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  1. Klaxon
    Member

    I have forgotten your alias, but you were sat to my left for quite some time at Akva

    Spotted sat on a bench in Juniper Green with bicycle at about ten past three.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. Ed1
    Member

    That would be me I was at Iceland and stopped for lunch

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. LaidBack
    Member

    University of Edinburgh School of Informatics has some larger two wheelers in bike park today. No bike racks are being blocked and one Vespa and Triumph hardly make a trend. Motorbike use has taken off slightly but still a long way behind bikes in city.
    Fully expect larger electric machines to be a trend in future though.


    Two wheeled zone - University of Edinburgh School of Informatics
    by LaidBackBikes, on Flickr

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. Greenroofer
    Member

    Older couple today with the lean build and nice steel bikes typical of experienced cycle tourists. His bike was particularly impressive: a lovely shiny dynamo on the front hub and a bottle of red in his seat tube bottle cage.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. chdot
    Admin

    At least some LB drivers leave room for filtering, in spite of the unfriendly official notice -

    (Maybe they are not supposed to?)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. paddyirish
    Member

    Peter Sagan lookalike on the path above Cramond Brig this morning. No wheelies though...

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. DaveC
    Member

    Is this they guy who usually rides slieveless?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. jdanielp
    Member

    I only seem to spot Big John on the canal towpath once every week or two these days. He says that he will be appearing in court tomorrow as a witness to threatening behaviour and pavement cycling which occurred in the vicinity of Inglis Green Road about eight months ago.

    I have spotted two in-line skaters this week as well, which is two more than usual. One late on Monday night hurtling along the pavement on Earl Gray Street and one this morning on the towpath by Gogar Station Road Bridge.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. DaveC
    Member

    Delivery type cycle - outside Suol Cycles, on Google maps:

    https://goo.gl/maps/nCgitFoC7ot

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. friskiffla
    Member

    spotted SRD powering up Argyle Place earlier this evening. I was going to shout a hello but I am not a confident shouter.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. Greenroofer
    Member

    I was using the new segregated path from the Innocent to the Meadows this evening (and it was rather wonderful). As well as a steady stream of commuter-types and a man towing a trailer with two children inside, I passed a very low recumbent towing an aluminium box trailer and piloted by a chap with reddish hair and a beard.

    If it was you, I was the one with a bright yellow h*lm*t, yellow glasses and a blue B'Twin jersey on a muddy road bike (also from Decathlon). I would have been wearing a B'Twin helmet too, but they don't fit me.

    Anyone who thinks that segregated paths are pointless should be made to go an stand on the Meadows-Innocent one at rush hour. "If you build it, they will come".

    Posted 7 years ago #
  12. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I passed a very low recumbent towing an aluminium box trailer and piloted by a chap with reddish hair and a beard

    Ruggtomcat, occasionally of this parish.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  13. chdot
    Admin

    "occasionally of this parish"

    Perhaps 'previously of this parish'

    Posted 7 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    Too busy playing with fire to come on here any more?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  15. gembo
    Member

    Corking spot this morning. I was building up to full steam (in my head) and was passed by a nippy wee guy who cycles in Scotland rugby shorts and has sticky out arms and less so legs. Wee rucksack, skinny tyres no grip. Anyway minutes later he was passed by chap with Orange ortlieb panniers draughtng a tipper truck. I though a. Nippy wee guy won't like this. And b. I recognise the lugs on that lorry drafter.

    Due to the schafenfreude of the Lanark road lights I nearly caught these speedsters at gill espies X roads and then properly at slateford. The lorry drafter I noticed had a hand held hog bristle brush on his rack (I am guessing to sweep the glass from NEPN). I was heading up to canal via slateford station so I declined to shout out DAVE

    Posted 7 years ago #
  16. crowriver
    Member

    robyvecchio of this parish, yesterday about 11.30am, on MacDonald Road, heading east. I was taking bairns out to Fife via NEPN, A90 path and FRB: big one on his own bike and little one on tagalong. I did wave but don't think you recognised me in my cycling cap!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  17. chdot
    Admin

    "skinny tyres no grip"

    Urban myth.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  18. gembo
    Member

    Skinny tyres, no knobbly bits, sorry, admit not accurate enough there

    Posted 7 years ago #
  19. acsimpson
    Member

    Little late but...

    Hankchief finishing off his handiwork on Maybury Road. Thanks.

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17065

    Posted 7 years ago #
  20. DaveC
    Member

    Wingpig cycling near the Red Bridge on the NEPN.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  21. wingpig
    Member

    Did that person just in front of you know you were there?
    Thought I'd also spotted other Dave somewhere round Wardie Road, but then definitely saw him further anticlockwise, so beware someone with the same head-motion and style of gear.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  22. DaveC
    Member

    Dave has dynamo lights so pretty easy to spot, plus rides a blue? Planet X.

    I suspect the people ahead of me know there is someone behind them, my light is there and I make noises...

    Posted 7 years ago #
  23. DaveC
    Member

    Spotted on the Forth Road Bridge, a walking cyclist who has had 2 punctures near or on the bridge. Stopped and gave him a spare tube.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  24. algo
    Member

    Saw these two beautiful Shand bikes earlier, plus a nice steel-framed something else sandwiched between....

    Posted 7 years ago #
  25. gembo
    Member

    Spotted this forum getting mentioned on cycle law Scotland Facebook page advertising their successful claim against council for very slippy so called anti-skid surface at craigleith, involving FOI and the info commissioner

    Posted 7 years ago #
  26. chdot
    Admin

    Link to post?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  27. SRD
    Moderator

  28. ih
    Member

    That's good work from Cycle Law Scotland and a bit shameful from the Council and their insurers. I've often wondered why that section has a different surface. Is it genuinely an attempt to prevent skids as it's a downhill slope, or is it to indicate priority over the main Roseburn Path?

    Change of subject: @algo great picture, for some reason I really like the symmetry created by the front two bikes!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  29. chdot
    Admin

    Think this is a different off -

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12663

    Posted 7 years ago #
  30. chdot
    Admin


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