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  1. ejstubbs
    Member

    @gembo: the inaudible pass was one thing, but then the pedestrian crossing, tram stop, no entry sign were some other things

    An inaudible pass, on the pavement, in a location where the width is restricted.

    I was on foot, by the way, which is the only way you can legally proceed eastwards along Haymarket Terrace at the moment.

    The 'other things' just compounded my already low opinion of his behaviour.

    Two more blokes on bikes who apparently thought they were trams at Haymarket this evening. One of whom then chose to slalom between the passengers on the platform waiting for a westbound tram.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  2. jdanielp
    Member

    Very many counts of rubbish cycling at the beginning of the new Tomb Raider film with Lara Croft as a Deliveroo-style rider who decides to become the 'fox' in a bicycle-based hunt around the busy streets (and pavements) of London. I quite enjoyed it until it became a Tomb Raider film.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  3. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Heading up towards Balerno on the WoL I'm all chilled like I should be checking out the river. Spotted the dude in front has a kick stand, a nineties helmet and a bar-end mirror so I reeled him right in and gave him a casual 'aye aye' as I passed.

    Can't help myself sometimes.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, that is Ralph Fiennes opening remark when he arrives In Bruges

    To a Belgian skinhead with a bandage over his eye because Colin Farrell has shot him in the eye with a blank.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    It may well be my epitaph. Heard that film good, though not seen.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  6. gembo
    Member

    Can lend, if person I leant it to, returns it. Have read seamus's intro to Beowulf. I love that he fights the giant Grendel, then he has to fight his Ma.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  7. dessert rat
    Member

    You don't know karate!

    a tremendous film.

    Belgian skinhead = Eirik
    Ralph Fiennes = Harry
    Colin Farrell (who i really didnt like until this film) = Ray

    @ Gembo, please arrange for it to be on at Balerno film thing and I'll come. Also will enable me to drop off the MTB in time for you to attend IWRATS's Glen Feshie jaunt.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    @iainmcr, it is an 18. Which our demographic dislike. Indeed the last 15 we put on The Florida Project was felt too nasty by some. I found it very powerful but Not like the reviews seemed to paint it. Some bikes in Florida

    Bruges no cars, they walk or take a train or a wee boat.

    Bruges is purgatory? I like that Ray warms to good beer. Also alcoves, or you can say Nooks and crannies?

    Posted 6 years ago #

  9. Moose
    Member

    Bruges was available on the Netflix last time I was searching.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    Ah yes the Netflix will have it of course

    The brother's one The Guard is also on my list of films I recommend. Brendan Gleeson as the guard who was fourth in the Atlanta Olympics freestyle. Don cheadle running down the Connemara harbour wall with uzi blazing is also memorable

    The brother's next one with Brendan Gleeson as good priest is not a barrel of laughs.

    Not sure why they could not write a racist Irish Sherriff into 3 blllboards, Brendan would have been good. But Woody Harrleson is good in that one.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  11. Greenroofer
    Member

    Was me. Having unexpectedly got permission for a long ride this morning, I was up at the crack of dawn with a plan for a trip round the Borders. It was a beautiful morning as I trundled through Bonnyrigg heading south and looking forward to a great day in the saddle.

    Then my gear cable snapped. I wasn't convinced that I would want to do the next 100+ miles on a singlespeed, so I had to abandon the ride. Very fed up indeed, as it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day.

    Only redeeming feature of the day so far is that my ETA Cycle Rescue worked. They sent out a taxi to bring me home, so I didn't need to struggle home with a single-speeded bike or to rouse Mrs G and the family from their slumbers.

    Waiting for a bike shop to open so I can buy a new gear cable and see what I can rescue from the day.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  12. Greenroofer
    Member

    ...Yippee. Have found a spare gear cable in my spares inventory. Now fitted. Bike back on the road. New shorter route planned and in the Garmin. Day not such a disaster after all!

    Posted 6 years ago #

  13. Greenroofer
    Member

    Was me this morning on the towpath beyond the bypass. On a not-Elephant Bike, so going considerably faster than I am used to for a given power input. My mind was wandering as I approached a canal bridge too fast, surprised a roadie-dressed chap coming the other way and proved that my hydraulic disc brakes work quite well despite locking up the back wheel. He cowered against the wall. I avoided ending up in the canal. No contact or injury, but a lesson learned for me.

    We passed on the way home too, and I detected a knowing grin from him.

