"some sort of invalid carriage."
well, they are useful that way, but certainly not limited to that.
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@IWRATS - you're welcome to a shot, to dispel any lingering doubts...
But not until August, as ### we're all going on a summer holiday ###
And it wasn't mine, but there are (rumours of) a few Pinos in Edinburgh, as well the Morpheus equivalent.
Robert
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@Roibeard
That's most kind. I'd love to try it out with Madame IWRATS...but not on the aqueduct!
It's entirely my problem, not the bike's, but the first thought that pops into my mind when I see it is that the stoker is carrying someone in a large flat basket on the front of a conventional 'butcher's' bike. That's just the way my brain parses the new image before concious thought takes over.
Enjoy your hols!
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Older gent riding up Dundas Street this evening, on hybrid bike with platform pedals. He had bare feet, which must have been quite uncomfortable...
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I also spotted the hybrid upright/recumbent tandem the other night just after the Scott Russell aquaduct. This suggests that IWRATS is usually running behind me on the way in to work and then running ahead on the way home...
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@jdanielp
Clearly you are working too much. No one regrets not spending longer in the office when they are on their death bed....
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@IWRATS I think that you're right there; hopefully I can slacken off a bit after a forthcoming August deadline...
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Dave, I think, recumbenting past Tynecastle. I was in mixed MAWIL/WISOB mode, being on the Brompton but in 3/4s & a teeshirt.
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Yellow Pedersen on the back of a camper van outside Summerhall yesterday evening. Saw it when I was locking up and took a photo just in case. By chance I bumped into the owner later on in the evening and we struck up a conversation about it.
Turns out he built it himself from Reynolds 531, a mixture of regular tubing and also special tubes built in 1.6m lengths for tandem frames. I think I caught the story right over noise of the PA system, that it was very hard to source the tubes as now out of production and he didn't like the alternatives on offer, but he got some off the Pashley factory. He also has another he built which his son in Glasgow now posesses. I mentioned I'd seen 2 around Edinburgh on occassion, one of which apparently belongs to Neil Bain of the mythical Bain's Bikes.
I've been offered a shot on it this evening if they can get the van parked up next to Summerhall again and I cross paths with the owner.
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There is a maroon Pedersen that sometimes parks up outside Cameron Toll. The owner is highly affable, and did mention that he sometimes takes it on 'club runs'. I hoped at the time he was referring to the ERC fast group.
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@kaputnik - I was pretty certain that was a "new" Pedersen to me, when I saw a yellow one around Summerhall yesterday. The rider didn't quite look familiar and I thought I'd have remembered if the usual one was yellow.
I didn't manage to catch up enough to admire the bike properly, or speak with the rider.
Rumour has it that my usual Pedersen owner has an 8Freight too, and I discovered that one of the other Pino owners also rides a nice Moulton, so clearly one "odd" bicycle begets another...
Robert
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Was I hallucinating, or did I spot kaputnik in a kayak on the canal just past the Scott Russell Aqueduct at about 5.40 this evening?
The shades looked familiar. The beard looked familiar (although a bit bushier than I remember). If it wasn't kaputnik, it was a kaputnik-very-alike.
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@greenroofer our kapps does have a doppelgänger on a bike but did not know he had one on the water too who I imagine we would be calling kayaknik?
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Not guilty of eventide canoeage!
I spotted a purple helmet lady this morning on Saughton Crescent (which is not in or really anywhere near Saughton!)
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Seemed to be using it as 'coastal transport'.
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The rider didn't quite look familiar
He and Mrs Pedersen appear to be "on tour" in a campervan, I think they're following the Yestival around.
Someone was telling me of a chap who's been cycling round Scotland handing out freeware DVD copies of films such as The Stag, The Cheviot and the Black Oil in various community centres but I wasn't able to find him to hear more of his travails.
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Also spotted - Pashley trike converted to mobile coffee bar on the NMW junction with George Square Library.
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@kaputnik: so I was hallucinating then. It must have been the heat.
(or, of course, the damned flies)
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There was a guy emerged from the Innocent Tunnel yesterday as I was about to enter it. He'd just negotiated the uphill direction on what looked like a mobile coffee bar.
He was red faced, and by this time off the bike and pushing, vowing 'never again'. The slope in that tunnel is quite deceptive.
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Pedersen on île de Ré
Île de Ré visit by LaidBackBikes, on FlickrPosted 9 years ago # -
That Pedersen is gorgeous.
The slope in the tunnel gets steeper towards the top, I think. It's cruel that way.
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That Pedersen is gorgeous.
I just Googled 'pedersen rholoff hub'. Never thought of having an eccentric frame before...
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It wasn't this Pedersen was it? I can't think there are many home brews in Scotland
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@sally - it's the correct shade, and there can't be that many Pedersens in Scotland, can there?
Good grief, the CCE SSC (scary stalking capabilities) are truly prodigious!
Robert
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Earlier, at Edinburgh Park Train Station ... a sorry looking bike frame (i.e. minus both wheels) locked to one of the Station's Sheffield Stands.
Turns out the wheels were lying on the train tracks (although not impeding the trains).
just in case anyone is thinking about tying up their bike overnight there ... beware.
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Saw this a couple of weeks ago at work, and forgot all about it until now. At first I thought it looked terrible, but within 30 seconds had completely changed my mind.
It's one of these:
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dg145 - I was hanging out my old flats window when the chap in the mobile coffee cart came out. Solid stuff.
2 spots this week. Although I'm not sure paying a forum member to take away some stuff of mine counts so I'll not count that as a spot but thoroughly recommend his services (especially as he's got a "cyclists stay awesome" sticker on the back of the van) murraymoves.co.uk
Second was Kap today on his way haem. Complaining about the 10 mile each way commute! Back in my day I had to cycle 30 miles each way, just to pick up milk for my breakfast, which was gravel, to then PAY to goto work in t'mine... etc.
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Spotted @dnwood this evening (is 5pm-ish the afternoon or evening?) at the top of MMW, I think. Waved hello and had a sense I was recognised.
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