Guy on the Seafield end of Porty Prom (which is VERY wide) insisted on riding on his extreme right, straight at me. I was forced to stop, since I had no more space on my left to pull over. Why??
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Apologies to the cyclist I buzzed quite closely on Easter Road this morning just after the junction with Albion Rd. I didn't mean to pass so close but your last minute wobble into my path surprised me as much as it did you I think. Must remember to expect the unexpected.
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Not rubbish cycling, but more like rubbish directions. Whilst stopped at a junction on Lindsay Road, a chap asked me for directions for Dock Street, I told him it was where I was going and to follow me. I cycled as quick as I could as not to cause any tale backs and took him to where I was going......Tower Street, don't know how I got them mixed up. So, sorry to the very polite and appreciative driver who thanked me for my help, only to lead on a wild goose chase.
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Had another right hand side of the towpath rider this morning. Young chap in a white tee-shirt emblazoned with the name of a well-known firm of usurers. We met under the railway bridge at Kingsknowe, coming to a gentle head to head standstill. I suggested that most people like to ride on the left and asked if he thought this a good idea.
He looked me in the eye and said 'Nuh!'.
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Chap night before last who zoomed past me on the pavement just as I left my flat, extracting a blasphemy from a startled Uberuce.
He apologised, and thence a second time as I strolled down the road past his flat, which he ahdn't yet finisehd entering.
I mentioned that I don't normally have to shoulder check on the pavement, to which there was a slight pause during which I imagine it clicked he was talking to fellow velocipedalist and then agreed he'd calm it down next time.
Not quite as good as just not cycling down the pavement at all, so only a partial success, and all terribly civil.
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@IWRATS I tend to stick to the right under that tunnel when travelling into town, as do a lot of others, mainly to avoid the cobbles, but would obviously move back over to the left if somebody was approaching from the other direction. Who blinked first and moved out of the way?
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@jdanielp
It was I who steered to starboard. He was young, and his eyes were already beginning to exit their orbits with indignation. I wasn't sure if he'd cycle into the canal or attempt to ride over the top of me, but he didn't look set to back down from his rightist stance.
There's room for everyone on the canal and I was pretty mellow. It did strike me on the aqueduct as I admired my city and the hills around it that death is a quite unreasonable interuption to our enjoyment of the earth, but that belongs in the 'Today's Existential Angst Laden Cycling...' thread.
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perhaps the right winger is new to the towpath. Now the seed of leftism has been planted he will confrom to the norm in time.
That bridge is low and the avoidance of cobbles by steering for concrete used to end on a big gap where the path had been recalimed by the canal.
I had a chap last night who rang his bell and said I am coming through and didn't even slow down but was I bothered? Not last night I was chill.
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(1)Me, arriving at Peter's Yard from the south this morning I thought I'd give the counter a nudge so I cycled over it and then attempted to do a sharp U-turn to go back over it. I was clipped in, but needed a foot out to balance, and very nearly came an embarrassing cropper. Luckily avoided by my multi-release SPDs allowing my foot out just in time...
(2)A long haired fool who was riding on Melville Drive near the NMW Toucan crossing, but who didn't think that the red traffic light applied to him. He rode through the crossing while several people on foot were trying to cross and nearly hit me as I joined the crossing. One of the people on foot said loudly 'it's a red light' but by then he was gone. Sigh.
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Idiot on a road bike this morning, weaving all over the tow path heading into town by the Western section of Harrison Park. Headphones on, looking at smart phone device held in one hand. Occasionally glancing ahead. Device A LOT smarter than user.
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An anonymous wheelsucker, sticking right on my mudguard yesterday on Porty Prom despite me going at ten miles an hour.
This afternoon, heading east along the Innocent, I became aware of a following clicking after slowing down in anticipation of the pair ahead of me not being able to hear a bell. The follower then dived off along one of the diagonal paths at the crossing just near the underpass to Hay Avenue, re-emerging mere inches in front of me after the path-wiggle by the bridge, after I'd finally got past the people who were too busy chatting to be aware of the outside world. I recognised the impatient one as someone who's been impatient on that stretch before, with their characteristic slightly low cadence and inability to adjust their pace for anything.
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On Sunday afternoon at about half-past three a couple on Dutch-looking heavy black bikes emerged from the Northfield Broadway cut-through from the Morrison car park. They were turning right, but instead of waiting for a gap in traffic in both directions they rolled south on the wrong side of the road for a bit before crossing over.
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Today, around 8:10am roundabout at Picardy Place/Leith Street, female cyclist on a fixie came on to the roundabout from York Place at speed without giving way to me already on it (fortunately with nothing to my right, so I could give her some room). Then proceeded most of the way down Leith Walk in the outside lane (and on a fixie so not going as fast as traffic at around 15 mph) so that she was holding folk up if they didnt want to squeeze past. Not sure what point she was trying to make.
