The intrepid camper was back again this morning further up near the Tesco flyover, sporting a Canadian number plate outside the tent
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Matilda the Elephant Bike parked up on Comiston Road earlier. I'm thinking that its owner was in the Comiston Fry procuring a white pudding supper and a bottle of Irn Bru.
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" a Canadian number plate" eh?
no such thing. Licence plates (for cars) provincial responsibility.
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Did the plate not read "ALASKA"? Passed quickly so genuinely unsure.
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a white pudding supper and a bottle of Irn Bru.
Well it did smell awfully good.
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I spotted a pink-jerseyed cyclist in Balerno night before last on my cycle back to Edinburgh. I follow this forum enough to suspect it was a Gembo I spotted? Could I be right?
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Derailleur geared bikes only? (short cranks)Posted 7 years ago # -
Gembo on canal about 8:40 this morning - resplendent in pink!
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@ivangrozni you spotted me as did diarmid
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a polar bear-shaped plate would be either Nunavit or vintage North West Territories--either one quite a steal.
saw, for the first time, a white haired gentleman on a bike with quite a few panniers, a small Saltire, and a Spokes flag. is he well-known? he has the look of someone whose been collecting bike decoration.
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@the Canuck, specs and greyish white hair? Panniers sometimes open to the elements?
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@the canuck: does the guy have *loads* of stuff on his bike? If so then he works in my office.
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@sickman, your guy stays out beyond Currie I believe? Good chance he is the canuck's guy?
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@SRD it said Quebec. So Canadian to a point ;)
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A woman around Gilmerton Road with a purple bike, pink jacket and rainbow striped bobble hat. She cut quite the cheerful, jaunty dash.
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in these dark days, it behooves us all to be as cheerfully dressed as possible.
specs, yes. fully loaded panniers, not completely closed, yes. for some reason, he looks like the sort of cyclist i should have seen several times.
first time i've seen him, Lauriston Place near George Heriot school.as for the quebec plates--that's an unusual plate to have? i wear my provincial flag on my summer cycling shirt, and have been asked what part of wales i'm from. apparently a lion rampant looks like a dragon?
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@the Canuck, he was off the bike for a while but before that he sort of lived on his bike,
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A number of Morningsiders of different sizes trotting along Myreside Road just now. Micro-Greenroofer, who was with me in the car, opined that they were late for football.
The reason that we were in the car is, I suspect, the same reason that the Morningsiders were on foot: Myreside Road on a Saturday morning is so choked with Watson's traffic that it's a significant barrier to taking children on bikes anywhere. We were going to EYM on the Meadows: if we could get to the canal then the rest of the route is fine, but we can't get to the canal...
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Just bumped into MrSRD at EYM, who was plotting a route for himself and Micro-SRD across Edinburgh city centre on a Saturday morning. Micro-SRD was expressing more enthusiasm for descending the Mound than ascending it. Much respect to them both for contemplating this trip.
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A regular with a snazzy apple laptop (rainbow keys) in Caffè Nero Stockbridge actually reading the Spokes update. Gosh.
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I had a Gandalf sighting the other day. I sort of feel I need one every so often.
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@Min
The very first time I met 'Gandalf' he tried to sleep on my settee. That would have been 1991. I ignored him. His crushed velvet house-husband phase around 2006 was quite something. If you want to see him just go to any exhibition opening with a free glass of wine but no bouncers.
I'm still in awe of the audacity of anyone calling themselves after the best-ever wizard.
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He has never tried to sleep on my settee but to be fair, even I am too tall for that.
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"If you want to see him just go to any exhibition opening with a free glass of wine but no bouncers."
Hm, not quite. He did used to be a regular at events held at the Forest Cafe. Still bump into him/spot him at things now and again.
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Gandalf the juggler tho rather than Gandalf the grey.
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This picture sent to me from Martin McDowell of the 'Spokes at 40' panels (at BS and also EBC).
@Min - as you hint Gandalf inspired many 'back in the day'. He led the Spokesfest rides back in the 90s. Had a self built front wheel drive recumbent (of course).
The (small) bike procession along Princes St was a precursor to what would happen later.
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I met him in a canoe (with a bike) summer 2010.
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Laidback - Did he? Yay Gandalf!
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SRD on tv?
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Pretty much non-stop media 'appearances' (some more coherent than others) since wed.
Worth it if it brought you back to the forum :)
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