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When did these impractical hybrid bike parking things appear in Hope Street Lane? Only noticed them this evening.
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There is a shed at lochrin basin, north side, for barge owners only that similarly occupies a smaller footprint by forcing you to hang yer bike up. But then I like this.
Where is hope street lane? Behind RBS off dundas street or some fink? Or maybe behind Fraser's. Knew it looked like a loading bay. Will google. Well obviously I did Google then return to try to look like I have more knowledge about city streets than it seems I have.
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Indeed, another spot of Gembo yesterday evening. Twice in one day - never had that happen before!
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Newly laid bit of tarmac on the southbound lane on Leith Walk has a bike symbol painted on it, in the middle of the lane. Except... it's painted sideways, with the saddle/top tube/bars towards the nearest kerb and the wheels towards the centre line.
I wish I'd taken a photo, it looked mighty odd.
Is there going to be some kind of crossing here between offroad cycle lanes?
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@dougal - was that at the junction of Macdonald Rd/ LW/Brunswick Rd ? If so, it could be the 'box' for the '2 stage right turn' which is being trialled there.
I read about that somewhere in the past week ... ;-)Posted 7 years ago # -
No it wasn't at a junction (I think it was approximately opposite Sainsburys). I did think about the 2-stage right turn but even then it would be in the wrong orientation I think - you'd want it to be on the side road with the "top" of the bike pointing into the junction.
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@gembo - south of Charlotte Square. Comes out at the side of Angel's Share.
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@kaputnik
Outside your (I assume) house with your boy - some guy was unloading a bit of equipment from a dropside van for you.
In fact I drove off and gave him more space to unload.
Would have stopped to chat, but we were (very) late for another appointment.
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@Nelly. I predict a sander
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I spotted Greenroofer encouraging his more diminutive Greenroofers to be musical I think..... or perhaps he spotted me.. that is the elephant in the room.
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@algo - that's a profitable place for collecting CCE spots, I suspect. I'm an infrequent visitor (Mrs G normally doing the honours) and I didn't know you were a patron. I had earlier exchanged greetings with MrSRD, but I've met him there before. Sorry for our brevity: we were running for a bus that was due in three minutes.
I had profitably used the time waiting for choir to finish by going to Biketrax to buy a Brompton seatpost height limiter thing, having broken my previous one. It took a bit of to-ing and fro-ing with the shop assistant to explain what I wanted, and we went through quite a range of Brompton seatpost-related products before I got what I was after (this)
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a recumbent trike heading down Mayfield Gardens. no one I recognized. I waved.
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Yeah spotted that too. Interesting panniers.
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Good to spot recombodna back on this thread he started, just in time to be in the running for the 10000th post on it. Quite a lot of spotting over the years. Very little drift, remarkably, remains a spot of something either animal, vegetable or mineral.
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Nice.
Sadly at Forbes road, the Stop sign has had the word Driving deleted. Always made me smile.
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@dougal I saw our sideways sign - it seems to be at a stretch of drop kerb where you can get on & off the wiggly segregated infra to/from the on-street paintfra. I'm not sure anyone will actually understand that, mind!
You can just see it under the new town tank parked on the double reds in the middle picture:
In other news, I tweeted this image quite grumpily in my real life twitter persona. Sign storage solutions or cycling infrastructure? Pick one.
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Looked like Kim on an Urban Arrow in Newington. It's impressively soniferous brakes woke me up from my day dreams
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Isn't it Halloween soon? Plenty of practising zombie pedestrians yesterday evening, one after the other stepping into the road in front of me without looking.
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Laidback making a cheeky right turn in front of me at the King's junction.
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A woman who was presumably listening to music via earbud headphones and singing along enthusiastically as she cycled on the canal towpath this morning, heading out of town a bit before 9. This seemed like an effective alternative to a bell for passing pedestrians. I was a little concerned that she may not hear me as I went to overtake, but she was seemingly quite aware that I was there when I did.
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Not Edinburgh -
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@SRD - your lights were better than mine so I should have given way :-)
I saw the distinctive arc of your Lumos helmet way back on Tarvit St. I thought 'it must be SRD..'.
There are other users of course.Posted 7 years ago # -
@jdanielp I think the singer is a towpath regular. We can check with IWRATS but. Think her name is Amy Bikehouse
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@gembo
The canal user database is not currently reliable. There were regular singers in the Hailes (also the haunt of Non-Stop Dancer) but they were gentlemen.
I recently startled some people by bawling the first verse of Freedom Come A' Ye as I bicycled across the Meadows. Not taking my cycling very seriously.
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@iwrats, I sang Navigator by the pogues on the CCE towpath trip to Ratho which was relevant and then before that Same song in Blairgowrie one Saturday morning on way to Pitlochry then kinlochrannoch, just for the hell of it. You see, they never drank water but whisky by pints and the shanty towns rang with their songs and their fights.
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one Saturday morning on way to Pitlochry then kinlochrannoch, just for the hell of it
Very relevant there. Shanty towns present in the fifties for the Tummel hydro-electric scheme. Every bit as rowdy as the Telford and Brunel work camps.
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