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  1. Nelly
    Member

    @Laidback "On way home.... think I saw Nelly warning taxi driver about cutting up his son near Forrest Rod"

    Yep - mentioned it on the bad driving thread.

    Sorry I didn't spot you Dave, and apologies for any fruity language heard !!

    We had a great day on the bikes yesterday - son practicing the skills they are learning at P6 bike training at Sciennes.

    That incident didn't put him off, he was just amazed at the pointlessness of the taxi passing us at warp speed, simply to be held up at the next lights.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Spotted in Kirk Yetholm - Christo wannabe or surrealist clamping operation?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    Nelly - Sorry I didn't spot you Dave, and apologies for any fruity language heard !!

    That's ok - was crossing on my feet first M5 at 'conflict island' as light went green. I did wonder whether I should have got off bike and doubled up your no-doubt justified criticism. But think he got message!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. jdanielp
    Member

    I was spotted by Green Councillor Gavin Corbett on the canal towpath this morning after chatting with him prior to the Harrison Park PoP feeder ride on Saturday morning. I fear that I wouldn't have spotted him if he hadn't beat me to it since we passed each other under a bridge and my eyes were still adjusting when I heard his greeting.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Spotted Dave out for a lunchtime run along the NEPN. About five minutes later I was spotted by Dave, who'd made up all time I'd gained by having wheels and aerodynamics and then lost by having become engaged in conversation about the strange red torpedo thing.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  6. jdanielp
    Member

    A rare spot of gembo on the way home and my first spot of Chug since meeting him.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Yes I was off to decathlon they are selling the pink grapefruit gels I favour for 80p. All other flavours also 80p sport in science brand or maybe I mean pretend science in sport? Or if not fussy you can get 7 of same gels in a box of mixed flavours for £4.99 or 71p each. Curiously their tablets for rehydration or energy or whatever are £6.99. Nice liner gloves for £4.50 and a pair of dark sunglasses £4 which I bizarrely needed as the sun was bright on the canal then raveltrig hill after decathlon. I resisted some new waterproof shoes as my better half has been ultra critical of a pair of merrell from that very shoppe. They had no waterproof socks, I have lost one of my Aldi ones.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. paddyirish
    Member

    @gembo

    two "free" packs of SIS tablets.

    I tried these. You need to pay £4 postage or spend £10 to get free postage

    Was in decathlon earlier in the week- got a pair of shorts and their ultra light gilet (weighs less than a bag of crisps and folds up smaller too)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    @paddyirish, yes saw that a wee while back on Facebook but failed at first hurdle of registering with them as I thought sod this, I'll get them just as cheap in decathlon. Need them for Saturday now so will have to go Evans RA morra

    Posted 8 years ago #

  10. HankChief
    Member

    Gembo: If it the Grapefruit SIS you like you can have mine...

    I get the multipacks of 7 different flavours & if a grapefruit one gets pulled out of my pocket it usually get returned unless I'm really bonking...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    Ok hankchief now we need five other people to join our cartel all who do not like pink grapefruit flavour and we can reassemble with me getting seven pink grapefruit, though I admit I bought a pineapple one and a berry one too for variety.

    There is another brand I heard tell of who do a rhubarb and custard one. I would like that if anyone reading has them but doesn't like them?

    The sis double espresso gel is ghastly

    Posted 8 years ago #

  12. wingpig
    Member

    @gembo Have you worn your blue trainers yet?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  13. gembo
    Member

    @wingpig, only to put the bins out but they seem well made, light and not bad for £12.99. Also fit but on the narrow side?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  14. Rob
    Member

    Recumbent on NEPN heading towards red bridge. Anyone here?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 8 years ago #

  16. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    The sis double espresso gel is ghastly

    @Jacksonpriest used to carry these and referred to them as "the nuclear option", a last resort. Truly vile.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  17. Stickman
    Member

    Hart's Cyclery today on his very cool bike with the front rack.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    Developers are using a very large poster of a bicycle to encourage people to come and have a look at harvesters way in wester hailes

    Posted 8 years ago #

  19. unhurt
    Member

    Yesterday in Stockbridge - a youngish chap washing his bike in the Water of Leith just down from the Stockbridge bridge. He was using a dish brush!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  20. LaidBack
    Member

    Erob - Recumbent on NEPN heading towards red bridge. Anyone here?

    Dave maybe if two wheeled. NEPN is a regular cycling and running route for him.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  21. Neil
    Member

    Friendly bunch of cyclists stopping to regroup at Harperrig on A70 heading in Edinburgh direction (as was I)

    Actually I don't think I came across any grumpy cyclists that didn't return a wave today.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  22. steveo
    Member

    Arellcat trying to negotiate the cobbles at lochrin basin and laidback explaining his bicycle to small one in same place. I was hiding in the establishment formally known as Cargo.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  23. jdanielp
    Member

    Almost nobody else on their commute this morning.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  24. amir
    Member

    Apparently it's a Bank Holiday - hence the downpour

    Posted 8 years ago #

  25. wingpig
    Member

    "He was using a dish brush!"

    They're OK for the frame and wheels even used dry, though perhaps a little stiff for anything aluminium with flaking paint. Back when I bothered cleaning my chain with any regularity I'd clamp the chain between a pair of nailbrushes.

    I only saw two other cyclists - one under the bridge at Abbeyhill and another going the other way along the Cowgate.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  26. dougal
    Member

    It was so quiet that I even got some space to ride without being hassled on the gauntlet between Leith Walk, Picardy Place, Leith Street. And that was me fighting a headwind too so not exactly speedy.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  27. jdanielp
    Member

    Oh, of the vehicular traffic that I did spot this morning there was a disproportional number of liveried supercars: a Ferrari and a Mercedes passed by in close formation on Teviot Place, followed by a pair of Lamborghinis heading up Leven Street as I waited at the red on Tarvit Street. I assume that this was the depature of the Gumball 3000. It would be unfortunate if any of them bottomed out into a pothole...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  28. cb
    Member

    chdot, Morningside Road.

    So far, so normal. But...

    Riding a Brompton??

    Posted 8 years ago #

  29. gembo
    Member

    @jdanielp - gumball, yes. The hoff was coming over from Belfast on the ferry last night so I guess his motor was in norn Irn

    @cb - woooo, heard of his penchant for Moulton but not of Brompton

    Posted 8 years ago #

  30. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 8 years ago #

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