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resolved"Festival time?"
If not those two then certainly likely to be more in next few weeks.
Just had long w/e in London. RLJ is well normal.
AND so are Boris Bike users.
Lots on Critical Mass.
Caught a group of of 3 just north of the City at 11.30 on Saturday night. 2 female 1 male, early 20s. Asked if they would have thought of cycling in London before BB.
"No"
RLJ = Red Light Jumper...
HTH,
Robert
RLJ = cyclists green!
This could get interesting...
<quote>Normally riding through town I don't see any RLJs. But in the last two days I've seen one each. Festival time?</quote>
It's late summer, the end of the annual breeding cycle and the newly-fledged young are emerging. Natural selection will take its course ...
I suspect this is really part of its own thread, however...
I dont like RLJs - because someone else is always inconvenienced by having to make the 999 calls for one of these clowns.
Perfect minature steel framed drop-barred "clubman" style bike, with (I think) 24" wheels;
Wee Wheels by kaputniq, on Flickr
No decals or headbadge, although the lugwork around where the headbadge had been wad been picked out in white. Nice little leather tool satchel on the saddle. Single ring up front.
Ornamentation by kaputniq, on Flickr
Nice choice of lucky mascots!
Subcontinental gentleman wheeling a bike up Morningside Road about 12ish. Something wasn't right. Definitely not right.
Oh yes, he's turned the dropped bars upside down! (And not Obree style upside down and back to front 
.
Just upside down! Cables crossed over and everything. No wonder he was wheeling it.
In Copenhagen I saw a five wheeled recumbent bicycle taxi, 'mazin.
To continue the off-topic RLJ theme - I had seen four by lunchtime today. I was pretty bemused as each time I caught up and overtook them.
There's also the type who jump the white line even when the ASL is empty and then stop in middle of pedestrian crossing, but then wait for light to go green before proceeding. Pointless.
@kaputnik I only do that if there's a vehicle (usually a taxi or car) hogging the ASL. Just to make a point and p1ss off the wayward driver...
Spotted Billy The Barman from Still Game drinking with Irvine Welsh in Cafe Royale on Friday night.
The man in black. Argyle Place. Half sevenish.
You'll have to describe bike.
possible spot, although deff not edinburger! Just outside Forres, ( whisky trail, spey side ) a sporty, lycra clad chappie on a ? towing a trailer with child on board,small canvas(modern equivelant ?) body work and a high red flag. Seen very similar in edinburgh last year when regularly travelled queensferry road.
Little Red Stalking Casquette, not merging very well into the background of New Uberior House.
The bloke on my left had just jumped the red light. If anyone knows him, tell him off.
A mutual spot at that...
Untitled by blackpuddinonnabike, on Flickr
Hehe, that is cool. I spotted Dave last night in Scotland St (I was running) but I took so long to recognise him (big wheels and flat cap confused me) that it was too late to say hello when I did.
You'll have to describe bike.
It was a notaMoulton.
Arellcat recumbenteering down Leith Links bikepath, guessing you hadn't come down from the utterly kak raised path to seafield. Me in cyclechic camoflage on way to pick up rental car from Mr Clark.
Is that really meant to count as infrastructure?
So it was you after all! Hello!
I'd joined the cycle path at Hawkhill Avenue and slipped and slid my way through the mudfest of Seafield and was heading for Commercial St. Well, I was actually heading for Coburg St and the WoL path, but got my wires crossed and got lost in the Kaputnikesque concretery of Tollbooth Wynd and Coatfield Lane. I went round the block and decided to aim for Leith Docks and photos, changed my mind and decided to go to Tiso instead, then changed my mind again and eventually cut left onto Dock Place for Coburg St. Bit of a non-journey, really. :)
There was I thinking that bicycles were supposed to get you where you're going more quickly and easily. Clearly recumbents must foillow a different path as it were!
"Clearly recumbents must foillow a different path as it were!"
Most bikes have a mind of their own, but recumbents are firmly under the control of their owners...
When you mean muddy, I'm guessing you weren't meaning from the high path, I'd be impressed if you were negotiating those stairs on the recumbie.
@chdot Most bikes have a mind of their own, but recumbents are firmly under the control of their owners..
Ah, but if you've read Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman you'll know it's much, much more complicated than that.
"you'll know it's much, much more complicated than that"
Yes, but he'd probably never met a recumbent/ist.
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(or not)
It's the art fairies.
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