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Posted 8 years ago #
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Spottyed
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no. I was spotting the interesting childseat/basket concept. [edit]
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Oh, yes, an interesting thing indeed.
I'm afraid I assumed it was a photo of the spotted bike at fisrt...Posted 8 years ago # -
have reduced pic size now. think it shows the seat better.
(i was intrigued by the spotty bike too - not one of the comic relief ones that frog does, but a d-i-y variant)
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I see the spotty bike most days on Buccleuch Place.
Regarding the child seat, it's almost a shame. With better application the foot rests could have been hinged to allow a full 'proper' basket to be used when childless.
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"full 'proper' basket"
Yeah I thought it was a bin!
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I thought it was hinged to swap between basket and child carrier, hence useful - is it not?
Robert
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Spotted two riders standing by a Pino on Baird Grove about 8am.
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Spotted (from a distance) a bike in front of me making good speed on the towpath this evening with flashing red lights on the pedals. I made a concerted effort to catch up (made harder because of a previous concerted effort to make a proper job of passing a bike on Gogar Station Road as it climbs over the M8 to Heriot Watt) to get a close look at the pilot and see if the pedals were mine. By the time I was close enough to see that it had a hub gear and was an attractive Charge-type colour I knew I was on firm enough ground to call out a greeting to @jdanielp.
I heard that we both have similar 'ding-dong' type bells that are ideal for towpath use.
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@Greenroofer well spotted and I hope that you enjoyed the light show! Sorry, I'd assumed that you had caught me up naturally which is why I asked if you'd like to overtake after we'd been chatting; I now realise that you may have felt compelled to continue at a relativity concerted pace as a result, although that would perhaps explain why you didn't pull away quite as speedily as I had expected... I was quite impressed by your ding-dong bell which produces an even more mellow tone than my 80mm model from Sustrans.
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Yes - a better response from me in hindsight would have been 'no, you go ahead, and I'll stay far enough behind you not to wheelsuck' :-)
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Moving (across the road).
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Various new blue pedestrian and bicycle signage on the canal towpath and the paths through Heriot-Watt campus.
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No doubt paid for by the cycling budget.
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Genuinely confused as to why cycling signs wouldn't be paid for out of the cycling budget :-/
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@WC Because anything on the canal should be paid for by Canals Scotland (or whatever their name is) and anything on the HW Campus by the University?
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Technically it's the British Waterways Board, trading as Scottish Canals. The British Waterways Board Transfer Act 2012 removed responsibility for assets in England and Wales.
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Ah I see. So do we know they were actually paid for out of the cycling budget? And if so can we raise it with the powers that be that it should have been paid for by others?
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I think John Cameron ought to get out the Zymol. UOSA has always looked like it needed a good polish.
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More authentic as a working machine!
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I believe I may have encountered a striking pink gembo on a blindish corner on the towpath this evening.
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The following @SpokesLothian Tweet which makes no obvious sense to me: https://twitter.com/SpokesLothian/status/654694149229121536?s=09
Did some kind of automated tweeting service go strangely wrong?
I do quite like the idea of a "slightly changed" one word quote though!
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@greenroofer, I was blinded on that blind corner by the headlamp of the woman in front of you and then indeed to a small degree by you. Do not worry as the norm is now blinding and you were only semi-blinding. Maybe I blinded you with my pink jumper or indeed my paltry little cat eye? I certainly Undipped my light later on as I was on the WoL path in darkness and many unilluminated dog walkers and dogs out there. Best was very blinding lights after the Easter hailes gait/tunnel which turned out to be the head torch of the owner of three huskies (the owner of two huskies was up ahead) and I think the stationary sled of the husky owner. it was a tricycle affair with a huge headlamp of massive blinding ness.
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@gembo. Oh dear. I would never want to be blinding (even a tiny bit). I've always assumed that my fancy schmancy dynamo lights were non-blinding, given their fancy teutonic beam cut-off and stuff. I shall have to have a closer look at how they are pointing. Maybe they've been nudged.
Your shirt was how I aspire my light to be - bright but not blinding.
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@greenroofer, not a problem. The blind corner is a different thing from the flat stretches. Sounds like your beam is not blinding in normal conditions
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I'm concerned I'm a bit blinding at the moment. The strap on my small "to be seen" light snapped so I've had to use my 300 lumen Moon light....even on it's lowest setting, or flashing, and angled down I suspect it's still on the irritating side of bright for city use...
I really liked that the Knog Blinder 1 was usb rechargeable but I guess my bars were just a bit too thick for it.
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@greenroofer Happy to stand 50 yards from you and help you calibrate your light one evening.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Oh yes, it must be that time of the year to start grumbling loudly at people using headtorches as bike lights or those with a strobe function on their light.
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