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resolvedOh Fimm, you're loosing your edge! ;O)
I see a chap and his son daily towing the childs bike with a Trail-gator at the junction on Ferry Road where its crossed by the Red Bridge. This morning I saw his mum towing him. She didn't seem to be enjoying the ride as much as her husband does :O(
Prompted by HankChief mentioning tandems on another thread...
Circe Helios, looking very shiny and new crossing Morningside Junction to Balcarres Street just before 5pm. Female pilot, no stoker (junior or otherwise). It's the first one I've seen with mudguards, which were the shiny thing that caught my eye.
Hmmmm...most Helios have black mudguards. (that reminds me. Mine need fixed)
Saw and said hello to Morningsider lastnight at the top of Chambers Street.
Steveo was faster on the eye-draw than me this morning, Slateford Road.
@SRD I'm glad you found my reminder to fix your mudguard helpful.
On second thoughts, you're right: all the Helioses (Helioi?) I've seen have mudguards. I just remember thinking as it went by "Oooh shiny mudguard"...
Not sure if she still posts or browses here, but: the Harrison Park PoP feeder's leader on her Helios, pretty close to shuggiet's hoose.
Some time later, shuggiet himself.
Spooky or what?
Answer: what. I know dozens of Edinburgh cyclists, and the odds of seeing one near(which is a very fuzzily defined distance) any given property and then seeing a resident of that property are really not that high at all.
I think it was Dave on Wednesday evening, disguised in wasp-coloured Lycra on the Goldenacre path.
Min this morning on Princes Street, possibly close enough to have heard me shouting at the cheat who went across from Leith Street to the North Bridge filter well after her light had turned red.
@uberuce - I was indeed going to suggest that Greenroofer's helios rider spot might also be said feeder ride leader, but was waited to see if she unlurked :)
Coxy last night on Melville Drive. Then cycled past SRD as she was being interviewed - tried to put her off, but she was too professional to notice.
It would have been much more authentic if I had waved - and might have shown what friendly people us cyclists are. Or they would just think i was nuts.
(despite it being EEN - it was a video interview. go figure)
Greenroofer - The very bike came round to visit LB a few weeks ago.
Pedersen frame - check
Handbuilt to order in Germany - check
Brooks saddle and nice leather pouch on the seat tube - check
Cork handlebar grips - check
Rohloff hub gears - check
Gates Centretrack belt drive - check
Tubus alloy (titanium?) racks front and rear - check
Electric motor in front hub - check
German lights - check
Was a very tall machine and missed upper bit (!)
Note front guard with lettering detail.
@LB - the only reason I could see your picture above is because the Uni doesn't automatically block pr0n...
*drool*
Robert
Want!
To try at least.
Where could I have a go on a Pedersen, can anyone suggest a place? Preferably nearer than Germany or Denmark :-)
There's a guy around here who built one himself in his shed. He offered me a ride, but it would have been too big for me. He says you can never go back ...
cc on a recumbent try out in Marchmont. Just for fun of course. ;-)
CTC(?) ride crossing the North Esk this morning, watched by the dog and me (think the dog was more interested in the lamp-post). One recumbent among a couple of dozen riders. Lots of panniers, triples, touring type kit.
@LaidBack the recumbents were great fun! Though my upright bike felt really weird afterwards...
On the way to Arthur's seat this morning, a chap with an orange helmet on (which I noticed first, as it's quite an unusual colour for a helmet). More impressive was that he had orange bar tape and orange tyres to match.
Do those on here who put effort into matching the colour of brake cables, saddles and bar tape and stuff (for example in yellow...) also go for matching helmets?
@Laidback - thanks for the photo of the Pedersen bike. It did need a picture to show how splendid it was...
Laidback and fleet turning into Abbey Lane.
Kim this morning in Waverly, and Ruggtomcat on the High street.
wingpig - likewise - tried to spot first but you beat me too it.
Small crowd up from Swindon and elsewhere...
Min this morning on Princes Street, possibly close enough to have heard me shouting at the cheat who went across from Leith Street to the North Bridge filter well after her light had turned red.
Hmm, missed that and the cheater!
Has anyone spotted my blue altura zip jersey top that I dropped this morning between Porty/London Rd/Arthur's Seat/Cowgate?
I think it may have been consigned to the tarmac gods, but I really liked it! Serves me right for just stuffing it in the top of my pannier. Boo.
On the way to Arthur's seat this morning, a chap with an orange helmet on (which I noticed first, as it's quite an unusual colour for a helmet). More impressive was that he had orange bar tape and orange tyres to match.
I thought that might be Wilmington's Cow. Then i remembered it's Orange helmet, white bartape and tyres but orange cables and spoke nipples.
"Do those on here who put effort into matching the colour of brake cables, saddles and bar tape and stuff (for example in yellow...) also go for matching helmets?"
"I thought that might be Wilmington's Cow. Then i remembered it's Orange helmet, white bartape and tyres but orange cables and spoke nipples"
Sort of. I'm wearing the helmet all the time at the mo, but it was bought specifically to comply with requirements to wear one at events, when I knew I'd be using the cross bike (the Bealach mor in just under two weeks being the main example).
The bike is black with a little bit of white, but I've got the orange flashes on it (cables and spoke nipples as mentioned by kaputnik, but also QR skewer lever and headset spacers), with a black and white saddle, and some lovely new white tyres have arrived and will be put on tonight.
So having gone to the aesthetic extreme on the bike, I figured if I'm getting a helmet to ride that specific bike mainly, then it might as well match. Hence orange, black and white. With a Molteni cap underneath with the same colours (and for the Bealach I'll be wearing my Molteni jersey - essentially if I'm going to suffer I might as well try to look good while doing so).
I have yellow bartape / cabling on all my bikes, and yellow panniers too. I have a black helmet and a blue and white helmet.
Pleased to see that DaveC had his hands back on his handlebars this morning.
Not for long, I'm getting quite good at riding with my arms folded. Only fell off seven times this morning! ;O)
Four police officers on bikes cycling up Brighton Place this morning. I put their slow rate of progress down to the lumpy sets and knobbly tyres.
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