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  1. ARobComp
    Member

    I spotted no less than 10 or 12 pairs and single touring cyclists on my rides over the weekend. A few around Duns and heading up and over to Gifford, a few on the A7, and then yesterday quite a few on the N1 from Innerleithen.

    I saw one particularly awesome looking pair on a massive tandem towing a trailer with a metal box the size of a small fridge. It looked like it opened into a table top (they were stopped at the side of the road eating). Super cool. However no chance of getting that on a train!

    Also spotted a ERC club ride in dalkeith who past when I was sitting sorting out my saddle position (new bike n all that) then I overtook them on a hill climb. The leader clearly thought I was one of them as I heard WAIT WAIT shouted at me as I shot off the front, assumed he was shouting at someone else till I looked back!

    To be honest though considering how nice it was I spotted few enough roadies out and about. Maybe I was too far from Ed, or perhaps it was so nice that wives and sproglets took over priorities rather than riding.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. SRD
    Moderator

    Viking child's adjustable frame bike c. 60s in Craiglockhart.

    Lovely.

    Also had lovely chat with the grandfather of the pedaller, who is clearly a bike fancier/collector and a nice bloke too.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    kaputnik disappearing down Moat Drive yesterday morning. I was too preoccupied with mad tanker I then trailed to Moray House to shout. Nodded to Steveo doing a Kaputnik (ie taking long way home). I presume unless just visiting Balerno of an evening last night.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. PS
    Member

    @ARobComp Mont Ventoux probably took priority over long-distance roadie riding on Sunday. It did for me anyway. Terrible timing, this hot spell, what with the TdF to catch up on most evenings.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I passed only a handful of other roadies out on Sunday in my brief 2-hour foray in the heat (turned back after 16 miles as it just wasn't any fun as my legs and lungs were on strike). Got home just intime for the climb where I think most other fans had been watching it for some time.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    A couple of ERC whippets going up past Tesco last night. So thin...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Many ERC whippet types at commie pool lat night.

    Dave in laid back topiary mode on canal towpath tonight

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. crowriver
    Member

    Dave on the Slateford viaduct. Something was rattling, either on the white bike he was wheeling, or on his back, I couldn't figure out which! I was busy shepherding a fast asleep daughter in her child seat while trying to let the evening rush of cyclists and walkers past on the narrow towpath. Said hello but not sure you recognised me: it's been a while since I was last at a PY I suppose.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Bearded, smiling recumbentist westbound through Slateford c. 520PM. Small wheel front, large wheel back, upright riding position more like the Hase Pino than the Fuego.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. crowriver
    Member

    @kaputnik, saw the same chap on WoL path out past bypass a while afterwards. Still smiling!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. fimm
    Member

    @kaputink and @crowriver I guess that was the man & bike I saw the other day waiting to turn out of the side street opposite the Dalry Lidl.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    fair white hair, waves his right arm up and down a bit? I have seen him as far as gillespies x-road chapeau for doing the slateford to Juniper Green hill (I used to call it my Ventoux) on a 'bent. Is it AlanR ?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  13. Arellcat
    Moderator

    K, was it a short recumbent with a green plastic box on the back? The bearded owner was at POP2.

    AlanR doesn't have a beard. At least, he didn't on Sunday when I bumped into him outside Laid Back Bikes. I had a teacher once who could grow an incredible amount of facial topiary in a week, probably at the rate of about three beard-seconds per second.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  14. MeepMeep
    Member

    Mr MM and I spied Eddie at the Lauriston Blood Donor Centre on Tuesday. Was the second lap through the donation area an attempt to eat more teacakes?! ;o)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  15. kaputnik
    Moderator

    fair white hair, waves his right arm up and down a bit?

    No, dark hair, curly I think but under a lid so hard to tell.

    Didn't see a green plastic box, but it doesn't mean it wasn't there.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  16. crowriver
    Member

    Aye, dark hair and a designer stubble style beard, though quite dark/dense too. Very smiley chap! Seems to be a side effect of recumbenteering?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  17. Darkerside
    Member

    Everyone smiles on a 'bent. It adds to the general slightly unhinged look.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  18. EddieD
    Member

    'Twas me. I like my recumbent :)

    (I lost my bike lock key in the Transfusion center and was trying to find it..)

    Sorry for missing everyone else...get a recumbent :)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  19. allebong
    Member

    Chap on a recumbent on George Square this evening at around 19:45. If that is someone here it's my first successful spot (though I was running at the time) and if not I'll still live in hope.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  20. EddieD
    Member

    Me again...

    Posted 11 years ago #

  21. SRD
    Moderator

    Gembo resplendent in marmite top emerging from under Ashley terrace bridge

    Posted 11 years ago #

  22. MeepMeep
    Member

    Of all the bearded chaps on this forum, you'd have thought Bruce would be the most-spottable!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  23. Uberuce
    Member

    And yet I did not ping on the radars of chdot, Morningsider and Arellcat at around 5.35pm yesterday as I went up Morningside Road, spotting each in turn.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  24. wingpig
    Member

    I went down Morningside Road at about 5:35pm yesterday, too. I was probably too busy marvelling at how relatively empty it was to recognise anyone.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    a very happy Mini-SRD on her pink bike followed by SRD but as you can see, she spotted me first. On the Bye BYe to Someone I haven't even met for real yet (The Buddster) thread I did state I would be in marmite for easy spotting in the boozer and I did not tell a lie.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  26. SRD
    Moderator

    Purple bike! (which islabikes have discontinued)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  27. fimm
    Member

    Cyclehoops! All the way down Princes St! Quite a few in use, too.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  28. Uberuce
    Member

    Bruce, as I trailered to Kapp's. After the ghost bike protest, I spotted allebong heading east on Gorgie Road.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  29. ARobComp
    Member

    I was hunted down and therefore technically was spotted by WC as I was heading home from the Fenix's 2nd 400km service (pre LEL) and was riding two bikes at the same time.

    He's looking very spry despite his head wound and also the bike is holding up well. I forgot what a lovely wee thing it is!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  30. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Though it has to be said, that Fenix is looooooovely.... (and I'm not normally a big carbon fan).

    While chatting we spotted, and were reciprocally spotted by, Min (who I'd also seen in the morning, the first time since last Monday, not long before falling off, but happy to report that the Jonah effect seems to have been a one-off).

    Posted 11 years ago #

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