Oops sorry, Neddie it was you. Not Nelly he was elsewhere. I had been at yum yums for felafel wrap it was awesome. Mr Yum yum does the fist pump to chest as a 3 d loyalty card.
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@gembo
Fetching cotton helmets FTW, BTW
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@neddie, the fetching cotton helmet was what made you know it was you that I Spotted not nelly?
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@gembo
Yes, and the 'porteur rack'
Now, with my cotton hat I was 'freewheeling' as you say. Had I been wearing my plastic hat, I would have been spinning flat-out, no doubt. Taking greater risks.
But no, my magic cotton hat was making me slow down, act calmly and gracefully through the Mayhem of Festival De-initialisation traffic...
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Took me a bit too long to parse that.
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Yes.
I don’t know whether previous message was ignored so someone thought a more obtuse version would work better(?)
Sign/writing bigger so that might make more of a difference(??)
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At Waverley, I think? I noticed they had changed the gate to one that doesn't self-close (approximately or otherwise).
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Did the old one just say Cyclists dismount?
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Obstacle course by beqi, on Flickr http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12049&page=12#post-202767
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Was it gembo on the towpath this evening around 6.20 by the Edinburgh Park/Gyle exit? with a companion behind chatting away?
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@bill, yes sorry not to spot you. That was debrief stage but we had generally been chatting since town, held up for some time by great wee cycling family but we were happy to wait. Colleague had a meeting at the Oriam Sports Centre (so large can be seen from space). He has a rational fear of heights. I was coaching him on crossing the aqueduct. Last time we did this he was pushing (he had never been over it before I thunk). Anyway this time I suggested he try pedalling. He went for it, said my chit chat kept the fear away and concentrating on cycling was better than pushing. He felt I could have charged him £500 for my expert input curing him of his rational fear of height.
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Roibeard, without even a cotton helmet, heading north on Craigmillar Park.
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I was coaching him on crossing the aqueduct. [...] He felt I could have charged him £500 for my expert input curing him of his rational fear of height.
Well done, @gembo!
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Thanks Bill. He was genuinely very happy about How unfrightened he was. He has been 3/4 way up the Eiffel Tower and same with leaning Tower of Pisa. Those trips did not go so well. If you have ever had a bell from my collection or had to sit in Peter's Yard when I have been given a row for ringing a bell, then my friend with a rational fear of heights / vertigo is the supplier of said bells.
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"Nelly freewheeling along George IV bridge at lunch time with his porteur rack and his fetching cotton helmet"
@gembo I think this has been debunked by @neddie, although apart from the rack it was an accurate descriptionPosted 6 years ago # -
Gembo's bell ringing of a morning in PY is the stuff of legend.
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Sorry @nelly. I think there had been a thread maybe Lochend living where post from Nelly was immediately followed by post from Neddie or vice versa which must have confused my brain.
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Was it gembo again this evening on the towpath around 6.40 between the aqueduct and WoL turnoff? this time in green and without a campanion?
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Yup, but I spotted you this time and said Bill Bill. Softly. After the pass. Was slightly thrown by the green papoose sticking out of your jacket.
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@gembo I wish I had heard 'bill bill'. The green thing was my shirt...
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@bill bill I think your shirt must have been billowing
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Stuck behind a coach in traffic through the UNESCO World Heritage Site yesterday I noticed that the rather attractive cyclist beside me had a sort of adjustable brace on top of their top tube attached to the seat post and the steerer tube.
I politely enquired what it was to pass the time and found out it's part of the Tagalong set-up. Seemed like overkill for a bike that already has a top tube, maybe it's meant to stiffen step-thru frames?
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Meant to say that on Tuesday afternoon I spotted our friend from Roseburn (pg) arriving at the City chambers on his bicycle. Bam.
Also in Currie and Balerno News a mural that covered the tunnel wall at Easter hailes gate of the Balerno Pug steam train that plied its way up the water of leith to the paper mill (1980)
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Bloke on hand-cycle among a group of cyclists near Innerleithen.
Innerleithen has a set of reliefs on Pirn Hill which are very attractive, Pictish influenced and portray local industries and history like a Roman warrior or mills or sheep or fishing. Shame there isn't a Pictish style sculpture of bicycles - a big employer there.
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The Pictish 'double disc and Z-rod' is widely interpreted as representing a link of steel bicycle chain and the forerunner to the double diamond safety frame.
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IWRATS :-) Isn't that a giant spanner - used for undoing nuts on war chariots?
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Gold spray-painted (tyres and all) kiddie's bike chained to the railings beside Greyfriars Bobby.
What gives?
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ERC youngsters zipping along somewhere. Great to see such enthusiasm in horrible conditions.
Also someone drafting a bus down Gilmerton Roads towards the bypass. Must have been going at 40?
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Someone in full waterproof wintergarb warming their bare hands on the back of a bus opposite the Playhouse.
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