ARobComp - yes shame when you think about the distance covered more or less intact.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Debate!
Today's rubbish cycling
(4520 posts)-
Posted 10 years ago #
-
Not exactly rubbish cycling as such but a note about buying a second-hand cycle and not having it checked out for safety. A friend of mine bought a second-hand Brompton which had barely been used for £750. She commutes in London. After using it for a week or so the main hinge broke and she found herself being put in a police car and then taken to A&E. She suffered two broken ribs and a badly bruised shoulder. Of course it could have been much worse.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Me and a mum from school chatting and riding side by side on leamington Walk and South. Meadow walk is morning at rush hour :)
Posted 10 years ago # -
"Rubbish " cycling that may not be totally "rubbish" but one for all the EEN commenters:
A guy on a Specialized Tricross who very slowly crept through the red lights at Tollcross to go on to Semple Street. He was being very observant of the lack of traffic coming from his left so it was a totally safe maneouvre. The police van right behind him at the lights ignored this blatant RLJ, which I actually found quite amusing as an indication of their priorities (and probably their common sense in turning a blind eye)
Posted 10 years ago # -
The daftness (at times) of the law is that it's perfectly legal to do that if you climb off the bike, push through, and climb back on, and is probably more dangerous to yourself as you have to mount/dismount and as a result take longer doing it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
On Saturday, after a conversation with an ASL-abusing taxi driver (to be added to the driving thread), I was unlocking my bike at St Andrew Square as some moron came (presumably via Multrees Walk) straight past me along the north side of the Square, i.e. in the wrong direction before heading down N St David St! How lazy/stupid do you have to be to either avoid going the proper way round or simply cut down to Queen Street in front of the bus station?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Twerp with a red Deuter rucksack cover who jumped the red going across Jock's Lodge then almost wedged himself between a bus and a van trying to squeeze between them when there was insufficient time at the King's Road/Seafield junction.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Two cyclists approach marchmont rd toucan having just missed the light. Apparently, their feet are undetectable from their pedals, so one hold on to pole/button box with left had. Other one who had been accelerating towards light veers left onto ped side and sits there holding box with right hand. So occupying half of pedestrian space.
Is it really that hard to just put a foot down?
Posted 10 years ago # -
This may equally go in the "uber bright lights" thread depending on view point.
Going along the A90 cycle path tonight, cyclist comes straight for me forcing me to stop, and shouts something about lights being too bright. As I'm stopped now anyway I retort that they are pointed down, and to the left. We then have a civil conversation about lights, and he say he was within his rights to complain...
If you are on here, the civil discussion bit I'm happy to have at any time. Pull me over I'll chat and discuss anyone's concerns any time. I'm even going to have a look at my light tonight.
But, and this is not a threat, and I'm not falling out with you (I see you most days and will continue to 'nod' heads), this is just a statement of fact. If you ever attempt to use your bicycle as a weapon again and ride it directly at me to make a point, I will not stop the next time. You are free to test that whenever you like.
Incidentally, your light's were pretty bright too, when directly in front of me. ;P
Posted 10 years ago # -
On a lighter one, I found a small bundle of little green cable ties held together by an elastic band on the road into Edinburgh near roseburn. Happy to return them to the cyclist who dropped them at next peter's yard outing
Posted 10 years ago # -
Was passed today @17-30 by a young guy with a dark beard going at breakneck speed like a maniac through Roseburn Park (Eastbound). He was swerving round dogs, pensioners and anybody else. Luckily there weren't any children.
He was on a whitish road bike, black plastic mudguards, no rack. He also had really ripped calves & 3/4 length leggings. He's passed me once before in the Park around that time, going at a similar crazy speed, but last time on mountain bike, and weaving around children. Completely unacceptable.
So this time I decided to chase him down. It took some effort, but I caught him and shouted "You'll get us all banned from the park! You're crazy going at that speed - there's children & dogs. Nuts!"
I hope he is truly ashamed of himself.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Good for you!
Posted 10 years ago # -
Took a diff route to work today owing to sick kids - straight down Gilmore place at 8.45 or so.
Much more aggressive cycling than I'm used to on my LW-SMW-MMW route.
Especially blokes of the 'must get past mum on tandem' sort, who undertook at intersections (only for me to leave them behind), or filtered madly thru traffic so as to spray me with vile liquids because their btween crudcatcher is clearly designed to discourage close follows rather than keep their rearend dry. Although that was better than the idiot with normal trousers - bearing a lovely mud stripe up the middle - who just had to undertake on the pedestrian side on NMW.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Riding along Gilmore Place tonight, due to the closure of the northbound lane of Viewforth, I was closing on a woman wearing hi-viz and with two red lights (mentioned just to indicate she's at least aware of being seen to be safe).
Preparing to overtake her, she suddenly swung across to the other side of the road to stop, without looking or signalling. As I passed her, I just said, "You're lucky it was me behind you and not a car, or you'd have been under it". I couldn't make out her reply but I hope the message sunk in.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Aye - I've got a sneaking suspicion that electric cars are going to give such people a very hard time of it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I overtook a young lad on a mountain bike today in the rain, no mudguard so he was wet in the 3/4 trouser dept. I know him from the commute. He cycles at high cadence.
