I don't know if it will be 20mph.
It won't be. Map here: http://edinburghcouncil.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ca131eddb0084197b160edbbad2ca8c7
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Today's rubbish cycling
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Posted 7 years ago #
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think the zone map was on the BBc News story, can't see that just now at work. But using Frenchy's map zone 1 central all streets except one stretch in holyrood park which is where I could go over 20. Zone 1 out my way does not zoom in on my computer nor the liberton brae descent which you can certainly exceed limit but i an wary at the bottom and apply brakes in time to stop.
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Bank Street/ The Mound.
I bet many people could manage 20mph downhill on a well laden bike here.
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Going down Drumbrae Drive I would normally hit 20 without pedalling. It's very easy to break 30mph there.
... although I've just remembered it's not in the current roll out. The main road from the end of Scoutstoun Avenue into S Queensferry is the same.
Can anyone think of a good reason the council appears to be planning to retain the part time 20mph section on Clermiston Road after implementing a 20mph section at the southern end of it.
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The map itself is slightly odd. Suggests the South Gyle office estate roads are 30mph, and being changed to 20, but they're already 20 (and routinely ignored).
Posted 7 years ago # -
The map itself is slightly odd. Suggests the South Gyle office estate roads are 30mph, and being changed to 20, but they're already 20 (and routinely ignored).
Which particular roads? Most recent Google Street View images, from October 2015, have South Gyle Crescent as 30mph.
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"Which particular roads? Most recent Google Street View images, from October 2015, have South Gyle Crescent as 30mph"
I think WC was referring to the roads in Edinburgh Park which are not council run.
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Yep, Lochside Crescent, Court and Avenue.
All have 20 signs, and have had since I started here. Avenue is most interesting because the council map says that's going to be a 30....
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Me today, twice.
A cyclist in front of me pulled in to stop, and as I went to overtake my front wheel tram-lined in a tarmac groove, and my efforts to stay upright led me straight into the back of the guy who'd stopped. He was very nice about it.
9 hours later on the towpath, I spent slightly too long looking down at my chainrings, looked up and narrowly avoided a head-on with a guy coming the other way. My fault again. Sorry. (Good expression, though...)Posted 7 years ago # -
"@frankross06
A cyclist moving at speed along the tram platform at Saughton, causing people to step back,but unable to identify them to report."Hopefully our esteemed Deputy Council Leader isn't calling for cyclist registration.
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A cyclist moving at speed along the tram platform at Saughton
Given the location of the tramstop here, well off the Broomhouse Path and with no logical through route along the platform, I can only assume this was someone out on a bike for the purposes of being up to no good.
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Do they not have CCTV at tram stops?
I know its not a poll but +1 for ned on a (probably stolen) bike
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Undertaking. Over and over again. Argh!
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Caught up with a family on towpath this morning en route to Ratho. I was not going to push past as my turn off was about 500metres away. Joked with mum i would wheelsuck as we were going about 5mph. Which was lucky as her daughter suddenly stopped without warning. We applied brakes. Mum asked what are you doing, daughter said she did not want to be at the front anymore (it was clearly our turn to take the wind). She's a monkey said mum. We can let her off as she was only three. Or a wee four
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A disappointing amount of rubbish cycling during the damp cycle home on the towpath earlier on. Was everyone in a rush to get somewhere? One bloke took advantage of my decision to pull in behind a jogger to let pedestrians coming the other way pass to shoot through the narrow gap between all of us. Later, a woman who I had caught up and passed on Gilmore Place rode straight through the red light/pedestrian phase to turn right at the King's Theatre junction.
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Was really quiet heading west tonight at same time as last night when it was hugely busy so not sure what that is about. No wasp stings on way home
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Not the best behaviour this morning either given that I was overtaken by a stealth mountain biker who was going around 20 mph on a blind corner on the towpath and then nearly sideswiped by the last of a trio of cyclists who swooped down onto the towpath via the steep slope from the bridge to Colinton, although I did receive a cheery greeting from gembo who was in the middle of the train.
