massively quicker to get to illegally than following legal routing - Upper Gray St maybe
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