Was in Oxford for a few days. Spotted : more childseats than on previous trips. A few tagalongs; one kiddie back tandem (probably thorn), one bakfiets, one wiinther kangaroo, and a few delivery bikes parked outside shops - of a newer vintage than the antiques that used to be in similar positions. Which leads me to think they may be actually used occasionally.
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Anyone getting married? We appear to have had some visitors keen to get us cycling to our weddings?
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Even SEO fashion comes back around eventually, then!
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"Omnium" cargo bike type thing outside Jacob on Haymarket Terrace. I've seen it a few times there, usually lugging a load at the front. Delicious cakes?
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Homebrewed cargo trike going rather zippily from Leith Walk to Leith Street via Picardy Place roundabout. looked to be a step-through frame hardtail mountainbike affixed to a very solid timber "keel" c. 4x6" plank supporting 2 wheels on front and a large plastic box hand-painted with "soup on delivery".
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A Chinese gentleman headed into town on the towpath using the flashlight app on a smartphone attached on top of his helmet with rubber bands to light his progress.
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Maximum Spaceman and the Maximum Spacedogs in fine form heading West just after the Scott Russell aqueduct.
The border terrier turned to give me a look of withering scorn as I politely rang my bell. Maximum Spaceman allowed me a formal greeting.
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Spoke to a nice couple who cycle in from S Queensferry on the way to work this morning. Nice to chat to folk on the way in rather than hammering past the cyclists in front! I told them about this gaff and they may pop in to say hi!
Dave C (The guy on the orange Cotic with red/orange tops and red panier.)
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@IWRATS
I think he works in my building. Shared a lift with him the other evening, and thought to myself "why does he have a phone attached to his helmet?" Now I know!
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@IWRATS. I think you misinterpret the terrier's look. It's quite elderly now. I always interpret its expression as being personification (dogification?) of the word 'dogged' (by which I mean 'determined', rather than something involving car parks in East Lothian).
It's just concentrating on putting one aching foot in front of the other for mile after mile. It's not scorn that it's looking at you with, it's resignation...
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yesterday i was cycling along westhall gardens, when a cyclist pulled out of admiral terrace (or possibly Boroughmuir covered bike park), with a blaze light on. contrary to other reports it was very bright. seemed fairly good to me. can't say that I say it before or instead of the cyclist - i was looking mid-height not at the tarmac - but it certainly caught my eye as he came around the corner.
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Big John flagged me down at Kingsknowe for a chat. He'd been hinting recently that I really ought to introduce myself and he is quite correct in this regard. Outside of Europe it would be very odd to meet someone on a path every day and not let them know who you are.
Anyway, I learned two things;
* John considers me to be a kindred spirit
* John was wondering if I was @jdanielp's twin brotherI was tempted to say that for us to be twins the labour would have had to have lasted at least ten years, but John isn't keen on Labour.
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What carrier bag did john have?
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@gembo
The usual. Two white ones rolled together.
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double strength is his usual, but if he is going for a big shop he sometimes goes with a more commodious receptacle
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Fairing Man, looking like a freshly taped-off crime scene at Blackford Avenue.
@Arellcat, on a dim Brompton flying through a gloomy Morningside Cross.
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From Monday, I think: Arellcat, torpeding up Comiston Road. Hope I didn't startle you...
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Had a nice chat with a chap with a beard and a Carradice while cycling in the snow this morning. He was saying he should get hhis tricycle back on the road for the winter so I asked him if he was Alan (alanr) but he wasn't...
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@IWRATS, "dim"? I had my best light on the handlebars!
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@Arellcat
You were receding into the murk at around warp factor four. I saw hi-viz anklets but no rear light? (Question inflection © gembo.)
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saw arellcat in the torpedo the other day at usual cross keys turn
looked like had an engine powering it was going so fast
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Plump, if not quite fat bike with fluoro pink tyres heading into the Innocent tunnel going south-east.
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Daisydaisy at slateford road with stoker.
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Arellcat, with the Torpedo, on Wester Coates.
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That torpedo thing gets around. It covered most of the A8 from Drum Brae roundabout to Roseburn at about 27mph.
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B****y cyclists holding up cars in a 30mph zone! ;-)
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Blaze light cyclist a couple of nights now. Heads the same way as me through the Meadows, then round the south park to Duddingston Village, though turns right at the Duddingston crossroads.
Last week they were much much quicker on the main road, while I went through the St Leonardsy bit.
Tonight I was quicker through there, but stopped to put some cards in the postbox, so they hurtled by. I caught by the village (but it was one of those "I'm going slightly quicker, don't want to look an eejit by passing" moments). Then I made my customary left turn up the rise to go through the Village, while they took the straight route, and just beat me to the crossroads.
Not that it's a race, just the bouncing fuzzy green laser light makes them traceable.
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Spotted @Beano sorting a puncture just before Cramond Brig, and may have misread the tone of "no, it's just a puncture" for 'actually, wouldn't mind a hand, this pinch issue has been a pain in the a*rse'. Apologies if I did.
Then @acsimpson ay the Brig, either he was late, or I was early.
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