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Same or different Ninja guy over took me crossing Lothian Road (he must have come from way back and used the light change to not have to stop) then tailgated lorry until Candlemaker row. He was tanking it. Small and dressed in black, bare head.
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Me on the Broomhouse path.
Called out "passing on your right!" to two cyclists, just before passing on their left. D'oh!
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I was heading to playgroup on Saturday morning around 9.30am via the Drylaw Path with the little ones in the trailer and passed three large groups of Roadies riding two abreast. Whilst the lead of each group did call out for everyone to move over, it seemed to me that the individual riders only really did so at the last second.
I felt that this was rather inconsiderate. Whilst they all might have fantastic cycling abilities, it wouldn't take much for one of them to clip me or the trailer. The NEPN is used by cyclists of all abilities and experienced cyclists like these should take that into account and make their actions clear to other path users.
Does anyone knows which cycling club this was?
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Touring-looking person (bar bag, laden-looking) going the wrong way along the road on Fountainbridge at lunchtime before skipping onto the shared bit and heading canalwards.
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davidsonsdave, I suspect most of them'll be the ronde crowd. They head west from Stockbridge most Saturday mornings at around that time. I often see and hear them shouting their way through Silverknowes and that end of the bike path.
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And so it continues... On the cycle home last night I easily caught up with and overtook another cyclist (he seemed surprised to hear my bell and find himself being overtaken) on the towpath just after Gogar Station Road bridge, only for him to latch onto my back wheel until Wester Hailes at which point he silently overtook and sped off into the distance. I caught up with him again in a traffic queue heading over the Slateford Aqueduct, but he sped off again as soon as he could. I caught up with him again at the red lights at the King's Theatre junction. He then abruptly pulled over and stopped as we were turning left onto Valleyfield Street, although I was already giving him a very wide berth fortunately.
This morning, despite loud ding-dong bell ringing as I passed under the longer bridge at Harrison Park after patiently waiting for clear space to enter, I had two bikes and a pedestrian block my exit to the point that I had to stop, and then as I exited the shorter bridge at the other end of the park I found a cyclist heading right for me at speed, although we managed to avoid one another and I then received a full high five from gembo.
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OK not Edinburgh but came across this photo posted by a friend back in Dublin.
Getting nervous even looking at it!
Is this bad cycling or just brave cycling?
Hope the above link works!
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Me hitting a branch which got trapped in my front wheel and concertina'd the mudguard underneath the down tube. Thankfully I was not going fast and the mudguard quick-eject mechanism worked too. But less than a week after the mudguards were installed and they're already a little warped.
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Thanks @himupstairs
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Gave a cyclist a FFS as he cut me up on entering roundabout at London road from leith end (was down at casa Amiga buying their delicious pastel de nata for my colleagues).
Time to take a break from cycling in the festival if I am doing such things (even if he was wearing flip flops)
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Someone going the wrong way round the roundabout at Gilmerton Dykes Road earlier. It's a quiet roundabout, and I occasionally see someone taking the direct path from Gilmerton Dykes Rd to Ravenscroft Place, but the guy this morning was going down to Newtoft Street, so he wasn't even taking a shortcut. Taxi driver beeped his horn at him.
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As I approached the King's Theatre junction on Tarvit Street this morning, the lights turned green so I was able to cross the junction at a reasonable speed for a change. As I did so, it became apparent that a woman had started to cross the end of Gilmore Place towards Home Street while pushing a bicycle, but was only looking for traffic approaching from Gilmore Place despite the fact that a car that was indicating to turn right from there had stopped to let me pass. I made the decision to go for the gap so may have surprised her as I passed.
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Dude in smart replica Belgium national team top straight though the red lights on Liberton Dam heading up Minto Street. Onto pavement, pedestrian crossing, back on road overtake bus without rear observation...
You wonder how some people avoid getting battered or run over on a daily basis.
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