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  • Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    Spotted a cyclist I know irl in a red Mac (Cambridge raincoat maybe?) and Brompton going up MMW as I went down, but can't remember her username!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. paddyirish
    Member

    @acsimpson on the A90 sliproad this morning. You'd just passed the bus shelter and about to begin the descent, I was the 2nd of two fellow red-topped cyclists.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  3. wingpig
    Member

    Insto crossing Queen Street.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I got spotted by a random genial middle aged guy in Gorgie clearly eckied out of his box but a keen fan of Marin frames. Rides a Trek himself, as the Marins are too dear.

    Also a shy young student smiled and said hello as she overtook me on her ill-sized student shonker going up Yeaman Place. Think she was embarassed going past an old guy in bicycle kit.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  5. MeepMeep
    Member

    Anth - sans bicycle - at Hermiston Gait this lunchtime.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  6. And in turn I spotted steveo.

    Should've shouted MeepMeep!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  7. DaveC
    Member

    Where is Steveo spotting MeepMeep when you need him?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  8. steveo
    Member

    Sorry guys

    /hangs head in shame

    Posted 8 years ago #
  9. LaidBack
    Member

    Anth on Lochrin Place yesterday around 5.30? On orange bike taking evasive action around mobile-using pedestrian. Was on foot other side of road.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  10. Yeah, shakedown of the new bike (probably its only every commute). Pedestrian was on the phone, and I'd slowed down on seeing that, then she looked back, made eye contact (I thought). Thankfully I didn't speed up and she then just stepped out into the street. Speaking Italian. They've got different road rules there (have driven into central Turin - it's mental).

    Posted 8 years ago #
  11. jdanielp
    Member

    A super-enthusiastic high five from an apparently time travelling gembo just along from the lifting bridge.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  12. DaveC
    Member

    spotted, ME!!! by a rider this morning, as I rode down to Cramond Brig. On a Blue road bike, newish looking road helmet and a bladder type bag. Dunno who it was, but 'Hi back at ya'!!

    I have looked at Strava flyby and See Scott was the helloer...

    Posted 8 years ago #
  13. chdot
    Admin

    Maybe someone who knows you off the telly...(?)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  14. DaveC
    Member

    He is of this parish.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  15. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    A dude on Mitel Wiese Weg doing that lovely thing of cycling along pushing a spare bike. I take absolutely any excuse to do that myself.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  16. gembo
    Member

    The old pushing a spare bike routine has died out. You used to see it all the time in the 1970s

    Posted 8 years ago #
  17. Greenroofer
    Member

    Micro-Greenroofer and I bumped into MrSRD and Micro-SRD at a Saturday morning activity that it transpires both Micros have been attending for years without either of us bumping into each other there before. We noted how there's always a fine display of quality children's bikes parked out the front (Islabike and Frog in abundance)...

    Posted 8 years ago #
  18. SRD
    Moderator

    On one block of Polwarth gardens - someone who must be mrs Chrisfl + stoker and childseat occupant. Then laidback heading in the opposite direction.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  19. chrisfl
    Member

    Yes, that was mrs chrisfl - I was following around 500m behind rapidly trying to catch up.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  20. Colonies_Chris
    Member

    LivD and family on the NEPN - sorry, I didn't realise it was you until I was past!

    Posted 8 years ago #
  21. PS at Callendar Park yesterday. Lways nice getting shots from folk you know as you race :)

    Posted 8 years ago #
  22. wingpig
    Member

    Morningsider this morning on Leamington Walk.

    On Leith Links yesterday afternoon there was a bloke on a bike which was emitting some sort of loudspeaker-derived musical noise. The bike was being leant against a range of lamp-posts and benches whilst its rider pottered about swinging a golf bat. He may have had balls but I don't recall hearing any of those thwack-pinging noises you sometimes hear when golfsters are golfering about.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  23. algo
    Member

    cycled alongside the "Necrobus" from Dundas Street to the top of the mound earlier - alarmingly pertinent name for a vehicle emitting that many particulates....

    Posted 8 years ago #
  24. LaidBack
    Member

    Mrs LB spotted around 9 from tram to work...

    Cyclist down at bottom of Lothian Road. Ambulance in attendance. Tram halted but not involved AFAIK. Hope whoever it is recovers soon.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  25. Greenroofer
    Member

    Slightly odd experience this evening. As I was crossing Morningside Drive this evening at about 1710 a bike came down the road heading East. Dropped bars and likely a steel-framed bike, and going at a fair speed with the high cadence of a 'serious' cyclist, but the pilot (male, light-coloured cropped hair) was dressed in normal clothes rather than lycra (dark-blue T-shirt, I think). The style of the cyclist and the bike had 'CCE regular' written all over them.

    We exchanged a 'Do I know you?' look, but although he was familiar, I didn't recognise him. He had an air of being @Wilmington's Cow, but wasn't.

    I was pushing a black flat-bar bike, dressed in a black/blue top and grey Vulpine cap, and accompanied by two children on scooters. Was it you who passed us?

    Posted 8 years ago #
  26. Hopey
    Member

    Got my new bike last month, been glued to it since.

    If you see this green machine out and about, say hi as I'll probably say hi to you. I apologise in advance for anything I do which warrants a mention in the "todays rubbish cycling" thread. Still relearning a lot of lessons having been off the saddle for years. Last week was particularly bad.

    Monday to Thursday I can be see cycling from Craigmillar to Leith (and Leith to Gorgie on Tuesdays due to meetings), and often out and about at the weekend. Photo was taken after a trip to the FRB last week.

    http://imgur.com/WBnWNz2

    Posted 8 years ago #
  27. gembo
    Member

    Hopey, will look out for you, maybe on the innocent, black Tricross.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  28. Frenchy
    Member

    Well used Much loved Helios tandem, and a completely unused soon to be much loved Urban Arrow at the Cycle Service.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  29. neddie
    Member

    laidback ghosting a ladies shopper gingerly down a greasy Leamington Tce.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  30. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 8 years ago #

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