Not knowingly mine with regards trike near Innerleithen.
Spotted ORANGE 8freight on Johnston Terrace. Totally silent with grey boxes. New to me as the other two or three in Edinburgh are black.
It wasn't a Bullit. Load was behind.
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chdot - I saw her as well, presumed it was some 'art installation' !!
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Loads of cyclists in Musselburgh and along the Innocent. Too early for students too.
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Amir - yes, struck me how many cyclists were around today. There were lots going through Roseburn Park in both directions (I was part of a mini high-viz peloton of about 8!) and that continued all the way in to town. At every junction there seemed to be at least 3 or 4 going every different way.
I really enjoyed my ride in this morning - nice weather and so many other cyclists made it very pleasant!
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Dutch-style (black, of course) freight bike with heavyweight porteur rack and honking front disc brake being locked up on Roseneath Terrace this morning.
Orange Orange* CX bike, with a big Orange sticker on it yesterday morning towing a large trailer through Fountainbridge.
* that's a bike made by Orange and painted Orange.
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Students are back according to bike station
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"Students are back according to bike station"
Yes, they'll be plenty going about just now in the young innocent days of mid September. You can practically sense the journalists waiting for the barrage of expected RLJ, pavement cycling, running down peds etc.
We'll see if the numbers dwindle when Autumn hits in full - that's cyclists, though I can see the journos abandoning moaning about bikes to start whinging about the council having over/under prepared for Winter by having too much/too little grit.
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She was looking at map and I was impressed by amount that could be fitted on one bike. 'Collected a bit along the way'. Max is on end of lead....!
Heading down to station and on train to Newcastle. Ferry to NL.
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Wingpig making use of the new road layout from York Place to Picardy Place roundabout at 6h15ish last night. Some confident primary position technique in evidence.
How did you find the cycling experience on the new York Place?
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What I think must have been a btwin elops 3?
http://www.btwin.com/en/town-bikes/3914-elops-3.html
first noticed the lovely matte mudguards. really quite snazzy.
do they have all of these at decathlon? prices look _rather_ competitive - electric bike at £600. has anyone tried their folders? again - ridiculously cheap if they're any good.
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"How did you find the cycling experience on the new York Place?"
I'm trying to get back used to Queen Street and associated continuations in both directions after the long closure, particularly re-learning how many lanes are left-turn-only peel-off lanes going east. Eastbound seems reasonably easy once you reach the single-lane constriction - there used to be the huge wide bus lane to escape to (even if eventually not turning left down Broughton Street) but now heading straight over to the right-hand lane as soon as it's available seems safer. It seems much easier to aim for the middle (eventually London Road) roundabout feeder lane than previously, where lane misalignment sometimes resulted in being in the wrong place. I expect it'll all feel different again when the barriers disappear from the tram-tracked lane.
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I liked it last week when it was mostly closed
I went down from black bull the other day onto Picardy place which was nice
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Spotted a dozen or so schoolkids, all hi-viz'd up and wearing helmets, in Carfrae Gardens/Avenue/Grove this morning on their bikes with a couple of instructors. Also a portable road sign at each end of the instruction zone warning that there was Child Bike Instruction going on. Maybe from Blackhall School nearby.
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Uberuce, (well, he spotted me really) not quite usual place !
Almost got creamed turning left into Spylaw straight after (by a right turning motor - he apologised) - the benefit of having lights on in the rain????
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Dapper chap last night on a deep red Brompton, tweed cap, and similarly styled jacket.
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Man and woman on Rohloff-equipped tandem in Kinross. I suspect a LEJOG, but did't get a chance to ask.
Man in Perth called over to a couple of cops walking the beat in Perth. Apparently a woman nearby was parked on a double yellow line and had been 'very rude when I suggested she move'.
Two beat cops in Perth talking to an argumentatively hand-waving woman while taking details of her car and filling out what may or may not be a fixed penalty notice.
Two chaps on high end time trial bikes. I've always thought they look hideous on paper(well, online) but in the carbon they look pretty damn mean. Not pretty, but they get away with it because of the mean.
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This afternoon, a woman piloting a recumbent trike (double wheels at front) with red/black panniers at rear, turning from easter Road into Edina Place. My son said, "Look! A recumbent!" (He had a go on a side by side tandem recumbent trike at the end of PfS).
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Had a few cycle tourers (German I think) ask me how to get to the canal from the Russell Road end of the NEPN. I was heading in that direction so I invited them to follow. This being Edinburgh the links between decent bits of infrastructure are of course an absolute mess of dodgy roads, pinch points, blind corners, potholed streets and tight shared paths. Ended up going Russell road to Murieston Crescent, then through the park off Dalry road and through the underpass to Fountainpark. I can at least happily report they got to the canal in one piece.
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Spotted Gembo on the rigg road in Balerno on saturday, wife n me on the tandem for a sunny cruise.
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A yellow Ortlieb heading west along Russell Road carried by someone wearing a black top.
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@ojom, good spot, we said hello, I was heading back to spot arellcat after fruitless attempt to pick fruit
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Fruit has been poor i have found - berries anyway have been poor. Apples look good though.
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Raspberries good, brambles in sunny spots big. My picking spot a bit high at moment. My other picking spot bit shaded. Couple of weeks should doit.
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Many berry pickers in eveidence on Innocent / NE paths yesterday, however if the berries are anything like those in my back garden there is still much ripening to go and not sure the weather is going to do the honours. A shame as it looked like it was going to be a great crop.
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Kaputnik, ones in your garden maybe. Shaded.? In open on canal, huge big black blackberries
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Black Yuba Mundo cargo bike piloted by female cyclist gliding effortlessly up Lochend Road southwards, about 5:30pm this afternoon. Seriously cool.
(I was incognito as a pedestrian, daughter pavement cycling on balance bike).Also, loads of single occupant motors rat running at speed along Albion Road, only to join a tailback at the junction with Lochend Road. I can't help getting annoyed by this behaviour. Daughter and I counted all the vehicles we saw on that road with more than just the driver inside: exactly a dozen had a single passenger, out of at least fifty vehicles that passed. The rest were driver only. No more complaints about congestion please, Edinburgh drivers!
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"Apples look good though."
We've had various nice apples via Eastcoast organics. Best ones so far, small and pink with pink tinge to flesh as well.
Spectacular greengages this year too.
Post-dinner fruit eating quite competitive.
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In addition to our customary annual brambling (plenty of juicy black berries around) we managed to pick Scottish apples at our allotment; rosehips (for making syrup); and elderberries, spotted black and ripe on a large tree. The latter is great in crumbles or jam.
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