Presumably the man on the Roseburn on the really leafmulchy bit north of Ravelston Dykes has never experienced the treachery of soggy leaves when trying to slow down and swerve, or he wouldn't be overtaking pedestrians when oncoming pedestrians were so close.
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Soon be time for the council to sweep up the leaves into huge piles in the middle of the path, usually in the spot between lights so that you can't see them in the dark until you almost hit them.
Every year I hope they'll have more sense, but they never do!
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We need one of these for the leaves
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That appears to be based on a pedal tricycle harnessed to a motorcycle (you can just see the drive belt on the right hand rear wheel). A true chimera.
I'd love to drive one up the canal some morning, dressed just like the chap in the picture.
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Today's poor cycling; the three young students who whizzed past me on the pavement just outside my house. My fault for not looking both ways when stepping onto the pavement apparently but 'its ok to cycle on the pavement as it is a private road' whatever that means. Not sure what it is about the new year of students but there seems to be a lot more of them on the pavements in Marchmont this year.
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Dude on a black road bike with a posties bag on myreside Road this morning. You smashed into my wing mirror and kept going. If I'd smashed into you with my wing mirror I'm sure you'd have something to say about it.
You could've just stopped and said sorry.Posted 9 years ago # -
That sucks 'Bodna. :-(
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speaking of wing mirrors, suspect you missed this?
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&page=97#post-166587
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Someone turning through a red light at the Roseburn Street/A8 intersection at 8:35am. Traffic on A8 going full speed of course. He cycles parallel with an Intercity for a few yards before dropping into the main stream.
Evening, canal. Peak hour. I'm slowing behind a pedestrian, waiting for enough room to pass. Woman with buggy coming the other way. Fast young bloke on mountain bike does a quick nip round woman with the buggy through the narrowing gap between her and the pedestrian. I'm glad to say that he crashes against a bush growing over the wall so leaves fly and I hope scratched himself. Woman with buggy startled. General air of "sodding cyclists."
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@recombodna, I guess he missed your sticker as that doesn't sound Awesome.
Rubbish cycling yesterday was me. As I came round the sharp bend on the path by Dalmeny Park despite already having slowed down I reacted to a cyclist coming the other way by braking sharply. I then lost my balance and straightened my line up leaving me stationary on his side of the path.
Moral of the story don't brake on a bend, particularly if you don't need to.
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Two northbound/clockwise unwise-overtake people on the Roseburn this morning.
One extreeeeeemely stupid bit of cyclist-weaving-round-a-tipper-truck from the person in front of me on West Maitland Street, especially when the truck was doing a bit of weaving itself and effectively changed lane thrice before turning up Palmerston Place. I dropped the truck's number-plate from working memory in order to concentrate on the truck behind it, which is in the bad driving thread.
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I gave an unfriendly-sounding yell at the two speed merchants zoomng through the dogleg in the NEPN just before the red bridge (when heading Leithwards) as their racing line brought them over the middle of the path and forced me to move further inside to avoid them.
The mesh fence there, although perfectly vision-permeable when looked through at right angles is a remarkably good obstruction to the line of site when approaching or exiting the bridge and people should cycle this little bit in a manner befitting this.
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Only rubbish for the cyclist - fellow heading away from Haymarket on Dalry Road in this evening's Biblical rain - orange bungee cord unclipped itself from one side of the rack and wrapped itself round the cog a few times. I saw it happen and shouted but not quick enough to make a difference. His bike locked up but thankfully he wasn't going fast or in a tricky traffic situation. He was riding a hub gear so he wasn't at risk of killing a derailleur in the process; probably all well once he'd unravelled the elastic.
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Today's bizarre cycling; the guy going down Leith Walk who was insisting in cycling in the hatched area to the right of the outside lane. A series of confused cars ended up undertaking him as he swerved and pootled along. I undertook as i though he was about to turn right but no, he was just going even further over to the right in the lane. Bonkers. Will get himself killed.
As will the student on the QBC riding along throwing up his arms to music on his headphones as he swerved from road to pavement and back again, even when there was no parked cars in the QBC. Seemed to be trying to zig zag through as many pedestrians as possible on the narrow pavement, and oblivious to the traffic around him.
