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resolved@greenroofer, yes there was a lot of muck spreading and indeed salt around.
When I was in the Pie, two big lads came in from East Calder.(Pie only has two chairs these days and I. was in one), the fitter looking one sat beside me, but he was less fit. The slightly larger guy was less cooked and boldly said he was going outside as felt hot but he quickly came back in citing muck spreading.
I gave him my seat.
I think this signage is inept/inappropriate.
And yes, private hire did go through red light.
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.
This is like the cyclists' version of CB code talk.
Spotted on the Pencaitland Railway Path: a chap cycling along and stopping to collect horse manure. He had an ancient pannier lined with a plastic bag. His roses will be happy and so will the path users who no longer have to contend with the horse manure.
Cyclist on an upright e-bike with helmet and what appeared to be knitted or crochet earmuffs designed to keep ears warm when wearing helmet.
<less impressed with their navigation around pedestrians, especially given speed of the e-bike - moving much faster than me on my e-assist>
No idea!
Yesterday NEPN by Trinity High.
Scoping tram line feasibility!?
No
Not Roseburn Path
Not quite the home patch - but spotted a nice Bickerton folder propelled with some speed by a lady here in the centre of Mexico City as I trundled nervously from the Zocalo along Reforma to Chapultepec on the Raleigh folder very kindly lent for my Mexican trip by Laidback Dave
Surprisingly good infrastructure and well used-but being Mexico no hay réglas
Well it is flat - always a help to get folk on bikes
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Spotted no one at our regular first Friday meet up at PY. Fortunately I had arranged to meet Algo there and we had a great chat.
@jss - good to hear the shop's Raleigh folder has been deployed. Not a lightweight but decent 20" wheels with rack.
Look out for e-bike / cargobikes. Doubt you will see a reclinada!
Crossed paths with Morningsider on a shiny new MTB at Harlaw this afternoon.
I locked up my bike outside makbouls and started towards the entrance, but had to jump into the cycle lane to avoid a woman walking determinedly towards a car idling just past the parking spaces. then heard cyclist shout (politely) and frantically brake, because she had continued off the pavement into the cycle lane without deviation. oddest thing. she was making a diagonal path to the car and no one - not me, not polite cyclists - was going to get in her way. people really are weird aren't they.
(suppose this ought to be in rubbish walking thread, but was thinking of it more as 'spotted - pedestrian -cycle conflict in protected lane/parking)
I gave way to gembo on Slateford Aqueduct on the way home from work earlier. Immediately as I set off again, there were nasty noises from my left Pedalite (as supplied to me second-hand by Greenroofer some years ago) which persisted for the rest of my cycle home. Coincidentally, this comes within a few days of not quite as bad but clearly not good grinding noises from the right Pedalite, although it has been squeaking sporadically since the spring 2020 so has been on its way out for some time... In both cases, I think some internal structure has broken and then bits have been getting caught in the internal dynamos. Time to swap.
@jdanielp it wusnae me. Sorry to hear of your pedal woes. They serve silent when you let me by.
Did you spot me admiring your trainers?
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@gembo I wusnae blaming you - had it been the pedal on the side that you'd passed me on and there had been contact, then it may have been another matter though. I did not spot you admiring my winter cycling shoes - they are designed for SPD cleats, as are my summer cycling shoes, although I have never tried using them.
Leith Walk
Exchanged sage nods with @Dave, I think, on the towpath this afternoon, part of a group of three with nicely set-up bikepacking bikes, looking like they were heading to or from an adventure. Given this was near Meggetland, I'm guessing the adventure was elsewhere.
I was a mile into taking my 'low-maintenance' bike off on a tour of the Water of Leith Walkway and the Balerno reservoirs. A mile later I got a rear tyre p******e, which was ...disappointing... considering that this bike has Marathon Plus tyres (supposedly p******e proof, and a pain to get off and on) and a hub gear (a faff to remove). While I did have with me all the kit I needed to fix it, I couldn't be bothered wrestling with that complexity by the pathside and I was close to home, so called Mrs G to rescue me in the van.
Hand to hand combat in the bike lane at Civerinos, Forrest Rd! Traffic was halted as usual around 5.30 so went over island and weaved between traffic into bike lane. Unusually no parked cars but horns were being sounded as two guys were going at each other. Bike in front had stopped but I decided just to go through as one guy crash landed with just enough space for me to go by, after being pushed/kicked into bike lane.
I was on older, more amusing, gold coloured recumbent but guys didn't have time to redirect aggro to me for not giving their fight due respect. Probably too weird for them. One was shouting claim that the other was a child molestor. (Shorter words though)
Long queue at bus stop were looking back to see what was going on as obviously zero chance of public transport arriving soon.
Was a bit of a retro Edinburgh scene. Shades of Trainspotting.
South Africa was quieter (back 3 days from family visit).
Slightly mad bike at work today
Single speed Ene bicicla brand. Fuschia. With 24 in Schwalbe Crazy Bob white tyres and white bar tape. Bull horn handlebars with brakes at end. Fizik racing saddle.
@gembo spotted this evening about to navigate the Haymarket diversion in the wrong direction.
He returned my hail but I wasn't convinced he knew who I was as I was disguised as a car driver...
I did shout Hankchief belatedly
Hankchief was at the front of an incredibly long queue that went right back to Haymarket. Buses, lorries the lot, shame for the residents but vehicles need to go somewhere.
Coming off the towpath at Meggetland this evening I was waiting on the pavement for the traffic to clear and let me bump down onto the road*. There was a white van turning into the sports centre car park. I was pleasantly surprised when it stopped (when it didn't need to) and held up the traffic and, while the driver's face was in shadow, I saw a hand moving in the windscreen to motion me across the road in the space thus created.
It was only as I passed the driver's side window that I saw that it was the friendly face of @algo behind the wheel.
*There's still no dropped kerb there, despite me putting one on the Council's Dropped-Kerb-Request website several times.
Maybe it was International nice van day yesterday,I’m had two wait for me and wave me through too and neither were the lovely @algo
Yesterday
It paused to allow people to walk under the bridge.
Don’t know who or why
It isn’t @dave but is a guerilla tidier upper of the burnt out car you posted five clicks up?
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