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The chap at the shared pelican crossing to the Meadows at the North West corner this morning. He cycled passed me out into the middle of the pavement almost hitting some pedestrians and blocking the pavement.
He made some claim about not seeing the stop line but maybe next time he could just wait behind the three or four other bikes waiting for the big red light to change. We all already passed him pootling at the junction at the King's Theatre so it wasn't like we were slowing him down.
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Holding the invisible seat-back brake levers:
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So after a pleasant and sociable dander up the canal towpath I got to work to find the down ramp to the underground car and bike park closed due to a fire alarm.
Chilled in the sun under a convenient tree for a bit until the all clear was given. By this time about thirty cyclists had gathered. First off down the ramp was a peleton of roadies, one of whom managed to get his chain in a sufficient tangle to bring him down. Nasty cut under his chin, clearly in shock. I'm sure he'll be fine, but it's a good reminder to take it easy.
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A member of Ipood generation who was so busy listening to his tunes this morning that he turn right from the cycle path into Ferrymuir Gait this morning almost taking me out as I turned in.
Having already taken his hearing out of service was it too much to ask that he might keep his eyes open. Thankfully I saw it coming and took evasive action.
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Turns out the chap with the cut chin has broken his collar bone. No wonder he went white when someone tried to lift him up by the shoulders....
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Yesterday as I came up Marchmont Road southbound in the cycle lane I stopped at the pedestrian crossing to allow someone to cross - the cyclist behind me had other ideas and undertook me (somehow), then almost knocked the pedestrian over. I caught him up and had a go at him, but he seemed to think I was being unnecessarily censorious….
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This morning, as I Beauforted westwards across to Strathearn, stopped at the lights, as I moved off when my light changed someone else did the same thing from the Marchmont Road direction:
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...was me (last night anyway). After extolling the virtues of dynamo lights to various pals I discovered that mine weren't in fact working. No matter I thought, as I had a backup LED front and rear in the toolkit. And so, possibly unwisely, to the pub...
On leaving the pub I then discovered that the rear light wasn't working. Then while cycling home was so busily engaged trying to get the front light to point forwards rather than at the floor I bombed through a red light at the junction of Princes Street and Lothian road, drawing an indignant (and justified) shout of "red light!" from a pedestrian.
Shame on me. The dynamo light issue turned out to be a corroded main power cable where it connected to the hub. Might experiment with some heatshrink in that area as it does seem prone to corrosion and damage.
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Cyclist making an unsignalled right directly into my path, evidently expecting me to break off my signalled right to swerve out her way.
I didn't, not so much from stubborn adherence to Highway Code as failure on my part to realise she actually was being that rubbish, so she had to apply her squealy and apparently very poor brakes, before breezing across to ride onto the pavement, naturally.
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Yesterday I was standing at the corner of Fountainbridge and Lothian Road. Rush hour and of course a mass of traffic poised to move. Bloke came along Fountainbridge the wrong way and turned right onto Lothian Road. I assume he must have had the lights sussed but it looked wildly dangerous. Another bloke on a cycle who was waiting to move down Lothian Road stared at him in horrified amazement. b
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Someone going the wrong way along the southbound side of Queensferry Street. Someone overshooting a red light then pretending that it was some sort of mechanical problem had forced them to do so.
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@ SRD - that is a good point. I work in Fountainbridge and if I want to go along Lauriston Place or along the Meadows it is a horrible journey in the one way traffic along Morrison Street then right into Earl Grey Street. Walking and pushing not much of an option either as the pavements are narrow and busy.
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At least the boy realised. Whenever I do something wrong I always shake the handle bars a bit as if to blame the bike or check tyre pressure haha. I would let him off as I think those lights on Queensferry Street have changed sequence recently as I also keep getting stopped now.
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An enthusiastic bush by the canal towpath on the curved section between Meggetland and the short aquaduct over Slateford Road seems to have been overlooked during the recent foliage trimming. Today, as I was cycling out of town at a moderate pace on the left of the towpath and approaching said bush, a guy came barrelling around the corner at speed straight at me. Luckily he spotted me, braked heavily and steered into the side of the bush. He managed to keep cycling but I hope he may now slow down in the future...
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A woman who thought it was a good idea to squeeze up the side of my (moving) bus at the top of Leith Street. Thank goodness there aren't railings there.
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@Min, that is a constant place for undertaking. Can never understand it; its steep and cyclists may have been coming from the foot of Leith Walk so even wobblier than normal. I nearly always pass them before the High Street.
Would be good if the council would enforce the parking restrictions in the bus lane there though; one car can create a 5 minute backlog down to Elm Row and make it difficult to make progress in any sort of vehicle. Often the same car outside the hairdressers.
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