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resolvedheard him say "look, it's a bike!" to the dog in the sort of tone you use to point out interesting things to toddlers.
I’m doing this as part of my puppy’s training to make sure he is a model canine citizen. So far he is more interested in saying hello to everybody he sees.
Spotted Arellcat a few times now heading up Woodhall Road in Colinton as I head down towards town. Mostly spotted on the upright rather than the torpedo!
Woodhall Road...that's a name I've not heard in a long time. Indeed, that's a street I've not used in a long time. Do I have a doppelgängerin? My upright adventures tend to be hyperlocal these days.
@Arellcat - I was actually unsure that it was you because I was so unsure, however the persistence with which your doppelgänger waves at me meant that I was gradually convinced I must just not recognise you outside of the torpedo. Perhaps the answer here is that I'VE got a doppelgänger which your doppelgänger is mistaking me for.
The old double doppelgänger conundrum.
On the plus side I've gained a new commute friend. We shall name them Not-rellcat
I wonder if that would be a case of verfierfachengänger?
More like a DoppelterFehler...
Steveo, just past Craigleith.
Also an enormous dog, possibly a lurcher or deerhound, excreting beside the kerb on Burgess St. It looked big enough to be the fabled hellhound threefromleith holds responsible for droppings on the WoL.
A dude on a MTB burst through the red to turn right here about 18h30. Tail-whipped it over the traffic island and everything.
Nice young lady next to me on a spotlessly clean road bike just looked at me in amazement, eyes on stalks. We chatted at each red light up to Cameron Toll. Can't do that in a car.
If you type Edinburgh into Google Maps it centres you here and now I want to go there and see if it is a place with meaning?
Doesn't look like it but you never know.
Spotted an orange Salsa touring bike at work today. All the racks, gorgeous bike.
Doesn't look like it but you never know.
Used to run through there on the way to work. A magical place, words can not describe. You must visit...
Terminus of the Corstorphine rail way in days past. Designed to accommodate a barracks which was never built.
YEs, loved a little sunny cycle starting at the Paddockholm, onto the Corstorphine railway, off the railway through the back streets of Pinkhill, SaUGHTONAND mURRAyfield ending up at old office in Chesser. Only worked East West.
All NCN blue signs and everyfink. Before Trams you could even exercise the option of cutting through Carricknowe GOlf Course if dry. Right past the club house
A horrendously distracting advertising van from GoGoVision driving in circles at Lothian road advertising a new german kebab shop. It was VERY bright and had some flashing white letters on black background on occasion that I can't help but think would be hugely distracting to anyone driving nearby. Not very impressed with it as a medium - certainly don't think that flashing imagery should be allowed on the side of it while driving around.
Bloke in suit on one of those upright scootery things along Canning Street. He was going at quite a speed - he outpaced me easily. That street is very broken and I would have thought the small wheels would give you a rough ride. It also did look quite vulnerable on a street - I suppose it's because the smallest object I expect to see speeding along is a bicycle. Saw one on the pavement just before the Roseburn junction.
The SRD family peloton heading east along Dundee Street on Saturday morning.
I was spotted by Luke from Bike Trax who complimented me on my choice of bicycle (which he sold to me) as I passed him on the towpath near Viewforth Bridge. He was on foot.
Perhaps this should be in a "First Contact" thread, as I managed my first (almost) high five with Gembo this morning.
"Almost", as it was just fingertip contact which I'll put down to my inexperience in such matters...
Robert
sTILL COUNTS, I was en route to Sunny Craigmillar
From a distance I thought @Roibeard had stolen @IWTRATS' Fez
Yes I have also mistaken @Roibeard for me at a distance due to the bunnet. If in doubt @Roibeard's road positioning is less erratic than mine.
@IWRATS, hmmm, I can see how you might do that, given the multiple time lines we were discussing that night in Kay's bar
@gembo
An excellent evening. Thanks for reviving the memory of it. That project must advance. I am thinking.
I wonder how the teeth of Mull are getting on?
I believe that @Morningsider had spotted me some time before I noticed them this morning, near Morningside. I was in a daydream wondering whether the front brake on the Elephant Bike was going to lock up on Craighouse Hill and contemplating its lack of modulation.
I was taking the bike to the Falcon Road Delivery Office on a click and collect mission. I feel that it does the Elephant Bike good to see a postal worker every now and again.
I was in a daydream
Riding an Elephant Bike is a bit like that. You tootle along, people watching, looking at wildlife and the clouds, and absent mindedly pondering the financial burden of optimisation of gear ratios and power to weight.
@Cyclingmollie in the Humbie Hub, he wished me well with the weather. It held and then tailwind good.
P-word 0.5miles from home so pushed along and will fix after luncheon
Gembo at Humbie Hub with his club. That was some awful weather you had. We were out in the new car. The Hub impressed Mrs M who had not been there before.
Another entry in the "Who built that?" subgenre of BSO.
@Arellcat, I tend not to ponder the power to weight ratio of the Elephant Bike all that much. I have recognised that as the denominator in that equation tends to infinity, so will the cost of increasing the power to weight ratio to much above zero...
Clearly it's not exactly zero, just close to it.
P-word proved tricky. Spotted two thorns. One really did not wish to leave the gator skin the other had pushed right through so I could get it out. Tyre not great now and bit of thorn still in.
Perused my collection of pre-used tyres went with Grand Prix. Used decathlon 25-32mm £2.50 (the dear ones) tube. Some faffing. Pumped it up. Ready to hang back on hook, Sniper Shot blow out tube out and tyre off rim. Had to try a second time. Seems to have worked, Possible overinflated, possibly pinched.
Watch out for thorns. Oh yes also need to buy Mrs G new tweezers.
Glad Mrs M liked THe Hub. Staff not on best form today, we had someone else’s scones and this became apparent when the wrong drinks arrived. I did have a monumentally good big thick slice of fruit loaf though.
Spotted topless trapper hat muscle guy heading downhill on the High Street, water bottle cocked on his shoulder, declaiming his theories on town planing to all and sundry at very high volume.
I regularly spot @Laidback around the place, but today managed a hearty high-five while he was manoeuvring a cargo bike impressively over Melville Drive
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