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A great day for spotting! On the way to work an older chap on dutch bike wearing a beautiful blue velvet jacket but with a flat back tyre. During work saw two Asian fully loaded long distance tourers and one the way home saw a guy with a cotic x taking photos of Duddingston loch. Imagine my surprise to find it wasn't Anth! Nice to meet you Rocky :)
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Another Cotic X???? They're getting common now...
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Seeing a Koga Miyata in the cycle regularly. Expensive commuter.
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Kaputnik on his home stretch.... outnumbered by myself and Dave on high and low Raptobikes...
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Yesterday (Saturday) morning about 11:00 saw a sizeable peleton of mostly non-roadie bikes heading north on the Roseburn path at the Telford path junction. Anyone know who/what this maelstrom of Hi Viz yellow was? An organised ride, I presume...?
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"An organised ride, I presume"
http://20milers.blogspot.com/2012/01/januarys-ride-new-years-resolutions.html
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20milers head towards CCE member -
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Nice buff.
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"30 people turned up for our first ride of 2012 including a good number of new people".
That's encouraging. I should have tagged on to the end and added to the newbie count. Unfortunately I was doing a reccy to suss out my upcoming new commute, which was in the opposite direction.Posted 12 years ago # -
Morningsider on MMW. Actually, he spotted me!
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Competitive roadie at Jock's Lodge who arrived at the lights after me and decided sitting in the ASZ was beneath him, preferring instead to get ahead and lean on the traffic light post so he didn't have to unclip and would be ahead of me and one other mere mortal, as well as blocking the pedestrian crossing.
Of course he wasn't paying attention so even despite a slip on the pedals when I set-off (ooh, the irony after commenting on him not wanting to unclip) I went straight past him, and had to stay out on the right because there was a parked car ahead, effectively blocking him. He drafted for a few hundred yards, then the instant I signalled to turn off left put the afterburners on so I wouldn't turn off without seeing his truly astounding level of awesome.
I've been passed on the commute twice already this year, both times by roadies who had drafted (one for over 2 miles!) and then kicked out. I think I've grown tired of the commuter race... ;)
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SRD - sorry to rush past, have a new start today and I do like to get to the office before them. Not that they are fooled by any attempt at professionalism by me for long - but, first impressions and all that.
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I've been passed on the commute twice already this year, both times by roadies who had drafted (one for over 2 miles!) and then kicked out. I think I've grown tired of the commuter race... ;)
What you need is my patented draft prevention system. At the touch of a button a hundred sharpened tacks are deployed from the rear rack from a specially shaped hopper to ensure the tacks only land behind you. Works great for cars and taxi also. Warning the following days journey should be by alternative routes...
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I think the bloke I saw today sneaking round the pavement from London Road to Abbey Lane was the same bloke who tried the same thing (albeit without lights and in darker conditions) a week or two back. I wonder if he recognised the voice shouting at him this time. I hung back behind him along Abbeyhill to see how he handled the under-bridge-limited-visibility junction (as well as skipping the light he'd also done a wee jumpy thing over one of the Abbey Lane speed bumps) but there was fortunately nothing approaching. He looked like he was going to try and sneak around the left of a van when a brief queue formed at the pedestrian crossing even though he then pulled out to the right to head up Calton Road.
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@morningsider - not at all. i was dawdling!
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Recumbent with a massive fibre flare type thing on the back. Very noticeable- it caught my eye from the cycle path above Crewe Road North - as it turned right into Salex Galileo (formerly Ferranti's?).
Must have been nigh on a metre tall - more like a light saber!Posted 12 years ago # -
Possibly the advertising bikes that have popped up recently? I've seen two different ones now, some with nose faring. I think they are wasted as ad-bikes when they are such good bases for taxi use.
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Bike with drop handlebars and suspension forks a la mtb. Never seen such a combination before. How does that score on the SCR?
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@amir I've seen MTBs with drops being used for cyclocross, but to my memory they were rigid frames and forks.
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What did the rest of the frame look like it belonged to? Doesn't CX competition have some sort of official rule specifying drop bars?
My dad's bike is a variant of Raleigh Pioneer which came with front bouncing fork/low-rise bars and to which he has appended TT bars.Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm sure John Tomac used to ride one like this in the 90's.
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/files/tomac_db10_closer_large_150.jpgPosted 12 years ago # -
You can ride Cyclocross on an MTB but they are really a bit of a disadvantage as a lot of it involves shouldering the bike and running.
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And when there's thick, deep mud there's a theory that skinny tyres cut through to harder stuff underneath whereas MTB tyres 'float' on the top without traction.
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It was on a dark and busy road and I didn't want to draft him (see other thread) so I didn't get a very good look. I think the geometry was compact but I couldn't work out whether it was a mtb with drops or a road bike with a suspension fork. He was travelling from Musselburgh towards town at about 7:40am if anyone wants to hunt him down ;)
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Wannabe fixie hipster at lunchtime. Rolled up trouser leg; teeny-tiny bars. Something looked amiss. Ah yes, two brake levers competing for space on that teeny-tiny platform. Oh. And then he freewheeled.
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Anth I think my wannabee fipxster was better, as he'd taken trouble to remove the rear brake and then freewheeled. And he'd rolled up the trouser leg on the wrong i.e. non-drive side. He must have seen a picture in Urban Outfitters catalogue he liked and copied that, not realising the designer had flipped the image and therefore the "correct" leg to roll up to suit the page layout.
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Man being arrested by three police officers and led away from tenement to a waiting police car. Half past midnight, on my street, just off Easter Road. Sorry to say but I rubber necked from the bike (just back from part searching in the lock-up). Not something you see every day! The guy looked upset and scared.
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Women with a red tandem unlocking her bike at SAC King's as I was leaving the stands too. Bike had yellow lettering if I mind correctly.
Anyone on here?Posted 12 years ago # -
Spotted lots of cyclists on the north Edin cycle route. Must have spotted, but not known at the time, LivD & stepho
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