CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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resolvedA police van parked in the advisory cycle lane on Gilmerton Road. Couldn't resist a chat.
The constable said he was overwhelmed with the parking free-for-all round the primary school. Suggested getting the road markings redone and did not disagree when I suggested the fundamental problem is - in Iain McR's words - simply that no one gives a flying fox.
There are too many cars. Too many cars. Too many. The cars.
@IWRATS - I also spotted the same police van, and had vaguely hoped it was there to do something about the awful parking outside that primary school. Didn't bother stopping, because I was (carefully!) overtaking all the stationary cars.
@EdinburghCycleCam
I asked if we could all be deputised and armed with Tasers. He said we could. Gonna zap me some smartphone ghouls.
I think I still have the DIY "taser" I made in high school with a Scalextric transformer and a bunch of capacitors...
Hello JDanielP! I was late on my commute and the canal was very slow with the kiddies so I was almost late into work. Should have bombed down the road but it's rare I fancy battling it out on the mean streets these days. Happy enough to pootle behind the wee scooters etc.
@JDanielP - hello was from me. Heading into town this morning rather than out. Left school just after @piosad but caught up in time to marvel at the mess of Kings Theatre junction, which seemed to have a bus stuck at the lights halfway across.
@chrisfl oops, I did wonder briefly about the accent! I will spot algo yet.
Spotted neddie @ the climate change march
@EdinburghCycl
what bunnet was @neddie wearing?
@gembo He was bunnetless I think!
Someone cycling down Calder Road on a small folding bike at rush hour. They’re certainly braver than me...
@neddie without a bonnet in late Sept. - there is something wrong with the climate for sure
“without a bonnet in late Sept. - there is something wrong with the climate for sure”
Well yes.
Problem is, ‘we’ (in general), probably, like the changes in climate in this bit of the east of Scotland over the last 30 years or so.
@ARobComp looking very stylish riding into the sunset in Colinton this evening. I was on my way back from an extended commute that would have been longer except that I got a 'can you just?'from my boss's boss at 1555 (on a Friday) and then didn't leave the office until 1700.
@Roibeard leaving the climate march before it had even BEGUN (shocking!) & and @Iwrats arriving at the end.
Full photo (spotted on Flickr ) makes it (slightly) clearer!
Hanchief and tribe on the way to and later at the city ride. Good to see him out again. I hope you knee held up.
A folding bike (maybe a Schwinn) being loaded into the boot of a Ferrari convertible then unloaded, unfolded, set up and wheeled away. All by Donald Sutherland, in a 1970s episode of Columbo, 'Any Old Port In A Storm'. Some good close ups of the bike, which sported a sidewall dynamo. For some reason Sutherland's character took it to a cliff edge by the sea, where a diver with oxygen tank could be seen floating in the sea off shore.
Episode is still on, it appears Sutherland plays the murderer but I'm not sure what role the bike played in that. We will find out by the end...
Spotted many CCE-ers on the Fancy Women bike ride - and introduced myself to Mrs Dave!
(Should also mention arobcomp spotting us from window)
Srd - I was impressed that you have now
delegated all the bothersome parts of tandeming (observering, steering, holding on etc) to your eldest and were taking the more regal rear seat where you could wave your flag at will.
Got me thinking, when will mine be up to a similar seat swap...
Lovely to see the peloton of fancy women outside my parents flat while we were having an early dinner. My mother was very impressed. My daughter didn't really get excited but she's not yet two so wasn't really sure what was happening and was eating a potato.
Spotted Greenroofer as mentioned above - sorry I was a late wave. I was a bit zoned out by that point in my ride on a Friday! Think I was fantasising about the post bed and bathtime whisky I'd promised myself.
Also spotted Algo and elder daughter, as well as a few others CCE-ers at LetsRide today
the post bed and bathtime whisky I'd promised myself
For a minute I thought you were talking about your own bed & bathtime and imagined you in a pointy nightcap sitting up in bed with a wee dram...
While staying vacantly into space waiting to board the Sleeper at Waverley last night, I was jolted from my reverie by a folding bike passing across my field of view. It turned out to belong to SRD. We chatted pleasantly for a few minutes on the subject of children growing up fast and the vagaries of the (dis) organisation of the new Sleeper.
did you escape the rain? I went with bibshorts and poncho and managed to arrive at work with only wet feet.
ride home was 'interesting' though. much of embankment and new segregated bike lane on Old St roundabout under about a foot of water.
Thames smelled worse than I've ever encountered before. think it must have been combination of low tide and the 4.30ish torrential downpour washing out the drains.
@unhurt @arobcomp whisky never tastes as good as when its imbibed in bed after a bath.
@SRD - I escaped the worst of the rain on both outward and return rides in London by taking shelter in convenient doorways while it bucketed down, and restarting my rides when it was merely raining hard. I had foolishly not consulted the London weather forecast before leaving home, so was ill-equipped for rain.
My ride from Euston to Angel was very nice: a mix of well-signposted quiet streets with extra bike permeability added and fully-segregated bike lanes on the busier roads. Most of the signalised junctions had early release for bikes. It felt as if someone cared about people on bikes, and had done the best they could to make things work. It wasn't as good as Copenhagen or Amsterdam, but it was way better than Edinburgh.
Burnt car with police tape at the split arms on the the towpath S bend in Wester Hailes. Wonder if they drove it on the towpath. Spoke to a lady walking past and she said that the canal water must be very polluted now (I mean even more than it was) as fire brigade was pouring lots of water(?) on the car last night.
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