Slow Down you Fool before I hit you with my stool?
Slow Down on your work Run, before i shoot you with my BIG gun?
Share the canal path or I'll report you to my mate Cath?
Give space to other canal path users, you silly speeding cyclist floosies?
:D
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shuggiet and family spotted me stuck in traffic on George IV Bridge bus lane. I didn't have lights on so must have stood out (in an irresponsible way)... caught out by how dark it had become after 8pm.
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Spotted Wingpig turning off St Andrew Sq on to George St.
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Mutual spot of LaidBack on Fuego (still mobile after the Tour of the Borders!) turning onto MMW from Teviot Place about 5 minutes ago. We waved...
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The brown tandem that was on the Tour O'the Borders, in the back of a car, Morningside yesterday.
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Woman walking a smallish red folding upright trike (sticker said 'brilliant bikes') across Melville Drive, cycling off on the pavement.
Had a brief chat and gifted her one of my many yellow seat covers when she mentioned her seat being wet. She said she hadn't cycled in a while and was trying to get back into it.
Nice.
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"She said she hadn't cycled in a while and was trying to get back into it."
Not a fair weather cyclist then!
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Young guy on a skateboard with girl about 8 on a scooter, side by side, progressing along NMW at a reasonable rate.
Definitely active and sociable travel.
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Laidback (almost certainly) in black heading south on George IV Bridge Row this morning.
I was on a bus heading to Waverley with the little Greenroofers. We went to the Summerlee Industrial Museum, which was quite fun (albeit a bit wet). They've got an exhibition about bicycles running until mid-September. There was a strange bike made of wood, and one of Danny McAskill's bikes.
If you have strong views about bike helmets, you might want to avoid it. There's an exhibit of a smashed bike helmet and a newspaper article about a boy saying 'this helmet saved my life' and a number of unqualified people agreeing with him.
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@IWRATS
What I tried to shout this morning was that 2kool4skool had been up ahead of me and stopped on aqueduct to allow someone to pass but his wing mirrors stuck out so far that the passer nearly went into the canal.
He also had his back mudguard set at an astonishingly high angle such that the splatter would cover his shell suit.
Goes at a fair clip largely regardless of others?
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Been meaning to post about spotting big Ged from EBC most days. Saluted him this morning, made him laugh though a happier person than gedidiah on or off a bike I have yet to find
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@chdot - yup that's the wooden bike I saw. Apparently it can be made by anyone with basic metal- and wood-working skills, and doesn't need any welding. I reckon it's one of those things that fits into the category of 'just because you can doesn't mean you should'.
Just back from a ride into the town centre. Aside from some visitor-related incidents that I would post in 'today's rubbish driving' if I could be bothered, the main point of interest on the ride was seeing a silver and black Montague full-size folder on Newbattle Terrace and a green(?) Pedersen on North Bridge piloted by a stylish chap with a reddish-brown beard and long hair that made him look a bit like Jesus on an interesting bike.
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@gembo
It's not clear what 2kool might be looking for in wing mirrors. Could be the law,could be the Man.
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The Calton Road entrance to Waverley Station at about 7.25AM.
A bearded fellow got into the lift from street level to the footbridge with a mustard Salsa (a strange culinary choice) with two cameras. Is that anyone here?
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Possibly Dave turning left onto Lanark Road West riding an upright bike. I was going up the hill on my big bike.
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@chdot - yup that's the wooden bike I saw. Apparently it can be made by anyone with basic metal- and wood-working skills, and doesn't need any welding. I reckon it's one of those things that fits into the category of 'just because you can doesn't mean you should'.
Ah, cool the dude got it working. WC and I spoke to the chap at the Scottish Bike show a few years ago, the prototype he had actually rode very well. Quite tempted to have a go a building one tbh.
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A bearded fellow got into the lift from street level to the footbridge with a mustard Salsa
Someone on here once identified themselves as
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Blue Yuba Mundo cargo bike complete with front cargo rack, parked in the George Street cycle lane 'diversion' outside Assembly Rooms yesterday afternoon.
Also yesterday evening on Portobello Road, a pea green Citroen van, the incredibly French ones with the corrugated side panels that folk may recall from films by Jacques Tati, the Nouvelle Vague, and famously as the broom wagon in Le Tour during a scene in Belleville Rendezvous.
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Hello dougal - I'm the bearded fellow with the Salsa...
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kaputnik, helping raise the mean acceleration exhibited by cyclists setting off from the Marionville-London Road ASL.
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After having been wingspotted on London Road, I passed a chap in a Colnago cap on St. Mark's Path bridge heading towards MacDonald Road on a bakfeits, 2 kids in the wooden wheelbarrow end and a third pootling ahead under their own pedal power.
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Couple heading west on the towpath by the bypass early this morning.
Worth mentioning because they were on a hybrid-style tandem with chunky tyres, and towing an trailer laden with stuff. I don't think there was a child in the trailer: it was just carrying gear...
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@adamthekiwi I will look out for you in future to introduce myself!
Red-haired lady with step-through bike with basket (sometimes containing baguette) gets off train at Haymarket in the evening. We always have to do the two-bike shuffle because I'm the person who insists on staying on until Waverley!
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Bruce at the lights at about 20:25, as I cam flying round the corner on my Allez
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I don't think it counts as a spot if you're spotting yourself...
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@SRD Must have been a mirrored glass building.
adamthekiwi on the train into Edinburgh. Didn't clock who you were until I saw the bike clearly as you were leaving.
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MrSrd reports a heavily intoxicated cyclist weaving back and forth heading from Harrison park towards aqueduct. Middle-aged guy Wearing a hoodie/ grey/drab clothes.
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