Immaculate racing green fixie with bullhorn bars with leather tape and matching saddle at Luffness being wheeled back onto road by a girl in a summer dress and big sunglasses
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(14531 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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Someone familiar in a purple top and strikingly stylish cap, turning from Princes St onto the Bridges at 8am this morning... ;-)
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"Someone familiar in a purple top and strikingly stylish cap, turning from Princes St onto the Bridges at 8am"
Someone needs to vary their route to stop being spotted...
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Guy with long grey hair on vintage maroon (?) recumbent at traffic lights at Craigmillar at about 6pm yesterday
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"Someone needs to vary their route to stop being spotted... "
Dave seems to be starting to get his own back on all the times I spotted him but he didn't spot me. ;-)
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Stepdoh en voiture around St Leonards this morning. He beeped and my immediate assumption was that I was being beeped merely for being on the road, which has lead to a Twitter discussion that car horns should be pressure sensitive to tell the difference between a friendly toot and an angry beep...
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You are only supposed to use them as a warning anyway.
I had a friend who always used to drive up behind me and blast his horn when I was on the bike. I kept asking him not to do it but he kept doing it. Then one day I was driving and he was on a bike. After the tables got turned he never did it again..
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I've seen a folding bike (I didn't get the make) on the train. Grey forks which have welded bosses on, to which is attached a brake caliper. The front wheel has a disk.
Riding to work one day my other half tooter her horn at me from behind. I nearly jumped off my bike. She won't do that again after I balled her out on the road.
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SRD on MMW near PY yesterday. She had parked her bike at Uni and I was 'parked' answering phone.
3 commuting Bromptons in a row on George IV Bridge including suited rider with shades.
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Recumbent tandem? by spytfyre, on Flickr
In our communal garagePosted 13 years ago # -
Small tandem customer on front page of EN in wedding dress. It's a nice shot - although not sure if the wedding theme needs any more publicity!
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Interesting-looking recumbent on the Union Canal towpath just past the Slateford aqueduct, where it had stopped for a chat at around 5pm. There wasn't actually anyone on it at the time. Not being au fait with the physical appearance of contributors to this forum, I don't know if I actually spotted anyone we know.
I was easily recognisable in my black shorts and yellow top. So if it was someone on this forum in charge of this machine, you will at least know what I look like.
...oh, hang on, I suppose yellow top and black trousers doesn't actually make me that recognisable.
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yeah, I was wearing black shorts and a yellow top, and it was my recumbent. Was on the way to ingleston for the criterium races (dead good) and was not in evidence for reasons of a personal nature.
Damm thats 3 spots in 2 months! what am i doing wrong?
On my way back saw what looked like a student riding double disc wheeled track bike 0.0
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what am i doing wrong?
You have much to learn, young padawan. For a recumbenteer to be truly invisible, one must be called Dave. You may however wish to try a fully black bicycle whilst wearing no colour other than black, and you must station yourself at high noon on the widest possible road with the least amount of traffic, and conduct yourself with the greatest speed. Only then might be bestowed upon you that most treasured of phrases, "You're very dangerous! Other people might not see you!"
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I need a lower bike :(
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I'd like to note for the record that A: I beeped at Anth in a Clio. There has never been a quieter peep ever emitted from a vehicle. B: I hadn't had much sleep so most things were a good idea at that point. C: I wasn't behind him, I was stationary at a junction and he was crossing in front of me.
That is all m'lud.
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Recumbent heading north towards the Forth on Silverknowes Road by the shops about 10:30 this morning. But who was the recumbenaut..?
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I was on a trike with another triker but later. We met another recliner going into town near WoL.
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Must be the day for it. I saw a bent trike on Lothian road this morning, around 9.45 I think but I hadn't looked at my watch for ages.
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There was a bentist on a maroony-red contraption heading down MMW yesterday about 430-5ish. Wasn't any of our resident recliners.
I also saw a pavement cycling teenager on a low-seat BMX trying to impress his mates outside the Starbucks next to PY, only to squeeze his coffee cup too hard and offload the contents all over his crotch.
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Bright green folding recumbent seen yesterday in the car park of Longniddry station, near start of railway path to Haddington, about to be loaded into the boot of a car.
As I approached I initially called to my friend "recumbent!" but then saw it was folded, and wondered aloud if it was a Brompton in mid-fold. I was confused, so stopped and asked the owner. "Is that a folding recumbent?" quoth I. (Nothing like stating the obvious, eh?) "Yes" came the reply. Velotech was the manufacturer, Arrowsmith (???) the model?
Anyway, enlightening!
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Arrowsmith??? What nonsense entered my brain? Nay, 'twas a Velotech Grasshopper. Hence, presumably the green colour...
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Orange SLI locked outside the Bicycle Works (not really much of a spot!)
Now the proud owner of a bike with an empty BB shell, courtesy of the above (for a princely £2) and and a new BB / tool to get familiar with (for considerably more!)
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Raleigh "Atlantic Flyer" - hanging out by Analogue Books on Candlemaker Row.
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Orange SLI locked outside the Bicycle Works
With a QR code taped to it!
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Oh, just recalled - 2 dog cyclists in Leith. One on the path at Bonnington Station, with the dog lead on a special attachment bolted on the seat pin to keep it from fouling spokes / chain / pedals.
I wasn't convinced about safety, but was put into insignificance by another complete eejit cycling with her friend on the road and a little white poodly thing on an extendi-lead slung onto the bars, looking like it might imminently end up under a car wheel / through a bike wheel / something equally grim.
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I think walking with a dog or running with a trained dog off the leash good. I think running with dog on lead potential for entanglement and cycling with dog attached to bike like an accident waiting to happen? Perhaps some well trained dogs with cyclist owners who know what they are about might be Ok but the factors like other dogs and other cyclists cause some trepidation
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WoL yesterday full of out of c ontrol dogs. worst was small one, ran on top of blanket baby had been lying on (i had grabbed him up as dog ran straight at him), and then jumped up on four year old, while owner just stood there saying 'no, come here' rather than walking the 10 metres and grabbing it. WHY?
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@SRD - because dogs are sentient beings that respond to reasoned argument and logic. Much like children.
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"little white poodly thing on an extendi-lead slung onto the bars, looking like it might imminently end up under a car wheel / through a bike wheel / something equally grim. "
The problem being?
I had someonespitbullstaffordshire bull cross jumping on me in Craigmillar the other day. I really hate when people just let their dogs jump all over you.Posted 13 years ago #
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