@iwrats, @cyclingmollie has recently strayed way off his native habitat but using a very sensible route finder. I could do the same in reverse. On one out of three occasions.
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A Tony Oliver tandem bringing its owners back from a weekend in Lanarkshire. Don't know if the name means anything to anyone (it doesn't to me, but that's not surprising), but it was a very pretty bike.
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Someone who may or may not have been LivD also braving the crowds of parents and babies/toddlers/chiddlers at the McDonald Road Fire Station open day.
We lasted about 20 minutes before the boy fortuitously declared he was thirsty and wanted to go to a café.
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yes - also attended McDonald Rd Fire Station day - quite good, Mini Ms McR possibly too young but who doesn't love a siren. Think they missed a trick not having a coffee stall - they'd have raised a fortune.
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@Iain McR yes the only snacks on offer seemed to be candy floss!
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Functional Sunbeams:
I saw the pedal-constable several more times but he was never astride his rod-braked paleobike, so I assume it didn't work.
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A pair of rather lost looking Belgian cycle tourists trying to decide whether to cross South Gyle Broadway this morning. I went back to ask if they were lost, turns out the were and were looking for...
Crieff!
They weren't clear about the exact way they had come from town and which route they were taking, beyond knowing they had to cross the Forth. They had a Garmin but with the sun in the screen and the maze of paths and roads around this area of the housing and industrial estates it wasn't helping. I suggested they go up to the canal via Edinburgh Park station as that way there were signs to follow, and to head west on the canal for either Ratho > Newbridge > Kirkliston > Dalmeny > Forth Bridge then north or Falkirk > Kincardine > Stirling.
I didn't try to explain getting to and following the A8 out to Newbridge as I wasn't sure how well it's signed through the Gyle Park and then from there to Maybury and that road might have put them off altogether.
Nice weather to be lost at least.
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How could I forget.
3 days in a row have spotted man in a suit riding an electric-powered skateboard along the NEPN around Ravelston Dykes area.
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Belgians, eh? Maps, maps, maps. Paper ones. And a compass. A magnetic one.
Crieff indeed.
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@Cyclingmollie in his native habitat
Good to meet you too IWRATS. Beer is/was excellent.
@cyclingmollie has recently strayed way off his native habitat
Yes, we walked the Water of Leith path from Balerno to Slateford then along the canal to Lochrin. Met a client who was painting her new canalboat.
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+1 for NEPN electric skateboard man, looks quite a comfy way to travel.
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In Kirknewton, man riding a cargo bike that looked a bit like an Urban Arrow or a Bullit; this one had a covered area for the cargo which contained at least one child.
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yesterday evening 5.30/6ish - elephant bike Port Promenade - orange - must be someone on here.
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Chatted with the bearded rider of the green elephantbike as we came through Kings-meadows. chap who rode in to PoP with Harrison Park feeder ride, with dog in basket.
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@fimm that may well have been a colleague of mine who has a cargo bike (Urban Arrow I think) and small children. Was he bespectacled and wearing a black helmet(/lacking hair)?
@SRD that is Rurigdh who works for Sustrans. I have been routinely spotting him on the canal (sometimes literally) as he commutes into town by bike or sometimes narrowboat.
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Commuting by narrowboat is my idea of heaven.
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in my heaven there is no commute
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@Stickman nice idea, but I prefer Iain McR's vision of heaven - how long before Edinburgh's kayakers are Paddling on Parliament in protest as our tranquil waterways become gridlocked as a result of single occupancy narrowboats? ;)
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Chatted with the bearded rider of the green elephantbike as we came through Kings-meadows. chap who rode in to PoP with Harrison Park feeder ride, with dog in basket.
Can be found on your twitter followees, SRD! (although I won't link directly here in case that's not his thing)
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elephant bike Port Promenade - orange - must be someone on here.
That would be CrowRiver, although technically that's a Pashley Pronto ex-TNT, rather than a Mailstar ex-Royal Mail.
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Despite the quantity of hired-looking electrical bicycles I've seen down here and the extreme suitability of the topology for cycling, selfish golf people want to keep people of all kinds completely off the old railway track they're trying to steal, though at least their plans to divert the NO CYCLING remnants of the path west of Sandy Lane even further to the north seem to have been shelved.
There are never any polices in the village station and the PCSO has no power, so this is presumably relying on citizen enforcement:
Meanwhile, in the bookshop which used to be a carpet shop but which was really the old electrical shop:
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"That would be CrowRiver"
Indeed it was. Heading back from a day at the beach, and a grand day it was!
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Wasn't sure where to post this, possibly a "Today's Rubbish Bike Vandalism" thread. But here goes.
Around 4.30pm, outside McDonald Road library, I was pushing my orange Pronto on the pavement having just crossed Leith Walk. Ahead, next to the bike parking, a middle aged bloke, shaved head, shorts, was holding a light blue ladies' MTB up vertically on its rear wheel. He then lifted the bike and smashed the back wheel down on the pavement hard, buckling it. I stopped and stared, slack jawed. Then he did it again. I shouted "Hey!" as he did it once again. "WTF do you think you're doing?" I bellowed at him (from a safe distance). He glanced at me, smashed the back wheel again, then lifted the bike, and threw it over the railings of the library, where it came to rest upside down. I was so shocked I just stared as he picked up his rucksack, walked past and calmly entered the library. I peered through the railings and saw it was a cheap steel late 1980s/early 1990s Emmelle MTB is light blue metallic paint. Decent slick tyres but otherwise a pub bike. I glanced around for any sign of a cut or broken lock: none to be seen.
Wasn't sure what to do. Might have been his bike, and he'd had enough of it. Or he might have been a crazed anti-bike madman. Hard to tell. Police would scarcely be interested even if it was criminal damage. Certainly he was fly-tipping, but I reasoned that library staff would presumably report this to the council.
Anyway, just in case it wasn't his bike be careful parking your bike near McDonald Road library! I'll certainly not leave mine for any longer than 30 minutes there from now on!
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@crowriver, that is not right. Take care out there everybody.
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On reflection he was probably riding a stolen bike (probably "secured" by a cheap lock prior to theft) and having finished with it, instead of just abandoning it, decided to wreck it.
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Yes, nothing to be gained there @crowriver.
I did once punch a set of nineties EverReady bike lights to smithereens in the middle of the West Savile Terrace/West Mains Road/Charterhall junction in a fit of rage whose origin is still something of a mystery to me. They had glow-wormed on me for the nth time, but it hardly merited execution and I had to walk home in the dark.
Onlookers would have been horrified.
Posted 7 years ago # -
HankChief on the BigRig (no trailer as yet), checking out the shiny new 26 bus I was on.
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I did once see a bout of savage bike destruction on my street by a gang of teenagers, and phoned the police. They couldn't have been less interested. "Was the bike anywhere near a bin? Could it have been abandoned? Well there you are then"
(There are bins regularly spaced all along the street)Posted 7 years ago # -
acsimpson about to turn into Brae Park Road.
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