I thought we couldn't afford cars...
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Questions/Support/Help
Spotted
(14473 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
- Latest reply from fimm
- This topic is
sticky - This topic is
resolved
-
Posted 7 years ago #
-
Hank chief travelling in opposite direction Megget Reservoir
Posted 7 years ago # -
Three boys aged about 7 or 8 deliberately smashing a green glass beer bottle of shared walking-cycle path near play area between Bingham Broadway and Niddrie at 4pmish as we were heading from Portobello towards Duddingston Rd West (and Innocent). They exited path when they saw us approaching, but only once they'd scuffed the glass with theirshoes to spread as widely as possible.
I've always wondered who would think it was beezer idea to smash and spread glass on cycle paths, but I'd never have guessed that children quite that young would be some of the culprits.
Posted 7 years ago # -
arellcat amazing the folk of juni green and currie in the mightly red torpedo
then He Who Does Not Speak To Us Anymore at Diggers, I gave him his sunday name for a spot.(Anth-ony)
Posted 7 years ago # -
I was only managing 16mph into the wind tunnel of Juniper Green/Currie, so just managed a wave to gembo.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Paolozzi statues outside Darwin at Kings Buildings seem to be going off on holiday.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Frenchy
To Dalton's scrapyard?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@iwrats no I think off to Shangri-la to be dipped in gold before returning to Edinburgh to grace us with their presence
Posted 7 years ago # -
To Dalton's scrapyard?
If so, they're being taken there very carefully.
Posted 7 years ago # -
This morning chap in fetching yellow tartan biblongs (Macleod). This evening jdanielp disguised as a pedestrian
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo coincidentally, I was walking with a colleague who happens to be the Facebook friend with whom I engaged in the cycling related 'argument' last week. Even more coincidentally, we were just discussing the subject face to face for the first time since last week when you hailed me.
Posted 7 years ago # -
@jdanielp, she did not look like too big a facist?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@gembo she's usually quite a reasonable person but can get abruptly ranty at times. I hope she never sees this forum.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I think I spotted gembo this morning, on the Currie/Juniper Green stretch. Pink gilet was what grabbed my attention.
Posted 7 years ago # -
My gilet which came free (hahaha) with the pink rapha brevet top is all blue with a wee white stripe and a wee pink stripe. I had my Torm rapha copy top on which is a splendid green with a white and red stripe. Torm are much better value than Rapha Rapha hilariously now want an extra £80 for the gilet (small bit of nylon) when you buy the brevet.
Posted 7 years ago # -
If it was a doppelgëmbo, that's maybe why they looked at me oddly when I waved briefly. Or maybe it was the red torpedo that did it.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Not sure who else was out in Team Gembo colours this morning on the Juni Green route.
Also Not sure why the Torpedo is heading that way when it used to turn at Longstone?
Posted 7 years ago # -
I'm trying to get stronger legs for riding it, so doing a commute that gives me opportunities to put the hammer down for longer.
Posted 7 years ago # -
A very visible @daisydaisy at the junction of Craighouse Road and Craighouse Gardens this evening. We exchanged greetings. I was steeling myself for the assault on Craighouse Hill, which seemed harder than usual tonight, perhaps because of the easterly wind I'd been fighting all the way home.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Three folk on cross-bikes ploughing a very muddy furrow over the top of Crag Maol Aird. I'm very cross-curious. Why would you want your brake levers so awkwardly placed on an off-road bike? I get the whole 'race that involves cycling and running' thing, but less so using a crosser for off-road recreation...
Posted 7 years ago # -
Gravel/Adventure all the rage @IWRATS
Fake spot of RDJ on Cockburn St. THe cranes are all around Edinburgh town centre for RDJ
Posted 7 years ago # -
I favour both gravel and adventure, but when adventuring never go fast enough to warrant drop bars. Most time spent in first gear or on the brakes. I am no Iron Man.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Drop bars lower your centre of gravity and spread your hands further apart. It is the equivalent of holding your hands out when you are walking across something narrow. The extra security is very handy when riding across slippery mud/snow etc.
Posted 7 years ago # -
No IWRATS Iron Man - that is RDJ
Posted 7 years ago # -
Interesting, Min, thanks. When on particularly sketchy terrain I will often stand up on the pedals, thus raising my COG but allowing the bike to move around underneath me unhindered. I favour quite narrow bars in modern terms, unlike the cow horns on current mountain bikes.
I must borrow a crosser some time and see what the hoo-ha is all about.
Posted 7 years ago # -
If I'm doing a distance or any road work I prefer the cross bike but if the track is at all "knarly" I'd prefer my mtb, however its much heaiver and the tyres on it currently are very soft, great at a trail centre rubbish on tarmac. I think I took a few days use off mine just riding the bike down to haymarket before a trip once.
Posted 7 years ago # -
"muddy furrow over the top of Crag Maol Aird"
Put me out my misery - where is this? Tried to find but couldn't. Sounds Trossachsy.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I must borrow a crosser some time and see what the hoo-ha is all about.
Yes give it a go. I love mine. It just rumbles over everything.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Sorry @cb, it is the Gaelic that is on me. Craigmillar Hill.
Posted 7 years ago # -
You just made that up, didn't you?
Posted 7 years ago #
Reply »
You must log in to post.
posts
