@IWRATS thanks. Good question. I would say that I've taken far more positives than negatives from Facebook so far but it certainly ranks below taking up cycle commuting.
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Is the Red Arrow that vehicle that looks like a ginormous red beetle that I saw trundling out of Roseburn Park yesterday afternoon?
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@jdanielp - ten years on Facebook and Zuckerman has not taken hold of your assets?
One I love is when you are talking about something and then coincidentally you get an advert for it on Facebook. Then you can hatch a conspiracy.
Facebook have stopped sending me adverts for male incontinence pads.
Never figured out why they started doing this as lied about my DOB to facebook made myself ten years younger.Did spot a drawer full of burner phones at the end of the French/dutch/English cop show Baptiste. No1 Son laffing saying - dad - look - your phone.
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Did spot a drawer full of burner phones
Ah. The IWRATS Museum.
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@Rosie, yes, that was me taking the traffic-avoiding route to West Coates, in order to join the traffic-engaging route to Princes St, along which I sped in a remarkable run of tram-free space.
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Was that ARobComp in a sharp suit riding an even sharper Van Moof on Morrison St this evening? If not then he has a very dapper doppelgänger.
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Formerly Lilac Helmet Lady having just joined the west end of NMW this morning, which isn't part of her normal route.
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@Mr fimm donating a lovely triathlon bike frame and a pair of plush MTB forks to the Bike Station.
Hope @fimm doesn't get home to find her bike missing.
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What the nice people at the Bike Station don't know is that that frame is probably useless. (Maybe they've spotted the gaffer tape by now...) Hopefully it will be a useful source of parts.
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@Fimm *cries as I bought bar end brakes off fleabay 3 hours ago as BikeStation had none yesterday. :'(
Is the donated tri frame S or M and not "badly" damaged. Don't mind slightly cracked carbon as I've had previous carbon repair experience?
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Frame is not carbon. I think it might be aluminium, would that make sense? Whatever metal it is, one of the doofers that the brake or gear cables pass through is broken off. I don't know if it could be welded back on.
We do much less tri now and don't need that bike: in the end it was easier just to throw it at the Bike Station rather than trying to fix it and sell it for not much money (I got it 2nd hand in the first place).
EDIT: not sure about frame size but I'm 5' 7" if that helps? It's probably small or medium.
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:thumbs up:
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A group of strangely shaped items of outdoor furniture have cropped up recently near a new car parking area outside Heriot-Watt's yet to be opened GRID Building (which was originally going to be called the Discovery and Innovation Centre), right next to The Loch. I had been struggling to work out what function these tall, rectangular strands of metal could possibly have; maybe flat surfaces were going to be attached to the top of them and it would become an outdoor bar? Today I saw a bike locked awkwardly to one. I fear that this answers the question, in which case these are some of the worst bike racks that I've seen - they are so tall that I can only imagine a fairly small proportion of bikes will be capable of being locked to these using a normal D lock.
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@unhurt on Royal mile, Bill, piosad, snowy and Greenroofer on towpath. All on my commute home tonight.
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Three people and a dog on a spring on proper big-front-wheeled kick-bikes heading up from the Easter Road end of the Restalrig path then into Lochend park.
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Shand Stoater with Rohloff hub gears, Gates drive and disc brakes on Saturday's audax. Beaut!
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piosad turning left from NMW onto MMW as I was doing the reverse and gembo under Viewforth Bridge this morning.
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Fimm battling into the easterly blowing me home there
Also vache de Wilmington two days on trot, I encouraged him to rejoin but he loves cars a well as bikes
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Indeed. I didn't realise it was you, gembo, until it was too late to wave.
That wind made me :-(Posted 5 years ago # -
Spotted JDanielP on canal yesterday but didn't understand why he didn't spot me back. Probably the cap pulled low, buff up over face and glasses protecting against hail/sleet that meant I was just another wraith riding along. His waterproof is still VERY green.
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@ARobComp apologies. I do have a vague memory of seeing someone of your description now you mention it. I would usually have switched from my green winter jacket by now given that the clocks have changed already, but haven't felt that the weather is quite where I want it to be yet.
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Spotted on Saturday in SE Edinburgh but I only just remembered - a gentleman cycling along in casual kilt attire.
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SRD has presumably returned from London since we passed one another on NMW this morning, or was it a doppelgänger?
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that was indeed me on my way to cycle service. well-spotted.
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As I was passing Boroughmuir Plaza on my way home, I heard a voice shouting my name from behind so turned to find that I was being hailed by bill, who was walking with Mr. bill to the cinema to see A Clockwork Orange.
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(Earlier this week) A person getting off an intercity bus with their bicycle protected by a cloth bag that wrapped around the lower half of both wheels (& therefore cranks).
Seemed a neat way around the bagged bicycle rule.
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I also high-fived jdanielp because I am jealous of the gembo's towpath high-fives.
@jdanielp while watching the film I understood why Mr bill chose classical music on our way to/from a walk we did earlier that day. I thought it was an usual choice for him as I am the classical music person in our household while Mr bill educates me on popular culture.
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@bill, bought an album in FOPP that combines the pop star Beth Gibbons with the miserablist Polish classical composer Gorecki. Me likee.
@jdanielp in your cinema reviews can you give me the stars for The Sister Brothers. A cowboy film apparently. I like a cowboy film.
I was spotted at Jet Garage Currie 10.36 last night cycling Home from pub. Tis a surveillance society to be sure
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@gembo Sounds interesting. Was it Symphony of sorrowful songs by Gorecki?
Also: after the classic hits there were some Talking Heads on the playlist.Posted 5 years ago # -
@bill did you 'enjoy' A Clockwork Orange?
@gembo I haven't seen (or even heard of) The Sister Brothers yet I'm afraid.
I listened to a new recording of The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs just the other day. It featured in the recent film Beautiful Boy, although I first properly became aware of it after it was used on the film The Tree of Life.
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