Also, towpath cyclists need to watch out (especially after dark) just west of the pedestrian bridge to Colinton Dell since there is part of a tree dangling very low over the path there. It is possible to squeeze around it on the watery side...
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Spotted, and had a nice chat with, Uberuce on Friday evening. Turns out we live a few minutes' walk from each other, and yet we seem to bump into each other at same bus stop in town each time.
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Just self-spotted myself, a couple of friends and a gaggle of our offspring on Google Streetview, caught using one of Edinburgh's shortest* sections of segregated cycleway.
*until Piccardy Place opens
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acted as a post for IainMcr to lean on as we waited for lights to change. Had been tailing him along George St.
He had been thinking about me. Though turns out was a total stranger he said Hello Gembo to
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I shouted '@gembo!' at a stranger on Saturday. Same stature and lush barnett. Was not you, drink taken, no fuss.
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Maybe was same Fake Gembo as IainMcr??
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I'm going to keep an eye out for this chap and his Gemboian hair / Rapha / socks combo.
Now pondering a CCE fancy dress party. Everyone would attend costumed as another poster. You wouldn't have to have met them - conceptual costumes would be encouraged.
E.G. @EdCycleCam: shorts & T-shirt (regardless of weather), a bottle of cider, a carapace built from parts from several different dented post-collision bikes, and a pet slug on a lead.
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IainMcR was present when I shouted at the doppelgëmbo.
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I don't own Rapha socks? But maybe @unhurt you mean I tuck my breeks into my socks then top off the outfit with a little Rapha Gilet??
@IWRATS did @IainMcr join you in shouting at this lookalikee?
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I don't think so, but drink had been taken.
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@gembo I was seeing to sum up your characteristic ensemble, yes.
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Spotted on the NEPN: 'No strobing' signs that would be totally invisible in the dark.
Active travel budget well spent.
Also the image on the sign suggested a strobing frequency of around 3GHz.
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Someone parkourishly jumping from bit of roof to bit of roof of the James Clark Maxwell-Building building. Alerted security before he experienced a mishap.
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You must have been there around the same time as me. They were just jumping about on the ledges and steps beside the building when I was there though.
Several kids bikes locked up there too, and I think there were two families who appeared to be teaching kids to ride bikes on Max Born Crescent.
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Some kids' bikes would have been there for Maths Circle. There was a small parkour troupe on the railings by the John Muir building when we emerged, not including the one who had been on the roof.
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Spotted on the corner of North Bridge and Princes Street: a guy wearing a top hat and jacket entirely covered in mirror tiles peeling and eating a banana.
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@IWRATS: taking the “Be Safe, Be Seen” message to heart.
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I visually spotted a gritter this evening, but nasally detected a definite waft of the smell of Copydex as it went past.
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Salty Copydex?
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It was distinctly different from the smell of silicone sealant and related products, which might conceivably have a valid application somewhere on a gritting vehicle. Maybe there's an anti-caking agent which uses the same perfume compounds.
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Ah, salt is no longer salt but urea. Oddly. That's the smell. Urea is odourless but it hydrolyses.
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Can't be long before some dingbat hipster café hears about that and does the same with table salt to add extra pungency to their hand-hewn thrice-fried potato wedges.
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I just spotted that the Earth is flat and does not move.
Do not come at me with geography or physics.
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@amir heading down Drum Street.
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A rare spot - well done @Frenchy. Hope you didn't see me swearing
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A guy on Hope Park Terrace cycling what looked like a small white 1960s motorbike with the engine removed.
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Somewhere between "determined", "focused" and "grimacing" when you passed me. Which are the appropriate facial expressions for cycling on Drum Street, I think.
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I think I might know who that is - there's a green one parked up outside the Earl -
something like this:
https://electrek.co/2019/05/06/titan-r-1000w-electric-bike-motorcycle/
or this
https://www.highsnobiety.com/2016/06/03/lithium-cycles-super-73-electric-bike/
I think they are daft, but maybe I'm missing something...
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That first one's the boy. Dude was not wearing an ECE 22.05 helmet.
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A drone hovering over the canal at Boroughmuir Plaza just now. As I approached, I noticed someone on a Just Eat Bike with a remote control. After an aborted attempt to pull away during which the drone stayed in position, they eventually managed to set off slowly with the drone following at a distance. I didn't hang around to see how it went.
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