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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 9 years ago #
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There were a few wazzocks desparate to get to the front of the ASL this morning.
First one at Haymarket Yards forced their way between me another chap, despite us having been there for a while. He didn't set off at any great speed, so he could have waited behind us. I overtook him with no effort whatsoever.
Same story at the next lights, with the addition of another guy who weaved past those already in the ASL in order to sit way in front of the stop line.
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Similar experience to Stickman this morning with a lady who zoomed up the inside of me as I was waiting to turn left onto Gilmore Place. I was in primary as there was a car behind. She then came up my inside again as I was turning right at the King's and zoomed past again on North Meadow walk forcing herself in amongst the pedestrians waiting for the lights to change. I dislike it intensely when people on bikes treat pedestrians like this so was probably a little rude to her.
Her defence was that she was trying to get ahead of the traffic (maybe four cars since the canal). Not sure what traffic she was getting ahead of on the shared path.
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I was drafted all the way along the Innocent last night - didn't mind too much. This morning I was wheel-sucked again. Intentionally slowed to force a pass.
As someone who sometimes does group rides it doesn't bother me a huge amount, but there's a time and a place for that kind of thing. A quick hello would be nice.Posted 9 years ago # -
... was today brought to you by people who should have known better, I reckon.
Mini Greenroofer was just ahead of me on the WoL path near the Lanark Road. We approached a blind bend and a sizeable party of bikes suddenly appeared round it. They were going at some speed, and didn't seem to make any effort to move to their side of the path or share the space at all. Gave Mini Greenroofer quite a fright.
Could understand if it had been a bunch of neds, or even a bunch of roadies, but it was a mixed group of sensible-looking people. They were going too fast and not reacting to other path users.
Not pleased...
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@chdot. Exactly the demographic we saw, so unfortunately it may have been.
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Easycycle are hardly speed merchants though, so perhaps not them.
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Bloke who cycled Gilmore Place to George Square with a turquoise carrier bag in his left hand. Which wouldn't be too offensive on its own if he'd not gone straight through Viewforth on red, and then cut up through the pedestrians at the MMW junction. Not like he was cycling fast either - I over took him without any effort on GP, and then again on MMW (he got ahead of me there by cutting the corner, no idea if that was his goal or not).
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Could understand if it had been a bunch of neds, or even a bunch of roadies, but it was a mixed group of sensible-looking people.
Never judge a book by its cover.
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EasyCycle's leader wears a tabard with the group name, and although they were indeed on the Water of Leith path yesterday, it was from Roseburn to Stockbridge, so sounds as though it was another group.
There are surely plenty of other groups who are not listed on the cycling-edinburgh page as Mike has a policy of only listing rides which are free, do not mandate helmets, open to all etc.
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@LivD - no tabards that I saw, and we were in Colinton, so sounds like it wasn't EasyCycle.
My guess is that it was a mix of experienced and inexperienced riders. They weren't going excessively fast in absolute terms, but just too fast for the situation. Perhaps some of the riders didn't have the situational awareness that a more confident and experienced rider would have had.
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Pavement cyclist on Drummond Street this morning; narrow pavement with black bins, but she expected me on foot to get out of her way. Road empty (other than cyclist going wrong way on one way street) but apparently it was ok for 50 year old woman to cycle on pavement because the road surface is bumpy.
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It takes a special sort of dingbat to cycle along, fiddling with a phone, between the tracks on the westbound tramlane on York Place. As a tram back at the stop started to pull away.
Also Urban Muppet 3000, who barged in front of me on the bit from York Place to Picardy then hung back two millimetres behind a car, which had a bike on the roof, which is probably why the driver stuck on his right indicator and moved to the left of the lane in case the muppet tried to whoosh excitingly through on the inside of the bend.Posted 9 years ago # -
Wingpig you must have been about 100m ahead of me as I saw exactly the same chump cycling 1-handed between the tracks, weaving around the trampoles as he tried to text 1-handed on his phone.
Then there was a special sort of beenie-hatted idiot bimbling absent-mindedly along out of York place, cut along Picardy Place itself, pulled onto Leith Street without slowing or checking to see what was coming again without so much as a shoulder glance drifted across to the very far right lane to go round the roundabout. I had to put my own brakes on and slow right down to avoid running into them. Performed the same sort of lazy drift off the roundabout onto London Road where I was able to shake this particular liability.
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Single speeder crossing into Blackford avenue from Grange terrace about 5:20pm, I'm heading north up Blackford, he sees me but decides to pull out in front anyway, so I have to slow. I'm going left on to Oswald Road so can't overtake him because it would mean cutting him up so I have to slow even more as he is going straig... wait a minute, he's going left too, but he couldn't be arsed indicating. Cheers fella, oh, and no thanks necessary for me acting as your windbreak along Whitehouse terrace. You are welcome :)
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Selfish moron on the new RIE path yesterday evening, riding abreast of a companion, a metre to their right, leaving no space for an oncoming pedestrian.
Honking-oaf this morning turning from North St David St into George Street, honking repeatedly at the pedestrians crossing the mouth of the cycle lane despite there being no need for it whatsoever. They then honked at a couple of pedestrians (who were not in their way) along the first bit of path before blowing straight through the red at Hanover St.
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Difficult to decide exactly which category this falls in, but I'm going with rubbish cycling: cyclist towing a skateboarder along Shandwick Place. It was quiet, so could also go in awesome cycling as well....
