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  1. Frenchy
    Member

    @Trixie - Aye. Photo taken here. I think the path will connect to Hunter's Hall park.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. jdanielp
    Member

    MMW appears to be open again this morning, although I only realised as I was cycling across the junction at the top towards my Quartermile detour. gembo amongst a train of bicycles heading east as I tried to avoid cycling on the leaf mulch too much on NMW. piosad on the canal towpath.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. Trixie
    Member

    @Frenchy, as I've had repeated minor incidents with 2 particular vehicle drivers in the streets between there and Niddrie Mains Rd, it would certainly be an appealing alternative. On the very few occasions it won't be teeming with illegal motorbikes, that is. Although that barrier will certainly stop them!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. fimm
    Member

    ARobComp I should have introduced you to Mr fimm but I was having the usual brain failure of knowing exactly who you were but being able to remember neither your real name nor your pseudonym...
    both of us had cycled to Balreno up the WoL from Gorgie and Mr fimm had been swim-coaching triathletes for an hour so we needed breakfast.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. unhurt
    Member

    Failed to spot any of the above while at Balerno Farmer's Market / Apple Day. Did spot a discounted copy of the Thomas Muir book Iwrats has been mentioning on the regular of late.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Murray Armstrong's The Liberty Tree. Reading it right now and greatly enjoying.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. dougal
    Member

    The Graham's Milk truck in front of me in the queue was leaking LOADS of milk out the corner of the door. I could have filled my cup before the gap in traffic opened up.

    I tried to catch up with the driver but we went different directions at the roundabout. The inside of the truck must have been a milky disaster.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. gembo
    Member

    @Dougal, you been watching the Speed episode of Father Ted again?

    LOvely chat and cycle with @Morningsider this morning

    previous big Hi 5 with social worker I ken and then little wave across Gilmore Place with @jdanielp

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. SRD
    Moderator

    three cyclists being pulled over by police for running red light

    (in london)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    'Struth SRD, 3 out of 33,000 London RLJ ers per day?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. jules878
    Member

    Suspect this isn't "an appropriate" place for such a spot, BUT

    I was amused to spot a Tesco van delivering to the fancy new "Canal Point Student Accommodation".

    Amazing!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. steveo
    Member

    Got passed by a very interesting looking bike this morning on NEPN. Blue with small tyres, a big rack on the front and two child seats one behind the other behind the pilot.

    On loan from the bike station if the many leaflets attached to it were to be believed.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. unhurt
    Member

    Ooh, the wee* e-assist Tern cargo bike? It is COOL.

    *not really wee but the small wheels make it cute

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. jdanielp
    Member

    Google have updated Street View for Heriot-Watt so I now appear looking quizzically at the passing vehicle just next to the new hotel.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. steveo
    Member

    e-assist Tern cargo bike?

    Thats the chicken, followed it out wide at one point to try and get a better look at the frame.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. fimm
    Member

    @jdanielp, more to the point, so does your PoP t-shirt!!!

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. jdanielp
    Member

    :)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. wingpig
    Member

    I'm sure it wouldn't be beyond Google to combine the location data it probably secretly retains and combine it with satellite/Googlecar imagery timestampings and then email people when it thinks they might be in a Google Earth or Street View image. It could even use photos of each phone's suspected owner's face to corroborate.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. Ed1
    Member

    boundary road

    boundary road

    What is happening with boundary road it is very muddy further down

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. jdanielp
    Member

    I'm working far further away from the boundary road than I used to, but I think that it was being used as access for building works for a period of time, hence the muddiness.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. Arellcat
    Moderator

    The north-western section of Boundary Road North remained unsurfaced for a long time because it was only ever used as a regular access for a mobile crane, whose prodigious lifting capacity was used in connection with the large pipe bending apparatus third on the left as you go up Fourth Gait. Is it still there? I have a feeling that it was removed years ago.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    boundary road
    boundary road
    What is happening
    with boundary road
    it is very muddy
    further down

    That belongs in the poetry thread.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. jdanielp
    Member

    @Arellcat mobile cranes still appear now and again (maybe less frequently of late?), but I've no idea what they get up to and I was not aware of any pipe bending apparatus.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. wingpig
    Member

    Man on an electronic monowheel on Princes Street.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. acsimpson
    Member

    "That belongs in the poetry thread"

    It could have come straight from the pages of "When we were very young."

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. gembo
    Member

    Returning from a. Rare sortie in west Lothian a big group of Edinburgh road club turning right into Balerno about noon today.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. Klaxon
    Member

    Kaputnik and family on Porty Prom

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Advising on general velomobile matters at the Laid Back Bicycle emporium this afternoon, and chatted with Angelo the cross-Canada guy, then Kim, and then John the Bike Collector with his Copenhagen Wheeled recumbent.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. unhurt
    Member

    An @Iwrats, unexpectedly, in another internet arena.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. jdanielp
    Member

    Due to not having slept well lately, and the dark and grey morning, I was feeling somewhat down as I set off to work today. Luckily, gembo spotted me from the far end of Lower Gilmore Place and started preparing very theatrically for a high five, which we achieved successfully in passing. I then exchanged a smile with formerly Lilac Helmet Lady as we passed one another on Boroughmuir Plaza. Thanks both!

    Posted 6 years ago #

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