...was the overly assertive guy with an AirZound (or similar) going up Dundas St / Mound / MMW this evening about 5.30. I couldn't fault his noisy annoyance at the taxi that cut him up; was a little less sure of him enthusiastically AirZounding at tourists all along the way, but the nail in the coffin was him deliberately ignoring a red light on Melville Drive. If you're going to be militant about the rights and wrongs of who-should-be-where on the road, don't be a hypocrite.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Was brought to me by the chap with the bushy black beard riding a flat barred beige singlespeed.
He'd already shoaled me aggressively this week prior to being scalped goig up slateford road, tonight he ran up the inside of traffic before jumping the red.
You sir are a donkey.Posted 11 years ago # -
Was the chappie who was cycling west-east on Melville drive and then turned the wrong way up the Argyle Place slip road in trying to access the east leg of SMW.
And I'm so acclimated/acculturated that I apologized to him when I realised I'd cut across him while trying to get to the lights from the west side of SMW.
He seemed so blithely unconcerned that i might imagine he was a tourist and confused by the design, except that it must have been the red light at the intersection that impelled him to turn up that way at all.
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Unfortunately just out of the field of view of the camera yesterday morning was a dingbat who jumped on the footway avoid jumping the red light heading east from Meadowbank on London Road. He was evidently not amongst those who use the footway for their own safety as he returned to the road in time to take a very early green at the next set of lights across the end of Abbey Lane.
Yesterday evening a girl on a Pashloid sort of uprighty thing turned right from St Colme St into North Charlotte St, after the red light had stopped traffic from that direction, going the wrong side of the traffic island so that traffic starting to move to turn right down Queen Street had to account for her.
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"cyclist lifted his bike over lowered barriers at a railway level crossing before wheeling it over the track as a train approached"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-23815806
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Apologies to the cyclist on the NEPN this morning who had to witness me spitting out an insect. But it had to go..
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Weren't you hungry?
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Not in the lungs, no!
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@min I had a "insect on the boke reflex" moment earlier which I think sounded like I was choking and upset some people leaving tough mudder. Think it was a bad day for lots of bugs being out!
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Not such great cycling this morning from Mr Black+Yellow who was too busy speeding along Melville Drive to remember to look at traffic lights, so blasted through a red light at the cycle/ped crossing at Argyle Place, a heartbeat before everyone launched themselves across it.
I'd got out of the habit of checking for RLJers there before going ahead and crossing into the Meadows. Note to self, better safe than sorry.
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@cc Mr Black + yellow wasn't back of 7am by any chance?
There was a B&L cyclist with a death wish belting along the WAR to Slateford about 7:15 this morning.
Seeing cyclists on this road is getting increasingly and worryingly common.
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Think it has to be me today, got caught in the middle of traffic at the kings theatre junction turning right out of Gilmore place. I've misjudged it before so am usually quite careful, but rashly decided to follow the cyclist in front of me who was much quicker off the mark. There was a cyclist waiting in the ASL at the other side so he presumed correctly that he had time to turn right in front of her. I wavered for a moment too long then stupidly followed. The Car behind the cyclist opposite had overtaken her so met me in the middle, I was too far right to let him past so fortunately he let me continue. Then I came across the cyclist who I also ended up cutting in front of, then the next car behind her who was turning left. Fortunately that driver let me go too. Soo rubbish, next time I stay put until its clear!
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@ Karen
Hanged for a sheep as a lamb?
That is not a nice right turn, the first cyclist maybe if they tank it. If the green man comes on I have often been tempted to get off and push
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@gembo, ha, too right, if you're going to mess it up then do it properly!
It is a horrible turn though and the cars often take a chance to swing a fast right there too. I have got off and walked over at the pedestrian phase a few times.Posted 11 years ago # -
@Min Better in your mouth than up your trouser leg:
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This was a few nights ago, just after five ways heading towards Roseburn. I just bought a new Cateye and had totally misjudged the angle of the beam when setting it up in my childish excitement to get out, and ended up blinding god knows how many other cyclists until one gent kindly advised me that it was a bit bright. Confused, as the light was set to the lowest beam, I hopped off and realised it was pointing straight in the face of everyone oncoming. Just goes to show rubbish cycling can be done before you even get on the saddle! Apologies to that man, and anyone else I blinded.
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Welcome to CCE -
and thanks for bothering to adjust your lights.
This is an issue that has been discussed before!
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9370
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=9032
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8912
(and a few other times).
