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  1. algo
    Member

    @twinspark I seem to remember an advert for (presumably) said bike shop with a bike built this way...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  2. Greenroofer
    Member

    Near Rannoch Station yesterday, a couple on a Pino or similar set up for touring. She was stoking in front, he was piloting from behind. They were both swaddled in old-fashioned cagoules and the bike was laden with panniers.

    I hope that, when I am as old as they appeared to be, I am able to ride with the gusto and enjoyment they were displaying.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  3. jdanielp
    Member

    ARobComp in the gloaming on the towpath west of Meggetland last night, gembo in a bicycle train on NMW this morning and twinspark at the Heriot-Watt Bike Bothy Breakfast.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  4. gembo
    Member

    @jdanielp chap in front of you thought I was in his way? I thought I had pulled in a bit and he had not changed his line - I know I had tail wind so was going faster than normal.

    Just after that @Roibeard in what looked like a new jacket

    Posted 5 years ago #
  5. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    On the back of a bus, belching diesel fumes in stationary traffic a poster advertising the 'vehicle emissions partnership' or something like that. So obscure Google can't find them.

    Picture of the Beatles crossing a polluted road, asking everyone to turn their engines off in traffic.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  6. gembo
    Member

    big slap off The Snowy this morning

    Posted 5 years ago #
  7. Frenchy
    Member

    Cyclist using the cycle lane in the middle of the Cameron Toll gyratory.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  8. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Frenchy

    Deliberately?

    Posted 5 years ago #
  9. Frenchy
    Member

    Indeed.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  10. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Very brave.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  11. Morningsider
    Member

    IWRATS - that'll be the East Central Scotland Vehicle Emissions Partnership. More here.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @Morningsider

    That's a whole world of mad.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  13. ARobComp
    Member

    Left hand drive French jeep twice this morning that seemed to be belching smoke that brought to memory heavy agricultural diesel engines I have known in the past.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  14. gembo
    Member

    My bike and two lecky bikes going to Livingston on the 21.25 to Glasgow Central

    First lecky was owned by nice young man from Uzbekistan. He is a deliveroo cyclist.

    He has had 4 lecky bikes. His first was stolen on Nicholson St a week after he bought it. (Second hand)

    Temperatures in Tashkent can get up to 60 degrees centigrade in summer and the traffic lights melt.

    Our chat interrupted by drunk teacher from Carfin - Mr Devlin. He mistook Uzbekistan for Ukraine.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  15. jdanielp
    Member

    gembo visibly suffering from the effects of PKTJSD on NMW, and piosad and Big John on the canal towpath this morning.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  16. Greenroofer
    Member

    I was in the No 11 bus following Morningsider through Morningside this evening. I think the bus driver was reasonably respectful of the extremely competent and confident road positioning that Morningsider was displaying.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  17. chdot
    Admin

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  18. chdot
    Admin

    Posted 5 years ago #
  19. algo
    Member

    Once again yesterday I concurrently spotted and encumbered @jdanielp (I think) - this time going north on MMW as he was coming south - I was being inconsiderate and cycling two a breast as I was having a chat with someone on the way.... Then I tried to catch @neddie coming down a particularly treacherous mound...

    Posted 5 years ago #
  20. neddie
    Member

    Ha yes.

    I spotted jdanielp on the blind corner of the top of MMW and I think he spotted me, but both too last-minute to make an ack.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  21. jdanielp
    Member

    @algo I spotted neddie at the top of MMW yesterday but I didn't spot you I'm afraid :\ I did spot gembo on Gilmore Place this morning. Hopefully the King's Theatre Junction wasn't too much of a disaster.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  22. gembo
    Member

    @jdanielp, cyclist in front of me waited for oncoming traffic which is fair enough, cyclist behind us overtook us both on the corner. THis is of course NOTHING.

    THe first cyclist had no gloves on, which we discussed at the next junction - Well hARD

    Posted 5 years ago #
  23. jdanielp
    Member

    I heard the ring of a bell and some whistling coming from the longer of the two bridges on the towpath at Harrison Park as I was approaching it this morning, so I came to a halt to let the person exit. It turned out to be gembo, who was appreciative of this gesture, so hopefully that went some way to making up for me cutting him up at the metal chicane at the exit of the previous bridge just the other week. I then stopped to have a chat with Big John, during which I think that chrisfl passed and greeted us.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  24. chrisfl
    Member

    @jdanielp - yes that was me. A beautiful ride in along the canal this morning.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  25. SRD
    Moderator

    Deeply uncharitable of me to mention it but my least favourite beggar has re-appeared on MMW after a long absence. The guy who sits on the cyclepath and puts his coin collecting receptacle in the middle of the path to George Square so you can’t turn on or off it.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  26. piosad
    Member

    A rather impressive topical light show spotted in a window while out guising with the wee ones turned out to have been put on by @chrisfl et famille.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  27. chrisfl
    Member

    @piosad - cheers, far too busy handing out sweets and hearing bad jokes(and some good jokes) and mostly very good costumes to say hello!

    Posted 5 years ago #
  28. wingpig
    Member

    A flashing police car parked behind a white Beemer on Seafield Road. The polices were around the passenger door of the Beemer in an attitude suggesting interest in the occupants.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    A bi-pringled bicycle suspended on straps outside the South Side Lidl to allow the pavement to be re-done without cutting it off the lamp post.

    Posted 5 years ago #
  30. fimm
    Member

    Uber Eats delivery person on an Eliptigo

    Posted 5 years ago #

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