I saw three eejits cycling the wrong way up Morrison Street into the flow of rush hour traffic at 17.15 this evening. Brazen as you like. Could have caused utter carnage. Absolute idiocy... To top it off they jumped the reds at the crossroads and all hopped onto the pavement to continue cycling up Morrison Street.
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Not I, crowriver, although I do tick the beard/blue-single/chap boxes.
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A Raleigh RSW 16 outside Salvatore's chipper in Marchmont about 530. In metallic yellow. The 16 inch wheels look even tinier in real life.
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"The 16 inch wheels look even tinier in real life."
Maybe the one you saw didn't have the original podgy tyres. I think these led to the phrase 'like waltzing in gumboots'.
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They weren't really trying when they came up with that folding mechanism were they?
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@Cb I think the folding thing wasn't the original purpose of small wheel bicycles, it was more of an afterthought to fit the thing into a car boot, rather than bundle it up into a briefcase-sized package.
chdot has corrected me on a number of occasions for describing a Moulton, from which Raleigh "borrowed" the RSW designs, as a "folding" bicycle.
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I'm sure you only needed correcting once...
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Seperable (horrible word)
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SepArable, surely. Sorry to be pedantic, but if we're going around correcting folk...
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True. (Don't like either spelling!)
Accidental typo - i'd been searching both - commonly misspelledd.
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Bromptons and Dahons fold; certain Moultons may be disassembled with greater or lesser facility for ease of storage and stowage.
The RSW16 was so cleverly designed that it was almost as large when folded as it was unfolded!
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I think for a fold like that to work you need really small wheels like the Sinclair A-Bike.
But then you'd have an A-Bike.
Anyone spotted one of those?
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Once. West End somewhere I think. Did ponder how it would cope with cobbles and potholes!
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There's one been seen in waverley a few times, I think. probably headed back to its natural terrain.
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I saw one in London once.
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There was one on gumtree every now and again. I was nearly tempted to get it to live in the boot beside the buggy for days when I need to mulit-mode to drop of the bairn and don't have time to get him warmly dressed to go on the bike.
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Having looked up to see what an A-bike was, I thought it might have been one of them that I saw going at sub-walking-pace through Holyrood Palace car park a while back, but upon checking that it seems it was another sort of very-small-wheeled folding/collapsible thing.
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Kaputnik, next to Cuckoo Pint (nr West Saltoun)
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Presumably anth-in-car, Jock's Lodge. I could make out the whiteness and the attached bicycle but couldn't see if the car had that extension-panel behind the door.
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A man on a Surly who looked a bit taken aback when I said I liked his bike at the traffic lights! Most people twig straight away when I say that. Next time I'll go for a less subtle approach so I don't look like as much of a weirdo..
The straight afterwards a man on a Cargo trike with a sort of open-fronted cargo carrying thing.
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I've done that with the Kaff and had the other Kaff-er be non-plussed. Then have him puff to catch me up (well, y'know, I was riding warp speed) and declare, "I see what you mean now! Yes, great isn't it?"
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Was going to add this to the Treading Warily thread after reading Crowriver's independant youngsters comment, but will add hear to stop the thread drift.
Spotted yesterday, 7.30am a boy, probably <10, cycling up Morningside Road, unaccompanied. Looked like he was dressed for school although it was still quite early.
He had a rucksack on and a yellow fluro top worn on top.
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Yesterday evening, a beige/coffee Kaffenback in the bike rack in front of my wee silver folder, on the train back from Dundee. To the young man who was the owner, no I wasn't in a hurry, or I would have said so, but maybe you could have been not quite so nonchalant about disembarking.
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@kaputnik that Raleigh rsw16 in red and white is the one I learned to cycle on. Tyres took some inflating
@crowriver I am with you on over nonchalant disembarkers
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Man with Cargo bike thing with cage thing on the front with 2 dogs in it cycling down A90.
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@ Baldcyclist, I've seen him many a time on the Silverknowes cycle path heading towards Silverknowes on a morning.
Its one of those 'Stop me and buy one' type bikes but instead of an ice cream or Hotdog boxes has a huge cage on the front.
I was thinking of getting a similar one to take my chilldren to school [a la Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, child catcher-esk].
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That's the oaktree vet guy again......
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I was spotted without the spotist realising I was the spottee! Well I wasn't spotted. I was given a polite telling off from SRD that I may want to review the brightness of my light!
I agree it was probably too high for path use (I normally aim beam about 5-10m ahead of me) so I have reviewed your feedback and dipped the light so hopefully that should sort it.
My apologies for dazzling you! And kudos for resisting the temptation for a Warden Hodges-like reprimand of "PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!!!" :)
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Actually, after I finished being blinded, I did think 'yellow....kaputnik', and turned to wave, but you were already heading towards Melville drive! I suppose that proves that my sight was not permanently impaired :)
Thanks for the dipping! Just a particularly narrow spot, and difficult to see oncoming traffic against your light...
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