@wingpig, thus is steroids innit
@wilmer, after enduring IKEA you get to the good bit vegan jelly Swedish Fish, elderflower cordial, patar coffee beans
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Today's rubbish cycling
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When we do an Ikea run, I do stock up on meatballs and Dill chips. yum.
spring onion? would i get that in the same place as grouse crisps? ;) those alien things, pickled onion, they're similar. but not quite.
ESMS at the Scotmid--slumming it? surely they haunt the waitrose?
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"ESMS at the Scotmid--slumming it? surely they haunt the waitrose?"
Prejudice is prejudice whichever side of the fence you're on and not comfortable with digs at children.
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Child on Porty prom, scootering to school, who was paying so little attention that he steered into my path from 3m away. Fortunately, I tend to preface my exclamations with blasphemies and stopped before I got to an obscenity after demonstrating that I was going slow enough to stop dead within a metre if required.
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One of us who is of robust constitution should watch this so that the rest of us don't have to.
https://www.channel5.com/show/cyclists-scourge-of-the-streets/
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Entirely the wrong thread, deleted to pop in correctly!
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@Wilmer, think Walter deserves to be in a different thread? I like what he is doing. Case studies that is intriguing (costs missing of course but he has to try to make money given he is the middle man - he does seem good at sourcing New Old Stock)
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Poor bunnikins, swelling down below, blind in one eye, cant see out of the other
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"ESMS at the Scotmid--slumming it? surely they haunt the waitrose?"Prejudice is prejudice whichever side of the fence you're on and not comfortable with digs at children.
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ESMS is a lot closer to WR. Scotmid is jammed full of Edin Acad blue jackets, and I always forget that the time I'm heading in is right after school is out!Posted 4 years ago # -
I never see rabbits in the city. i find that a bit spooky.
i was the rubbish cyclist yesterday. cheerfully coasting downhill most of the way home, when the pick up in front of me came to a sudden stop.
so i decided to stop too... but kept going. brakes very very wet. stopped just before going into the truck, and was more diligent about drying brakes the rest of the way.Posted 4 years ago # -
There's a very flat rabbit on Gilmerton Road at the moment.
There's also one living on our street. We see it daily, causing much excitement and frustration to the dogs.
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Pack of twenty-odd tourists turning right from the Bridges up the High Street yesterday on electric hybrids across oncoming traffic. Group far too big, some wearing rain capes that blew up over their faces. Clearly not used to riding on the left and out of the control of the group leader.
Somebody's going to get hurt.
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Turnip 1 on a racing bicycle and wearing a racing bicycle costume ("Musselburgh RCC") almost wobbled himself off trying to overtake Turnip 2 (skinny trousers and a BMXy thing) going up Waterloo Place. As soon as he had overtaken (so closely as to qualify as a punishment pass) Turnip 1 slowed down markedly. At the Abbey hill lights, 2 was nowhere to be seen, having skipped them, whilst 1 revealed himself to be listening to music from a device in his lumbar pocket. He turned left towards Easter Road. At the next lights, 2 skipped ahead again and almost died amongst a logjam of buses.
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Man in speed-garb pulling out of Parkside onto Holyrood Park Road at some speed, heedless of the motor traffic already there.
Person cycling one-handed whilst looking down at their portable telephone whilst moving along the narrow channel beside the tram rail between Princes St and Shandwick Place with a few other cyclists fore and aft.Posted 4 years ago # -
So I met an old mate in the pub last night and, Festival style, stayed out later than planned. No lights so, Festival style, I just toughed it out in the half-light past uninterested cop cars and vans.
Stopped at a ped crossing on Craigmillar Park and a lady of a certain age shouted 'Lights!' at me as she crossed and oh god the beer loosened my tongue and I shouted back 'Fashion sense!' and immediately regretted it she was dressed to go out and her face crumpled and that was cruel and mea culpa the drink is an awful thing.
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@IWRATS for that it is either a. 5 hail marys or b. Two random acts of kindness (RAOK)
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b. it shall be.
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good choice
I asked Father Maguuire he said 2 Hail Mary's or 5 RAOKS but stick with my prescription
Funnily, there is some research on RAOKS and they are noticed more if you save them up and commit them all on one day. I think this would require lots of people of coutrse, say 40 psychology students inspired by their prof. Around Byres Road etc and a rota so I do my 5 one day IWRATS does his the next day etc. Gets noticed more than one act each day.
