@edd1e_h any sign of bicycle spaces in the fitted units? I Tweeted Virgin Trains to make sure to consider bicycles when they were announcing this new model last year.
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@jdanielp
One of the sets could have carried 100s of bikes in its present condition, as it was devoid of seats.
The other (fitted with seats) I couldn't see well enough as we were starting to slowly build speed in our 30 odd year old Intercity 125.
Car ads all seem to feature bikes & swimming pools these days. It's one of my bug bears theyalways show cars in unrealistic situations e.g. one car pulling up outside the school on the school run, while pedestrianating pupils look on in envy... (VW faux 4x4 ad)
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"30 odd year old Intercity 125"
Maybe 40 odd!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity_125
After this week's PR coup 'steam loco on scheduled service for first time in 50 years' I looked back to 1968 and found that one of the last BR locos at 'end of steam' was only 20 years - and scrapped soon after.
Oliver Cromwell was only 17, but that's still working (and visiting Edinburgh occasionally).
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"Car ads all seem to feature bikes & swimming pools these days"
Inc bikes ridden by Bradley W.
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Pulled up at a red light on Montrose Terrace (city bound) about 7:15 this morning. A strung out line of 8 cyclists passed in front, going from Easter Road over and down Abbeymount. I didn't get the impression they were a group or tour. Often see two or three there, never a line like that!
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Probably belongs on a more appropriate thread, but anyway:
@edd1e_h any sign of bicycle spaces in the fitted units? I Tweeted Virgin Trains to make sure to consider bicycles when they were announcing this new model last year.
Three years ago, the CTC (with input from various people including Tulyar and me) tested the bike spaces on the IEP prototype mock-up for different sizes and types of bikes. The approach to different TOCs is to have bike spaces and luggage spaces and toilets all modular, with different trainsets configured appropriately.
The bike spaces will be hanging, and somewhat more accessible than those on a Class 220 Voyager:
https://twitter.com/transportgovuk/status/639504300532740096/photo/1
which, I am reliably informed, is an accurate depiction.
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The bike space looks dismal be lucky to fit one bike in that hanger, looks like least bike space yet if the train only has one of those racks per train, Although I suppose the crux may be what extra unofficial space can be used.
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I saw someone this morning turn right from Newington Road to Salisbury place riding a cool looking orange Genesis. He entered the ASL on the inside of the leading car and bunny-hopped sideways a coupe of time to get a good position on the right, then did about a minute and a half of flawless trackstanding and then shot off right with serious acceleration when the lights changed .... if that was you.. kudos
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No attempt by gembo for a high five this morning, probably because we passed each other at one of the narrowest parts of the towpath where a corner of the Boroughmuir worksite fence is currently protruding well onto the usual route.
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Well known muscle guy with two litre water bottle who previously roared the word 'nipples' at me sunning himself topless in front of City Chambers wearing a Russian army hat.
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@jdanielp - was tight but fortnuately the removal of the vegetation did not narrow the path in the way I thought it looked in the photos earlier.
@IWRATS - was quite sunny earlier. Yer muscle man has taken too many steroids injected straight into his brain.
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@gembo
Lovely it was. He slapped his chest a few times in a friendly 'anyone fancy a sauna?' kind of way.
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@ Iwrats did he have his rolled up trousers on? not quite shorts and yet not quite trousers? More like Bay City Rollers breeks rolled up a bit?
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Standard shorts I think. He spends his afternoons in the National Library, where he looks very hard at one book for hours on end.
Oddly, he is very 'well spoken'. Must be quite a back story.
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He does everything VERY HARD
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His special trick when seated at a library table is to pick the table up and move it sideways to reach a book, like the table was the carriage of a typewriter. Those tables weigh a tonne.
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That's steroids for you
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Maybe with the sun bathing he was after vit D to stave off a cold?
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Spotted a long term forum member walking down MMW encumbered with a baby. I was heading up hill chasing micro-srd who was in his own bike (and possibly invisible). I know his name irl, but can't recall username. Glasgow-dwelling, recumbent-rider, long brown australian style raincoat (that's how I knew it was him).
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Darksider?
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yes! how could I forget that. thanks gembo. it was indeed darksider.
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Or darkerside?
I feel responsible for the Dri-za-bone Oz outback coat.
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Indeed, reciprocated spot of a flock of Dormans. The long coat (it's actually Barbour, but same idea) is the ideal baby-wearing garment in Scottish weather...
I'm glad my sartorial choices have reached the stage of notoriety :)
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@darkerside, I think your wife nailed it in her description, which due to being a bit early on a Sunday morning,i shall not repeat
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A high five with gembo earlier. My brain was running too slowly this morning to process his question as to whether Lower Gilmore Place is open today (it isn't) unfortunately.
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yeah but my question was actually a piece of info about the aqueduct being open but you figured that out same as I did by observing the lack of fence
I went left at lift bridge (only occasionally does my route take me right there and only go straight if on hack bike as do not like the cobbles)
Noted the barge cafe has re-opened and it is like summer again
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BOFFOF and I had coffee at the canal boat cafe on Sunday and sat out in the sun.
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Saturday early afternoon;
1) a tandem recumbent just after the Leamington Lift Bridge - I did not know such things existed - marvelous stuff.
2) and then a single recumbent pulling a trailer up South Bridge - that looked hard work.
3) an urban arrow chained up outside the sauna on London St - understand if this spot remains unclaimed.
Surely a couple of CCE'ers in this lot.
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The tandem recumbent would be Mr and Mrs Laidback (I have seen another one, but that was in Italy).
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The single recumbent with trailer might've been Rugg Tomcat, OTP. Dark silver bike and an aluminium box trailer.
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