chdot, do you work or spend all day in coffee shops? :D
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That depends...
It's a photo day.
At http://www.wofmcafe.com I can upload to Flickr straight from my camera (eye-fi card) by MAGIC.
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The cake looks nice
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"The cake looks nice"
It was.
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Recumbent followed by conventional bike in Prestonpans. Late morning.
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Recumbent followed by conventional bike in Prestonpans. Late
morning.afternoon.
I saw rugtomcat on a very nice bike with very bright lights. Round about PY.Posted 13 years ago # -
Yeah that was me taking stretching the legs of my friend Dave. Had a great day on the bike, really feel like the legs are kicking in, peaking 37kph on the flat and having to ease up in points not to drop my companion. The previous 200k of load hauling and hill climbing have really paid off :) Ive found the secret is to keep on peddling, all the time, like a fixie rider (but cooler) and then the 'magic carpet' effect takes over about 25kph and your flying :D
Wonderful day for it, saw lots of different folks. roadiess and mountainbikes, motorbikes and sportscars.
Can you see thoes lights on a day like today? wow.
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Wonderful day for it, saw lots of different folks. roadiess and mountainbikes, motorbikes and sportscars.
saw a top-less sports car with a bike in it!
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also a bright red enclosed 'invalidity carriage' (like one in picture below) tootling down slateford road, and going through intersection to turn right --- i think from the turning lane, but then going very wide out to the side of the road. most bizarre thing i have ever seen on the road - looked incredibly top-heavy - the side view is not so bad, but from the back it looked decidedly unstable because it is very narrow (but fun).
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A roadie drafting a First single decker bus on the road between Dalkeith and Whitecraig. Passed me like a shot, stirring me from my slumber.
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Chap on Balcarres St yesterday heading west in the warm sunshine. He was wearing a t-shirt and a shirt and was carrying a messenger style bag.
Without stopping or even slowing down, he removed the shirt and stowed it away in the bag. I was quite impressed. If I'd tried that I'd definitely have ended up sprawled over a parked car or something.Posted 13 years ago # -
Scotrail tannoy announcer at Queen Street threatening the owners of "the 2 bicycles locked to the railings at the George Square entrance" with the loss of their wheels if they weren't "removed immediately"
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Arellcat on ed.general.
Jings.Posted 13 years ago # -
As I trundled west away from Princess Street this lunchtime I passed a dawdling bloke on an electric hybrid bike, he had the full plastic hat and hi-viz yellow jacket ensemble and as I passed I gave him a wave of the left hand and an "hello" to no response, a short distance later we came up to the lights where the road joins from the right (can't remember the name, the one before the road takes you left round the one way system at Haymarket).
Guess what, next thing I see is Mr Safety cruising past my left elbow at undiminished speed through the red light.
I cannot think of a polite thing to say. What a berk is about the most mellow I can manage I'm afraid.
So... Spotted... a selfish clown giving us all a bad name >:-<Posted 13 years ago # -
Steveo collecting bike from Bike Works. He has a 0.75w rear light of his own design amd a very neat front light too.
Then Kaputnik on Meadows - still enthused after 300k in Mull.
Whilst chatting we were passed by H from shop on her road bike. I set out in same direction and thanks to the 'Fujin SL' effect caught up at George IV. (I was going on to Stockbridge so doesn't count as stalking!)The electric bike attitude reminds me of people on Apollo full suspension bikes who are only cycling after a driving ban. Thye think that cycling is such punishment that they can bend the rules again.
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@Laidback, in fairness, riding an Apollo Full Sus boatanchor round edinburgh could be considered a fairly harsh punishment ;-))
"The electric bike attitude reminds me of people on Apollo full suspension bikes who are only cycling after a driving ban. Thye think that cycling is such punishment that they can
bendBREAK the rules again. "
ps, fixed that for you ;-)Posted 13 years ago # -
Hmm Apollo Full Sus bikes, didn't spot many of those at Glentress on Saturday.
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Traffic wardens car lifting truck outside my house trying to drive off with the rear outriggers down.....ha ha ha funny!!!! Big scrape in the road though!
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Dave, heading north on Restalrig Road. Don't think he heard me through his cans.
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Had to look up where that was! It's funny how you can pick out routes and not have the slightest idea what any of the streets are called (for me that one is called "the wrong way round Arthur's Seat")!
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Bike Friday zoomed past me up MMW, but then dismounted on the other size of the road. Had a nice chat. He painted the bike, and made it single speed, but with two different sized cogs.
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On Saturday, the farmer's market was full of cyclists. Also noticed that the Chocolate tree now has a nice-looking trike for selling ice cream. Not a Pashley though.
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I saw the cyrillic folding bike yesterday evening about 6PM heading down Clerk St. outside the Queen's Hall. I was admiring how baggy the rider's trousers were and how they hadn't been mashed into the chain and ring.
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Spotted the ever-cheerful alanr triking his way homewards this evening past Prince Charlie aqueduct.
I would've pinged my bell, Alan, but completely forgot I had one, despite it being an integral part of a Brompton gear lever!
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That cyrillic folding bike might be Coptic? The one with the Orthodox Bottom Bracket?
Been tootling non-eccentrically around Edinburgh for 20 odd years, big white beard?
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if coptic, then script ge'ez or arabic, not cyrllic.
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SRD, we await clarification but my image of the cyrilllic folding bike is a standard folding bike - maybe black brompton, ridden by poss Russian Orthodox Priest, big black clothes, pillar box hat, flowing beard but it is very possible I got that wrong.
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yes - that is also my image. seems about right somehow.
but that is orthodox (russia, greek, albania etc), not coptic (comes from root for 'gypt' or Egyptian, also often applied to church in Eritrea and Ethiopia).
you guys are all so well informed (not least about bikes), I have to nitpick/show-off about something esoteric!
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It's like a raleigh 20 or something, folds in the middle of the tube with a rather large hinge. Bright blue. Ridden by someone in their 20s-ish
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so, what sort of writing does it have on it?
Ridden by someone in their 20s-ish
there are some young priests around too
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