Promising of a traffic free shared use route to Morningside from Myreside.
There was no way to get the bikes easily to any railings this time. I saw them and they looked perfect but we weren't allowed to use them.
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If I'd known you'd all be going to the fireworks and would have trouble parking, I'd have offered free bike bike parking in the garden (although I live at the top of Craighouse Hill, though, so perhaps it's not that attractive an option).
Next on my list of things to campaign about is the snicket between Myreside and Colinton Road beside the railway. The new crossing that's gone in on Myreside Road by the Royal Ed and the bike path that Algo refers to is a toucan, so if only the snicket was easily rideable then there could be an off-road path from Morningside to Colinton Road.
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I've made several requests to Edinburgh Rugby for proper bike racks to be installed at Myreside; never had a response. Probably better asking the school, to be fair.
@Greenroofer - any idea who owns that?
EDIT: You already know this, but it's worth reiterating that there would then only be a very short section of (wide, but poorly allocated) road to traverse and you're at the canal. A Morningside-Canal route could easily be done.
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@Frenchy - my assumption is that it's still Network Rail. Historically it was the path from Myreside to Craiglockhart Station, with a gate at Myreside end that it was duty of station staff to lock at the end of each day.
<pigs might fly>Access to the canal could be easily provided by a piece of segregated on-road cycle track exploiting the considerable width of the road along that whole length and removing the parking on one or both sides.</pigs might fly>
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Next on my list of things to campaign about is the snicket between Myreside and Colinton Road beside the railway.
The snicket is far more useful than it might seem, allowing the east-west bicyclist to avoid the carmageddon at Watsons and the moonscape five-way junction at Colinton Road.
I keep thinking it would be expensive and disruptive to build a proper segregated footpath and cycleway on that sloping ground next to a railway and then I remember that we just threw a motorway bridge over a local tidal inlet.
I would actually miss the absurd rabbit-hole urban MTB qualities of the snicket, just as I'd miss the elbow-to-elbow intimacy of the canal towpath if it ever gets sorted out.
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Chrstmas Market hut on its way to Edinburgh from Musselburgh direction
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@amir Is that where they summer?
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@algo "but we weren't allowed to use them."
How odd.
We've mever had any problem, although we usually arrive from the direction of Spylaw Rd.
Last year we were coming from Morningside and left our bikes at the other end of the carpark. Were a bit late and just left lights panniers etc on bikes. Nice security folk said not to worry, they'd keep an eye on them.
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Six fellow cylists who stopped to enquire if I needed help this evening whilst changing a tube in a darkened Roseburn Park. Thank you. We are a decent bunch!
big rusty 4" nail took some paint off the frame as well as the air out my tube!
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Babboe. not a model I've seen before, outside warrender swimming baths.
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someone fixing a puncture at crammond old bridge in the rain, we feel your pain pal...
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Elephant Bike on Morrison Street: didn't recognise the rider as anyone here.
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A stretch of a high-five with gembo, who appeared to be in winter plumage, at Harrison Park. I had not recognised him from a distance, but was alerted to the opportunity by the characteristically exaggerated extension of his right arm.
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You know when people say "you can't collect a new TV on your bike". Well, I'm pretty sure I spotted someone with either a massive telly or similarly large item on a bike trailer this AM, turning right from Gilmore Place at the King's about 9:45am. Most impressive.
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I spotted another Lumos on my route and miniSRD spotted one on Whitehorse Loan.
Probably the same one?
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Blue flashing light at junction of MMW and NMW (main junction in Meadows for newcomers to CCE)
Police Scotland doing light checks I think. I had mine on but vibration shakes it to point too high. Lumos helmet wearers might have got stopped just so they could ask about it!
Saw NiallA on a very smart looking Dutch bike this morning.
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I spotted a Lumos on Queensferry Road this evening.
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@Laidback, they were handing out lights too, I think. http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18323
I might try to pop along to the one tomorrow to see what the freebies are.
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I stopped by at MMW on my way home today and had a good chat with Police Scotland. They were impressed with the torpedo, and had a fair old look inside it. We talked a lot about defensive cycling and observation and anticipation.
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Lots of green shimmering to the north.
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Someone on an electric skateboard on Mayfield road, acting like a cyclist (in cycle lanes), but not doing a very good job. Surely can't be road legal... emergency stops would quickly turn into emergency room.
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I stopped and got some lights from Dr Bike / Bike Station on MMW today.
(and yes, we did discuss my helmet :)
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@toomanybikes Not legal anywhere; road or pavement.
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@SRD Noising up the Dr Bike people on the Meadows with her helmet flashing oh I see (s)he's posted a spot of themself above.
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Green MSP Alison Johnstone seemingly recognised me for the first time as we cycled by one another on the towpath this morning. I've been spotting her sporadically over the last couple of years, but have only become confident enough to try to greet her since we met during the Council Election Campaign. I suspect that I'm somewhat undistinctive from her perspective given that I'm yet another male, bearded, bespectacled Scottish Green Party member who rides a bike.
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A very different van moof to any i've seen elsewhere. low cross bar (Ladies?), flat bar, wooden carry ledge on front, rack on back.
More ladies mountainbike/hybrid design than step-through/sit up and beg.
Van moof does family/utility bike?
Odd. I've just looked at their website and it looks like none of their bikes, although the front rack is similar to one on their website.
But also appears brand new.
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ice cream van bicycle parked outside Cycle Service about 11.20a.m. today. Not sure the ice cream van bit woud get through the door.
@jdanielp, why do greens have beards?
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ice cream van bicycle parked outside Cycle Service about 11.20a.m. today.
Saw this yesterday - it is some machine. Serious kudos to whoever is pedalling it around Edinburgh, even with electric assist.
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A couple of bikes on the canal this week have obviously got their spikes on, judging from the familiar rice-crispies noise.
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