@jdanielp I was less concerned about the fire engines, and also getting across, than I was about the idiot heading towards toll cross who twice drove onto the hatchings despite the junction not being clear, so then had to twice reverse across the pedestrian crossing!
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also spotted friskiffla as i headed up leamington terrace one morning last week, but forgot to add then. was blanking on their handle.
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Spotted on the way to see all round legend James Taylor at the SSE Hydro last night;
Indoor Adventure Golf at Soccerworld.
Also much cycling on the Clydeside shared use path. Hi speed MTB commuters, Breeze ride dawdlers weaving through open-air drinkers and concert goers. There's room for four lanes of traffic but not a cycle path?
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Murrayfield at the top of Clermiston...
Gratuitous mislocation
[url=https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g186525-d192444-Reviews-Leonardo_Hotel_Edinburgh_Murrayfield-Edinburgh_Scotland.html][/url]The owners of that hotel must really struggle, it gets a new name and location every few months.
Still, it'll never top the Queensferry Lodge which at one point renamed itself to the Edinburgh North.
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This morning on the A703, a brief hello to Julia the runner, who was cycling.
This evening on Comiston Road, a brief chat with AlanR. Actually, I spotted the bright red rear light first, some distance up the hill from the Morningside clock, and then the bright yellow low-hanging panniers, as all recumbent trike panniers tend to be. A bit of sprinting brought me into conversation range.
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Woman with three kids (youngest about 8) negotiating Haymarket this morning. Kids looked confident enough but I was nervous for them. Reinforces just how awful that whole area is.
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@Dave making determined progress along the towpath this evening. The bicycle wheel strapped to his back didn't seem to be slowing him down much...
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I overtook somebody on a newer model (brown) Charge Grater on the towpath this morning and complimented them on their bicycle in passing. Coincidentally, as I was locking up my bike after arriving at work, they cycled past and remarked to me something along the lines of "oh, it's you again".
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Six young guys, presumably tourists, leaving Haymarket on station hire bikes loaded up with rucksacks,sleeping bags etc.
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IWRATS and Madam IWRATS, baby blimp and baby baby blimp, and many thousands of other protestors at the Trump rally.
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Also author Tana Collins and Kirsty Lewin of Sustrans again.
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Two Buddhist(?) monks(?) in yellowy-orange robes along the towpath around the WoL path turn-off around 6.30 this morning. Perhaps from The Dhammapadipa Temple.
They walked in single file with brollies and for a moment I thought I was seeing double.
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Drunkie, Junkie, Monkie.
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Also at the wedding on Saturday in the lake district was TWQ of this parish who I don't think is about that much anymore as aparently he moved to Dubai many years ago.
He said hello in the ceremony (before the ceremony actually) and we had a good chatter about life and cycling out there. Nice to see a friendly face after many years.
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maybe not anyone here, but this morning i saw a peculiar cycle crossing Broughton Road (Street??), going east. i thought it was a cycle with a baby seat, but there was a large gap--like extra frame behind the cyclist?
or maybe i slept worse than i thought.
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@the canuck - a tagalong?
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@the canuck
May have been a Circe Helios tandem or triplet.Posted 6 years ago # -
@Frenchy, I like the French name for this: suiveur (follower).
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Sounds like a helios (or other tandem) with child seat at back, but no stoker.
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Or a longtail?
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IWRATS unlocking his bike on Ratcliffe Terrace last night following a Bike Station board meeting as I cycled into town from a friend's house. I appreciated a reason to stop to remove the long sleeve layer that I had automatically put on because it was dark already. That's the first time I have used lights in a while. Hope I didn't blind anyone.
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@Frenchie gettin' messages fer his denner fae the shoppie.
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@wilmington (fka @anth) on his kingfisher blue Elephant Bike. EB is good for fitness and the forum bike of choice. Like an electric bike without the mileage limitations of a motor (kidding). Odd sized wheels too which makes it 'specialist'. Affordable and robust.
Also @AlanR on his @icetrike heading up to Bruntsfield.
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The EB is just marvellously yet frightfully heavy. I'll cycle the torpedo up Liberton Brae without stopping (albeit twiddling in 1st gear at 6.5mph) but the EB requires me to stop two or three times simply on account of the limited gear range.
I spotted AlanR yesterday, while going up the steep bit of Oxgangs Road North. I was in disguise on the big enduro motorbike.
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@IWRATS - Hid tae ging tae B&Q tae get fit I wis looking for. Widnae recommend eatin' it, bit ye're welcome tae try.
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@Arellcat - miniGreenroofer likes riding my EB (on the flat). She's a normal-sized 13 year-old, and it's interesting that she can put the seat down and ride it quite comfortably, and even more interesting that it looks kind of 'right', rather than her look like she's sitting inside it as smaller people sometimes do on bikes that are too big for them. Every time she rides it she comments on how nice it feels.
I do worry, though, that if it falls over when she's riding it she won't be able to pick it up again...
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deffo not a tagalong--that's what i thought at first, but only 2 wheels. maybe a longtail?
i'll have to keep my eyes peeled, it's the first one i've seen.
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Spotted an excellent old Pashley style being ridden to great effect by the young Julian Sands and a fantastic narrow trike being propelled in a high wind by youngish Simon Callow. As we tried to get our children to watch A Room With A View. True apart from a good kiss not much happens in two hours but only my son made it to the end. What has become of the youth of today.?. They sure ain't going to read EM Forster novels if they find the merchant ivory versions boring.
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@Frenchie
Losh, min. Fit in i hell wist at ye couldnae get it in i shoppie?
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Extension cable. Definitely dinna suggest tryin tae eat it. It'd be a lang time comin oot again, onyway.
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