@chdot. I've worked it out.
"Shared Cycle Route" is only for those sharing the same bike. So us tandemistas can use it but you solo riders have to find your own piece of van covered tarmac.
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Spotted a cheery Roibeard on a splendid British Racing Green cargo bike this afternoon, roundabout East Preston St.
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Spotted Laid Back on Nicolson Square this afternoon, on the cargoified Circe Helios. I was heavily disguised as a car driver, because I was transporting a cargo too delicate for my bike trailer.
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Alison Johnstone headed West on the canal on a smart white city hybrid. Wonder if any other parliamentarian ever uses this route....
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Non Roibeard Pino rider on his non Pino bike at Roseburn park followed by Wilmington ' s Cow on Corstorphine Rd, where he was good enough to slow down for us to chat.
This may make up for my inability to spot another CCE'rs on yesterday's ride.
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Into the blinding setting sun tonight on the towpath robbyvecchio, someone behind robby who spotted me, Greenroofer in resplendent hi-viz Lincoln green, hat and jacket and Finally Snowy.
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@gembo - on evenings like that I'm grateful that I commute with my back to the rising or setting sun. It was a lovely evening though and it illuminated your stylish pink top very elegantly.
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Did encourage me to take a very long route home, ending with ascent of ravelrig hill with two panniers and spike tyre. Was getting cold but feint dusting of snow and the bales of hay that have been left in the field all winter made for a backdrop the Rapha models could be photographed on.
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@gembo - that was me; very happy to have spotted you before you spotted me. A great evening and the towpath was busy.
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@chrisfl, good to piece that together. Don't think you had the kids with you last night?
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@gembo sorry I didn't recognize you. I heard somebody calling my user name on the canal, I thought I was imagining it.
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Shock horror, gembo goes unrecognised!
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@hankchief, given you had done a 200 the day before, and you were on a small wheeled tandem with a tag along, my hopes to get 20 miles each day on the commute this week paled somewhat.
I was also back onto the heavy commuter today, with a rubbing brake I need to sort, and an unexpected headwind, so a burgeoning optimism about improving fitness with my new big commute has been quelled after two weeks on the cross bike.
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Welcome back WC
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@gembo - Yes, not kids yet. I pick them up just before the aqueduct.
I also should say hello to robyvecchio who I guess I was following.
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@chrisfl, you were in a convoy of three or four and just behind robbyvecchio.
This morning from hermiston to the aqueduct on the tow path I counted 50 cyclists heading west. I saw no one heading east until the straight stretch before the aqueduct where there was one person I had caught up on a little.
I stopped counting on the aqueduct as more concentration was required from that point onwards
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was a bit later this morning so 36 westward cyclists between hermiston and aqueduct. JDanielP was 35th (I usually see him at Harrison Gdns).
If you give me ceteris paribus (you might as well, I recognise almost all of them) 14 RBS staff had already made it to GSR before I hit the towpath. I mean in realation to the 50 I counted yesterday
THe senior cyclist comes off at Cultins, she is not counted in this tally.
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Was that Wilmington's Cow going east along Gorgie Road about 6pm behind a pair of bright front lights and making the awkward move right to go straight on at the Balgreen Road junction?
I was going the other way, unlit, in a stripy hat.Posted 8 years ago # -
:)
Yip, that would have been me. It 'is' slightly awkward there, but I think I've got round to sussing it / not caring if motorists get annoyed with me moving over early-ish.
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This morning at 9am, I saw a guy unicycling down Lothian Rd on a massive unicycle, doing his commute and dodging the buses! It's that kind of random bonkers act that makes me happy to live in Edinburgh.
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I was back at my before 8 time slot on canal today and remarkably similar number heading west - 49. No 18 was the happiest cyclist in Edinburgh - Big Ged, I took the liberty of informing him I paid 3125 for a pair of lovely gore waterproof trews from his shoppe recently
THe number heading east was again Zero (I had been overtaken on the road before accessing the towpath and caught up with someone who came onto the canal at the WoL footbridge)
JDanielP was way back nearer Lochrin, well before he could spot any kingfishers that he would forget to tell me about
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I still think jdanielp is playing an elaborate kingfisher-related joke on us all.
And you overpaid for your trees.
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Any blue item eg an old pool shoe, a Rangers rosette, a garter etc is classed as a kingfisher by jdanielp. Though in his defence numbers are on the up.
I paid a lot for my trees, about £60 a tonne bag, two minimum. Whisky staves, burn slow and warm. The gore trews I have seen cheaper but wiggle had them for 139.99 so EBC were ten per cent cheaper and it is several years since anyone in there pissed me off. Good banter from David. Big GED giving out FREEBIES every bike brekkie, a kind of co.-op ALL good. Though I understand I am their demographic.
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A be-bromptoned Fimm yesterday on Dalry Road. Mr MeepMeep and I were on foot. I don't think you'd have known who I was so I didn't wave.
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You are probably right (I have an awful memory for names and faces).
Have an internet wave, instead :-)Posted 8 years ago # -
gembo on Gilmore Place this morning, which is the first time I have spotted him other than on the canal towpath.
After my first spot of a kingfisher a few years ago I did go through a phase of excitedly 'spotting' it again, only to realise that it was a plastic bag, disposable cup etc. I have only ever posted about confirmed kingfisher spots!
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@jdanp only towpath this morn was Allan park to lift bridge, I was in a hurry to get to northfield via holyrood park. On return I checked the skelf. Still just dog walkers no one actually stopping etc.
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Two Bromptons on my way to work on my Brompton this morning. One reddish/purplish/pinkish one on Ashley Terrace and a dark-coloured one heading towards Heriot Watt on Gogar Station Road (actually, this one might not have been a Brompton as it was some way off, but there aren't many other bikes I know of with wheels that small).
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Brompton begat Brompton
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Oh yes, and on my way home this evening I was toiling my unwell way very slowly up the hill on Gogar Station Road from the M8 Bridge to the Canal when I was overtaken by a chap on a nice brown bike with bullhorn handlebars. If I didn't know any better I'd say it was a Kaff like @WC has shared pictures of. I'm guessing he was on a singlespeed due to the effort he was making to get up the hill.
Shortly after he'd gone by, as I wound my way up the hill, a runner came past me. She was going at the kind of pace you'd expect someone who runs home from work would go (quickish, in other words) but it was still a little humiliating to be overtaken by someone on foot...
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