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  • Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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  1. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Roibeard

    Unless my cat was disguised as a dog....likely to have been @Frenchy mibbe?

    Did spot you last Thursday emerging from work.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  2. biketrain
    Member

    Hankchief and the Chieflets on the 'Smaller' big rig.

    Successfully executed a high 15.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  3. fimm
    Member

    Belated wave to chrisfl :-)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  4. jdanielp
    Member

    Dougie Vipond being filmed on a narrow boat heading out of town on the canal this morning. It looked like the camera crew (one on the boat, the other up on North Meggetland Bridge) looked like they were between takes as I cycled by, but it is plausible that I might be visible in the background in a future segement of Landward or similar.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  5. acsimpson
    Member

    I'll need to be more careful of my reputation. First I was spotted as a pedestrian then I was spotting from a car.

    Thankfully yesterday the tagalonger and I were riding along the canal towpath when we spotted a flock of people cycling along the canals. Their "bikes" had no wheels and two large floats but we're standard rigid MTB frames.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Their "bikes" had no wheels and two large floats but we're standard rigid MTB frames.

    The Aquabikes from Bridge 8. Saracen MTBs on a racing pedalo. Built by the Bike Station. We should really have a CCE outing.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  7. Greenroofer
    Member

    @IWRATS - £24 per hour, I think. Seems quite expensive...

    Posted 7 years ago #
  8. HankChief
    Member

    @acsimpson - you're not one of those mutli-modalists are you?

    You should head over to CMME ;-)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    £24 per hour

    Well they can go whistle for that, but I'm happy to haggle.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  10. acsimpson
    Member

    That's the things.

    from the Bridge 8 site:

    Canal based rental 90mins £24ppph

    So does that mean a minimum of £36 then?

    I guess they were cheap to build but compared to £15 for whole day mountain bike hire feel very steep.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  11. gembo
    Member

    @jdanielp, saw the camera, @acsimpson hard work those flloating bikes do look. Never seen a user smiling

    Posted 7 years ago #
  12. chdot
    Admin

    Really?!!

    (Not Edinburgh)

    Posted 7 years ago #
  13. chdot
    Admin

    These ones seemed to move quite well with little apparent effort -

    Posted 7 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    Woman in the ride a white swan not smiling. Guy is happier but he is reading funny jokes on his phone

    Posted 7 years ago #
  15. acsimpson
    Member

    gembo, the all seemed to be enjoying themselves. The ones going forwards more so. I suspect the others were just laughing at themselves.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  16. jdanielp
    Member

    The filming taking place on the canal yesterday was for Landward: https://twitter.com/LUCS_Canal/status/902502627891666944

    Posted 7 years ago #
  17. kaputnik
    Moderator

    There's a fellow I've spied a couple of times now on the NEPN who heads west from Leith towards Roseburn around 830AM. He has a filthy singlespeed/fixie with tri-bars on the front, I notice him because he overtakes me and I can't keep up! I doubly notice him because despite being crouched low over his "aero" handlebars he wears a socking great combat rucksack in desert storm camouflage.

    Imagine how fast he'd be with panniers!

    Posted 7 years ago #
  18. The most over-the-top hi-viz wearer on the NEPN last Thursday, just around the Ainslie Park secton. For a moment I was convinced there'd be people around filming him and it'd be something that was part of a comedy show - but no. This guy was genuinely wearing this stuff.

    Must check my footage and get a few screenshots

    Posted 7 years ago #
  19. rider73
    Member

    I think I've seen this guy twice now, he also wears a buff over his face?

    Posted 7 years ago #
  20. gembo
    Member

    @acsimpson must have had wind behind them

    Posted 7 years ago #
  21. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @threefromleith

    That guy is a known spot.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  22. Greenroofer
    Member

    A shape that looked very like @shuggiet in the background of the publicity video for the Lets Ride event on Sunday...

    Posted 7 years ago #
  23. rider73
    Member

    @i were...

    yeah your link describes the guy i spot too...

    Posted 7 years ago #
  24. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    A Specialized Comp racing bike, Shimano 105, nice ride, though far from brand new propped against a Sheffield stand in town with a cheap lock through the front wheel and frame, not through the stand....hope it's there when the owner gets back.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  25. wingpig
    Member

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    Posted 7 years ago #
  26. kaputnik
    Moderator

    just recalled that on Tuesday morning I saw a heavily Ortliebed tourer heading into town at Murrayfield, he hada wee flagpole on the back of the bike with a German, EU and Saltire flag on it and what looked like an outline of Scotland. I wondered that he may be cycling the entire coastline from the Solway to the Tweed.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I think @Frenchy might have eyeballed my automobile with two bicycles on the roof on Gilmerton Road this morning at 10h00.

    I was going south, he north.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  28. Frenchy
    Member

    Certainly feasible.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  29. jdanielp
    Member

    SRD and also MrSRD shortly after the grand depart from the High Street. I was in the process of hotfooting back over to Bristo Square in time to catch the peleton cover the last section of my commute, albeit in the wrong direction and at a considerably faster pace than I manage. Brief but fun.

    Posted 7 years ago #
  30. jdanielp
    Member

    Green Cllr Chas Booth spotted and hailed me on my second lap as I was powering up Buccleuch Street so I slowed for a chat since he was taking it easy with a small passenger. I remarked on how nice it was to cycle on closed roads and suggested every Sunday. Chas suggested every day...

    Posted 7 years ago #

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