Yellow clad cyclist with long pole from their back with what looks like a mini camera attached. Seen a few times now so maybe surveying routes or something. Think it's a Go Pro - pole must spring about though?
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@LaidBack
Not a pole but a half Prussian rod.
Spotted: A child cycling home from primary school alone on the carriageway of Gilmerton Road. Sad that it merits a spot but it does.
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@Biketrain, I suspect the fourth is just lead weights. I can't confirm if it's to make hills more interesting or just to ensure rear wheel traction when riding sans-stoker.
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Ranulph Fiennes used to put bricks in a rucksack then run up hills to train for crazed upper-class arctic adventure challenges. Maybe @HankChief has secret plans to be the first man to ride the longest bike to the uttermost north?
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@unhurt
Confession: in my Year of Athletic Achievement (distant, almost archaeological times, alas) I trained in the Pentlands with six petanque balls in a rucksack. Racing was accompanied by an odd light feeling and clocks running slower.
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This confession isn't doing anything to dismantle my belief that running up hills on purpose should probably be diagnosable.
Q did you wrap them in something or was there a strange clacking cacophony echoing across the uplands in your wake?
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A: They were wrapped in an old towel.
I enjoyed watching the Adventure Show on iPlayer yesterday. The two ladies who ran from Ardnamurchan to Aberdeen in six days, now that's up and down.
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Excellent ebike adorned with flowers hauling a Burley with passengers through the west end this morning. Surely someone on here?
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“Surely someone on here?”
Probably not, ‘odd stuff’ is becoming mainstream!
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@Biketrain - we usually run with 3 panniers. If we have 4 it means we're up to something...
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This morning I saw a guy getting on the Glasgow train with his Brompton, the interesting point being he had two artificial legs. I took a moment to wonder at the engineering prowess behind all of that. I don't know his circumstances but I was thrilled at how much independence a set-up like that offers.
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@HC - I will feed that back to my
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The two ladies who ran from Ardnamurchan to Aberdeen in six days,
Oh god, my cousin J probably knows them. That's the sort of thing she'd sign up for.
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I recall reading some sort of article in some sort of film magazine which mentioned that former basketball player Simon Whyte "went running with a vest stuffed with rocks" when training for running around in the Predator costume for AvP.
Whilst I rarely do anything I would technically classify as training, by always going around with a steel frame/full mudguards/dynamo and lights/rack/bag full of loads of stuff I never usually need but always carry anyway like a toolkit I'm sort of perpetually resistance-training, except that there is no 'race' mode when the weight is removed to realise the benefit. Conversely, I hate carrying anything when deliberately running-for-fitness on flat surfaces, despite being happy to be overladen on foot when scuttling-for-leisure on lumpy surfaces.
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scuttling-for-leisure
This has a lovely ring to it - though I'm imagining you as a sort of cartoon crab now...
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the interesting point being he had two artificial legs
Please tell me his knees folded sideways Brompton style.
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@IWRATS That would make pedalling - not to mention walking - a bit tricky.
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Fancy looking blue wheelchair-carrier bike parked outside Tribe Yoga Leith Walk this morning
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Re: leg hinges: A sideways bike?
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@unhurt
Nice try, but I feel stupid now.
PS New hand axe acquired today after the old one flaked out.
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Got a high 15 from Hankchief and crew today.
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Someone passing through either the King's Theatre junction or Tollcross with an Ortleiby-looking pannier in their childseat, with a hat atop the bag. Presumably, from the rear, it might be enough to trigger the whoops-a-child-better-not-crush-it response in responsible drivers.
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Spotted Mrs Kim this morning in the wilds south of Edinburgh. She was setting a cracking pace despite the huge drag of Marathon Winters.
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She was setting a cracking pace
Northbound or southbound?
I think I had my slowest ever journey southbound this morning. That wind...
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I made it five mins late to meeting in Leith despite setting off 15 mins after i intended. This easterly wind better blow me home as I am tired now.
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Bamboo singlespeed turning right out of Marionville Road onto London Road. Its owner appeared on my left in the ASL and went half front of me (I was at the middle of the back of the ASL as there was an impatient moron behind me) then took off really slowly.
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Northbound or southbound?
We were both northbound and perhaps benefitting from the wind, though it didn't seem all that windy.
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Is it UCI legal?
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