There are a few lights which I usually know which often display definite timing differences if I go through at a weird time of day or on a bank holiday, but I haven't been out and about enough to be able to determine if lights are on their normal schedule or if there's been a blanket low-traffic setting applied.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 4 years ago #
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@Murun random indeed. He'd be better sitting there with a speed gun...
Posted 4 years ago # -
@fimm Indeed. If he was policing the Covid regs on cyclists, I wouldn't fancy his chances of catching anyone there on a straight bar bike from a standing start in full uniform, either up- or downhill. (though maybe he was the Police Scotland TT champ?)
Posted 4 years ago # -
Maybe just taking a breather? Probably just cycled up the greenway from the Wester Hailes Cop Shop?
Posted 4 years ago # -
@murun - most outlaw motorcycle clubs do not allow women to become full patch members
Shocking. In this day and age. Wonder who sews the patches on then//??
As DD-L says in his hammy way - There will be flames
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Group of four men absolutely bombing along the shared use path towards Shawfair this morning despite the fact it was very busy with familys.All on brand new looking bikes ,they are in their 40s by the looks of them refused to slow down for anybody. I've noticed a big increase in people cycling in the path and most of them are pretty considerate even the teenagers but the worst seem to be the older men on road bikes who seem to consider it as their own private race track and everybody else had better not get in their way ! would hate to meet them when they're driving if that's how they ride a bike !!!!
Posted 4 years ago # -
Saturday, walking route 1 from Barnton to Dalmeny. I ended the walk swearing silently at 50% of those riding bikes. Lots of newbies not giving space and going to fast passing too close but worse were the experienced cyclists careering down a road closed to traffic at around 30kph scattering pedestrians and toddlers. Just crazy.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Some police on motorbikes slowly cruising clockwise along the Restalrig path yesterday afternoon, awatch for the rampaging motorcycle oaves. Hope they went along Marine Esplanade at some point and checked out the wasteland where the pipe farm used to be.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Guy in Edinburgh Uni kit blasting along the very busy top road in Holyrood Park this afternoon shouting “on your right” at startled-looking families (including small children on bikes). Clearly not a man concerned with the public image of cyclists.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Yesterday: I was running down East Preston Street to head for The Meadows. As I got nearer the traffic lights at the junction with Causwayside, I saw I had a green man and sped up to catch it. I nearly collided with a cyclist who had decided to roll through his red light because he couldn't see any pedestrians... I appeared at speed round the corner of the "Drouthy Neebors" - fortunately I looked in his direction, and both us braked and swerved.
He said "Sorry, my fault", to be fair.So, if you are going to run a red light, because you can't see any pedestrians, remember some of us move faster than you might expect...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Pet hate yesterday on the pedestrian path on Clermiston Rd with my wife and dog and some erse gives my wife a really close pass on his bike.
Can't see how it's so hard to ring your bell which I told him. No reply though as he had headphones on.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Three uncomfortable rapid close passes from behind with no audible warning on the WoL path this morning in the space of half an hour/one mile of walking. One involved a mother and child snicking through immediately after a bike had passed us coming the other way. We'd stepped in to single file to give it room, so it was precisely the moment when anyone giving any actual thought to the matter would anticipate that one of the unsuspecting pedestrians might step back out again.
Folks who don't have a bell* and who are too timid to call out should at least slow down a lot when passing pedestrians from behind rather than just steaming on through. It's surprising how little sound a bike can be making at 10-12mph, and thus how little warning you get of its approach.
* There is really less and less excuse for this these days IMO. This bell from Decathlon costs less than a pint, weighs next to nothing and is visually pretty unobtrusive - although it's also available in a choice of bright colours for the incurably extrovert amongst us. It's not the absolute best out there in terms of volume but it's certainly audible and it has a trigger action with a double ping which is far superior to most single ping "oh-well-if-I've-got-to-have-one..." type bells. And it's far, far better than no bell at all.
