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(14472 posts)- Started 13 years ago by recombodna
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@chdot, I can't see anything in that photo, is it the Stealth Bike?
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The first step towards vigilante action against thoughtless duck feeders spotted in Inverleith Park this evening.
Rather love this.
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@unhurt
Unless an actual moorhen typed that there is no excuse. None.
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nice chat with @morningsider this morning after he kindly stopped to ask if I needed help when I pulled over with irritating lock syndrome.
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It was a witch! She turned me into a coot! (I got better.)
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@Frenchy cycling down Buccleuch Street...
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Guilty as charged. Where were you?
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guiltily drinking coffee outside Cult and not at work - I saw you a bit late to shout any form of greeting....
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Quite a few cyclists out at the reservoirs above Balerno today, we did Harlaw, Black Springs, Thriepmuir and the Water Meadow.
Some intrepid souls have rebranded the dried reservoir mud as sand (not much different) and have gone to the beach up there. Dinghy, snorkels, egg and cress sandwiches etc.
Bitten a few times by horseflies. Several species of butterflies (red admiral and small white). Some mad oystercatchers, a couple of wagtails (yellow and pied). All three progeny on a dad's birthday walk. Present - request for no arguments.
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Spotted from the corner of my eye at Goods Corner; a Lothian bus with destination 'Death Camps'.
Did a double take. 'Dalkeith Campus'. Shows the state of the place when my brain is pre-organised to expect public transport to suburban extermination centres.
Also @SRD deep in academic chit-chat on Middle Meadow Walk.
Also stopped to give directions to a gaggle of tourers on Princes Street seeking the station to get home to Suffolk.
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I was going to tell you all that I encountered chap with smelly petrol engine attached to his bike this evening, but I see you've already 'met' him.
At 6.40pm this eve he was heading down Baird Drive towards the Water of Leith. And when I was heading the other way approx 7.40pm I met him coming the other direction through Roseburn Park.
On his return trip he was carrying a full sized adult bike across his body. [Lightish pink in colour, but not a woman's step through frame!] He doesn't seem to have to pedal at all.
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Rurigdh from Sustrans on Gilmore Place and then a double-whammy of ARobComp and gembo soon after joining the canal towpath. I missed a left-handed high-five with gembo as a result of not spotting him in time due to a combination of him being in the middle of a train of three cyclists that I had moved behind the pedestrians ahead of me to give way to, my decision to wear sunglasses meaning that my ability to pick out detail at a distance was slightly limited, and not being used to left-handed high-fives. Maybe next time!
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Met Kirsty Lewin off the board of Sustrans as I cycled to Porty to give @Urcaidh the missing bit of his cycle carrier back.
She of course tweeted the incident rather than CCEing it;
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@jdanielp the chap in front of me most impressed with your quickwitted manouevre off to the right.
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@IWRATS that isn't the best likeness, but congratulations on the book.
@gembo glad to hear. I think he gave me a bit of a wave of thanks which, in combination with you putting your arm out for a left-handed high-five, made me all the more confused. I only realised it was you when you thanked me by name.
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@IWRATS - I saw her tweet earlier and was convinced it had to be you. Have had a the pleasure of a cycling chat with her on the way into Leith in the morning.
(Thanks for return of the missing bit)
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@urchaidh
My absolute pleasure.
Nice lady and her normal route home took me to your door. I was a bit harsh on the SG's climate change performance I'm afraid.
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I know Kirsty a little bit. I've never known someone to have so much energy about them.
I spotted (well, was hailed by) Gandalf this afternoon, on South Clerk Street. He opined that I ought to ride with a permanent rear light because I was so low down that people might not see me. Were it anyone else I might have choked on my own water. I humoured him by switching on the running lights on the red torpedo, before accelerating off down the hill towards Cameron Toll.
I switched them off again as I ascended Liberton Brae.
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Somebody in one of the ERC(?) group heading up Gilmerton Road this morning waved to me. I don't think it was anyone I know, but apologies if it was.
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A rather large "mobile" (read pulled behind a car) Air pollution monitoring station in Waverley in the large event space next to the bike racks proudly bearing the logo of Imperial College London. It had all sorts of gadgetry on it's roof including what looked like a jam jar.
One thing that crossed my mind was that it was quite a long way from where the highest volume of trains actually leave from... Not sure on whether that's by design by ICL, by design by the station management, or just the only place it'd fit because it is rather large.
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SRD and a few other cyclists opposite me at the King's Theatre Junction this morning looking concerned as the distant sound of sirens became two fire engines racing along Home Street just as our traffic lights changed. Luckily, they were heading up Leven Street and weren't turning right onto Gilmore Place. They managed to clear the junction just before the lights changed back to red which meant that all of the cyclists made it across ok.
I just about reached a high 2-3 with gembo at Harrison Park.
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@jdanielp - Fingertips still count
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Tonight young German, not unlike the baddie in Detectorists ( get the box set if you have not seen it) asks for Cycling Hi Five. Towpath mellow at 6.30pm.
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Someone, possible Wezee?, heading down Hanover Street on an Urban Arrow this morning.
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I've been heading to work slightly earlier during the school holidays, so different commute time, different set of people on bikes...
Today I spotted a blue Cannondale M500 and thought that's a really distinctive bike and it looks just like the one I used to own...
Turns out it was! It was the bike I bought in the US in 1995, complete with the reflective stickers I had added. I had sold it back in ~2007.
After the rider's hat flew off, I took my opportunity to ask him about it. The bike was still mostly in its original condition (as sold by me), only the brakes and tyres had been changed, and the guy seemed pretty happy with it. I told him how I thought it was a very nimble machine for mountain biking, even without any suspension. Anyway, I was glad to see it still going and wished him future pleasant trips on it.
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Shared some segregated paths with Frisskiffia this morning. And obviously a high five with jdanielp
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spotted 2 tourists assembling a blue tandem in St Andrew Square. I spotted on of them crouched down with the bike in semi dis/assembly and stopped to enquire whether they were ok and needed any help. Then I spotted the very large bike box next to them and figured they had travelled to Edinburgh with the bike boxed and were now assembling it.
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I spotted a couple of people sat at the bus stop at the bottom of Lauriston Place the other evening alongside a pair of empty bike boxes and two fully assembled, quite new looking and well loaded bikes. I wonder if they were taking a post-assembly rest, although a bus stop seemed like a strange place to have been building bikes and it was already dark at that point so seemed like odd timing.
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