Where's Harperig Hill?
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@IWRATS I was about here at the time: https://w3w.co/volume.skillet.spike
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Technically Auchinoon Brae on the Lang Whang. Rises with Harperrig Reservoi4 to the south.
With. The prevailing wind the bike can get me back to Balerno those seven miles without much parcelling. Indeed @kaputnik once did at least half of it without pedalling. If the wind is strong you can make the Kirknewton turn. The mighty lkaps made it to the Glenbrook turn a mile further on that day then sat waiting.
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Ah yes I know this rise. Thanks. Wondered if you'd crossed paths with @bill out on the gravel-ways.
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@greenroofer my cheery wave was suppose to say 'i know how it feels but i hope you are going to turn around and enjoy what I am enjoying right now'. I don't think I managed to convey that message.
I went out to Kelly Syke gate and back (aka @gembo gate). I split the activity in two halves distance-wise on Strava to easily compare the speed and time. The one way distance from home is 21.8k. The way out was mostly done on the small ring and took me 1h28min at avg speed of 14.9km/h. It felt like forever really. The way back when I passed @greenroofer was mostly done on the big ring and took me 47min at avg speed 27.9 km/h, so 1.9 times the speed of way out and 53% of time.
I really like how from Auchinoon Brae I can nearly just roll back down home.
@IWARTS i was on roads, gravel roads too manky :)
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@bill, yes as you very well know, Kelly Syke Gate is a good place to,turn. You have room, the views are good, and it avoids going down then back up another hill. A strong sou’westerly like today’s one on the Whang does generally give the split times you mention. Twice as fast on the way back. Big Ring all the way.
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My problem too. I had a pass for a three-hour ride, but turned too soon (despite being aware of the likely faster return) and found myself back in Balerno at around the two-hour mark so then pootled around southwest Edinburgh for the next hour.
My record, just once, is the top of the hill at Harperrig to the Kirknewton turn without pedalling.
I have once been caught out by extending the ride beyond the Tarbrax turn, as from then on the outward journey is quicker than the return...
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@bill going back to the wear on your Marathon Plus.
I would be happy with 10000 miles eg two years commuting. On the. back wheel. As you are roughly 2/3 my weight you would get longer.
The front tyre last longer for sure.
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My record, just once, is the top of the hill at Harperrig to the Kirknewton turn without pedalling.
My record is having to slow quite considerably for a tractor I caught up with at the dairy farm. I had long since topped out my big ring. Conversely on the way up I'd been grinding out in my lowest gear and only just made it to the top of the Harperrig hill without pushing.
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@steveo, that farmer had lot of muckment on the west bound carriage way yesterday and now you tell me he stopped you breaking records
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99.9% sure that was @gembo in a red top and heading east from Tarbrax that I passed around ///plunger.quitter.kidney as I was heading west in search of Auchinoon Brae.
I was too distracted by a combination of a car behind me, a desire to keep my heart rate below an arbitrary, but annoyingly low, number and monitoring the road surface for ice to identify the oncoming cyclist in time to give a proper greeting.
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Did have red top on so yes. Was waiting on Tom as he thought when I said it was Glen Tilt bikes we would be going off piste, so he was a little behind on a White Trek mountain bike.
I was on my Glen Tilt bike but it is Tricross with the land cruiser Tyres and mudguards very kindly fettled by Monsieur IWRATS. Actually very suited to the technical entry into Balerno with the river from the bizarre fifteen year clearance project all down the road getting slushy at the point you reference. maybe Hannahfield by name. Then once round the summit the road is very pitted on the descent. And there is more traffic. So sorry not to shout or wave more than the usual small gesture. Maybe 2.20pm or so?
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Apple Pie sign says Open as Usuall (sic). Apple Pie is Essential
Quite hard to get into Gembo Towers at the moment with the ploughed snow frozen in the gutters. So I was faffing at the lights when who walked past with his dad but Perfect Peter off the bake off.
I then cleaned the bike (well I wiped it down with the old bjorn borgs and oils the chain) and lo Perfect Peter came back again. Very small laps.
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@greenroofer, tried the rig road today passable but sometimes on wrong side of road. I went up Cockburnhill Rd. That wo7ld have been bad descending at any speed.
The ice gathers in the bends and near the WoL crossings. Bad at Butleand WoL crossing where the Ford used to be. Indeed still is marked as such on my OS map from 2006.
Spikes no use for frozen mounds of slush.
Road up to Thriepmuir ploughed but impassable after that.
However it was incredibly beautiful lunchtime bimble.
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Apple pie doing takeaway afternoon teas I see
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That moon is up there shining like a new dime Now five o’clock ish
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Fellow with bright lamp and pink jacket coming out of the mist up the Whang.
Maybe I will chance my arm
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Went out was Murky
Bought myself a wee rhubarb pie from the Copey
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Spotted both @gembo and @Murun Burstansanger today.
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Guy on a CCE-like gravel /cross bike (robust mudguards) clad in Castelli Lycra riding the path alongside craiglockhart pond today. Moving slowly and carefully around the pedestrians but really not a suitable path for riding on a Saturday afternoon?
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@Iwrats, was that you that came to the door in your Pyjamas? WHich I am only saying so that I can now say Funny Place to Keep a Door.
The Mighty Murun Buchstansangur abides.
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A motorcyclist in hi-viz with a sign "BLOOD" on his back in Balerno this morning. I didn't know they had motorcyclists delivering(?) blood.
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@bill - Yeah, I think they're actually volunteers - delivering blood as well as organs.
One such group: https://www.rideapart.com/news/244851/uks-nhs-transporting-blood-and-organs-via-motorcycles/
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@Frenchy, thanks, interesing!
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I arrived at the Apple Pie today after my solo journey via Wilsontown (where the pit shut down) can it really have a burn called Mousewater?
Anyway there was a group of a dozen cyclists.outside. Possibly in six groups of two or maybe slight breaking of the Covid regs from one of the Livingston clubs (doubt they set off together but maybe rendezvoused in confluence) anyway that was the suggestion from Brendan fae Wishie (wishaw on the map but if you are from Wishaw you call,it Wishie). Now the fact that my Covid infringement had me in the bakery two metres from Brendan made Audrey or Mrs Pie (the owner very happy, she can be fierce but is pro cycling, kind of though when the tearoom finally opens she plans to put the cyclists out the back in a garden, I 8magine we will just stick to the bakery). Anyway, anyway if anyone is still interested, the reason Mrs Pie was so happy is that she claims Brendan is my doppelgänger. And this was the second time we had converged in ten years.
But why dear reader, if you are still awake have I put this in Spotted? Well that is a good question. What I Spotted was the Apple Pie’s new snazzy card reader. So @Bill, you can tell @edinburgh87 that they do not operate a cash only policy I said to Audrey I would issue this Correction.
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@gembo thanks for the info! I must admit that I am the source of this alternative fact then. I am pretty sure it used to be cash only in the past and last weekend I didn't see the card reader and everyone in the shop was paying with cash, hence my conclusion. But I should have asked. I will do 5 HM and have 5 apple turnovers next time there.
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No need for the HMs @bill. I was gobsmacked to see the card reader. They claim to have had it for months but I think that is in fact a lie. Maybe they have had it a few weeks. The espresso brownie combo was great. I requested the big bit of brownie with the chunky edge or might have been too goo-ey for my tastes.
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Spotted a recumbent trike with a wee hi-vis flag with "ICE" on it, going up Collinton Road.
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