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  • Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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  1. LaidBack
    Member

    Was a tale recently of someone getting turned away from a borders bothy - people having a 'private party' (!)

    Posted 5 years ago #
  2. gembo
    Member

    Yes writing books about them is the beginning of the end

    Posted 5 years ago #
  3. fimm
    Member

    That blog post doesn't actually tell you where the bothy is (unlike the links in my post about our bothy trip, and no one complained about that...)

    Mr fimm should be in that bothy tomorrow night...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  4. steveo
    Member

    unlike the links in my post

    I assumed they were all MBA ones, admittedly I didn't check.

    BBA are pretty old school.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  5. Frenchy
    Member

    I was following someone along the Innocent path this morning. They were going slower than I wanted to be going, so after a minute or so, I said "I'm just coming past on the right" and went to overtake.

    As I did so, they screamed.

    They had earphones in and didn't so much as look at me, so I think they just happened to scream as I was trying to overtake, but their timing was impeccable. Not a peep or a glance from them until then, nor in the several minutes afterwards (I abandoned the overtake until we reached the wider path in the tunnel).

    Posted 5 years ago #
  6. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I passed Mrs Kim this morning as she was heading into town from the Gowkley Moss roundabout. I was in disguise though on my motorbike, which I was using because I had an appointment after work for which the torpedo was unsuited and because my recumbent is still broken.

    Following said appointment, I thought I spotted Morningsider cycling through Morningside, but the blue jauntily checked shirt and the rather tall handlebars didn't look so familiar.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  7. Morningsider
    Member

    Arellcat - yes, that was me. I thought that was you, but you were also in disguise. Was that your motorbike parked a little further up the road? Lovely/terrifying looking machine!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  8. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Yes, that was the big machine. :-)

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. Greenroofer
    Member

    If today is a today for spotting @Morningsider, then I claim my spot from this evening. Jauntily checked shirt still in evidence, but this time while cutting hedges into precise polyhedra that put mine to shame (and I thought my evenly cut hedges were quite good)

    I was on my way to the garage to ride a turbo trainer. It was extremely sweaty.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. gembo
    Member

    @arellcat, @morningsider has a newish bike, same shirt tho

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. Arellcat
    Moderator

    I've only ever seen the highly sartorial Morningsider, which was why I doubted my own eyes.

    My hedges small bushy trees are really needing a haircut. My big tree needs reducing quite a bit.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. Tulyar
    Member

    I might even have a spare set of shears to donate to your estate management operation save that they are in Glasgow at present - but there's probably something mean(er) & seriously mechanised closer to hand.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  13. jdanielp
    Member

    An incredibly convenient flat for The Cycle Service (try switching to Street View): https://espc.com/property/48-4-west-richmond-street-edinburgh-eh8-9dz/35774620?sid=420403

    Posted 5 years ago #
  14. Frenchy
    Member

    An incredibly convenient flat for The Cycle Service (try switching to Street View)

    They've been hiring!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  15. Baldcyclist
    Member

    "An incredibly convenient flat for The Cycle Service (try switching to Street View)"

    I find it mildly amusing that it's only a band B council tax. Quite starkly contrasts the market this flat was intended for only a few decades ago, compared with the rich people who are able to buy it now because of it's value.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  16. Arellcat
    Moderator

    That's a nice flat. It's also outrageously expensive. I have a hob like that one, though.

    probably something mean(er) & seriously mechanised closer to hand.

    Meaner already chez AC; mechanised chez AC Senior. The rate limiting step is my depleted stock of round tuits and the current feedback loop of being unable to manufacture more.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  17. jdanielp
    Member

    chrisfl on a faster looking bike than normal, greeting me while overtaking on the towpath at Wester Hailes earlier.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  18. Frenchy
    Member

    I watched with envy as someone pushed one bike whilst riding another on Buccleuch St the other day.

    Is there a single verb for that act? I propose "bi-cycle".

    Posted 5 years ago #
  19. Roibeard
    Member

    Sorry Frenchy, it's not as prosaic as "bi-cycling", I believe it's called "ghosting", and my last attempt involved colliding with a tree in front of a colleague.

    I contend that the tree lacked situational awareness...

    Robert

    Posted 5 years ago #
  20. Frenchy
    Member

    Tree probably wasn't even wearing hi-viz?

    I'm going to stick with "bi-cycling".

    Posted 5 years ago #
  21. amir
    Member

    Large numbers of cyclists going north through the Moorfoots yesterday around midday. With bags. Lots of styles. Some kind of sponsored event?

    Also unusually high numbers of male/female roadie couples out yesterday.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  22. fimm
    Member

    A person I know as "BackOnMyBike" and her small person at Dunbar station. Small person was doing well to handle a fairly heavily laden bike.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  23. chdot
    Admin

  24. jdanielp
    Member

    A six wheeled Lothian Bus turning right from Home Street onto Gilmore Place this evening, cutting over the ASZ in the process. Given that drivers struggle to avoid doing this with four wheeled buses, it was no big surprise.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  25. amir
    Member

    Long line of horses and riders near Whitecraig. Musselburgh Crusaders

    Posted 5 years ago #
  26. CycleAlex
    Member


    The developers in Granton clearly aren’t the biggest fans of dropped kerbs. I’ve also never seen so much paint that means so little than at the Lower Granton Road/Trinity Road traffic lights!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  27. fimm
    Member

    @chdot exactly!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  28. jdanielp
    Member

    The aftermath of somebody having gone into the canal under the longer canal bridge by Harrison Park this evening. Three people, one dripping wet, and two bikes were creating an obstruction as I cautiously wheeled my bike past.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  29. gembo
    Member

    Least it is hot

    Posted 5 years ago #
  30. Stickman
    Member

    Lots of bikes locked up outside Winstons in Corstorphine - some kind of cycling meet-up

    Posted 5 years ago #

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