Outtamyway puny woman!
Yeah, you're only riding effortlessly past me seconds later 'cos I slowed down..
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 9 years ago #
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:)
you'll notice that I edited out the sound of me puffing and wheezing!
tbh i don't think he knew how to use his gears.
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And nothing to do with that superlight superquick Dahon of yours? :)
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Someone going east on the east bit of the George Street lane this morning felt it necessary to machine-ting a non-looking pedestrian whilst not slowing down even slightly (which reminded me of that video of the west-country-accented bloke who opted to press his Airzound button instead of brake/swerve when a car cut him up). Hopefully they could thumb their bell without moving their hand from where it could also reach their brake lever.
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SMIDSY from me. I failed to see the bicycle following a van when I turned right. Accident easily avoided but I hope the cyclist wasn't too shocked.
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I just about got away with some badly timed filtering at the end of Myreside road (at the junction with Colinton Road) this morning as I attempted to ease my way to the front of the queue before the lights turned green. I'd all but filtered past the final car to enter the ASZ as the lights turned green, but ended up having to wave the car on and slotted in behind it. Rock and Roll lollipop man commented on this in a cheerful way as I cycled by. If only there was a cycle lane linking up to the ASZ...
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Shocking!
Cycling on the pavement on the way to school -
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*furiously scribbles letter to Evening News*
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Well she did shimmy round some pedestrians when she got to the green man.
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<grumble>
If you're on your bike on the towpath and there are three people on foot in a line in front of you on your side of the towpath, but no people on the other side, and if someone coming the other way on a bike comes to a halt to give you space to overtake them (even when, strictly speaking, the bike that stopped has priority and you should have waited behind the people on foot) then it's kind of nice to acknowledge it - wave, nod, "cheers", "thanks pal" or similar. Doesn't cost anything. Makes everyone's day that little bit nicer.
</grumble>Stark contrast to the chap who passed me this morning when I'd stopped by the icy chicane in Wester Hailes to photograph some rubbish on the towpath and whose opening comment was "You OK? Have you come off?"
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Do you not say 'you're welcome' in a falsely cheery way? I do. But I am not as nice a person as many folk on here.
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I am a reserved Brit. I only go as far as a hard stare.
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@Greenroofer
I helped a guy out with his bike yesterday and he, quite unbidden, gave me a sourdough loaf he'd just baked in return. I just had a slice and it's lovely.
Don't let a minor etiquette oversight wreck your day?
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Know a chap who was sent tweny quid for lending his lights to a fellow cyclist he met in a pub iin Dalkeith when darkness fell and taxi failed to show. Too much.
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I lent a guy my pump (couldn't hang around, had to get to work), and it was payment enough that he, as promised, popped it back thorough my letterbox when I gave him my address. ThT said, I'd have been chuffed to get a sourdough loaf!
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Cyclist travelling westbound from West Maitland Street (the bus/tram only section) who must have gone through a red light, as she was nearly taken out by cars coming from Morrison Street who rightly weren't expecting her to appear. Don't think she even noticed.
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I rode the wrong way down valley field st without realizing it at all until I got to the end. Oops.
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As I was passing Harrison Park on the canal towpath this morning, a group of four cyclists set off ahead of me. I sensed that they were not the most confident group (I'm guessing that it was three lapsed or fairly new cyclists and a somewhat more experienced leader type situation) because the guy at the back started weaving all over the place when presented with the 'obstacle' of a small child on a bike who was also riding in his direction to overtake. I found myself having to slow down considerably until we had both overtaken the child, and even then when I went to overtake the guy on the quite wide path I found that he suddenly began drifting in my direction, which was quite disconcerting. I then found myself ahead of him but behind the other two inexperienced cyclists, so I decided to wait for a clear opportunity to overtake them both in one go. I'm glad that I did this, because shortly after the bridge to the West of Harrison Park they collided with one another (I can only assume that this was due to inadequate braking by the one behind the other), which very nearly resulting in one of them ending up in the canal. I eventually found my gap and nipped past the two girls and then the leader shortly afterwards. I did wonder about saying something to the leader, who had been aware that something had happened behind her, but probably not that one of them had very nearly ended up in the canal, but decided against it...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-31805312
Was this 4 year old girl in Grantham, according to some officious plod who threatened to confiscate her stablisered bike because she was riding it on a piece of path / pavement (depending on what part of the article you read)
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When I'm making more of an effort, especially I'm cycling into a headwind, I tend to have head down which is not good for awareness of what is going on around me.
