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Trip hazard
Wheelbender
Shoddy installBINGO
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Family SRD with bicycles heading in the direction of Evans from the canal towpath a little earlier as I was doing the reverse, albeit without a bicycle.
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@acsimpson's tag along combo at Barnton shops this morning & a torpedo'd @arellcat deep in conversation on Bruntsfield links this afternoon.
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@jdanielp a combination of an spd-shoe-trying-on expedition and a teach micro-SRD how to ride his new bike.
someone else spotted me on the way back - piosad maybe?
i was wearing my new 'lumos' helmet and got many comments on it. including a woman in Evans who chased me across the store to find out how to get one.
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Afraid I didn't spot you in return, Hankchief. I was on my way home from a jaunt to West Linton and was trying to have a conversation but the lady's two dogs kept barking because they didn't know that the torpedo wasn't an even bigger animal.
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West Linton by Quest? Today's ride thread topic I hope, if it was 'nice'.
Was working today - short tour with a Danish WAW velo owner. He was trying the carbon Encore. He'll be back again - daughter at Uni here.
NiallA from forum spotted us on prom.Posted 7 years ago # -
Whilst waiting at the crossroads in Gilmerton, out of the corner of my eye I spotted a car undertaking me. Turned round to discover it wasn't a car, but a woman in a bright red recumbent "torpedo". I think I gave a surprised "hello".
I'm guessing this was you, Arellcat?
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None other, Frenchy!
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Pretty certain I spotted Wilmington's Cow on the BBC series "The River", participating in the Love Cross event...
Robert
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Red tandem minus stoker, at the roundabout with Broughton Street / East London Street.
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@Weezee Urban Arrowing the Weezettes past the National Library science and maps building yesterday after lunch.
I think - only ever really seen @Weezee properly in fancy dress for PoP...
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Klaxon on a PB at NMS ASL.
UA parked in Festival Square (Not Weezee's).
Chris from Cycle Service on STV Edinburgh station ID.Posted 7 years ago # -
Hankchief and the chieflets on Cumlodden Avenue. Today rocking the dynamo lights on the big bike.
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PG tips with his Christmas bobble hat on (no helmet) riding down that high quality piece of cycle infrastructure that is known as Telfer subway steps.
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chrisfl and a seemingly non-stoking passenger on the canal towpath just west of the aqueduct, but no deer; maybe the noise of Chris' winter tyres scared them off?
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I now commute via the WOL and the canal - Looking forward to some friendly spots! Anyone any advice on best times to hit the canal to avoid the "morning rush"
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@arobcomp
You want to be beyond craiglockhart on the towpath before 8.30
If heading east there is no traffic at all heading your way until the aqueduct.
This time of year WoL path bit muddy. Not as bad this year as I have seen. My route is road to longstone then up onto canal at slateford station. This avoids the aqueduct. If you are mad keen on WoL path take it to the footbridge over A70 then come off there on to the road. Schlepp down to slateford station on the road then back up onto the canal. As you want to avoid the aqueduct in my opinion.
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I'm beginning to suspect that it's the cobbles on the aqueduct that are pulling all the studs out of my tyres. I might try gembo's route (albeit in reverse) to see if it saves my studs.
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P.S. While on George Street this evening I passed a cargo bike with a wooden low box on the front. Not an Urban Arrow.
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Yesterday morning spotted UtrechtCyclist on one of his last commutes, cycling on the footway.
Yesterday evening spotted single, solitary, pointing the wrong way, shared use sign at the other end of the
footwayshared use facility.Yes, there are Sustrans route signs, but I'd always read them as being for cyclists on the carriageway...
Thanks to UtrechtCyclist for now making my Leuchars-St Andrews rides much more pleasant!
Robert
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Saw the red tandem I mentioned up thread again in the same place, with a very small stoker at the back.
Realised my previous spot may have just missed the mini stoker.
A nice way to get to school.
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Someone who stopped me to ask what sort my bar-end shifters were.
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A couple canoodling on a bench at the Meadows crossroads with a black bakfiets propped behind them in a sales brochure photo-shoot kinda way.
Three uniformed police officers washing the carriageway of George IV Bridge, which was taped off northbound between Victoria Street and the High Street. I'd like to think they were back-filling for some road sweepers seconded to an elite hi-tech undercover police unit.
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@IWRATS
Sadly related to this:
"@edintravel
RTC George IV Bridge at Victoria Street - road is currently blocked for southbound traffic, emergency services on scene. #edintravel"
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@Stickman
Ah well. Hope it wasn't too grim.
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Chap on towpath this week (Monday) playing the B52s to augment his bell. Quite jolly.
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Walking past Falko's in Bruntsfield this morning I came across a charming pile of three Islabikes chained to a stand. They were in a neat stack like Russian dolls, ranging from teeny weeny to medium-sized.
One can infer a lot of things from that stack of bikes: I trust the lifestyle of the owners is as pleasant as it appears.
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