    If it was you, sorry for my poor riding.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  14. dougal
    Member

    Man who ran the red light at the corner of Greenside Row and forced his way at speed through the small gap for cyclists, meaning the cyclist who had priority in the other direction had to bail.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  15. jdanielp
    Member

    The person who cycled into the canal on the Slateford Aqueduct, seemingly as a result of a low-speed wobble and/or uneven cobbles, as he set off again after pulling over to the side to let a jogger by. I was behind him so was quickly on the scene along with the jogger and other cyclists converging from both directions. After checking that he was ok, we naturally pulled the bicycle out of the water first before helping him out as well. Both were very wet, but not a bad day for it if it has to happen I guess.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  16. Lezzles
    Member

    Er I'd forgotten just how floaty summer dresses can be in a breeze. I may have been a bit distracting to a few drivers. But on the plus side the traffic stopped and let me across Gowkley Moss roundabout quicker than normal :-)

    Posted 6 years ago #

  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @jdanielp & @Lezzles

    Joint winners of CCE this month. Fantastic.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  18. jdanielp
    Member

    @IWRATS I'm surprised that this was the first inadvertent swim that I've witnessed given that I've been cycling the towpath for nine years. I only made it as far as the reed bed so far and would generally prefer to keep it at that.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @jdanielp

    I only have a year of canal in my logbook but I did witness the paramedics pulling an over-refreshed gentleman of the road from the canal at Wester Hailes.

    The Great Canal Novel is there to be written no doubt.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  20. Frenchy
    Member

    I only made it as far as the reed bed so far and would generally prefer to keep it at that.

    Brave post.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  21. jdanielp
    Member

    @Frenchy as in tempting fate? My reed bed fall was several years ago now and I like to think that I'm generally a far more mellow cyclist these days - it is a long time since I managed a sub thirty minute commute between work and home.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  22. Ed1
    Member

    I guess a bike sinks so may be hard to find if goes in the canal. I wonder how many bikes are in the canal

    Posted 6 years ago #

  23. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Ed1

    On those rare still, cloudless summer mornings there is a chance for the canal commuter to make a great spot; a shoal of red-finned rudd hanging in the amber water above the shimmering silvery glow of an alloy double diamond frame.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  24. Trixie
    Member

    *shudder* That poor someone lived the Slateford nightmare. 10/10 for pulling the bike out first though. Panicking people are much easier to find.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  25. Roibeard
    Member

    @Ed1 - regarding sinking bikes, Ortlieb panniers have another vote in their favour!

    My son abandoned the bike one winter ride when the "puddle" turned out to be quite a flood - the bike remained afloat due to the waterproof panniers... Retrieval was thus relatively straightforward!

    Robert

    Posted 6 years ago #

  26. wingpig
    Member

    Four or five racing-turnips going stupidly fast through Roseburn Park during the brief time I was there.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  27. Edinburgh Cycle Training
    Member

    On the Broomhouse path: undertaken way too close without warning from half a dozen fit looking blokes on racing bikes this morning. A couple of whom went on to do similarly with someone ahead, one squeezing very narrowly between the bike the were undertaking and an oncoming pedestrian.

    I was further irked by two of them who stopped at pedestrian crossings, waiting for a wee gap to fire across, without bothering to even press the button to activate the green man.

    I get more bothered by that kind of rubbish cycling on shared paths than i do on the roads.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  28. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Passed a lady cyclist on the horrible uphill turn from Dewar Place into Morrison Street and got an 'Oh that was just too close..!'

    In retrospect she was, I suspect, taking advantage of the weather to Start On Friday. Don't know how close I was, but it was too close for her. Hardened multi-decade year-round commuters like me find it easy to forget how overwhelming places like that can be I think. Food for thought, certainly.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  29. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I'd forgotten just how floaty summer dresses can be in a breeze.

    Ah, I remember it well. It was April 22nd, 2010, and I was cycling from my hotel, crossing an insalubrious expanse of black tarmac interspersed with grey industrial units of indeterminate function and possessed of apparently zero human beings, and onwards to an equally uninspiring red corridor door to the NEC, while the wind proved itself the better of my lovely* floaty black skirt.

    * Shimano MT70 Goretex bike shoes rather set off the ensemble, I thought.

    Posted 6 years ago #

  30. ARobComp
    Member

    Rider on Brougham Street who almost got taken out by a taxi (which was equally rubbishly about to pull a U-turn having been flashed out by a fast looking vehicle which had stopped in the queue to let the taxi out without thinking about if a bike was around)

    Taxi just went for it without looking and the rider missed getting side swiped by about an inch after overtaking in the tiny gap between the back of the taxi and the car flashing it out.

    Not saying cars weren't in the wrong but the way it happened was VERY obvious and the cyclist should have kept out the way. Can't see why they thought squeezing in this gap was a good idea no matter what was happening.

    For such a busy road that street really needs protection for riders going both ways.

    Posted 6 years ago #

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