Either way, the EEN commenters would go into spasms
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Was me, apparently... After locking up my bike and setting off on the short walk to my office I heard a guy quietly say "zebra crossings are for pedestrians" as I overtook him. I said "I'm sorry?" and he repeated this again so I rewound to an 'incident' a few minutes earlier where, as I approached Boundary Road North on Heriot-Watt campus from the path up by the recycling centre, I stopped as I approached the zebra crossing, which I use to gain access to the road due the lack of a dropped kerb anywhere else, and let a van drive by since the driver clearly had no intention of stopping to let me cross and join the road. A car coming from the other direction had kindly stopped for me however, so I gave the driver a wave, popped down onto the road and cycled on my way. It turns out that this guy was a couple of cars behind the car that stopped for me and he was clearly concerend about the fact that I had apparently expected the traffic to stop for me (which I hadn't and told him as such - I have nearly learnt my lesson the hard way in that respect previously). I can only assume that he would take the opportunity to run me over if I was crossing there and he happened to be the first car driving around the corner at the same time, and yet, presumably, he would be more than happy to stop if I jumped off my bike, pushed it part of the way across, got back on and then cycled away down the road in front of him which would slow everybody down.
I wasn't able to discuss any of these finer points with him because he wandered off into a building that we were passing so I just walked around to my office.
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A few weeks ago in Victoria park - a teenage guy cycling with his girlfriend sat the saddle, him on the rack. He had a dog on a long extendable lead in one hand the other appeared to be up her top while she was texting on her mobile.
Personally I think they should have joined the circus as that was an amazing balancing act with no hands on the bars
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Sounds very Dutch to me...
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Lady last night whom I'm sad to put in here but she was all over the place. Riding down morrison street towards haymarket she came very late through the lights and pulled up next to the hotel traffic lights at torphichen street on the left of the guy already waiting there.
Setting off she manoeuvred left into the dalry lane then swung across to the right to the cycle lane again. She was very nervous and really should have just took her time. She then pulled up alongside the cyclist ahead again before setting off and heading down the inside of a stopped tram that was waiting for a green. I passed her as I crossed the trams rear and was over the tracs before the horrible bus part. I heard a bang and she'd come off on the tram tracks. Hope she's ok, but she must have turned pretty sharply to come off as it was mostly dry, and she was on a upright pashley hybrid style thing that wasn't a pashley - with thick tyres.
Still again, hope she was ok, but she needs to take her time a bit more especially when she's clearly so nervous!
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I saw the funniest tram related cycling incident last month and forgot to put it here. A guy followed the tram into the Haymarket stop then tried to trackstand between the tram lines. Unfortunately he caught his tyre in the process and fell off much to the hilarity of everyone at the stop
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Me. I got cut up by a left turning 4x4 on the way home today, annoying, but not the end of the world but it was the icing on the cake of what has been a rubbish day, and I'm afraid to say I totally lost it with them in a manner disproportionate to the crime. They *were* in the wrong, but probably didn't deserve the torrent of abuse they received.
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Chap at signalled junction of Marionville Road and London Road last night, c.7.15pm.
I'm stopped for a red light in primary in left hand (bus) lane of the ASL on London Road heading from Meadowbank towards town. There are a couple of cars behaving themselves behind the ASL in the middle (gerarderaus)lane. We've been waiting a while so it's clear the lights are about to change in our favour.
Just as we go to green, bloke on a chunky bike with backpack and big white headphones trundles out from Marionville Road across the junction with no hint of urgency, cars to my right slow to let him pass with nary a hornparp or engine rev (told you they were well behaved). Then as he enters the buslane he continues his trundle in the right to middle of said lane, ie, exactly where I would be riding if I was to be overtaking a slower-moving cyclist.
After a few yards I pass him on the right, pretty much on the edge of buslane white line and say to him "those lights were at red, mate". I doubt he heard, and I doubt he cared.
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Rubbish bike related behaviour rather than cycling - confession time.
Came back from six hours work stuff in town this PM to find this note stickered onto my bike. Apparently I locked mine up in a bit too much of a hurry this morning. Didn't even have any paper to leave an apologetic note on the bike I had imprisoned for most of the day! Argh! If by some chance someone here had their bike locked to another on High Street today - I am a complete tool, and I apologise unreservedly. Will deploy the cable lock more carefully in future.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c36/_unhurt_/62845ea7-eab9-4b66-80e5-daf138ebbd68.jpg
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Me this morning....rode through the red light from Dean Bridge up to Queensferry St (where you turn left onto Randolph Cres). Was looking at the wrong filter next one up which was green to go straight ahead which was where I was heading. Only when I pushed off did I realise my mistake! Was quite angry with myself given how often I take that route!!
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Was me and, to a lesser extent, the cyclist waiting alongside me (closer in towards the King's Theatre) in the ASZ at the lights at Tarvit Street since we ended up being hooted at (fairly justifiably for a change) by the cars behind us for failing to move away when the lights turned green. This was mostly because the lights seemed to behave differently this morning and, as far as I could tell, completely missed the traffic filtering right from Home Street step, which I usually use a cue to get ready to move away in a few seconds. Despite the fact that I saw the Home Street lights go from green to red, my brain failed to make the logical step that the Tarvit Street lights had likely changed to green due to the lack of the expected filter step. This may be one to watch out for for junction regulars.
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Was me, assuming that no one was going to turn across the path of an oncoming ambulance with blue lights going. Gave myself a bit of a fright when someone did...
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Me, this evening, on the Brompton, coming home from a work do in a shirt and tie and smart trousers. There was a chap on a bike in commuter garb climbing Craighouse Road ahead of me. I set myself the target of catching him (which I duly did, having ridden this hill many times). So far, so OK. Then I thought to myself "wouldn't it be fun to overtake him: he'll have a bit of surprise if a bloke in a suit on a bike with silly wheels comes flying past him". So I did that as well.
And now I'm sitting here thinking how stupid that was. It didn't really prove anything, it doesn't make me feel particularly good now and I'm sure it didn't improve his day. So that was my rubbish cycling.
I'm going to make amends by being especially helpful on Saturday...
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