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  1. DaveC
    Member

    Almost Horizontal said "DaveC going north near turn for Heriot?"

    Not me gov'nr, I was at home with the children.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Timmy Mallet cycling the NCN.

    (In North Wales).

    (On Twitter).

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. amir
    Member

    "Timmy Mallet "

    I remember him, but I was much younger and in Manchester.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  4. Snowy
    Member

    Chrisfl plus passenger at the aquaduct this eve but I was past before I could say hello.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  5. kaputnik
    Moderator

    The distinctive BL beige sahara latte tones of a Kaffenback heading into Haymarket past the Donaldson's Hospital, about 845AM.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  6. Baldcyclist
    Member

    @kaputnik That may have been me, black top, red helmet, bullhorns on bike?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  7. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Roibeard steaming home in the sunshine on some collapsible contraption with a big grin on his chops.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  8. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 8 years ago #
  9. twq
    Member

    Spotted on the NEPN yesterday evening. Not something I've seen there before. Stopped to let us past. Also spotted, that lady.
    Click to see bigger. I need to figure out embedding images...

    Posted 8 years ago #
  10. fimm
    Member

    What. On. Earth?
    I mean, why? And how? And who thought it was a good idea? And was SatNav involved?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  11. lorlane
    Member

    @chdot I think I've seen that lady on the canal towpath. Very impressive - great pic.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  12. wingpig
    Member

    @twq I assume that brushwagon was on its way to sweep up le_soigneur's glass. It was certainly free thereof yesterday evening...

    Posted 8 years ago #
  13. SRD
    Moderator

    Is that a street sweeper? I thought it was a cement mixer!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  14. fimm
    Member

    It says "Highway Maintenance" on the back. I don't care what it was doing, it shouldn't be driven down the cycle path! Why can't they send a man with a brush for the glass?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  15. SRD
    Moderator

    "Why can't they send a man with a brush for the glass?"

    same reason they can't send a man with a shovel to clear the cycle paths of overgrown grass?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  16. twq
    Member

    I'm pretty sure it was a cement mixer. I should have asked when I went past.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  17. chdot
    Admin

    Definitely mixer.

    Unlikely to be lost(?)

    So is anything being done (presumably next to path??)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  18. wingpig
    Member

    Aha. Opening the full image (which is blocked at work) would have helped. Not a brushwagon, then. Maybe it was actual people with brushes, or maybe a small brushwagon if they managed to spare one from the footways of the High Street.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  19. wingpig
    Member

    "So is anything being done (presumably next to path??) "

    There's now a shiny handrail either side of the newly-surfaced escape path to Telford Drive, but I didn't look to see how the vertical supports had been embedded.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  20. chdot
    Admin

    So

    New railings with small amount of concrete for posts??

    Posted 8 years ago #
  21. chdot
    Admin

  22. gembo
    Member

    Spotted Big John coming down the WoL Path on the bridge over the A70 heading for canal. He was telling me he gets his bus pass in March. Good advert for walking a lot and drinking very little. He then veered slightly onto the topic of bowel cancer screening. He had ignored this and when he then went to the GP about a twinge in his back he was given a very thorough going over. I then told him the following joke which he liked

    A wee old man who is a bit hard of hearing has to go to the doctor and takes his wife to help him with what the doctor says. He describes his symptoms and the doctor says We will need a stool sample a urine sample a semen sample and a blood sample. he says to his wife - What did he say? And his wife shouts HE WANTS YOUR PANTS.

    Also spotted today a plaque on the underside of the concrete aqueduct at slateford that it is called The Prince Charlie bridge, near this spot at Grays Mill did Prince Charles Edward Stuart make camp. Lot of half marathon tired looking people hirpling off the 44 bus from which I made this spot.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  23. Stickman
    Member

    Solo Pino rider going through Inverleith Park this afternoon. Don't know if it was Roibeard or not-Roibeard.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  24. fimm
    Member

    Spotted the recumbent tandem outside a cafe in Peebles, alongside a solo recumbent and an upright, but didn't spot Mr Laidback inside; he then appeared just as we were going and I came over all shy and didn't say hello.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  25. LaidBack
    Member

    Aw Fimm... we were just on way to Galashiels. That No1 Peebles Road Cafe is great isn't it? That was Mrs LB's first cycle over the Granites.
    Our first trip back on Borders railway too from Tweedbank.
    Where were you heading? Sorry I didn't register you - if you had your Brompton it would have been easier! (As at Akva evening!)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  26. wingpig
    Member

    Wilmington, Queen's Drive. I was behind a group of four cars which had stuck at or below 30mph on the curve round from Pollock.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  27. fimm
    Member

    @Laidback our bikes were, err, in the car... I'd been doing St Mary's Loch triathlon and Boyfriend of Fimm had been out for a cycle while I was racing.

    We just had coffee and cake - actually we were a touch disappointed as we fancied big pieces of cake and that's not what they do. The coffee was good.

    Did you get all those bikes on the train? I'm surprised and impressed!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  28. ARobComp
    Member

    Spotted Dave and other half of Dave at the Applecross duathlon. We then all ended up briefly hanging out at this photo gallery which was very nice! https://www.facebook.com/applecrossgallery?fref=ts (sorry for FB)

    There was an interesting discussion about whether different genders liked sunrise photos or sunset photos more. Dave and myself seemed to buck whatever trend had been noticed.

    Purchased a lovely print of applecross bay in winter from the belaech,

    Posted 8 years ago #
  29. ARobComp
    Member

    Also Kappers this morning giving a friendly wave which I returned far too late for him to see!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  30. amir
    Member

    "We just had coffee and cake - actually we were a touch disappointed as we fancied big pieces of cake and that's not what they do. "

    I got a huge slice of carrot cake when I went. Perhaps you need to look even hungrier than you did (it comes naturally to audaxers).

    Posted 8 years ago #

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