Canal towpath bingo this morning: gembo, Brian from Cycling Scotland, Jenny from Sustrans, Lilac Helmet Lady, Big John, shuggiet...
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and you looked pretty composed for a man nearly run down by a #27 bus.
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@shuggiet thanks! I was quite relieved to spot Big John today because having the reason to pull over to chat to him definitely helped release residual stress from the bus incident and also from having another cyclist on my tail shortly after joining the towpath until that point.
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yes I saw that cyclist on your tail, just before you hit the school run to craiglockhart primary, was ultra busy on towpath. Big John enjoyed his holiday to Mull he was telling me the other week.
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ARobComp at the end of Morrison Street then powering ahead of me on West Coates. Only realised it was him a bit later otherwise I would have said hello.
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Someone smiled and waved at me on Polwarth gardens, right After i smiled and waved at someone who turned out not to be Bikefan. Oops.
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Certainly a busy towpath this morning. Stopped for 2 lengthy chats, said hello to 2 others including Gembo, and had a good chat with an ex-colleague I hadn't seen for a year as we cycled west.
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Stopped beside a very appealing Koga bike at Morningside junction this evening. Belt drive, hub gear, dynamo, mudguards. It looked very practical and sensible and sophisticated.*
I can't find the actual bike on their website, but I've found their configurator, which can lead to a happy evening of designing n+1's that I can't afford.
Recalling a whim of IWRATS's from a long time ago, they allow you to choose Magura hydraulic rim brakes and Alfine 11 + carbon drive...
*if it was yours, I was on the black Brompton
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kaputnik, bell ringing for my attention (worked) with a child shaped wind break on the front of the bike, presumably headed to PY. Would have stopped to chat, but had to get into the office :(
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I've spotted kaputnik twice this week as I've headed for the ped crossing at the top of Dublin St. Never quite close enough to make my presence known without causing confusion and consternation for the general populace and perhaps excessively distracting K while he crosses the tramlines.
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Sorry to have missed sandy and Andy Kaputnik
At PY August
Did spot an exhibition on the new street graffiti hoardings of the blipfotos of the mentchies of Cigs. The photos are better than the mentchies. The blipfoto taker is known to someone on here as I have seen his stuff on Facebook via someone on here. He thinks he has 500 of the 600. Not sure if Cigs has stopped at 600, he has made it to balerno for instance.
Also this morning at the St George's school red bridge my cycling officer colleague out observing our speeds. The old Marxist Leninist in me thought he should have been paid for this by the private business but I suppose all are entitled to the services of CEC cycling officers
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Also spotted Colin Fox of. scot soc party at end of princes St. IWRAts has given me some excellent one liners from foxy but today he was on three second loop. People in this city are paid peanuts.mhowever,meh looked good,mslimmer than before and less like he just came down from the Isle of Skye. Vulpine in his raincoat and silver hair.
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Kaputnik, I think, near the Mela today. I was disguised as a pram pusher.
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Did a gig on the weekend at the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews - was quite impressed with their Genesis Caribou hire bikes. I'm guessing this is to allow folk to ride on the sand...
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@Snowy yes, that was us. We spotted a "Cargoo" trike parked up. I was also taking pictures of the double sets of Heras safety fencing they had across the path by the swingpark which was forcing everyone to divert around the narrow alternative. Seems the Mela had built themselves a wee extension for the events staff tent / toilet block, which could easily have been slightly rejigged to kep the path open.
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my eldest was conducting surveys at the Mela *(she thought they were weak but did two dozen).
Yesterday she was selling t-shirts, quite nice but came home with some pull on marijuana trousers. I said what did they cost you she said Four Pounds Twenty. Apparently this is reefer madness patois. Four pounds twenty??
Three pound, two pound one pound fish
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@algo, the in-laws were talking about those too. MiL mentioned she had never seen a bike with such wide tyres.
I guess they'll also reduce the damage if a rogue hirer rides on the hallowed greens too.
While up there we also spotted Janetta's ice cream trikes and two members of staff struggling to manhandle them into the back of a van, obviously too much to expect them to actually be cycled to the destination.
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"too much to expect them to actually be cycled to the destination"
Remember Mr. Boni?
He had one and towed it behind a van, leading to unnecessary repairs..,
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My Nana worked for Mr Boni at Tollcross for a number of years, but never recall being taken there for complimentary family discount ice cream.
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Roibeard near the ex-Big W.
A group of runners on the Whitecraig-Dalkeith path. Presumably triathletes because of their very ordered paired up group running.
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Looks like classic 'I was in a hurry to catch my train and only locked the front wheel'.
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Surly LHT at B&Q Powderhall this afternoon. The 26" wheel version I think, some seriously sturdy racks on it, Old Man Mountain brand perhaps?
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A souped-up red Ford F150 with the registration BIG <something> going from Lothian Road to Charlotte Square this evening. I've seen a few in America where they only look stupidly large. On British roads they look absurd. It was so large that it was taking up a lane-and-a-bit on the tight corner into South Charlotte Street and vehicles in the other lane had to wait back.
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Spotted earlier today from a bus on Hanover Street: a robust-looking workman in hard hat, hi-viz and big boots pushing a wheelbarrow up the pavement towards George Street.
The wheelbarrow contained one thing: a four-pack of toilet roll.
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DaveC heading to the bridge last night and Baldycyclist in Inverkeithing.
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@Greenroofer
Must have been really heavy duty toilet roll!Posted 9 years ago # -
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Two fearly fast riders into Edinburgh this morning. As they passed me I jumped on the back of the train and flew in as far as Cramond Brig where they took the A90 while I binned it for the cycle path. There was this guy on an old Pinnicle sans mudguards who was monstering along. Behind him was a chap on a more commuter bike (drops of course) who did a very good job of pointing out all the holes and bumps for me to avoid, along with the usual warning hand signals of people coming the other way, moving out etc.... Very impressed I was. Unfortunately the chap on the front was doing non of this and the middle guy (I was last) was shaking his fist and throwing his hand in the air ocassionally as the front guy failed to point out holes etc, where the middle chap was riding straight over them in despair! :O)
I usually bimble in but this was a nice break from the routine.
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Urban Arrow heading north past Peter's Yard. (I'm sitting outside enjoying the sun)
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... And now making the return journey with a load!
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