The elusive kingfisher has worked his magic again. Met Gembo for the first time at the hallowed spot.. Still no damn kingfisher though!
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Spotted a bright red torpedo recumbent bike while we both wait opposite entrances at the lights beside Greenbank Church.
Love those things. Put a massive grin on my face.
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"Spotted a bright red torpedo recumbent bike"
Or
Spotted the bright red torpedo recumbent bike
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Can't argue with that logic. Love seeing bikes outwith the norm definition.
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And a spot of a stately cc this morning, thoroughly enjoying his bike - as well he might!
I didn't envy the poor drivers yesterday afternoon and this morning - they may pity us in the rain, but they miss out on the lovely weather, when it arrives!
Robert
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Spotted the bright red torpedo recumbent bike
As did I, I waved but you were concentrating on the Longstone Roundabout and I was in disguise as man with toddler.
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@roibeard we must have made quite a spectacle together, with me towering so far above your pretty Brompton.
A passing observation - we attempted to chat on Middle Meadow Walk but you kept having to drop back to make way for people coming the other way. Even on MMW the cycle path could be better - wide enough that two can comfortably ride abreast and chat to each other as they go.
Absolutely right about the weather. Beautiful! So glad my commute involves gliding across the park rather than getting stuck in traffic jams.
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Spotted....hybrid upright/recumbent tandem making its way across south east Edinburgh I'd guess, along Walter Scott and into Glenvarloch aftercrossing Gilmerton Road. Brilliantly eccentric steed.
Also....a female goosander in the canal lying flat in the water like it was dead, seemingly as part of a mating ritual.
And....a magnificent builder's crack cycling west on the canal. Shouldn't mock and all that, but there was a whole wobbly peleton building up behind the wide expanse of palid flesh exposed by the rider's inadequate shorts. Nobody could look where they were going for the grim fascination of the décolletage de derrière.
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@IwratS - hybrid upright/recumbent tandem
That'll be a Pino, but not being piloted by me for a change...
I've been encouraged to consider the Bethany Sportive on the Pino, hence letting the potential Pino-naut get a feel for the beast.
His opinion "I'm sure you're used to this, but it does stop traffic, and small boys gaze at it with jaws dropped wondering what on earth it is. Definitely attention-grabbing!"
Robert
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There's nothing like an eccentric tandem to get you spotted. I helped out a Belgian couple who I found lost at Cameron Toll on a monobeam recumbent tandem a few years ago as I was cycling home.
A week later I found them again on Arran, where I was motor bicycling. Wouldn't ever have spotted them on ordinary bikes.
I have ridden a tandem myself - oddly whilst chumming Lord Digby Jones from Crianlarich to Glasgow - and it seemed to defeat almost all the pleasures and conveniences of single cycling without adding any new ones. I could see Mrs Saddle being very sceptical about any attempt to pedal the same bicycle.....
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I think I spotted Crowriver crossing the FRB as he headed north, this morning around 08:00.
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@IwratS - I have ridden a tandem myself... and it seemed to defeat almost all the pleasures and conveniences of single cycling without adding any new ones.
Few have piloted or stoked the Pino without experiencing a grin, so I'd be happy to accept that challenge, whilst still acknowledging that it may not be for everyone...
Robert
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I liked sitting on the front but not sure doing a longer ride on the rear Roibeard. IS it comfortable over a 100km?
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@Roibeard - "I'd be happy to accept that challenge.."
If we could get Mrs Saddle on the front after PoP I'd be a happy man....I'd let you hold my ratty nineties hybrid....
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(In a seminar) spotted cc! (Real time)
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*waves to SRD*
The seminar room must overlook the batcave where I park my bike! I often wonder what all those studious-looking people are talking about.Posted 10 years ago # -
@DaveC - Is it comfortable over a 100km?
I'll tell you after the Sportive... The current saddle is a "comfort" model, so I'll probably swap it for something less spongy for that, but I've managed ~60km on the existing saddle, and sustained that daily for a week.
@IwratS - perfectly happy for you to have a shot then or on another occasion. A Peter's Yard meet is also possible.
Robert
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B-spokes cargo bike at Haymarket around 5pm this evening.
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@iwrats - I think your 3rd spot was a debutant from my office. It's taken me 6 months to persuade him to make his first trip (yesterday). It may take a bit more persuading to get him to repeat the experience as it took him 90min because he had to keep stopping to pump up his tyre.
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earthowned, amongst the stationary motor vehicles on Easter Road.
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*waves at Wingpig*
It was very busy at the top end of Easter Road again this morning. I couldn't decide between filtering on the left or right.
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@HankChief
Nice work on getting a new cyclist on the roads. Malfunctioning bicycles are a definite barrier to active travel, so tell your (our?) colleague that I'll happily give their bike a once-over and fit new tubes if they supply them.
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@DaveC, yep, that was me. I was in the opening stage of a DIY 300k. I thought it might have been you, but wasn't sure.
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Not locked and with a sad looking basket
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Morningsider - heading up marchmont crecent this afternoon about 25 mins ago. Wearing a lovely rapha jacket. I was heading up the road test riding my now wonderfully silent and sturdy again roadbike from the bike works, I fear you were a touch annoyed that I was sat behind you but there was a car sitting behind me making me unwilling to either turn in or turn around! Sorry about that!
Also Laidback on his paperbike.
I also spotted my office manager coming out of the Argyle pub... he was meant to be at a meeting, but then so was I so I won't mention anything.
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Spotted one of the cross-Canada boys zooming down Comiston Road this evening, back of 6pm. Laid Back will have to tell me whether it's Ally or Olmo who's on the Fuego these days. I waved, and he waved back.
I was stuck in the queue of traffic and oh-so-gradually getting to my junction to escape in the torpedo to the back roads.
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Rather like the MOulton reference, there is a statutory requirement to explain that they didn't 'cross Canada', even if they did go for a very long bike ride.
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I didn't want to diminish their adventure, SRD, but 'cross-most-of-Canada' makes it sound like they gave up, rather than allowing the implication that it was to the extent possible in the time they had.
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That's like saying someone done LEjog but started in Bristol.
There is a recognized and much covered trans Canada route that starts at 'mile zero' . That's not what they did.
We're talking about a difference of 1000m/ 1500 km !
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