CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
sticky
resolved@greenroofer
I can confirm that the combination of fixie plus rigger boots and full waterproofs is still more nimble than an Elephant Bike. But only just.
My choice of attire was not merely deviance from accepted dress norms as I had spent the day helping to fix some paths in the Hermitage.
@MediumDave - your CCE handle has changed from what I previously knew it as. I shall update my records accordingly :-)
Has SmallDave has grown a bit ;-)
Does this count as a reverse spot? I was in a work meeting when the person I was chatting to said she had invited her colleague to join us for a bit. He wasn't there for work reasons just to chat cycle routes as he was interested in cycling to work - he said he lived in the Murrayfield area so I offered to buddy him in at a steady pace as I had a big bike.
Then it dawned on him 'Oh, You're that guy... with the thingy on the back'
Yes. Yes, I am 'that guy... with the thingy on the back' :-)
“Does this count as a reverse spot?”
Only if other person is a CCEer.
Spotted the mighty Kaputnik at craigleith five ways yesterday a.m. slightly put him off concentrating on all the ways cyclists and peds could come at him.
Only if other person is a CCEer.
If they aren't one now, but later become a CCEer, would it be a time-reversed reverse spot?
slightly put him off concentrating
Did you open hailing frequencies?
Yes hailed via the normal loud and hearty vocal channels and also a big thumbs up
Had a CCE-tastic day yesterday, meeting and chatting with Stickman, Kaputnik & Acsimspon during the course if my travels.
Nice to be spotted by you Hankchief. I bet a few non CCErs were spotting us too with more seats than a family car.
At the Parliament: enough CCErs & relations to go whole metres round the building: @LaidBack & Mrs LaidBack, @gembo (resplendent & vocal), @wingpig, @IWRATS & madame IWRATS & Mother of IWRATS (MOIWRATS?), and @Kim.
On the canal this evening I met a cheery chap I've not seen for a couple of years. I think his name's Scot*, and he used to be a regular towpath commuter until he moved to get a new job that meant driving to work.
He's back on the towpath, grinning from ear to ear and saying how wonderful it is to be back on a bike for the commute and how the car got him down and made him fat and angry.
It was a stark reminder that, although I did have a couple of close passes today (serves me right for being dressed as a roadie on a road bike), the alternative to that is not riding a bike, and that's unthinkably horrible.
*but it might be Craig. I could never remember for sure.
I was cycling west along fountain bridge this morning and followed the cycle lane up into the ASL at the junction wth view forth. big lorry already stopped at the lights. Only after I was past it did i hear a recorded 'this vehicle is turning left' and noticed the indicators. as a result, i pulled a bit more centrally into the ASL. don't know if the driver turned the indicators and recording on for me? or if they were on and i just hadn't noticed. interesting experience.
Strangely enough noticed Sainsburys lorry (nice small one) with the same feature turning left into Middlefield today
The *entire* rear shutter door was painted with a jumbo print of the same decoration you get on stickers, ‘cyclists do not pass’ or words to that effect, which seemed overkill
The recording was quite clear from the other side of the road so I suspect your driver just turned on the blinkers late
The big Sainsbury lorries all have that on the back too. I keep meaning to write an Angry Email...
Thirsting for art criticism.
Spotted the mighty Kaputnik at craigleith five ways yesterday a.m. slightly put him off concentrating on all the ways cyclists and peds could come at him.
I was mainly put off because my spotting brain is so rusty these days that I couldn't quite connect the guy who usually grins and shouts "KAPAPAPAPATOONIK" at me and tries for a hi-5 with a familiar acquaintance :)
cube EBIKE joining the cycle path at inverkeithing this morning, first time ive seen that bike - female rider - looked brand new! (bike that is!)
spotted - Wingpig, bottom of Innocent @ Duddingston Rd West crossing.
Spotted the job my whole life has been leading up to. Wish me luck.
Jiffy Bag Aftermath - posthumous Fall ditty?
Even better than a track pump?
As seen on my travels
A rare pompom tree and other trees in rather nice bikinis.
(Musselburgh has been yarnbombed)
A serious case of bike envy at Sainsbury's (Westfield) this evening: spotted a lady cruising around the carpark on a lovely bakfiets. Dreams of n++!
The Kirknewton Cargo Bike, glimpsed turning down to where I assume the owner lives.
LaidBack, upright e-biking onto MMW from Teviot Place just now.
Musselburgh has been yarnbombed
The knitted vegetables in the community garden are impressive. A bit hard to chew though.
Another meeting with the mighty K tonight and later into what I thought was a killer head wind the mighty ChrisFl.
@gembo - if you hadn't pointed it out, I probably wouldn't have noticed. But it was a very fast ride back into town :)
Really quite an exciting ride home. I made a very westerly spot of gembo who was muttering about something massive ahead of me. This wasn't the well-laden shopping trolley being pushed along the towpath by some youngsters, but the elephantine pannier bags attached to Greenroofer's elephant bike, which I admired but stayed clear of for fear of being accidentally nerfed into the canal. I narrowly avoided a youngster on a disco bike exiting the Slateford Aqueduct, and finally had to negotiate new roadworks just south of the Leamington Lift Bridge and a complete path closure (no diversion signage) at the NMW crossing over Melville Drive.
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