This morning on the path going up to the bridge I only saw a cyclist and a runner when they were about 20 yds away and about to take evasive action. Sorry if that was you...
I got neck-ache on the rest of the commute...
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The youngish (20s) cyclist who stopped to check his phone with his bike across across almost the full width of the path in George V Park. I was coming from the Rodney St tunnel; as I weaved carefully past him I said (fairly pleasantly) "Please don't stop there, you're right in the middle of the road". His response was a sarcastic "Thank you fellow cyclist, have a nice day". I'm still steaming with anger. I suppose it proves that cyclists can be a*holes as well as drivers.
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As I turned up Dundas Street from Abercromby Place this evening, I noticed a courier-style singlespeed fellow (courier bag, tights and baggy shorts, hoodie, canvas shoes, the whole works) moving slowly through the red lights to my right as I turned left on green. At the Queen Street/Dundas Street lights he ran the red with good enough timing that he was only half way across the junction before they went green. However at the George Street junction there was no pretence, he just ran the red light and then waited on the other side of the statue so he could turn right into George Street.
I know all the arguments about why running red lights on a bike is 'OK', and I can see the benefit of pulling out of the blind spot in front of a big truck. None of those excuses applied this evening.
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Two idiotic little twerps on MTBs appeared suddenly round the front of a stopped bus on London Road at the Easter Road junction, riding on the wrong side of the road between the stopped bus(es) and moving traffic coming the other (right way). Including myself in the bus lane between the bus and traffic to my right. In the dark. In the rain. It didn't matter that they had no lights as that wouldn't have helped spot them any earlier.
Couldn't see in the gloom where they went, think they dodged behind the stopped buses and onto the pavement, heading into town.
Lucky not to be dead.
Easily took first place from Captain "gottagetinfront" on the powder blue disc-braked CX bike with the loud freehub with the big courier bag and brown combat pants rolled up to his right knee whose path I kept ending up in between the Pinkhill Path and Princes Street. Pulled quite a few risky and unneccessary lunges infront of crossing traffic at the road junctions and then a very daft overtake on Princes Street as I passed a stopped bus and a taxi was passing on my right, he fitted himself in between myself and the taxi. I think he was mainly miffed that he was faster in a straight line but his route finding was poor and he repeatedly ended up behind me at junctions where our paths re-merged despite heading the same general way.
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Canal path chatter-er yesterday. I was heading in from the WOL path along the canal on my new MTB, very aware of the VERY WIDE handlebars. I was giving everyone loads of space and pinning myself in to the left. 2 riders coming towards me, high vis vest in front and green helmet behind. They were chatting away - fine, and high vis moved in front to let me past, thanks. However he then continued chatting over his shoulder and riding down the centre of the path. I almost went into the bushes on the left (where it overhangs just past the aqueduct). Just careless riding from him frankly.
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@ARobComp sounds like a jousting pole is required
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sounds like a jousting pole is required
Or one of these?
Would look just swell on a gnarly MTB.
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I do actually have one of those Kappers....
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A man cycles into a bar...
...and gets cuts and bruises on his bonce, a bit of whiplash and a cracked helmet.
After crossing the tramlines at Edinburgh Park Station, Paddy heads for the cycle parking at Halfords in Hermiston Gait and totally fails to notice the dropped roof over the cycle area, which is cunningly positioned at the perfect height to do maximum damage.
Quite an impressive collision, probably made worse by the helmet mounted light fixing which I hadn't bothered to take off even though it hasn't had a light on it for ages.
Don't know if there were any witnesses- no audible hoots of laughter anyway, but the lady in Halfords was concerned enough to lead me to a mirror to examine the damage.
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You missed out the most important detail Paddy - were you wearing high vis?
(hope the injuries heal soon!)
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