Such understanding of the mechanics and fine human-handed control of braking in an unpredictable environment.
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Today's rubbish canal cycling
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Posted 6 years ago #
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@chdot, yes the calibration is ultra sensitive.
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I'm mildly disappointed to be missing the towpath action but I'm enjoying holidaying at last. I'm with the stick to the left of the path and overtake on the right rules.
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https://twitter.com/madmudman/status/1033068456663543810?s=21
I think this is the best response
“How can these cops be taken seriously? I mean that copper has the arms of his sunnies under his helmet straps.....FFS man Rule #37 #velominati How can he talk to other cyclists when he’s guilty of breaking fundamental rules?Posted 6 years ago # -
@LivD that is funny. The bike cops I met had bike yes but thee was also a van the other side of the bridge. Whatever happened to Quentin who used to chat to us?
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Of the eight cyclists I met across two bridges on the school run today (Harrison Road and Ashley Terrace), the counts were as follows: actually ringing the bell - one; ignoring my bell and steaming through with a ring of their own - one; ignoring my bell and steaming through silently - three; muttering something less than friendly while negotiating me leaning against the wall with the tagalong, after they ignored my bell - one.
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That's a lot of rubbish to encounter in one slippery morning, @piosad. And exactly why, if the polis want to loiter on the towpath in future, I'd rather they gave out bell advice (and maybe bells?) than nonsense speed advice.
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To be fair the previous time I saw the polis on the canal (i.e. not last week's speed gun fiasco) that was exactly what they were doing.
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Thing is, as discussed ad infinitum on here, bells don't fix it either. Slowing down, showing consideration, thinking about other towpath users, are the behaviours required.
What did you expect the people who heard your bell to do, piosad?
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My interpretation of canal bell etiquette is 'you ring the bell to let the other side know you're here; if you are approaching a blind bridge with a narrow path and you hear a bell, you wait for however many people have rung to come through'. At the very least, if you definitely know that someone is coming, you slow down and don't just steam ahead.
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“At the very least, if you definitely know that someone is coming, you slow down and don't just steam ahead.”
At the very least, that seems like sensible self-preservation!
Some people are genuinely hard of hearing, but I suspect that not many are also speedy Canal users.
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At the very least, that seems like sensible self-preservation!
One would think so!..
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As I tinged my bell (don't judge me) and pulled out to overtake a pedestrian, disaster was narrowly avoid by a cursory shoulder check, whereby I was surprised to find another rider in the space I was pulling into. He had failed to make any noise to indicate his presence, and failed to predict that he was trying to sneak past someone who was obviously about to overtake a pedestrian...
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"...and failed to predict..."
A problem shared by turnips on the canal, NEPN, roads and everywhere.
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Now, if I am remembering correctly, the festival ends (last Monday), then there is a week of rest and then yesterday the students start returning? Is that richt?
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UoE freshers week is next week. Other universities may differ.
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yesterday the students start returning? Is that richt?
I used to start after the September weekend though the traveling students may come back a bit earlier.
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Heriot-Watt freshers are here already. It felt like there were more people cycling west on the towpath this morning than usual, although I was running a little earlier than my normal schedule despite detouring at the lift bridge.
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Meadows stowed with studentage
Posh Student: Why are you peeping [seriously that is what they said] your bell at nothing
Gembo:[silent just kept cycling but thought] Because you are all walking on the cycle lane you people who hopefully one day won't be idiots.
I also held my counsel today when attacked by long haired daschund called Hugo.
Owner out running with larger well behaved mutt and wee But very yappy Hugo both off lead.. Hugo was nearly booted. Again I showed restraint.
I believe dogs whose names end in an eeee sound or have an eeee sound in their names - respond better to commands, e.g. to Heeeeel. I respectfully suggest Hugo has his name changed to Hughie. I believe dogs can hear an eeeeee sound.
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People who appear and behave like students are materialising in supemarkets and on bicycles around Abbeyhill and the slightly newer student shoeboxes on Bothwell Street.
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Me coming over the Slateford aqueduct this evening. My Garmin clearly decided that the vibration of the cobbles combined with the sudden stop-start riding meant there had been an incident. It started sounding a loud siren that I initially thought was a fire engine until I realised it was me. I spent a fruitless and frantic minute trying to get it stop phoning and texting my emergency contacts. I then had to ring them to call off the search and rescue teams.
Never had it before. Quite annoying in those circumstances.
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@Greenroofer sounds like an unfortunate false positive.
Yesterday evening, I found myself cycling behind someone who had a loud and rather high-pitched electronic bird-song style siren, which they were using as a bell in very short, staccato bursts. This seemed to be quite effective at making other path users aware of our presence, but it appeared to be startling many of them in the process...
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"Never had it before."
I've had it once on the cobbles (Dalkeith Palace) and once on a potholed piece of road.
Shows the technology is there for mapping surface quality of roads!Posted 6 years ago #
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