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(14475 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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@IWRATS I was just relieved that the slightly wider than usual feeling handlebars on my 'new' bike didn't relieve Maximum Spaceman of his walking stick in passing because it seemed like there wasn't all that much space to do so.
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Shuggiet as we both negotiated the Polwarth roundabout
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SRD , heard but only seen as a whirlwind blur..
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The safeways on the corner of Byres road and great western road in Glasgow (could be Morrisons now, should be Waitrose for sure) used to be a Prestos. Sold broth mix and turnips. In an early attempt at humour I called it Prestograd
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It is a Waitrose now.
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Had to be
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"seen as a whirlwind blur.."
ooh. i like that.
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I wondered if I was spotted this evening while riding along Craighouse Gardens. A Brompton rider (Bromptoneer? Bromptonite? Bromptometrist?) pinged their bell as I passed.
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Had chat with alanr yesterday a.m. at slateford junction where normally spot arellcat
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Well done Gembo on the 5800th post to this thread. I wonder who will be the 6000th?
I wonder how many peeps are on here who I see but don't know as CCEers on the way in from Fife.
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Someone I'm sure I've spotted before on the Slateford Road yesterday about 6:20 - 6:25pm. Distinctive Carradice saddlebag. I was waiting to turn out of Robertson Avenue.
I did not spot Arellcat.
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"Rock and roll" lollipop man at the Myreside Road and Colinton Road junction who informed me that it was not a good day to cycle as I filtered into the ASZ, before deploying his catchphrase as the lights turned green.
A spectacular, complete double-rainbow to the north, which had a very strong inner ring and a quite faint, but distinct, outer ring - it faded as I cycled west.
Lilac Helmet Lady, who humourously (and quite possibly not without some degree of frisson) brushed handlebars with me under the blind double-bridge to the east of Meggetland, despite our best efforts to ring bells to indicate that we were approaching (I'm fairly sure I started ringing first, but given that it was LHL any possible acrimony about this was diffused instantly).
Finally, no kingfisher at Hermiston House Road bridge.
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@jdanielp
The rainbow was magnificent. I headed straight into the zeroth order element from Mayfield to Morningside. All my attempts to induce wonder, or indeed interest, in pedestrians were met with blank looks. I think only bicyclists look at the world properly.
Sorry to hear about your contretemps with Lilac Helmet Lady. It's no surprise to me that the outcome was amicable.
You seem to have missed the flat rat just short of the big aqueduct.
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@IWRATS ah yes, I did indeed spot the flat rat as well, but managed to forget about that given everything else!
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"I think only bicyclists look at the world properly"
That's a nice concept/observation(?)
I certainly think there's something in it.
On a base level, people on bikes aren't stuck in a box, so 'experience' more.
Being faster than walking, more distance is usually taken - at a speed where it doesn't (usually) just become a blur.
But beyond that, I think that cycling - controlling a machine, checking the road surface, 'feeling' the surrounding traffic etc. 'improves' the brain - bit like taxi drivers doing "the knowledge".
Spatial awareness, 'understanding of the world'(?)
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Heightened awareness from dicing with murderous taxi drivers and first bus drivers daily. The kind of reflexes that usually come with ninja training!
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Maybe fimm tonight going down the hill at kingsnowe about 7pm, issue caused by bad driving was also possibly occurring?
Inthen had white Audi drive straight out at me from side road in juniper green
Bad traffic tonight for sure
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Roibeard at lunchtime, who seemed a little taken aback by my shouted greeting as he wheeled past on the wee-wheeled machine.
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Not at all - I was just preoccupied by negotiating Tollcross/Melville Drive, having taken the left hand lane for a change and regretting it!
Robert
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The rainbow was magnificent.
I was photographing it too this morning, in between rain showers. I had my camera with me, with the intention of a bollard survey after work but didn't manage to get a round tuit.
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Baldcyclist, on the NEPN, he heading north (me heading south) over the bridge above Roseburn Terrace / Western Coates this evening, just after 5pm I think.
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@gembo possibly - I was out on my road bike, about that time - were you coming up the hill? I have one bright front light and a second one on flash which probably looks quite weedy in comparison.
I did get all shouty with a driver - I'd forgotten about it! Will add it to the Rubbish Driving thread...
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AcSimpson heading the opposite way on the A90 path. I was around 3/4 hour late as working late tonight before the Spokes meeting. I haven't seen you for a while heading to work. You getting lazy? ;0)
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May have been gembo on Leith street heading into Calton Road about 9am yesterday?
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@fimm yes I was heading up the hill
@dougal I did take that route but would estimate 09.45a.m. At the earliest
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Watching Amazing Spaces tonight on C4 Mrs Stickman was very excited to spot a sage green Bobbin Birdie exactly like hers. It really is a pretty bike.
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@gembo Yes, this seems more accurate: I was going for a train just a few minutes after ten. Clearly my sense of time is a bit ropey whenever I get a day off. first confirmed non-reciprocal spot, time to crack out the gin
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"first confirmed non-reciprocal spot, time to crack out the gin"
I thought you said you'd spotted me around Picardy Place a while back?
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Maybe but I don't know who you are ;-) You weren't the chap I sat next to at YP a few months back, from Restalrig area, close cropped hair and reddish beard?
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