The biggest problem is usually off-road where the effect of bright lights isn't 'diluted' by street lights and cars -
and some people don't seem to care!
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Troubled soul on the NEPN last Friday. I was tootling home chatting to a fellow cyclist, but doing the normal thing of tucking myself in when a pedestrian or cyclist passed.
A guy on a dark racer sped towards us and a pedestrian with a dog, shouting "You shouldn't be cycling two abreast on the path!" Which was news to me.
I chose not to adopt this attitude towards the six schoolchildren straddling the path this morning on their way to school, who I managed to pass without incident.
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Waiting to turn right down Morrison St out of Dewar Place last night, I watched a man cycle slowly from the east, drift across the road onto the traffic island then across onto the footway to head down Dewar Place. Whilst I was watching him someone else emerged from the west, so I didn't see if he'd been going along the footway or had gone the length of the western section of Morrison St the wrong way. At first he went slowly eastwards against the north footway, then past the traffic island between the right/straight-on streams from Dewar Place then across to the railing on the other side of the road and finally came level with the traffic island in the middle of Gardiner's Crescent, whereupon I had to stop watching as my light went green.
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Would be the lady on Charlotte Square this morning who actually squeezed inside me on the ASL to turn left onto George St whilst I was waiting for the RED light to change.
Just because George St is closed to motor traffic, it's still open to cyclists and red lights still apply!!
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The female cyclist who crossed Marchmont Rd at the toucan, then peeled off to the left, to cycle on the footpath/pavement parallel to South Meadow walk as far as Argyle Place. No idea where she went then.
Can you think of anything more pointless?
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More rubbish lighting, actually. Last night cycled into town for the Tribute to Frank Zappa concert at the Usher Hall. Sat inside and realised I'd not moved the light clamp from other bike to the one I'd come in on, so would be reliant on my 'emergency' lights - a couple of tiny LEDs. I'd put the main light into my bag but had forgotten to check the clamp. Cue attempts after the concert of jury rigging the light to the handlebars, with little success. Cycled back through town, and through Holyrood Park, with feeble front spot feeling a little uncertain...
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Holyrood Park.... that riskiest of areas for cyclists!
OT - Was MusikFabrik concert good? - half thought of going.I was coming back over MMW and aware of someone ahead going 'unnaturally' fast with 'attitude'. So I caught them up as was on my recliner.
Young guy with red jacket goes:
• through red light at 'conflict island' entering Forrest Road
• then through next red light at Bedlam end of Forrest Road
(at no time has he looked to see I'm there)
• down Chamber St and finally half stopped at red there due to density of traffic on South BridgeI did tail him (which is bad) just to show that his fast RLJ riding wasn't getting across town any faster than stopping for red. I was lucky though as all the lights changed for me shortly after he had gone through...
He ended up going on down North Bridge and I peeled back off up High St after briefly going alongside him. I didn't say anything as doubt he'd want advice from me. Not sure who was worse though as should just have ignored him.
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@LaidBack - yes it was. Not sold out, but enthusiastically received, standing and cheering at the end from most of the crowd. The players were clearly having a blast :-)
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The dafties on the tow path who think ringing a bell means you don't need to use your brakes. Too many to describe them all!
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Me, yesterday evening, not waiting patiently enough behind the coach which was blocking the bit of road between the east-end-of-Princes-St ASL and the heading-to-Waterloo-Place ASL.
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@ Dunny
This was a few nights ago, just after five ways heading towards Roseburn.
... blinding god knows how many other cyclists until one gent* kindly advised me that it was a bit bright.I doubt that was me (from your location description), but I did tell a cyclist the same thing as I was approaching the 3-way junction at Maidencraig (Sainsbury's junction) from Roseburn. I literally couldn't see where I was going for a moment. It's good to see at least one person has acted on the information received :-)
* Surely can't be me - of all the nice (and not so nice) things i've been called, one word nobody's ever used to describe me is "gent"! :-D
Posted 11 years ago # -
I've occasionally suggested to cyclists on NMW that they might want to dip their lights. Only ever had abuse in return, despite using what I thought was a non-confrontational tone. Hopefully the path widening will diminish the problem.
Why is it that the obnoxiously bright ones also always seem to be male lycra-warriors?
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"Why is it that the obnoxiously bright ones also always seem to be male lycra-warriors?"
Bloke-ish, testosterone, 'more power' mentality? Certain sexual stereotypes do bear up in reality.
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