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(14531 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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@iwrats, get a gravel bike with drops. Then you can put skinny tyres on it and come with us ton the majesty that is the apple pie bakery of Carnwath. Their wee rhubarb pies have been fantastic the last few times I have been in and of course al Capone was there wearing his wife's tights last saturday
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A bike with a set of dynamo lights outside Meadowsainsburybank, then kaputnik inside.
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"al Capone was there wearing his wife's tights"
Compression shorts/leggings are known as spats in Japan.
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In Dundee yesterday, a chap on a fat bike, cycling up the Perth Road, on the pavement, with a dog on a lead.
At least he was going at a gentle pace.
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A "walking bus" in Mid Calder.
So far, so good, but WHY THE * DO THEY ALL HAVE TO WEAR HI VIS?Posted 7 years ago # -
fimm, my theory is that it's not for 'protection', but rather that it makes it easier to control the group, in the sense that the hi-viz makes it easier to spot anyone straying away.
Of course, multiple walking buses in close proximity would then need different colours of hi-viz to be effective, otherwise its usefulness would be lost.
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They should be wearing school bus yellow.
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A rare spot of gembo west of the bridge to Colinton Dell on the canal towpath. He had just gained access from Gogar Station Road and was commenting on how busy the traffic to Heriot-Watt was this morning, probably due to an open day.
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@jdanielp - not as busy as that mental maybury roundabout I was trying to avoid.
Hilariously I found an excellent cycle lane after I left you that took me straight to the Maybury Roundabout.
Fortunately I was taking first exit then going up North Gyle Road
Unfortunately on the way back at noon that particular roundabout was mental.
Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your POV I thought I was going to a school but turned out it was a 1980s and 90s themed disco. Red Nose Day
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Was that @amir going north on Mayfield Rd with a passenger?
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In the car park at Hermiston Gate this afternoon, I spotted a POP 2016 t-shirt, whose owner was busy loading shopping into the car. Looked Greenroofer-ish but I wasn't sure.
I was also wearing my POP t-shirt, but it was hidden underneath a fleece and motorbike jacket.
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A three-person bicycle (tridem?) on the canal towpath and later in Harrison Park on Saturday. Adult at the back with next smallest-child in front of him, smaller child at the front and a 3rd child on a seat behind the adult. We were wondering how the steering worked as it appeared from a distance that the small person at the front had control which we thought wouldn't be a good idea!
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@frenchy fake spot I think. I don't think I was travelling north on Mayfield Road yesterday (and certainly not with passenger)
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@Arellcat. Not I. I've been at home all day, sorting out the house after the decorators have been. As part of this process (honestly*) I've found that the Elephant Bike makes a great trailer-tug: it's so stable and the two-legged propstand makes parking and loading much easier.
*OK, nearly honestly. I did need to take some tins of paint to the garage and bring a few things back, but it probably wasn't strictly necessary to swap the trailer hitch from one bike to another for that.
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@fimm - possibly it was an Onderwater?
Robert
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@amir - that's a shame. Your bike has a doppelganger, then.
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Two recent non-default cargo things: a Christiana-lookung tadpole trike with a bare wood front section on the Restalrig path yesterday and a black Urban Arrow on the WoL by Stedfastgate.
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Patrick Harvie MSP, in a tweed suit, wheeling a lovely Pashley Parabike through Waverley station, around 7.30pm on Thursday evening. Looked a bit in a rushed and was getting directions to the eastern end of the station: maybe bike parking or a connection to a train going south?
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@Arrlecat, I had my Pop 2016 t-shirt on yesterday and was at Hermiston Gate late afternoon. Loading a lawnmower into the car which I had finally persuaded B and Q to sell me on the terms they offered.
I didn't spot you though but without the torpedo I'm no sure i could spot you.
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@acsimpson, always good to persuade B & Q they should sell you something. They often seem ambivalent about this aspect of their business?
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Roibeard that looks like it.
There was a picture of one on the WalkCycleVote Mothers' Day event Facebook page, from which you could see quite clearly that the steering is indeed connected to the handlebars that the adult uses.Another spot - chap with a beard on a two-wheeled recumbent on the canal towpath on Sunday late morning. I was out for a run.
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A hand slapper of a high-five with gembo this morning on the towpath at Harrison Gardens. The cyclist behind looked bemused. I suspect that he was trying to decide if we knew each other or if I was humouring a randomly crazy person.
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@fimm I also saw the chap with the beard on a two-wheeled recumbent and some runners on Sunday, but didn't spot you.
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@jdanielp I am awful with names and faces but I don't recall seeing you either. I ran from Harrison Park, over the aqueduct and then turned near Redhall Park and came back the same way. If we were both going in the same direction then it is very possible that you would pass me without either of us noticing.
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@fimm good point, although you would have passed me since I was pedestrianing quite slowly, taking the odd picture (but not of any kingfishers because it was way too busy).
I stopped for a hot chocolate and cookie at The Counter.
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Gent with white hair on a black full-sus MTB heading up Minto Street. The suspension components were so worn out that it was bobbing up and down like a circus clown bike and making a hee-haw donkey noise with each pedal stroke that I could hear from sixty metres away over the traffic.
Great resistance training, poor transport cycling. He'd be better getting a blacksmith to weld up all the pivots.
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Was that a purple and white @gembo resplendent in shades I passed near Currie this evening? I was heading into town, in shorts for the second time this year.
If it was, and I blanked you, my apologies.
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@greenroofer, did have purple top and shades, one white stripe. Was nodding to all cyclists but could not see much due to high speed of electric bike and sunshine. I had shorts on too. Though had period earlier in Feb of short wearing then returned to leggings last week
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Always pass a fella in a reflective coat with his backpack stowed rather cleverly in the baby seat of his bike. Cycles from Leith up through Restalrig and past Holyrood High school between 07:45 and 08:30. Saw each other often enough that a nod/how's it going would be normal. Not been on the bike the past month, mostly had to take the car to work but I still see him day after day. He was running rather late yesterday - creepy that I know that.
Don't suppose he's one of us?
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