Not an exact science
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iwrats, that was both funny and cruel.
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The cyclist following me down Gilmerton Road was literally inches from rear ending me when I, quite predictably, stopped at the lollipop crossing outside Liberton Primary.
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I only just avoided a head-on collision under the double bridge on the canal towapth to the west of Hailes Quarry Park this morning. I was following another person on a bicycle in a westerly direction and heard a bell ring as they disappeared under the bridge ahead. Assuming that it had been their bell, I rang mine before heading under the bridge, perhaps a little incautiously, only to be confronted with another person on a bicycle about to exit. I emergency stopped to avoid them and they just about squeezed through the resulting gap. It turns out that they had probably been the person to have rung a bell since the person ahead of me, who I caught up with again shortly thereafter, seemed to be not bothering to make any effort to make people aware as they went under the next bridge. I think we were all partly responsible, but will be extra cautious at that bridge from now on.
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Chap on the NEPN this morning between Leith and the Red Bridge, wearing an eye-searingly bright light on his helmet.
In normal use it might not be *that* powerful, but being worn high it was at eye-level with me and shining straight into them. Instant blindness ensued for a very brief period, and I was left with very bright spots in front of my eyes for the next minute or so.
Gah.
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maybe i saw him last night on the NEPN between 5 ways junction and Tesco's. I was on foot, and found it really unsettling that i couldn't make out anything behind him.
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@Iwrats
I shouted back 'Fashion sense!' and immediately regretted it she was dressed to go out and her face crumpled
it's possible she was just experiencing some sort of mental dissonance given it was still light enough to see you and she could thus assess the source of this sartorial commentary?
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I fell off my bike this morning dismounting a little too quickly to push through the Kings Theatre Green Man.
Fellow cyclist in ASB asked if I was hurt. I said just my pride.
Do we know which future decade the canal to meadows link will be started? Just wondering?
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"Do we know which future decade the canal to meadows link will be started?"
The twenties.
Now...which "twenties"...
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@Frenchy I am now hearing voices in my head saying Autumn 2021
However, I predict objections
My take on the circulated plans is that Car drivers are going to be blocked from going E-W along Tarvit. Some thought has even gone into where this will displace them to and further discrete cycle lanes to cope with this
We Travel In Hope
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Holy MacInoly
Kings Theatre Junction today
I filter one car into Red Box - Mother and child in front
Guy who failed to overtake me on canal (he was better at bridges but I was on faster bike for the straights) goes round the outside to discover he has no room. He had not looked ahead to see how full the box was (child small, mother bigger)
I shuffled a tad to let him in.
Lights change, he again does not look ahead and thinks he will cut the corner to overtake the mother and child in the turn BUT there is a cyclist and a big queue of traffic coming out of Tarvit and mother and child do not move rather both indicate with right arm. I have already worked out I am waiting for them as I am being nice. Fail to overtake guy also accepts this.
At this point a complete tube of a cyclist batters through us all on the left heading as if he could go straight up Tarvit street (ie it is next Autumn 2020 and no objections have been raised) like totally at the on coming traffic which he jinks in and out of
I say FFS - mother thinks I am criticising her and shoots me dirty look I explain I was referring to the cyclist who shot through
I then say to our whole group We can actually dismount and push through the green man (Lights had changed by this time)
Mother and child cycle through the green man. Me and MGIF guy push through.
Just another Kings Theatre Junction Story
PS I apologised for my language
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Last week: Person with one hand on their bars, the other holding a portable telephone, between the tram tracks heading towards York Place.
Yesterday: I was going straight from Morrison St middle lane to Haymarket Terrace without bothering with the jughandle. Captain Racingpants to my left (who, to his very slight credit, abandoned his trackstand when he started rolling over the stop line) went whooshing off through the jug handle, ending up behind the inevitable bus in the left-hand lane beside the tram stop, whereupon he whooshed into my path to get round it then blocked me from turning left down Haymarket Yards.
Also yesterday: I drew up a safe distance behind a person on the Roseburn path who was going a bit slower than I had been but not enough to bother trying to overtake them, especially given the frequent oncoming pedestrians and cyclists. However, a whooshing person overtook me then the person in front, whereupon the person in front significantly and deliberately increased their speed to stay on the overtaker's mudguard. I usually only witness this happening behind me.
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