@urchaidh on Duddingston Road, I think.
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@Greenroofer I was too busy admiring the saddlebag to notice the power meter.
Presumably more power used on the way back, laden with produce?
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@MediumDave - Nelson Longflap (but you probably knew that), and the first time I'd used the long flap to hold four large lettuces in the bag and a lot of rhubarb strapped to the top.
No detectable impact on power consumption until Craighouse Hill, where I sustained an average of 360W for the 47 seconds it took to climb the hill...
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No idea if the bike person is being ‘sensible’, but there must be a better way of making city centre roads more attractive to people who might want to cycle.
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Returning home this evening after a ride across town on the cargo bike to deliver a large pile of stuff to @resurf (pleasanter than driving and probably almost as quick). I was accompanied by mini-Greenroofer (who also now doesn't deserve the title of 'mini' any more really).
Anyway, on the return we passed Morningsider Mansions. @Morningsider was out (having clearly given the gardeners the evening off) cutting the hedges at the front of Morningsider Mansions.
I say this with some awe, as I pride myself on the orthogonality of the hedges around Greenroofer Towers, but mine pale into insignificance compared to the regular polyhedra that @Morningsider was creating.
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@Greenroofer - thanks. The odd shapes are really due to 1. the hedges being completely wild when we moved in to the house, and 2. they are so awkward to cut (slope, stairs, walls etc) that they are the only vaguely regular shapes I can manage.
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Apple Pie have a new railing with a lower railing for bikes. Check them out on Facebook and you will see me cutting the ribbon metaphorically.
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Very stylish. Sadly the only place which seems to be open when I arrive is normally the co-op. I don't plan that bit of my rides very well.
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Is open seven days a week, 6a.m. To 4.30pm though often not much left by 4pm
9a.m to 3pm sundays.
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Any Moffat Toffees still on here? @redmist?
Talking to father and son doing LEJOG at New. railings of Apple Pie..
They showed us a photo of a very large sphere made of road signs particularly one called Toulouse.
Anyone heard of this?
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It's on the side of the cycle path at Beattock.
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@hankchief, indeed they showed me a picture they took. What they wanted to know was Why? No one seems to know?
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We climbed Ben Nevis today. Spotted a guy pushing a MTB all the way to the top to descend off the far side. I admired his dedication.
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Some suggestion the globe is part of a failed Glasgow to Toulouse cycle route from 1998. The only part. Not sure of veracity as source is one fellow on bike radar.
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@nobrakes - when I climbed Ben Nevis many years ago there was a University team taking up a dozen irons and ironing boards for the Extreme Ironing craze.
There was much cursing...
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@gembo - should we have a CCE expedition to Toulouse to look for a globe with Glasgow on it?
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I saw the Toulouse thing on our 400 a couple of weeks back. I also thought - is there a cycle path there and what's the surface like? Then continued on the sometimes rough road with cycle lane.
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If you go right to the top of the road to Culter reservoir and through the gate up to the water at the last house there is. a Baby Austin. Owner was driving it down on Saturday as we were going up The Petrol fumes smelt old fashioned. The all New Crusher works on area footprint bit like the new regs on track bikes, a baby Austin is maybe Over ten feet long but it is narrow. It passes the crusher test. Shame they don’t make them anymore. Look good. Whole family fit. Luggage space and everything. Those little retro Simca sporty numbers are like a baby Austin. Longer and wider but less tall. PRobably pass the Crusher too
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Could be that the Toulouse thing is a bit of Sustrans sponsored artwork - "Toulouse - Montgolfiere (1997). Sculpture by Stefanie Bourne". Details supplied by Sustrans to OSM contributors:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sustrans_artwork
What do you reckon, sounds quite likely to me. (The Montgolfiere brothers invented the hot air balloon, which might explain its shape. No idea why Toulouse though).
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@morningsider yes
Fits with the 1998 installation and shapePosted 2 years ago # -
A proclaimer at the Admiral Fallow gig at tent at Edinburgh Park. We cycled there via canal towpath. But back under the bypass and Heriot watt via Gogar Station Road,
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@gembo Biking to a gig. David Byrne would approve! Admiral Fallow would be a good concert. Saw them at QH a few years back. Cross-generation audience.
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Raj, antique expert and ex skier, in Courtyard antiques
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Raj has some great stories on Would I Lie To You if it is the guy from Four Rooms.
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That's the guy
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A wee pavement gritting tractor complete with snow plow on the mean streets on East Craigs during the lunchtime deluge.
Assume they must be trying out the routes
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Good to practice your routes? Maybe was stank clearing?
The farmer’s son at Crosswood last weekend had taken the trailer of manure down the field into an area he was unfamiliar with, the tank of manure was tilting slightly over the road just as an open topped sports car was being driven along the Whang
Fortunately he had stopped to get advice from his dad, mum, uncle older sibs, grandparents etc.
Or there could have been a nasty smelly accident,
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@Gembo. I was on the Whang yesterday and was disappointed that the 'quickening' was replaced with the 'soaking' as the heavens opened as we sumitted Harperrigg.
Chapeau to the Wobbles. They have done a grand job on the verges.
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