CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
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.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Trying to get to the coffee morning, cut through the Bruntsfield Crescent dead end.
There's a set of steps at the end that link down to the path round Bruntsfield Links and it was a nice day and quiet and I got all mountain bike and just rode over them at full tilt scaring a pedestrian I hadn't seen. Shameful.
Also got evils off a lady cyclist I half recognised from an office I worked in years ago after overshooting the turn down Viewforth.
Me - almost running gembo off the road as I attempted to show him a route through Dumbiedykes. Sorry - clearly should have had a second coffee at the barge.
@morningsider, no harm done there, hill was bit steep for me as need new brake blocks.
SPIECN? Is that the core paths network?
@cyclingmollie - good effort - some parts of that route I thought would never be dry...
The Simon Parker International Edinburgh Cycle Network. It was unfortunately never fully 'introduced' due to unpaid royalties.
@wingpig, the steep hill was after we nearly bumped into each other, my intention of pointing out the harmless near bump made it sound more perilous :-)
The Simon Parker International Edinburgh Cycle Network
Ta. I've now found the relevant thread. It started off really promising.
Oh God Simon Parker has been invoked.
A cargo cult with wooden headphones...
Route 45.876 which sent commuters through an iron fence and off a cliff to their deaths in the Hermitage of Braid.
Happy days in some ways.
It was the seeing off of the Parkerbot with the deployment weapons-grade sarcasm and general surrealism, that sealed my abiding admiration for this forum.
Route 45.876 which sent commuters through an iron fence and off a cliff to their deaths in the Hermitage of Braid.
I thought you had a sense of adventure, no?
My favourite SPIECNism was the levitation off the Trinity Path through/over peoples' back gardens onto East Trinity Rd.
Ah, Simon Parker. Is that like "The Game", which, now that I've remembered it, I've lost, as have all of you…?
Argh!
That is all.
Me, almost emerging from Brunswick Street into the path of a man with a beard cycling down Easter Road.
I thought the Simon Parker thread had been deleted? His high-level idea was good, I thought...
"I thought the Simon Parker thread had been deleted?"
No, he got banned for breaking Rule 2.
As I was cycling out of town yesterday evening along the Blackhall Path, a person up ahead fell backwards out of heavily vegetated verge onto the path, followed closely by a MTB.
I stopped to offer assistance but from his general demeanour and impaired speech, I suspected he may have taken some non-prescribed medications.
I was then drawn to the mismatch between him and the new, expensive looking MTB which he had been previously dragging into/out of the bushes.
A number of other folk stopped and I couldn't stay and continue our one-sided conversation but I did place a quick call into 101 when I got home.
A couple of hours later, as I was driving through the area, I spotted that at least the bike was in the safe hands of the police.
@DavidsonsDave
Excellent citizenry. Well done!
@chdot, rule no2, no swearing, he seemed so well spoken initially. Also did his ten year old nephew not supply a character reference?
Rode to work and back on this tyre the other day. Bit risky!
Not so fast. by snowm4d, on Flickr
Some gentle bum tinkling helped me pass a cyclist ahead of me who was slowing down to dismount her bike prior to crossing the Slateford Aqueduct. Despite knowing that I was behind her, her default approach seemed to be to get off in such a way to try to force me into following her.
Approaching the Kingsknowe Railway Bridge, I was behind a cyclist on a road bike with very skinny tyres. They did not use a bell to indicate that they were entering under the bridge so I did; the cyclist seemed to think that I wanted to pass them under the bridge and stayed out on the non-cobbled edge until the very end (a very bad idea due to the gaps between it, the cobbles and the normal towpath) and, unsurprisingly, their bike skidded as they were exiting, but luckily they stayed upright...
Me, learning the hard way that you can't ride one bike and wheel another alongside or at least I can't.
@Cyclingmollie - hope the bikes (and you) are all right.
Yes, thanks. Only my pride hurt.
@Cyclingmollie - my attempt at that ended ignominiously. You are not alone in trying only to discover you shouldn't. Hope you're not too bruised
@cyclingmollie. I became a dab hand at this without a car getting bikes to the bike shop for fixes.
1) The trick is you need to be riding the larger bike or the one with the best brakes(!)
2) hold the stem of the bike you're wheeling, not the handlebars.
3) Wheel the bike slightly behind, not level with your handlebars.
4) at the slightest wobble or issue lift the front wheel of the bike you're wheeling up so you can regain control with just the rear wheel on the ground.
Of course I still had a few "whoops" doing this, but quite enjoyed that you didn't need to unclip at lights, you could just rest against the other bike.
The person on a bicycle whose bicycle hit a pedestrian's bag at the NMW/MMW junction this morning. They also just scootled away without apologising or checking for damage. Also the people overtaking other people along Gifford Park, without considering that there might be further people approaching from in front.
Was the woman who cycled right through the red light at the pedestrian crossing outside Surgeon's Hall. I was carrying a tantrumming toddler in a dash for a bus so I confess that I didn't look to my right before crossing, but the green man was beeping. She avoided missing us by a whisker and stopped and apologised (I'm very sorry that I didn't stop to reassure her that we were ok but see above re bus and toddler).
Funny, she didn't look like a stereotypical RLJ. Festival makes us all slightly crazy maybe.
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