@algo, post dropoff / sans stoker, in Bruntsfield.
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@Paddyirish, by the wonders of Strava I assume it was you that was struggling with a short chain. If so then that was an impressively long commute and explains why you were passing the bridge later than would be normal.
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Wave to @urchaidh and @snowy this morning and a spot of @jdanielp at the demo this evening
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My spidey senses caused me to rear observe on Gilmerton Road and lo! it was @Frenchy who I did hail and wish well as he drew alongside.
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Brief chat with @IWRATS on the way into work about smiley faces on pavements.
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Big crowd of MTBers outside the SYHA on Leith Walk, unloading their bikes from a hire van, or maybe loading them up? Anyway a big group heading off for adventures somewhere!
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@acsimpson- good detective work and I'm now following you on Strava too. Yes - had a bit of an adventure on Tuesday. Hoping for something less dramatic next time around
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With time, location and knowing your liking of extended commutes it wasn't too hard. It was only today that I noticed you'd commented on your gear problems both here and there too.
The last time I had my bike serviced by Halfords they fitted the wrong length of rear derailleur. It resulted in the very similar problems to yours. Although I had ordered a short one they fitted it and so they should really have spotted my mistake, especially as the gears were included in the service package.
To their credit when I made it back to the shop they were very apologetic and both refunded the incorrect derailleur and gave me the correct one free of charge under the bikes original (but expired) warranty.
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8ft raven on George Street.
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Saw it too but on Princes Street. Fibre Glass. Hughie the Chinese phone company dragging it around. You put your self of you and RAVEN on their website and have a chance of winning a safari to Rothiemurcus to Shoot ravens
Swifts spotted on R4 today prog (but that was ex-Watson's gal Martha Kearney reporting from Jerusalem).
Also spotted Irn Bru coffin outside Edinburgh Dungeon. Book of condolences etc. Guessing Sugar Tax.
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@algo well spotted at a well attended event despite short notice. I'm afraid I only hung around for about 20 mins.
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@jdanielp - we arrived early but my bribes ran out relatively quickly and we had to leave unfortunately. Shamefully I told IWRATS I might see him there but left before he turned up. Was relatively well attended - I had dreams that we might bring tollcross traffic standstill and make a very necessary voice heard, but it was indeed fairly short notice. Still - a reasonable CCE crowd share I reckon - I doubt we were the only ones.
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@algo that would have been fantastic!
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One of those upright jogging-powered bikes chained up at Cameron Toll.
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Also on the north boat: I think the saddle is worth at least half what the bike cost new. Quality backtilt. I reckon I will know the owner if I see them on board.
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Also on the north boat: I think the saddle is worth at least half what the bike cost new. Quality backtilt. I reckon I will know the owner if I see them on board.
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Guy on the Meadows with a brand spanking bikepacking rig. Co-ordinated bar, frame and tail bags. He was propped against a tree smoking a rollie, which is very bikepack-like.
Tourers have panniers and a glass of ale?
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Also a bunch of Sustrans people flagging down bicyclists.
I told the lady what I thought of Sustrans and why I wouldn't be giving them any money any time soon.
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Rerwick Head car parklet - down the track - in glorious sun this afternoon: the owner of an old steel-frame tourer with foam instead of bar tape and the most broken-in Brooks I've ever seen. Born in 1938, missing his voice-box (using one of those robotic amplifiers you hold against your throat) but spritely, fit and looking about 70. Has been coming camping in Scotland since he was 17, currently solo bike touring round Orkney. Loving today's weather, got soaked yesterday in Stromness. Had been to a talk in the 1950s about the threat of caravan tourers to small rural places, felt it had been ahead of its time. Not a fan of camper vans, especially huge ones. A huge fan of interesting geology and hiking. Great payoff for a "what a bonnie day" greeting at the kissing gate.
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“with foam instead of bar tape”
Do you mean DIY or something like -
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That looks like the stuff. Seemed maybe a wee bit loose, but expect comfy? Think he was mostly using the hoods as he had a nice big bring-bring bell fixed to the outside of one drop.
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Exchanged a mid-five with a cheery @gembo at the end of the aqueduct this evening.
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...which reminds me. I was outside Morningside Waitrose yesterday evening where I saw and Italian-sounding couple with bikes. She had a lovely lovely utility bike with a Yepp childseat on the back. The bike was an utterly gorgeous shade of sky blue. Sometimes the stereotypes (in this case of Italians being naturally stylish) are well-founded.
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Having stopped to help a couple of American tourers get on the right route for "dounf-erm-lyne" I then spotted DaveC coming off the bridge.
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@acsimpson and other Fife bound or Fife to Edinburgh commuters, I am hoping to go to Dunfermline in June. To the conference centre on Halbeath Road. I messed this up a couple of septembers ago in what was thick haar on the river that was not present elsewhere.
Once over the bridge I am intending to aim for inverkeithing then along the main coast road until the left turn across country takes me up to Dunfermline again. Is this right?
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@gembo - assuming you are heading for the Carnegie conference centre opposite Asdas, a reasonable route from the FRB would be through Inverkeithing to the station, left along A921 (shared use path), cross at lights then cross under M90, wend through Rosyth back streets and onto shared path to Rosyth station (try and keep count of the number of give ways cyclists should give to folks driveways!). Shared path takes you round west of the big end-of-motorway roundabout then crossing dual carriageway before taking right onto Carnegie Ave. Up the hill then pick up shared path on LHS for Lapwing Dr, Sandpiper Dr past Amazon pops you out at Fife Leisure Park. Shared path on west side takes you up to Halbeath roundabout then take a left down Sandybank to Fife College. It's pretty well cycle-signposted the whole way. Other options are, naturally, available including a bit of a leg-checker up Masterton Road over the M90.
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As fiefster says there are multiple routes depending on your taste for traffic and hills.
The shortest way would be to follow Route 1 almost all the way which is what I think you are describing. As fiefster points out this does include a stiff climb, although easy compared to many of the Bathgate Alps climbs. I would therefore recommend this route to you as I did to the Americans (Don't follow the Dunfermline, route 76) signs though as they were what confused them).
I think fiefsters preferred route may be the flatest although to get to Rosyth I go over Castlandhill Road. It's usually quite, although I normally climb on the pavement rather than the road. Once in Rosyth I almost always avoid the cycle paths because, as fiefster points out, it's really a series of 20 or more give ways with a brief break for 4 unnecesary toucan crossings in the middle (My favourite is where you are asked to give way to a sign post).
The bridge sounds like a dangerous place to get lost though, if that happens don't turn until you get to the end of the railings. :-)
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On the way to work I spotted a super view
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I counted 19 bikes using the segregated lane on Leith Street this morning in the time it took me to walk it. And that was after peak commuter o' clock.
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