nice new (?) picnic hamper style basket on front of CC's pasteurfeits (sp?)
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Beano waving coming down the hill to Cramond. He'd clearly spotted me first as I didn't have time to return the salute.
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@acsimpson - damn...I meant to post the spot when into work but got pulled into a meeting. Red t-shirt and helmetless makes for an easy spot.
I really should have been braking at that point as opposed to saluting...t'was a tight turn and I arrived a little speedier than i'd like haha
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SRD, I think it must be 'pastoorfiets'. This site says it was designed for priests to ride while wearing their robes:
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@jdanielp had also just hi fived Big Ged from EBC on his way to Dalmeny. It was a good day for 'us'
Also spotted a taller version of Big John at Wester Hailes. Also carrying a carrier bag (LIDL). I have seen this chap a few times up and down the canal in the moring at W hailes. He is quite skinny so Big John still The Daddy.
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I was following a woman along the towpath on my way home today. Nice dropped-bar bike with green bar tape, black back pack, jeans, summery top. All in all a very sensible outfit for riding a bike of a warm late afternoon. The thing that made it notable for me was that she was also wearing proper road shoes and cleats. I don't mean SPDs, I mean proper road shoes.
Underneath this casual summery attire there was clearly a serious racer in disguise (and judging by the speed she was doing and how she accelerated, the disguise wasn't frankly all that good).
This is what I love about riding a bike. You can use it for munching miles at high speed or pottering along the canal, you can do it in Lycra or in ordinary clothes, and you can do it all on the same bike.
Edit: just noticed this was post 6666...
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Met up with jdanielp and Big John on towpath west of aqueduct this morning. John was waxing lyrical on his thirty years of towpath walking with poly bag. He was recollecting a blue steel hulk which moved up and down the water and required emptying. Back when the path was just a path. John pounds the beat from wester hailes to asda, lidl or sainsbury dependent on mood. But he claims never to have been west of cultins road. I said he should get a bike. Oh no, says John, I would shoot the bar stewards. This when he was the meat in the sandwich between jdanielp's bike and my bike. I took this as John joking.
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Exchanged waves with daisydaisy this evening. She was sole occupant of a Helios with a HUGE box on the back.
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Green Pendleton bike parked up in Broughton Street yesterday. Looked very stylish.
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I followed a youngish lad on a stunt BMX from Holyrood to London Road the other evening. The thing was clearly not road legal as was devoid of any braking device beyond the soles of his feet, however he appeared to be fully in control and having a great deal of fun navigating all the obstacles the road could throw at him and getting some impressive air off the speedhumps. We had to divert through the houses between Croft An Righ and Milton Street because Abbeyhill Road was closed for a big crane to lift the roof onto the student ghetto being built there. Despite me being on a "proper" bike with gears and big wheels, it was hard to keep up with someone on a device which could apparently float with impunity over cobbles, humps, potholes and mini roundabouts.
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"it was hard to keep up with someone on a device which could apparently float with impunity over cobbles, humps, potholes and mini roundabouts."
Your next N+1??
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DaveC was one thing of the oncoming cyclists I waited for prior to overtaking anothet anti-clockwise NEPN bicycle-traffic unit.
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Spotted Wingpigcycle outside Sainsbury's last night, but no Wingpig was seen inside.
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@kaputnik Sentient beings. Sometimes a bike's just gotta ride, you know?
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Re sentient beings...
Behind the scenes on Vimeo:
Robert
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@daisydaisy Your ezystove looks really cool. The website gives no idea of scale, and I'm having trouble reconciling the enormous box on the back of your bike with what looks like the kind of stove I'd take camping.
Is your ezystove actually quite large (despite the picture). Is it actually the kind of thing you sit round in the garden rather than huddle over outside your tent?
Sorry for the thread drift and for drifting it back to old topics. I've been doing other things...
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@kaputnik I didn't take very long inside as I'd forgotten my big lock. Bright yellow T-shirt on, so you'd have seen me if you'd seen me.
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@chdot - could you explain the significance of the first picture? My guess is that it's part of a highly expensive (but nevertheless highly desirable) trike. Is your point that a bike can either be really simple or (like this one) a quite complex bit of sexy red and black tech?
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Yes.
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Chained to the railings of Spikey Mike's, what I do declare was one of these.
Most unusual, and I'd have drooled thoroughly had I not been in the bus.
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@IWRATS. That bike starts at CHF14,000, which Google tells me is GBP 9,611. Even I think that's quite a lot for a bike.
Nice, though, isn't it?
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@Greenroofer
Well the Scaffolding Bike(©gembo) is worth at least that much. To me. It has a geometry and a component set that only a mother could love. I think I'd price her in Guineas rather than Swiss francs though. Bit clinical, the Swiss franc.
Ten grand for a bike. Jeezo.
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Another Saturday evening on the way home from the allotment, another random bike-compliment, this one at a lamppost on Leith Walk.
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A heart-shaped cycle hoop in North St Andrew Street next to the bike lane.
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Did I (we) pass jdanielp heading into town on the towpath out by Wester Hailes Education Centre at about 7.15?
'We' were Mini-Greenroofer and I on a 10-mile PfS training ride. I was in a red top with a strange orange hat. She was in a pink t-shirt behind me.
I've no idea what jdanielp looks like, but I did notice a shiny black hub gear and thought I spotted that it was a Charge bike. The person we passed was dressed in an earthy-coloured (khaki/bronze/reddish) technical top. We exchanged glances.
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@Greenroofer indeed you did, well done! I was wondering if you might be a CCEer. As gembo can attest, I will probably need to spot you at least another handful of times before I'm actually confident about who you are though (although having Mini-Greenroofer in tow would make it far easier).
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"I was wondering if you might be a CCEer"
That's worrying. Is there a particular distinguishing mark?
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