Amazing, Polis - move along. Ice cream Person - ok will do - Cue bizarre Rolf Harris stylophone version of Vivaldi and away we go
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(14531 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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Guy in full lycra on a race bike pulling a child on a trailer up hill at quite a rate. Just south of Temple on the back road to Gladhouse.
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Full kit onanist flat out on a race replica bike on the shared path at Bridgend Farm allotments. The roads are empty?
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Little advantage using that path over Peffermill Road in normal times (to the confident cyclist, anyway), let alone when the roads are so quiet.
Negotiating that chicane barrier will lose any time gained by taking the shorter route.
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a pedestrianising Wingpig - Seafield Rd
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Iain McR a bit earlier. An helicopter over Holyrood Park just now. Looks more like the wee police one this time.
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A variety of "got the bike out the shed for the first time in years" bikes and riders today. All seemed to be enjoying themselves. Hope that they are able to keep it up and continue riding*!
*I wanted to talk to a few of them about their saddle height... but I didn't.
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Tons of them every day streaming passed bottom of my garden good to see except the inevitable 10 person pile up of being 2 cm apart rather than 2 m
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Yes, family group on the Minto Drag all wobbly with mum trying to protect the kid from my automobile (delivering food to oldies) and me basically stopped still while they got sorted.
Maybe they didn't know about the parallel QBiC I mean who does?
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I wanted to talk to a few of them about their saddle height... but I didn't
LOL.. big uptick on that syndrome right now.. how often do you just want to say.. hey pitch that a few inches higher and your cadence will be smooth.. ach its not worth the confusion..
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@IwratS - Minto Street is my preferred child wrangling route. An empty bus lane just makes it better!
Robert
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@Roibeard
I too consider Minto Street to be the safest artery around. Which is quite a thought.
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1) a Circe Helios tandem (I assume) in cargo bike mode - huge rack at the back, looked quite comical with the second set of pedals going round on their own.
2) a car with bikes on the back, heading up Comiston Road.
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@Bax it's hard. Many of them had a saddle so low it made them hunch right over and look like a cartoon baddie trying to tip toe up on someone...
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@IwratS - Apologies for not picking up the QBiC irony, I'm not quite with it today!
So thanks for the gracious response...
Robert
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@Roibeard
No worries. My own brain is soup.
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@fimm - looked quite comical with the second set of pedals going round on their own.
Bike entertainment is what we do!
Was spotted walking with Mrs LB on empty Castle Hill. IainMcR with 29er running Strava & listening to MP3s.
'You should work from home if you can (bear it) :-)'
Good to see so many people out. Crazy yoofs on BMXs on Dundee St. One kept in front of patient slow moving driver, jumped over traffic island and did bar spin before meandering back onto pavement. Driver was not annoyed as not in hurry.
Bike entertainment 2On (almost) bus free Princes St a big wave of bikes riding down. People seem to like this strip at moment! Couple of Just Eats and other shed bikes.
Bike entertainment 3Posted 4 years ago # -
Abbeyhill - check
Cyclist - check (anyone we know?)
Coronavirus poster - check
BBC Scotland news web site - ???
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Some of the 'new' casual cyclists seem to ignore the traffic lights. At the lights in East Calder two people went straight through, one went right on red. None of them was Deliveroo/Just Eat. All of them in their fifties-sixties out for a pootle.
I waited for green and told them that red lights still apply when I passed them soon after.
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On way to shops via WOL spotted a couple (clearly cohabiting) riding on matching Trek touring gravel bikes
Front and back pannier racks, chunky 650b tyres. Looked like adventure machines. Hope that they are planning a big adventure after all this is over and that they have a fantastic time.
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@gembo heading back towards Balerno as I was going out towards Lang Whang. Had a wee bit longer out today on recliner.
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Harts Cyclery - the shop, not the person. I didn't know that was where the shop was..
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Four polis, two by two, strolling through Saughton Park. Looking for people to "engage" with, no doubt.
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@fimm - aye, they've taken crime off the streets - all going on behind closed doors!
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Spotted the bottom bracket I needed was £1.99 online instead of £30 and I got the Fear of Discontinuation and bought four.
Also spotted that 'bottom bracket' is part of the frame, not the bearing contained therein but that war is lost.
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From the comfort of Greenroofer Towers this morning I spotted the whole Morningsider clan heading off on foot somewhere with the appearance of people who had A Plan.
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Bear Hunt?
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Neighbour two doors down who is well known maniac out with her chainsaw, (electric Lidl variety) put the trimmings into a brazier very similar to the one that disappeared from bottom of my wasteland. (It wus nae her). Stoked up the brazier distributed smoke around the Neighbourhood. Get It Up Ye Council restrictions I thought I could hear her mutter. Mrs Garto saying no fire pit for me this weekend (and that is dry wood not freshly trimmed)
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What is the smoke restriction?
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Council requesting we dinnae burn garden waste this weekend to help those with respiratory illness
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