Anyway, this may have annoyed him. He overtook me later and then we wheeched along without him ever getting away. Due to lights stopping him. Until he had enough of the old dude and at the pedestrian crossing green man at Lochrin basin he clipped in over the pavement,over the crossing and on through the pedestrian arcade.
On way home he made it through the lights at chesser and got away or I would have taken him
Posted 10 years ago # -
I've seen it said often that most of the noise from a car is the tyres on the road and not the engine though I'm not sure how true that is. Probably about even at the speeds people
shoulddrive in town.Electric car on a smooth enough road would be pretty much silent at ~20mph I imagine. Though I would hope that by the time the roads in Edinburgh are all smooth and filled with electric cars the whole bike infrastructure thing has been sorted (may be optimistic...).
Posted 10 years ago # -
Twerp #2014-02-25-14-15-02-009 was going east along Shandwick Place, then drifted across to the westbound side of the road for fifty metres before joining the footway at the Rutland crossing.
Twerp #2014-02-25-14-15-25-644 was going west along Shandwick Place from the end of Lothian Road (whence he emerged) in an extremely riskiliy meandering way, particularly considering that the presence of a small film unit on the island in the middle of the crossing might signify the imminence of live trams.Posted 10 years ago # -
Gent yesterday who looked like a regular commuter, high vis, helmet and good lights, on brougham street...
We'd stopped at the lothian road junction, he set off and I let him sit in front as don't like overtaking at that part of the road. Red light at the ped crossing at Machina espresso shop and he went off up onto the pavement at the right hand side and cycled along the pavement weaving through peds to turm right up the wee one way road at the meadows. He saved 0 time. No idea why he did it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Two yesterday.
Half six on London Rd a family cycling with a kit on a bike seat on dad's bike. Cycling centrally in the road between lanes in dark clothes with no lights
10pm a cyclist with no bike lights in Holyrood Park. Instead three flashing blue lights on their backpack, belt and helmet! Thought the Police were stopped ahead
Posted 10 years ago # -
Tuesday evening, going home through Haymarket, I watched someone on a bike jump the red I was waiting at at the end of Morrison St (possibly because they'd seen the left-turn for Dalry Road go green) then slowly hop from traffic island to traffic island before riding across with what looked to be the intention of rejoining traffic heading east towards West Maitland St.
Lots of too-impatient-to-slow-down-a-touch-even-though-there-was-a-pedestrian-on-their-side-of-the-path-who-hadn't-seen-them whizzchumps on the NEPN this morning.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Three independent sets of side-by-side chatting path-hogs going anticlockwise on the NEPN this evening and one desperate-to-overtake-despite-oncoming-things oaf. I waited behind a strange meanderer on the Granton spur when it became apparent that his peculiar not-picking-a-side was due to his hands being in his pockets.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Three independent sets of side-by-side chatting path-hogs going anticlockwise on the NEPN this evening
Uh oh, that might have been me... got a description of either the hogs, or their rough speed?
Posted 10 years ago # -
Um. Somewhere between fifteen and twenty mph? Upright bikes. I think one of the offside halves of one of the pairs was wearing orangey-lensed glasses.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I was on the NEPN this evening as well although I appear to have missed all the excitement. I can report being vastly outnumbered by runners near fiveways, and also getting dazzled by the inevitable searing light (this was twilight as well) which was met with a disapproving raising of the hand in the most obvious fashion possible.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Yeah, sounds like it could have been us, I have orange tinted shades, although I ride a road bike. Apologies if we were in your way. Only one bike went past us, red jacket, at Roseburn, but that might have been because we were blocking the path (without realising it!) ;)
Posted 10 years ago # -
I seemed to suddenly notice huge numbers of runners in the evenings between Crewe Toll and Five Ways shortly after that report of the cyclist being shoved into the drainage sump.
@mkns I had a bright yellow buff on my head and a white T-shirt, but only went from Roseburn to the Granton Access path.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ah right, I assumed you were also going the same was as us (towards Roseburn). Don't recall seeing you, far less getting in _anyone's_ way who was coming towards us, but as I say, apologies if we did.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Idiot locked his bike next to mine in a way that made it near impossible* for anyone other than a contortionist to unlock mine. Came damn close to locking my lock onto his bike out of spite.
* seriously impossible. He had two locks on his, one so small that his bike was locked into place and my lock wedged into completely vertical position, with not enough room to get my key between concrete and lock entry. Managed it eventually without taking any skin off my hands, but they are covered with grease from his chainring.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Never go from London Road to Montrose Terrace when being ordered to wait by a red light, impatient one. Vehicles emerging from Abbey St May have the green light to proceed. Luckily for you they were doing so correctly: with caution.
Posted 10 years ago #
Reply »
You must log in to post.
posts