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Yesterday evening, I'm heading along Gorgie Road. There's a parked car, so I check behind me before signalling right. There's a fast moving cyclist in a fluorescent top coming, but they're reasonably far back and I signal, move out and give the car plenty of space. As I do this, the other cyclist catches up with me and overtakes me on my left as I'm preparing to move back in again.
I was not impressed. No harm done as I knew he was there. I thought about shouting something about "Please don't overtake on my left" at him, but I didn't.
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The cyclist cycling on the pavement west along West Maitland St on the opposite side to the post office. He like me decides to cut behind the bus stop outside the Mercat. Realising he's actually cycling on the pavement and there are pedestrians, he launches his bike off the pavement, rubs along the side of the waiting bus and proceeds to cycle towards Corstorphine down the wrong side of the road. Luckily I think he went in reverse through the red lights as the pedestrian crossings were green and thus the section was traffic and tram free at the time
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The man on the black hybrid with the very suspect and wobbly low-speed handling skills trying to filter between a Lothian double decker and an ambulance with blues and twos on from the Piccardy Place roundabout onto York Place where it's going from 2 lanes to 1.
The man on the white fixed with lime green saddle and rear wheel/tyre who piled through the pedestrians who were still clearing the road to get between Randolph Place and Melville Street.
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The man on the black hybrid with the very suspect and wobbly low-speed handling skills" sounds like a description of my self-) although I was not out on my bike today so this time thankfully not.
I think made today's rubbish cycling just after I bought my bike riding on the wrong side past sea field by porty-).
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Saw some super impressive track standing by clipped in speedster tonight at dusk from west port to dundee St. Only putting in this thread as had zero lights
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"Only putting in this thread as had zero lights"
Spotted three separate unlit suicyclists on the way home last night. One on't canal, two on the Queen's highway.
EDIT Separate. Argggh!
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"Spotted three seperate unlit suicyclists"
Wait 'til next Monday...
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Late last night was pretty bonkers for inappropriately lit cyclists - a couple with white lights on the rear, and one with red on the front going the wrong way down Glengyle terrace which gave me a bit of a fright….
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@algo
Couple of days back there was a dude who'd somehow sourced a set of amber bike lights to fit front and rear. Maybe like a towtruck?
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@IWRATS - are the AA branching out? I saw some flashing blue(ish) ones on a bike the other day; I sped up and weaved around some side streets and I'm pretty sure I shook them off….
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Issued a fairly frustrated "keep left, please" at the cyclist who was intent on sticking hard right on the path and trying to cut inside me as we crossed paths at Fiveways this morning. Assume they were a confused continental. Or just a silly.
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Lady this morning who meandered past the red light from Gilmore Place to wobble around in the middle of the lane on Leven Street (still green for traffic heading both ways), waiting for the cars turning right into Gilmore Place to get out of her way so that she could ignore the no entry sign and salmon along Tarvit Street.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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algo - I've seen a few people with reversed bike lighting. I wondered if a) they have a deathwish and/or b) it's some kind of deeply anarchic joke.
A guy riding on the pavement right outside my house almost took me out - he was wearing a red flashing head-lamp and had a white flashing rear light. Naturally the red head-lamp wasn't always viewable as he looked around. Catching a glimpse of red LED I guessed a) cyclist and b) riding away from me... I just got out the way.
Last night I overtook a chap with a surprisingly bright white flashing LED on his rucksack (although he swiftly swooped past me as I hit a pothole and duly punctured). While he had a red LED on the back of his bike, the two together could be confusing for peds and drivers alike.
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@Mandopicker1 - this light colour incongruity has been noticed a few times. As you say - if you see a red led the instinctive interpretation is that the cyclist is moving away from you… that one I reckon is more anarchic unless the deathwish extends to others...
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I also issued my first 'BLINDER!' on the canal this week. I think @gembo has the copyright on this ejaculation, issued whenever you see anyone with a synchrotron on their bars.
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Whilst out running this lunchtime I had an interesting game of chicken with a cyclist on MMW. We were both on the white line heading towards each other. I couldn't fully move into the ped side because it was full, whilst the cyclist was unwilling to move despite having the entire lane free for about 100m in both directions. Apart from being pig-headed I don't know what point he was trying to make.
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