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Arellcat (or bad misidentification on my part if not), outside the Bicycle Works quarter-past-six-ish this evening. I gave a little wave as I went past ...
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Helios tandem outside John Lewis this afternoon.
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my friend leon has one for teh science festival..
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That would've been me, RJ! Despite glancing at most of the passing cyclists I'm afraid I didn't see you, but I would have said hello. I was busy chatting with Laid Back and Chris and a couple of other riders.
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I've seen a forest green one of these on the top bit of Middle Meadow Walk a couple of times now
Ditto in same place. Victor Hugo have a ben & jerry's ice cream selling variant of it.
I also saw a woman cycling a trike past the Bike Station 4:15ish, bench seat on the back with 2 kiddies.
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Orange-jacketed rider on an MTB decanting the contents of their rucksack that they had forgotten to zip up all over the road at toll cross.
I don't think they had noticed and by the time I had worked out what was happening and looked back up the road, clean clothes and towels were being wrapped round car axles and getting nice tyre-print tattoos.
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Min Helios tandem outside John Lewis this afternoon.
Only three in Edinburgh (including a demo) so a top spot!
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Bloke seemingly commuting on a scooter (kid style i.e no motor) - near the P & R roundabout at Hermiston.
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another helios tandem coming down the bruntsfeild links today, think i saw a different one a couple days ago MMW, different riders anyway.
didn't realize they were so rare or I'd have mentioned it before :P
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Saw the Helios stopping in at Margiotta at Marchmont from my vantage point of the post-ERC café stop. Also saw a distinctive Dawes tandem with a split-level top tube paying the Bike Station a visit. Rear half was lower than the front half, with child on stoking duties. And the Pashley Trike that hangs around at the top of MMW would seem to be the company transport of the little Brazilian juice bar in the green police box.
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"didn't realize they were so rare"
Define "rare"...
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"Bloke seemingly commuting on a scooter (kid style i.e no motor) - near the P & R roundabout at Hermiston."
I've seen possible the same bloke getting off the train at Edinburgh Park on a few occassions.
Only other time I saw a scooter-commuter was a man in a suit pushing out of town on the pavement at Roseburn.
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@chdot as defined by laidback a few posts earlier.
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wooden-framed road bike doing the Xborder 100 today. Beech ply apparently. Beautiful looking machine, no idea about the weight or how it handles though.
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three years ago a guy did the etape on the wooden framed bike, two years ago there were two of them - this caused chagrin.
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"And the Pashley Trike that hangs around at the top of MMW would seem to be the company transport of the little Brazilian juice bar in the green police box."
Had reached more or less the same conclusion, only last time I saw it, it was carrying a disassembled composting bin. Perhaps they compost all their fruit peels etc? That would be a good idea.
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I had one of the boys in the pool this evening when a complete stranger asked me about cycling.
Apparently I'm that obvious even when I don't have bike or clothes.
According to the guy in the pool everyone knows about me.
This isn't a new thing, a couple of weeks ago I was rumbled at a party, the boy's doctor worked out who I was and various parents at their school come out with some variant of "You're the guy on the bike.".
However... this is quite sad in a way. Fifty years ago cycling to work would have been common place. Film of factories from the middle of the 20th century shows crowds of workers leaving by bike. Nowadays it's so odd in Airdrie that you pass in to local mythology.
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You're the guy on the bike
The one and only
Film of factories from the middle of the 20th century shows crowds of workers leaving by bike.
Norman Wisdom was able to make a lot of comedy mileage out of this
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That could explain why Coatbridge is the fattest town in the UK.
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"Apparently I'm that obvious even when I don't have bike or clothes."
So what is the distinguishing feature?
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Well it could be my resemblance to a young Tony Curtis.
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Spotted a gaggle of mountain bikes including a blue tandem heading into town along the old railway near Colinton about 0750 this morning.
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Old spot -
Small group (adults) on Sunday in Harrison Park seemed to be doing some sort of 'skills training'.
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probably not someone from here but something very funny.
Chap cycling along buccleugh place this morning, very obviously riding a fixie for the first time. Constantly getting caught out by the pedal coming around automatically.
He looked like he thought his leg was chasing him or something. Hillarious.
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Ahhh the price of fashion... ;-)
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I managed to spot Argyle Place this morning without a laidback on it...
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kaputnik I managed to spot Argyle Place this morning without a laidback on it...
Spotted someone towing a bike trailer with a petrol driven lawnmower on the back. Quite neat actually.Posted 14 years ago # -
That'll be my mate Duncan. The cycling gardener.
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