Yes, it was me! Sorry you were stuck in traffic. How come? Is it just cos the pesky cars block the cycle lane or what? BTW, sorry I don't post as much as I'd like - or even browse - it's the lack of time with having a 4-year old at home. My trike gets stuck in traffic too, by the way, especially at the junction of Slateford Road and Ardmillan Terrace, where you can't just force your way through on a 3' wide trike.
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Slightly existential crisis while walking home. Chap on a white genesis with green caradice rode past me. Only the third carradice i've seen in action. Bit weird seeing a bike very like your own geared up as yours is.
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Arellcat, round about Meadow Place, just before nine this morning. Brain not in gear and didn't recognise the folder until you'd gone past.
*Much cheerier wave than the acknowledgement you actually got* :)
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(Edit)RJ, so it was you I thought I spotted this morning, just near the old yoga centre by the Meadows! I tried just enough of a smile in case it was you, but not too much of a smile in case it wasn't!
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Woman at my work going to retrieve her bike. Full lycra scuba-ninja leggings, red nightvision jacket, helmet, riding glasses, skullcap, full-finger gloves, reflective bits on ankles and wrists... ...and 4 inch heels on!
Saw her riding her Ridgeback shopping bike very slowly down the pavement as I left.
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I had the same thing, this woman today looked the buisiness, hi viz jersey, cycle-specific bag, longs with really cool fluro spikes down the calf. I was so impressed with her outfit it took me a while to realise she was riding a BSO extremely slowly and within an inch of every parked car door.
Also leaving work today There was a Dawes mojave, a specialised tricross (mine) and a British EAGLE 'Le Tour' all parked together, all with brooks saddles. the EAGLE also had a carradice saddlebag, a lot more battered looking than anth's.
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Hmmm, up to us (by which I mean the presumably slightly more experienced cyclists) to strike up a friendly chat, if they're happy then good luck to them (exempt the pavement cyclist!), but if they say they don't like the traffic / are worried about car doors or whatever then useful tactful advice could hopefully be offered.
It has to be a good thing that people who apparently are new to cycling are willing to get "the gear" and give it a decent try, even if their choice of detail/bike/route/footwear seems bizarre to us (after all, we all dress perfectly conventionally!) :-)
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Oh I wasn't mocking, I just thought it a wonderful juxtaposition of styles!
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mmmm...overtook a woman dressed like this (all the kit - tres cool) on the tandem the other day, and then overtook a bloke on a nice roadbike going up Dalkeith Rd (on the hilly bit, I was starting half-way up, which I would hae thought was harder). Did make me wonder a bit about appearances...
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"Did make me wonder a bit about appearances"
Is this a 'new phenomenon'?
More people want to 'take up cycling' but 'stuck' with the idea that you need special/particular clothes - or are people picking up/being 'sold' that idea??
We've had discussions on here about 'normal clothes' or shower/change at work. It's not an either or, it's personal choice. That's the good thing about bikes (and riders) - infinite variety.
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outside queensferry today, south, a guy on a black drop bar roadie thing waved at me, in my truck. Anyone on here or just some missguided soul ?
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Passed a bearded fellow heading towards city centre just passed the estate on the Inoccent. Was cruising along on a recumbant.
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Saw a bloke in the bike works at lunchtime with a flash looking yellow road bike, then on driving away in our c*r I saw him again... wearing his helmet, but dodging pedestrians as he rode along the pavement next to a perfectly useable bit of road. Sigh :-(
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@mabs not me, no beard.
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The bearded recumbentist is a top spot for people on here. Possibly only second to the trike lady with the pink hat.
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Slightly earlier run out this morning, fewer bikes than last Sunday morning, and no tandems or trikes with pink-hatted ladies... but I did see a guy on a bike wearing a light coloured trilby (not quite big enough to be a Panama methinks) on the Ferry Road path. Was that anyone who posts on here?
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Was also passed by a youngish male on a single-speed machine going up Barnton Avenue after the cycle path between the golf courses. Mabs? Anyone else?
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Unicycleist passing me half way round one of the climbs, very very embarrassing nearly sold the bike. If the family with the 5 year girl on her my little pony bike and the toddler in the baby seats had passed us I'm not sure I'd ever have lived it down.
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Two unknown recumbents, accompanied by a third on an MTB taking photos on the prom at Silverknowes this afternoon. I chased them down thinking it might be someone I knew but they were speaking in Spanish or something
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seriously? a unicyclist passed you uphill?
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Seriously, in what little defence can be offered for this, a unicycle has a fixed gear so he can either nail it or walk, the mtb has a nice low gear for spinning. Plus i'd already done 20k he was only one or two from the car park.... ermm must be more excuses..
@k'nic they are recumbentists perhaps they were speaking in tounges
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recumbentist?
recumbentitioner surely!?
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my brother likes the term banana-pilot.
It is seriously hard work to get a unicycle up any kind of gradient, even a 20 inch wheel one. Just going downhill is hard enough.
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@ Its_Me_Knees. Was this on sunday heading tomward Edinburgh also was the person wearing shorts and looking a bit zonked?
If so and if it was on the NC1 from Forth Road Bridge it most likely was me :DIn regards to unicycles I've found they are the best hill climbers. Had a 20" Kris Holm trials for a good while and managed some horridly steepy slopes on it. Good fun them, crank stalls, airing off walls, one footing it home and clearing a 7 set ;)
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Just chatted with Min outside the Balmoral on matching Surlys.
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Nice to see a newly de-casted TBC, yaay! :-)
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what is the collective term for surlys?
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A Happiness of Surlys?
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A Harumph of Surlys?
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A hurly burly of surlys, surely?
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