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resolvedYes... I didn't quite register and then realised.... The Bread St lane has been helped with 20mph signs painted in the contra direction although some cars seem to think it's a one way street.
I came back through Cowgate and had to stop to see these.
I don't know if they use them in the street or on stage. They look bathroom related with so much plastic.
Sinclair C5s supporting Tutti Fringe Act by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr
Jolly chat with mr and Mrs hankchief and the hankchief lets on Royal mile. I was with no 1 son. We spotted a tiger going inside a dragon. The HCs went off for a closer look due to will and strength of one particular chief let.
SRD and family in rain at corner of West Nicholson Street earlier.
You had disappeared in direction of Potterrow by the time I got there.
I was sourcing beers for our nice lunch in Beirut.
We were collecting a bike from cycle service!
Meadowbank, I presume?
https://twitter.com/the__racers/status/763854514290057216
gembo, just as I was starting the ascent into the wind at Craiglockhart, looking dapper (gembo, not me) in an orange (Morvelo?) jersey. He bade me with 'double yooooo seeeeee', and I managed a 'mornin'' in return. There was no high five, with a lot of road between us.
@Stickman, I really need to keep an eye out for you on that section of West Coates when I go that way....
chrisfl and passengers admiring the view from Slateford Aqueduct. I caught up as they set off again heading west and was alarmed and awed to see Chris navigate around a cyclist who pulled over on the curved exit of aqueduct. We had a quick chat as I overtook and headed for work where my computer has finally given up...
Had reciprocal spots with steveo the past few days, mostly on the Stenhouse-Balgreen bicycle expressway.
While coming back from Glasgow on Wednesday, I spotted the little NCB Hunslet 0-6-0ST no.19 with a few carriages, tootling west towards Manuel on the branchline to Bo'ness.
@WC
I was being very Zen as had been cut up by fast guy accelerating out of Criaglockart side street in front of me but coming off the hill I was cruisng and overtook him without pedalling which incited him to bomb it but as I was using all mindfulness ninja I thought, if he goes left at mini-roundabout this will all be lovely. He did. I went straight ahead.
Many vehicles also behaving atrociously but I am so zen after two days off I cannot remember the details.
Top is orange but not Morvelo. Hopefully easier to discern the writing on canal towpath, several of us on there with same top. COmes from cycle jersey folk who do the tunnocks teacake (now has three quarter zip which is good).
Safety, it's just about what you wear...
Chrisfl and stoker Polwarth ( we were - gasp- in a car)
David Laidback smashing it through lights at longstone (from top of the 44) 14.30
Outside chance of an IWRATS on apex of the footbridge over the A70 and down to canal. 16.00
@gembo
Alas not I, IWRATS. Rats.
Was just outside chance seen from the back of a speeding Buick. Ah well a Toyota Yaris observing the speed limit
I'm at home, studying maps;
LaidBack on the links as I headed back out of town - 2 Fuegos going in opposite directions. Nice wee chat. I'm sure the festivalgoers thought we were a double act of some kind with identical strange contraptions.
One is large and other medium frame so almost identical - apart from frame colour (!) Plus yours has extras that people will also spot I expect.
Good to see you out on your commute home. No doubt you'll share how your multi-modal route is working out.
chap on a black-ish genesis bike and wearing black top/shorts heading from FRB/South Queensferry this morning to haymarket area about 7:30/8 - I followed about 20 yards behind all the way....I wasn't chasing you (honest guv) it just so happened that over that 8-10 mile stretch we appeared to be travelling at exactly the same speed!!
Gembo yesterday morning again, this time at the top of the climb up Craiglockhart, so either I was faster than the previous day, or had left the house earlier.
Hart's Cyclery just now, but then I was in Hart's Cyclery, being taught about current SRAM groupsets and brakes, so it wasn't really a surprise.
This morning I wondered why a chap on an MTB, with flats and so on, was keeping pace with me (and this was just after someone had been drafting me for a mile or so through out our of Roseburn, so I was getting a complex) when I noticed the massive rear hub and the battery pack on the downtube. The driver had very, very little road sense.
I spotted Dave heading through Slateford this morning on his bike with the custom sized wheels.
@WC I left the house slightly later but was on a different route than the previous spot last Friday when I was off to orthodontist at morningside so intersected with you at an earlier part of your route on the Friday. Yesterday I was heading right at the firrhill roundabout and onwards to braid hills drive and up to the top of Edinburgh at balm well.
I did have the same jersey on.
Today, different jersey but was later as Mrs G not into the swing of things getting back to her work so she left her piece that I had made her on the bunker (my homemade wholemeal bread, Brie and caramelised onion chutney).. Bunker is a newtongrange word for working surface that I have recently learnt.
Anyway I had to head to another top of Edinburgh spot to deliver the missus's pieces.
This meant i encountered a far worse selection of dog walkers on the WOL path. Ok they were all fine with me as I stopped for their errant pooches. But one guy was having a good go at a woman with two dogs who claimed she could not pick up the poo because she could not find it. He said he would pick it up for her later.
So goes the quotidian variations in our commutes.
Around 5:20 I passed the end of Bernard Terrace heading north in St Leonard's. A car turning right from Bernard Terrace almost hit the cyclist turning right onto Bernard Terrace - almost exactly as in one of @WC's videos IIRC. I slowed and allowed the rider (who looked a lot like @crowriver but don't think it was) to cross as he was in no man's land. As I passed a cyclist and taxi were having a discussion - not sure what about exactly..... all very eventful, was wondering if either of the other cyclists were on here
Extra-stupid looking car* with an extra-stupid screechy engine that the driver seemed to be employing in extra screechy mode while sitting in a hardly moving queue on North Bridge. You'd have been much quicker with a bike pal. [/unimpressed]
*It was so flat to the ground that I think the drivers ego must have landed on it at some point.
@algo, not me as I was sunning myself on Porty beach at the time. Does sound very eventful though.
"A car turning right from Bernard Terrace almost hit the cyclist turning right onto Bernard Terrace"
I got hit in this exact situation once. Not a fun junction.
@Min Possibly it was your disdain rather than his ego? Most amusing in any case.
@Frenchy, you're not the only one - this is the video algo was talking about (starts just before getting hit, don't know what was going on with the camera, but I'd been sitting directly in front of the guy for ages waiting to turn in).
IWRATS @Min Possibly it was your disdain rather than his ego? Most amusing in any case.
Oh I would love to be able to crush cars with my disdain! :-D
A guy cycling from Aloa to North Wales (possibly to visit Mrs Trellis?) parked up at Musselburgh beach where we had gone to swim, wetsuits in the trailer style.
I dunno how the trip will go - he unpacked two massive panniers and a rucksack to get out a full tool roll of ring spanners, removed the back wheel and proceeded to change a spoke. Many people wouldn't cycle to work on the bike he was off across several countries on. Good luck to him....
I was going to try to riff on Aloa being in Hawaii but that is just a greeting aloha.
However on googling Aloa is a small serious Maine coon cattery.
Second time I have seen a reference to largest breed of domestic moggy in a week. They are like small lions.
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