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(14473 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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An overflow pipe giving pedestrians on Buccleuch Street a good shower.
Passing stranger took this as evidence that independence is a bad idea, and told me so.
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@Frenchy
I cycled through that and emerged singing God save The Queen.
Also lovely candy pink self-build fixie at Cameron Toll. Owner caught me perving it so I engaged him in bike chat. Powder coated by Pentland, they asked him three times before agreeing to the colour scheme.
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Roibeard wrangling with MY (the one I usually use) ticket machine in Waverley. The one next door was broken and I was practicing my "bed-shower-coffee-bagel-bike-ticket-lockup-onto train as fast as possible" routine so was cutting it too fine to stop and say hello.
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It took an unreasonable length of time for me to register that the bike next to mine on the train had no saddle... and no pedals... and no air... and was basically a frame on wheels. I spoke to the owner about his "minimalist" aesthetic and admitted it was a £10 frame he had acquired. I didn't know cheap 70s racer frames were available anywhere any more.
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Handcycle heading along Seafeild yesterday afternoon.
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Sorry ARobComp for missing you, I was mentally preparing for some training!
At the training, had mutual spot of the PoP chanteur (on here?).
Robert
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Spotted and had a nice wee chat with WC this morning along the Innocent. Also spotted Roibeard who was engrossed in conversation with a companion cyclists whilst slogging up Lauder Road.
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Sorry to have missed you amir - mini-Roibeard (Mark I) is not so mini...
Robert
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This morning a disconsolate looking chap on the towpath beyond the bypass, looking reasonably glumly at his studded tyres. Apparently he'd lowered the pressure in them and one had just rolled off the rim. He'd got it fixed by the time I stopped, so I commiserated with him on the essential futility of studded tyres this winter.
This afternoon in the new drying room at work, I spotted a number of items of very small cycling kit hanging up to dry. It looked to me as if someone had been taking their children to school on the bike in their foul weather gear, then had brought it all to the office to dry out. The new drying room is rather good, and got my stuff crispy dry today, so I'm assuming it did the same for theirs.
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the new drying room at work
Kindly supply a map or plan? Where could it be?
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@IWRATS - just across from the new changing room. Yes, that means we now have two sets of ladies' and gents' changing rooms and two drying rooms on site.
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Drying room. Luxury. Don't know you're born. We have to dry out wet clothes over a warm laptop.
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Warm laptop
I have a hole in't' floor the cold air blows through.
The office police told me I was to stop putting boxes over the vents but the vents stop at my desk (replaced by hole) then continue after my desk, shocker.
We have too many cyclists for a drying room I fear
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@Greenroofer
Palatial. Well done to all involved. Are you still a righty or have you defected to the new facility?
@Stickman
You barely have a changing room.
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Some details on the drying room would be good. and costs.
We are planning to badger our management to convert a cleaners cupboard into a drying room. Info might help!
Ta
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Greenroofer's original drying room is just a bare room fitted with wire cages that's been plumbed into the HVAC outlet line so there's always a cool breeze despite it being buried in the basement.
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"Wet cycling clothes at work: drying cabinet or other solution"
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Greenroofer's original drying room is just a bare room fitted with wire cages that's been plumbed into the HVAC outlet line so there's always a cool breeze despite it being buried in the basement.
We have one of those, but the ventilation is connected to the building system and not on an independent circuit. So when the building cold-air blowers are off (i.e. on anything that isn't a hot day), there's no breeze in the room. The heating is also seasonably inoperable depending on what's happening in the rest of the buidling. So more often than not, you either get a cold, still room (which doesn't dry), or a warm still room (which kind of dries but then gets full of moisture which doesn't easily escape so kit only gets partially dry).
The door is left propped open most of the time to try and encourage a modicum of air circulation.
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In my experience* a drying room really needs a decent dehumidifier. Drawing out damp air with an extractor to be replaced with 'dry' doesn't seem to work anything like as well, and temperature doesn't seem to matter much at all.
(*used to do lots of kayaking, lots of wet/damp kit, big factor in choice of bunkhouse for weekends away was quality and size of drying room)
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Spotted a guy maybe linked to IWRATS recent sunbather
Also in national library, guy had fake leopard skin keffiyeh like Shaka King of the Zulus and guitar with one string focussing on the leaflet info stand
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@gembo
There was a one-string guitar guy in Morningside back in the day. Used a wheelchair.
Saddest thing I ever saw was the aftermath of his attempt to hijack the no. 16 bus in front of Iceland. One of the wheels came off his chair as he attempted to get away and he was left stranded, clutching the guitar, surrounded by a dozen bemused police officers.
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@iwrats this wheelchair chanteur was his hair black as the Raven and his eyes a piercing blue?
If so that is the famous muirhouse troubadour Chucky. Before buses could lower for his wheelchair he used to chuck himself onto the floor of the bus in front of the driver who then had to get out and get his wheelchair on the bus. Chucky was away up to princes street to do some singing and shoplifting if necessary. Met him once in the pub that struggles on the southern end of the Pleasance - the montague. The bar staff were looking to chuck him out
But I was able to negotiate a more dignified exit. I am guessing he has shuffled off this mortal coil by now.Posted 7 years ago # -
That could be him, aye. Spent time in the Ed?
I know the folks bought the Montague. Not born publicans it has to be said.
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Yes his presence in morningside is explainable through Andrew Duncan and probably previously when he sadly lost his legs.
Quite a nice bass voice underneath the gravel
Never sure why he was in the montague though it is a wheelchair friendly establishment except if need the loo. I mean I know he was trying to sell them meat he had stolen but why them?
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Arrelcat and maybe Tulyar comparing bicycles outside the Tesco on South Clark Street.
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IWRATS at Waverley this afternoon ... (does it count as a spot if you've arranged to meet?)
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"does it count as a spot if you've arranged to meet?"
"RULES No personal insults. No swearing."
Posted 7 years ago # -
I think I got pelters for spotting @sallyhinch on a dual carriageway in Aberdeen after I'd led her there myself. And rightly so.
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