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resolvedWell they do - just that they are retro styled and 3 times the price (with better brakes though).
..and they don't last as long (I am sure) :-P
The brakes seem pretty good on this although I didn't ride it doon the brae*
* as this expression caused confusion last time I used it I mean ridden it down an extremely steep hill that I would definitely be pushing this bike back up.
Curiously the shifters have been converted from down tube to brakes.
That is not very curious. I converted the down tube shifters on my Orbit to the bar ends. It is way better.
Ah, I should explain. Min. It is a very old very skinny abandoned Peugeot racing bicycle. Given the neglect, abandonment and age I found it somewhat curious that it did not still ,have the shifters on the down tube. I will bring it to the next PY by cycling to work, locking up my own bike then pedalling it up, having a coffee then cycling it back if anyone wants a shot?
Oh okay, I understand. I would not have bothered to do that on my old Peugeot racer. And if I did I would definitely not have abandoned it.
Thanks min, I shall try harder in future to be clear.
Crowriver, at the top of the west of the prom?
Indeed it was: I spotted you first though! :-)
Also, kaputnik plus mini-kaputnik on Crawford Bridge...
A winged pig in a food emporium. I am not sure I was instantly recognisable since I was not clutching a Surly and wearing a bike cap? I was clutching a pannier though, but with a shoulder strap so also not really very recognisable..
You were recognisedeven without the characteristic pattern of square reflectives on your running-coat. Apologies for not muttering anything comprehensible.
Urban Arrow (weezee?), Tandem with special high level rear child pedals and a Bakfiets at the EMF races today.
Strangely on the way out we also spotted a folding bike ... on a roof rack.
Apologies for not muttering anything comprehensible.
That's okay. Being jumped by a random acquaintance in a food emporium is a bit incomprehensible anyway.
I was doing my Bikeability assistant course in Marchmont this afternoon (lots of carefully hand signalling and pronounced looking) and looked up at one point to see a shape that looked very like @spytfyre + tagalong heading south west along Merchiston Crescent. Was it?
A little while later we were passed by a gent escorting a child on a balance bike. He was pushing a lovely black bike with dynamo, Alfine hub gear and Hebe chainglider: looked like a lovely low-maintenance commuter bike.
There is a spanking new Croix de fer with very clean chain. Appears to have been transported from purchase site to rack and left unused. It is locked though.
New owner taking 'bike to work' literally?
New kids on the block in Edinburgh. Jinn carries (almost) everything - not just food.
Jinn - vs - Deliveroo by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
New walking route in Duddingston.
Duddingston Conservation Society Community Garden by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
I think I spotted the guy in the photo to the right in Lochend Park this morning.
Were you the person trapped behind the small cluster of people and the angry dog-walker near the bench opposite the herons?
Yup! The angry dog walker's dog had chased an absent dog walker's dog into the bench.
A flamboyant high-five with gembo this morning to welcome me back to the towpath commute after a very Nice holiday.
A very lovely Paper Bike was parked outside the Murrayfield CC meeting last night. Which of the Lycra-clad speeding Spokes members does it belong to?
A large-ish number of cyclists going past as I cooked up breakfast by the canal to the west of the bypass, including one chap I used to work with a couple of years back (who I thankfully recognised just in time, partly due to his Clarion jersey) who stopped for a chinwag.
Not quite the views of when I used to do that on the slopes of Arthur's Seat, but pleasant nonetheless - will be pondering other close-to-work locations for the rest of the summer.
A very lovely Paper Bike
Guilty, it's mine.
I proceeded home by racing up the empty bus lane sat bolt upright with only one hand on the handlebars. It was like a scene from the Tour de France.
I had a workplace community service day yesterday in the sun at the Vat Run in South Queensferry, attempting to lay a new wheelchair accessible path as only unfit, desk-bound office drones know how.
Spotted a chap in a brown Ardbeg cycling Jersey morning and evening in pretty much the same place on the A90-side path. There seemed to be a glimmer of recognition.
Very profitable ride home on the towpath tonight.
The melodious bell told me that jdanielp was overtaking out by Wester Hailes (although it did sound a bit as if the bell was less melodious than I recall. I think my first one of those went the same way and started clonking more than it dinged).
At the Meggetland exit I was slightly behind a recumbent trike that turned off the canal and headed up Colinton Road. I was going the other way and never got close enough to see if I recognised the pilot.
A woman leaving work ahead of me had a baguette sticking out of her pannier. I said she looked very french, and she replied that it would be a bit bent by the time it got home.
@Greenroofer I need to insert something into the screw thread of the bell to keep it tight - the paper that I used originally seems to have disintegrated. Also, the top of the bell has become skewed, possibly as a result of another bike having been lent against it at the rack at work. I suspect that both of these things are affecting its tone.
I was quite surprised by how busy the towpath was and how quickly the vegetation between the path and the canal has regrown since it was cut recently after having been away for a mere week and a half.
Klaxon (now that I know his CCE handle rather than his Twitter one), opposite the Roseburn Bar / Tesco yesterday afternoon, filming with his camera.
Well I've never spotted Klaxon or his twitter handle, but I can now at least match the pair together :)
I think I spotted Jackson Priest? on his way west on the NEPN this morning around 08:40 by Granton Rd?
Female cyclist dressed in pink and white on Dahon waved as I was going semi-low down MMW.
Realised it was SRD but not in cycling clothes. No chaingaurd though - could be risky on white items....!
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