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Spotted the posted for the future with the vertical lifts and cycle bridge over Waverley station. All in courtyard at work. Nice posters also a tram ring around Edinburgh!
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Always first with the Daily Hate.
Only Tories use such words on mundane items such as parking costs.
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Guy on Minto Street with arms outstretched, a can of beer in one hand roaring at me from the far side of the road; 'Aye but how dae ah get home, eh?'
Professor emeritus of existential philosophy or baffled jakey? You decide.
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“Only Tories use such words on mundane items such as parking costs.“
Perhaps.
But as ‘we’ all know this is full-on FAKE news.
A) it was the Greens wot started this
B) up to LAs to implement (or not)
C) most won't, and if they do, only selectively
D) Employers don’t have to pass on costs
E) SG & LAs SHOULD implement this tax (for several reasons)
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It will be interesting to see if the Scottish Government passes the cost on to their own employees in the LAs that do implement it.
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Big John on the canal towpath this morning. He's about to head away on holiday to New Zealand for six weeks.
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I now realise why I was unable to book my bike onto the train to Penrith this afternoon. The person sat ahead of me, who arrived with two others, all with bikes, was looking at some information about Ride to the Sun just now. After they had boarded, another two people with bikes arrived. The guard didn't seem keen to let them board initially, but it seemed that they had bicycle reservations so they squeezed on too.
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There they go... Good luck to everyone taking part, especially those on less appropriate bikes.
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Laidback Dave and Mrs laidback Dave disguised as pedestrians in Currie. I am guessing WoL path walk? I was disguised as passenger in motor
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Spotted Cllr Macinnes waving at me as I cycled towards her this evening. As I returned the wave I realised that she was in fact just adjusting her helmet, but she did then say hi as we passed.
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Various neighbours out river watching last night, and then I met the variously-named @CocteauTriplet and boy and tandem on the bridge at Well Court. We discussed floods, weirs & scouring.
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“I met the variously-named @CocteauTriplet and boy and tandem on the bridge at Well Court.”
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Cotic BFe int he window of Eastside Cycles yesterday for a ridiculously good price of £600. Which I really really wish I had going spare.
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Never underestimate the awesome force of water.
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Bumped into Bill outside WoL centre, she was looking very roadie like! She listened to my low-blood sugar grousing about the pedals I'd fitted and cheered me up.
Today I progressed up the WoL from stockbridge to Balerno wearing a VERY orange fleece and and an orange helmet. People were looking at me for some reason!
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The Colinton Tunnel Mural project has leapt forward in the last few days. Now contains 4 panels of what I assume is a poem that'd going up. Aparently 175 children from local schools have been involved in the painting as well as some professional Graffiti artists. Quite interested in how this is going to go!
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A procession of twenty-odd people on bicycles (some hired) going anticlockwise on the NEPN through the Pilton bit.
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@arobcomp this has its own thread in tunnelsyoucancyclethrough. RLS poem about being on a train
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One solitary bike all afternoon in Baku. Which looked a lot like a time trial bike but had a basket on the front and was being ridden in worrying traffic, at some speed, with intentional curving swerves by a young man in black trousers and a white shirt. (about here: https://goo.gl/maps/ff2mEmnoRXEPALUK7 but in much nicer weather and with much more cars).
Baku is hot and big and interesting (what tiny bit I have seen) - and brutally separated from the Caspian Sea it sits on by a honking great multi-lane motorway you can only get across on foot at kilometre plus intervals, where huge Soviet-style but apparently much newer underpasses have been built. (With steps & non-functioning escalators. Don't try to move about by wheelchair in Baku...)
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Late indication to oncoming snowy meant he had no time to modelrate the avalanche. The joggers behind Snowy laughed at my arm bring dislocated
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While waiting for NotPY to start at about 0740, I saw a chap push something that looked very like an Elephant Bike, but with a different front basket, across the temporary Leamington bridge. I might have guessed it was @crowriver, but I thought his bike was yellow.
On the way home after PY I am pretty sure I passed @piosad. If it was them, and if previous posts are to be believed, then the girl in the spotty coat was getting her last lift to school...(I passed them by Harrison Park on my Elephant Bike)
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Excellent cartoon! Carless drivers and driving wheels are clever innovations.
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@Greenroofer — spot on! I thought it was you but wasn’t 100% sure.
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On the way back from Evans with my click and collect panniers I bumped into @ARobCompon the van Moof with mini-ARobComp. Mini A was very charming, and talked about ducks mainly. A and I considered the benefits of e-bikes and when you need a chain tensioner.
The towpath was busy with people on bikes, but it struck me that only ARobComp and I were in relatively normal clothes (him more than me, as I had strikingly spotty socks on). Pretty much everyone else was dressed for'cycling', so it was a popular leisure activity not a means of transport.
Pedalling the new panniers home I was also prompted to wonder if the CCE answer to the question of "what pannier should I buy?"is "Ortlieb", in the same way that the answer to"what bike should I buy?" is"Genesis CdF"
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“wonder if the CCE answer to the question of "what pannier should I buy?"is "Ortlieb"”
Possibly, as in ‘a lot of CCEers use them’.
I’ve tried them but still sticking to ‘traditional’ Alturas.
I’ve always liked Genesis CdFs as an idea/package because I’ve often had ‘fast tourers’ with drops and straight bars.
My latest version - Raleigh, 531C, minimalist cantilevers, Deore thumbshift, 700x38C is still at the ‘frame painted, but need to build a back wheel’ stage.
Perhaps by PYJuly.
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there are children on bikes popping wheelies as Stormzy performs Vossi Bop
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jun/29/stormzy-glastonbury-review-pyramid-stage
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