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

    Vehicle turning out of the West Approach Road onto Lothian Road stuck in the yellow box as the lights went green the other way. So far so humdrum. But the car was proudly liveried as 'Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency'....

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. dougal
    Member

    These are the Standards we are accustomed to.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. dougal
    Member

  4. unhurt
    Member

    Possible Roibeard heading south just on Potterow at West Nicolson Street. If not him, someone else in a very similar red hat and reflective vest.

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

    @unhurt

    Reflective vest. Thoughtful socks. Pensive pants.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. unhurt
    Member

    Seems like a perfectly good description of Roibeard to me...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. Roibeard
    Member

    Probably me, heading home for a hair cut...

    Robert

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. gembo
    Member

    Matt at Just Bike Repairs has made a Christmas tree out of bike wheels. It is good. Has flashing lights, is golden. Sits outside the shop

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. dougal
    Member

    A man on a bike which was modeled after a dirt bike and was either a moped or an ebike. There was a heavy-looking box in the main frame triangle.

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

    The ugliest bike known to humanity chained up outside Cameron Toll.

    The frame, a Giant e-bike with the battery missing from the space behind the seat tube. Three levels of handlebar, all festooned in stuff. Rat-infested panniers in every possible place. A leprous saddle. The front wheel had some massive hub, possibly formerly a motor, but with an actual (totally redundant) cassette on one side. How it had been tortured into the forks I dared not even look to see.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. Stickman
    Member

    HankChief, in his new sci-fi Lumos helmet.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. SRD
    Moderator

    Lonely or bored looking police officer at Waverley offering to mark/record my bike.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. Frenchy
    Member

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. unhurt
    Member

    @Iwrats your phone has a camera, yes? Why no image of this creature? (Via laptop cable upload if necessary, I know your phone is dead retro.)

    Meanwhile, internet sadly lacks images of rats in panniers. (I checked.) But I did find this:

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. Frenchy
    Member

    :(

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. unhurt
    Member

    Oh deer?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. HankChief
    Member

    NiallA on the Blackhall path this morning on a very upright bike. Was it anothet Elephant bike?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. LaidBack
    Member

    Azor ☆Secret Service☆ from LB upright Dutch selection.
    Big, black and hub geared.
    Has the load rack. A popular Workcycles model.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. NiallA
    Member

    @HankChief, yes that was me. Sorry I didn’t react, I think my mind was elsewhere. I only realised it must have been you when it took me about 10 minutes to cycle along the length of your Helios plus tag along, at which point I was past you. Mornings....

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. NiallA
    Member

    Passed LaidBack on NMW this morning - would have attempted a Hi 5, but he was too reclined and I was too upright!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. chdot
    Admin

    Previous post was 10100.

    As CCE has a certain number of members with arcane interests in railways, I post this.

    (Near the top of any ugly list.)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. gembo
    Member

    Matt at justbikerepairs of Juni Green claims he did not make the excellent Xmas tree sculpture it just appeared outside his shop Monday morning. He has zip tied it to the fence to stop it blowing over. He is asking Who put it there?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. Arellcat
    Moderator

    arcane interests in railways

    Picked up a copy of Prototype Locomotives while at the recent grand reopening of Barrow Hill with Tulyar. Has several pages on the Fell loco.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. wingpig
    Member

    A micro-gritter-tractor on McKelvie Parade on Thursday evening.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. Frenchy
    Member

    @Arellcat investigating the new Leith Walk lanes by Elephant Bike.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. dessert rat
    Member

    @Handcyclist charging up the hill towards Dalmeny this afteroon.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. unhurt
    Member

    @gembo's blue gentleman's half hose at Lochrin Basin I think. Tall, speedy, grey leggings, black baggies and a fluoro jacket plus black backpack?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. Arellcat
    Moderator

    This morning, spotted a big black, children-laden Urban Arrow turning left at the top of MMW.

    Also encountered what must be one of the fastest Brompton riders in Edinburgh. Damn he was quick. Time I lost spent unable to filter the torpedo through traffic was equalised by time he lost waiting at traffic lights and we reached the east end at the same time, having started somewhere around Morningside.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. Frenchy
    Member

    A Christmas miracle!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. paddyirish
    Member

    In my open plan office, a fellow regular CCE visitor, whom I don't know. Will have to introduce myself and see who it is...

    Posted 6 years ago #

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