Someone on an electric bike this morning as I drove through the small town nearest to where I grew up. This was astonishing enough, but in the next five minutes I then saw three other people on bikes.
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Deliveroo rider on e-bike - nothing unusual there except this was totally electric powered, no pedalling required. He set off from lights and went uphill without a single pedal at about 20mph. Is that legal?
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Nope...
Was the rider in queston wearing a buff pulled up over his nose, and was it a kind of home-made looking e-bike by any chance?
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@unhurt I would make a rubbish witness! It wasn't in Edinburgh. The bike looked fairly standard apart from a very large rear hub.
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Legal only if they had a proper vehicle registration, licence and insurance. Oh and motorbike helmet. So most likely not.
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Algo heading east on Sciennes? I was in mild disguise as a helmetless MTB-er.
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An e bike sold before 01-01-2016 can have a throttle and does not need to be peddled
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Hi @Snowy - yes indeed - a late reciprocal shout from me in case you didn't hear it - we must stop spotting each other like these. It's almost as if we live in roughly the same area of town...
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A Paperbike with a Bobike Classic Junior on the back heaving to at Broughton Tesco. Those racks really are rubbish.
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Lesley MacInnes riding her e-bike south on Craigmillar Park in the dark.
She doesn't ride like one of us yet, but impressive all the same.
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I'm intrigued which one of of she doesn't ride like? There's so many of us to choose from.
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Too late to edit but I meant to say "which one of us..."
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I ride slowly and loudly question in which cereal packet other road users found their driving licence. I assume LM doesn't ride like me, because ebike users can go faster.
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@acsimpson
Like a battle-hardened commuter. I noticed her a good two hundred metres off from the controls of my automobile as she triggered my novice-cyclist-ahoy! alert. I think she veered right as she rear-observed. Something like that.
@Greenroofer has previously noted the existence of a CCE house riding style. Perhaps the only one that permits long-term cycling in Edinburgh; hyper-vigilant, defensive, assertive, calm?
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I think she veered right as she rear-observed.
Ah! Like me then*.
*I accept I am an outlier in the present company.
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Observing rears can be quite distracting.
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A big black Urban Arrow emerging from the WoL path at the visitor centre by Slateford viaduct. Both rider and $smallpassenger were delighted to see the red torpedo.
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Big wave from HankChief as he passed the bus stop I was waiting at. Lots of other bikes passing as well.
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Girl of about 10 making deliberate progress on a bike through the residential streets of South Morningside just now. She was wearing no hi-viz, had no helmet and appeared to be unaccompanied by an adult. For these three reasons it was rather wonderful to see her: perhaps she's the start of something big...
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Was that @MrSRD et al. heading up Craigmillar Park?
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An Elephant Bike locked to the racks at Uphall station.
New tarmac laid at the top of the Lanark Road hill, just down from the Gillespie Crossroads.
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Small wheeled triplet (adult + two kids) spotted in south of Edinburgh - I missed my gap to pull out in order to confirm for CCE that it wasn't just a tandem with child seat...
Probably a Circe Helios Triplet and no doubt supplied by one of this parish...
*waves at Laidback*
Robert
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Roger Penrose, who is a living god, at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Three talks by artists inspired by Penrose's work first, one inspired by having to re-train her visual system after falling off a bicycle to her great injury.....
....also I nearly died from shame having forgotten to turn my phone off and a CCEer phoned me during the great man's routine.
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30 or so schoolchildren walking down Gilmerton Road with a police escort.
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@Frenchy
Roundup?
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Only effective on plants, isn't it?
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@iwrats I clearly haven't mastered the 'calm' house style ... Every week i challenge myself can i go the whole week without losing it with someone or telling them to stop f**ing texting ... ..its been many years since i can say i have actually achieved it ... so calm I'm not. :-(
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Motorbikes scudding along the shared use at the Magdalenes/Bingham.
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A contract of hire bikes heading down the W Granton access road, I'm assuming they were lost.
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Last night in cowgate I spotted the James Connolly society putting up an information board and some wee flags at their shrine. I can only imagine the anti-James Connolly society will be along to rip it all down shortly. Such is the sectarian strife in these small islands.
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