Posted 3 years ago # -
ejstubbs, do you object to all passes without an audible warning, or just when the pass is close enough that sideways movement by the person being passed would cause issues to the person passing?
Posted 3 years ago # -
The Balerno Cares Facebook page is going nuts about the WoL Path cyclists
Sometimes the Moderator needs to remind the posters about Kindness
Posted 3 years ago # -
Nearly 9 minutes to get up Arthur's Seat. Lock down has take its toll.
Loved the almost fully closed park.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Back in the day I could do one foot in the duck pond to touching the trig pillar in twelve minutes.
Time passes and I weaken.
Posted 3 years ago # -
@Iwrats
remember a fine wine, even if a little past its best, is still a fine wine
Posted 3 years ago # -
I've heard it put another way:
"The older I get, the better I was."
:)
(also idly wondering if I'm too old to think about a full sus mtb and giving it the beans)
Posted 3 years ago # -
The older the fiddle the more tunes it knows.
Is simply untrue.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Went for a run last week, I struggled to keep my 10k pace for 5 minutes. I'm blaming westminster...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Not so much bad cycling as noise pollution. The Bluetooth connection to my earphones dropped out which meant I’d been riding round the back roads (backstreets?) with Bruce Springsteen blaring out my iPhone. The album was “The River” which was apt given the weather
Posted 3 years ago # -
As I came back into the house after a ride on the turbo trainer in the garage this afternoon, mini-Greenroofer pointed out that I had a chain grease mark on my right tricep.
The explanation (which I didn't trouble her with) involves grovelling on the floor under the bike retrieving a lost earbud...
Posted 3 years ago # -
Chap in orange Rapha jacket came barreling onto A70 at hutchison’s crossways (Street st cuthbert’s primary is on). Not sure why he chose not to look right to check on oncoming traffic. Maybe he thought going into the bus lane without looking was safe? I mean the buses are still running. As someone was parked outside the church he was therefore impeded in his progress. Mrs Garto being a good driver around cyclists, slowed for him to allow him not to be boxed in. Lucky fellow.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Shouted at a pavement cyclist for the first time in a long time, possibly first time ever.
Walking dogs along Gilmerton Road, and stopped to pick up something one of them had dropped. The pavement is wide, but narrowed at the moment due to roadwork signs, I couldn't move out of the way very much even if I'd wanted to. The cyclist slowed down a bit, but not anywhere near as much as I'd've liked them to.
Some schadenfreude when I realised that they must have had an encounter with the soaking wet head-height hedge.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Did I mention I shouted at a pavement dude on Liberton Dam? He was riding a mountain bike with a motor and throttle control at about 20mph single handed.
I outdoor voiced him in a way that may have made him think I was an off-duty cop and he slowed and started pedalling for show.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Three teenage lads riding reasonable MTB through junction at the top of Colinton village cutting across the lights on red to pavement near coop.
First lad clearly knew what he was about and shot across just as red went. Second two lads just followed without actually understanding what was happening. Honk from car turning out on green from Woodhall road.
Too young to have any formal training and just riding along enjoying themselves I suspect. Not particularly malicious, just poor decision making.
Ironically absolutely no-one at risk of injury, or remotely likely to be run down, but I can imagine most onlookers absolutely seething about it for some weeks to come based on the number of notes and comments I've seen locally about the cycling scourge. So frustrating. It's an awful area to cycle, they weren't being malicious, but it was REALLY rubbish cycling. :/
Posted 3 years ago # -
We should start a really rubbish complaining thread
During Covid a kind person in my locality established a caring group that was of some immediate help to the lonely or the needy, now it is mostly moaning about youth (two of home do appear to have battered the old water bailiff up At a reservoir)
Posted 3 years ago # -
I outdoor voiced him in a way that may have made him think I was an off-duty cop
have been working on this comms strategy myself lately
polite but strongly assertive... pointedly refer to the perp as sir, but brook no argument whatsoever
it does make them wonder
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