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(14479 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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today union canal about 2 ish, a tandem heading east as myself and offspring headed tother way ! passed just before/after the maddiston bypass/flyover. I said hello and got a cheery reply, both occupants seemed somewhat hotn bothered !
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A real classic 'British" Mountain Bike. Must have been in hibernation for 20 year!
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Whilst on the subject of old-fangled blue-and-yellow bikes, there was a Raleigh Burner (quite probably a modern reproduction, assuming such things exist) propped up inside the door of one of those tanning shops on Lothian Road this evening.
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@chdot: Ridgeback 602? I nearly bought one of those in about 1989, but went with Trek instead.
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Me and Princess Di, together at last (well... I felt like dying...)
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Fortunately, the shot where you're most crisply-focussed is also just after you changed your expression from what it was a bit lower down.
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There's a Princess Di shop?
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"There's a Princess Di shop?"
My thoughts exactly. I bet its to entice Far Eastern tourists in.
Edit, I don't see why not. Linda McCartney died years ago and they're still selling her in sausages....
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Its a tartan shop which seems particularly keen on selling the Princess Di tartan. For there is one. Oh yes.
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"There's a Princess Di shop?"
Harrods
Obviously...
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Circo Helios tandem on Lauder Road yesterday afternoon. Child stoking and another riding alongside. Didn't get a good look at the adult on the front but surely one of LaidBack's satisfied customers...
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Far Eastern tourists
you mean Express readers?
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(dare I say) a "student" type on a not-Bianchi-but-looked-like-a-Bianchi-and-in-mint-green-too-with-toe-clips bike zooming along GIV Bridge. I followed him but took a more cautious route around all the cars randomly arranged in the cycle lane outside Missoni.
He went to jump the lights but then thought better when he was beyond the stop line and sat half into junction. I got a much better start than him from the lights - because I was behind the line I could actually see them change. We both went straight onto Bank Street, I was ahead of him but a bus was blocking the red painted lane right on the corner at Coda music so I sat behind it.
He appeared behind from me and squeezed down the side of it. There was so little room he had to lean against it with his right shoulder and then bumped his front wheel on the kerbstone. I shouted at him "don't be an idiot" but think all he heard was "idiot" because he did a shoulder check. Bus moved off just as he had enough room not to have to lean against it.
I pulled up next to him at the lights at bottom of the Mound. Had my earphones on but think he asked if I was calling him an idiot, so I said yes I was and if the bus had moved he would have been toast.
He was saying something under his breath at the next set of lights on George Street but when I asked "pardon" he said "nothing".
Anyway. Moral of the story is never squeeze up inside of buses. Especially on blind corners. Especially against railings. Must get a helmet camera and put this sort of thing straight on silly cyclists.
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...and a set of those helmet-mount mini-ear-proximal speakers...
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I thought for a second I was seeing a Schwinn or something, but it turned out to be one of these from "Falcon" (who I thought - wrongly - were long defunct)
"Long Beach"
It seems Falcon are owned by the same people who own the rights to Claud Butler, Townsend, British Eagle and Coventry Eagle. I assume they badge-engineer (e.g. put some stickers on) eastern imports.
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Min, going south on North Bridge. The westbound lights only let three cars through as I approached so I was walking across.
Some distance behind (and probably recently overtaken), a girl labouring up the slope in much too high a gear, wobbling as a result, much too close to the kerb. I feel I ought to say something helpful in these situations but I also don't want to distract someone who's already struggling.
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Ah, so you did juuust hear my shout as I went past. I usually try to ring my bell (as I reckon a bike bell attracts the attention of a cyclist quite well) but as that bit of road is a rough as a badgers rear end I didn't want to unpeel any fingers to do so.
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Not in Edinburgh but ...
Hen & Chickens pentacycle in Ironbridge's Blist Hill Museum. Would be good to see one in action. The more wheels the better.
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Chimney chaser -
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Laidback, imbibing in the sun outside Earl of Marchmont this evening.
Nice.
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Was meeting with Dave and his significant other - talking bikes (what else!). Sorry Nelly - were you riding or sitting somewhere?
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No problem, I didnt have time to chat - wife, son and I were in a bit of a rush, walking home from sons summer camp.
Have not met Dave, so does that count as another 'spotted' ?!
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Yes. He is normally on an 'invisible' bike - although he used the 38 bus the other day (scandal thread).
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Spotted some non British guy on a very old sandy coloured 'racer' with the old gear levers on the diagonal bars at the north end of Waverly Bridge. I got the start on him and headed for the stationary mass of busses and cars straddling the pedestrian lights by the TopShop/Waverly Market. Anyway he's dinging me with his bell saying get out my way... At the crossing I spied the green mad was on and stopped, plus there was a bus at the other side of the studs in the road. Other cyclist saddles up to me and complains about me in his way, whist not stopping and ploughing straight into the throng of peolpe crossing between busses and cars. What a burk. Last seen squeezing between two busses heading for North Bridge...
Now I'm pro cycling but if I'm crossing a road with right of way, and a cyclist tries to force their way through, I don't flinch from pushing the bugger over! Shame no one on the road had the same idea.
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On way back from Penicuik yesterday on 'new' (to me) bike.
Passed a youngish bloke wearing a track suit, riding an MTB, knobbly tyres, saddle way too low (doing a 'knees up' every turn of the pedal: attempted BMX stylee or stolen bike?), his gears were very 'dry' and chain rattling/squeaking/rasping in a nasty way. I stopped at the next set of lights, Mr. MTB cruises right through them, dodging oncoming traffic. Catch him and pass him again, once more he RLJ's when I stop at the next junction. Finally pass him for good on a straight. Eat my dust, Mr. poorly adjusted MTB!
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Very similar character and experience as crowriver heading towards Kirliston last night. Poorly adjusted MBSO rode across pavement and pedestrian crossings a number of time rather than on the cyclepath/pavement or road. Caught and dropped as soon as the slight incline into Kirkliston starts.
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Normally riding through town I don't see any RLJs. But in the last two days I've seen one each. Festival time?
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RLJ, Rickie Lee Jones (musician). RLJ, Russian Language Journal. RLJ, Regiment Limburgse Jagers (Dutch Army Regiment) ...
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