Certainly wouldn't be her first odd offering.
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First Quickening of 2023 as we were really shifting off Auchinoon Brae this afternoon with strong SW wind behind.
Earlier there had been much excitement as the Apple pie fire alarm went off and no one knew how to fix it.
No fire though or even anything burning.
My newish version 105 front mech cable tensioner Doo dah with funny little plastic cap is also weird? As I spotted cable loose but no idea how to tighten indeed why it is loose.
I will watch some YouTube videos.
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gembo on the towpath this morning, warning me of the presence of "big, bad John" who I then encountered a little later. No otter.
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John had the otter in his bag
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The Mighty Uberuce at Harperig heading west. I speculate an anti clockwise RTP
His beard as luxuriant as ever.
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Been there since 2012, though I never had cause to go in since I was always hurrying east or west. Perhaps Causewayside is the better location?
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Except that it’s moved next door, unless that’s a new/different business??
Pretty sure the one in Causewayside is now a separate business
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Renknowned "cyclist" (who once wore a helmet during a TEC meeting to prove it) Susan Webber MSP - looking very frustrated at the temporary traffic lights on Holyrood road, whilst driving a car with reg SJ11 WEB. I took great pleasure in filtering past to jump in front of her.
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Is this an entry for the Turner Prize or the Turder Prize?
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The absolute state of the place it might as well be. Is that a pile of ex-turf?
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“Is that a pile of ex-turf?“
Oh yes -
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Good news- I’m easing my way back onto the bike. Today I took a quick jaunt to Portobello for lunch and spotted a Bianchi Aria and a rather natty orange Shand.
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Great you are back on bike @mcairney
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> Except that it’s moved next door, unless that’s a new/different > business??
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> Pretty sure the one in Causewayside is now a separate businessHaymarket, Bikesmith has been slowly moving into the much bigger shop next door, previously a co-op and a Margiotta's prior to that.
It's across the road from the office, and I did end up going in to get a new pannier rack from them a few months ago.
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Dunfermline
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I spotted nelly, formally of this parish, up the Pentlands at the weekend. Doubt he recognised me and I we were traveling in different directions on the hill. I was trying not to cough up a lung...
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Dunfermline
Never noticed that before, technically it's a core path until the dropped kerb where that cyclist is, suppose it's a useful contraflow to get to The Glen.Posted 1 year ago # -
Dunfermline
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A bumpy high-five with gembo on the towpath at Harrison Park and a brief chat with Big John near the new access ramp work.
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Spotted a highly viz cargobiker absolutely caning it along past the zoo. Looked like one of the Raleigh machines with the yellow and grey frame. Harts, maybe?
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NOT spotted in bus/cycle lane in Clerk street by big Tartan Waste refuse truck abruptly pulling into curb alongside me - once more into the breach-an altercation in the local vernacular ensued with driver insisting it was a bus lane and not for cycles. I had not realised that ethnic cleansing of recumbently horizontal Englishman had commenced and that we were to be processed and disposed of by Tartan Waste operatives.
Seems we don cloaks of invisibility in these cycle/bus lanes ,even in a conspicuous recumbent trike with lights
Think I have 4 lives left now
I am now in search of a very loud claxon that might even be audible in the cabs of trucks Anyone got recommendations?Posted 1 year ago # -
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In Edinburgh city centre we operate our trade waste collection services under the distinctive Tartan Waste brand.
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WoL path will be shut from Mon 20th Feb for two weeks. Surface being relaid between Juni green and Currie.
Diggers there already doing the drainage ditches.
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Was that @gembo muscling a big gear up a short ramp on Glenbrook Road this afternoon?
I was in full Man at
C&AGalibier (mostly, but also Decathlon) regalia, rather than normal towpath attire. I
made a formulaic wave to the cyclist coming the other way, but only realised when it was too late that it looked very like @gembo in a Torm Rtts top...Posted 1 year ago # -
@greenroofer about 2pm?
Very good disguise indeed.
At least we waved.
You were probably going so fast that it was a bit of a blur but I was wearing dark navy long sleeved Rapha sale brevet with pink and white stripe.?Though I do also have the long sleeved black Torm RttS it is true,
With the easterly on the way out I found I was having to brake in unusual places so pulled into the Tarbrax layby to adjust barrel adjusters. About a second later Set Tempo Woman came smashing by. She was clearly about to scalp me. anyway she headed toward Carnwath and I went down towards Tarbrax. Then mud road to Wilsontown and on to Forth. For the first of my CTC signs on a building. We have them as logos on our Galibier garments too of course.
I then went through Forth and turned left towards Braehead and then turned right before the hill on Browshott Road. Just in time for ArtyBits who open 10-12 Sundays and 10-12 Mondays. Wow. Then round to the alpacas and back via the terrible peat place on Loch road and through the ever present puddle and into Carnwath for the Motte behind the first green at the Gowfie, the owl in the votive niche and the second CTCsign on a building.
Voted for Apple pie as best bakery in universe. Had apple slice with nice singed edge, and double espresso 2.70 in total
Found east wind, diverted to Woolfords but no succor then Whanged it to Glenbrook where we passed. Where were you off to?
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Yup, about 2pm. I must have spotted the striped top and decided in retrospect in was an RttS one. For the record, your honour, it was dark and had a stripe.
I was on my way out to Carnwath and back, on my second 'just for the sake of it' ride of the year. It was very pleasant, although the easterly wind meant I had to pedal more than usual on the way home. Also eyes now quite red, I suspect due to the amount of dry salt blowing around.
Dicey moment at Crosswoodhill Farm, where manure was being spread on the field as I passed, and I realised that, in addition to the pungent aroma, I could actually feel a manure aerosol landing on me. Tried to hold my breath as much as possible, but this was challenging on the uphill section...
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