Some sort of strange chimera at Meadowbank, with the head and torso of a normal financial services contract lawyer but the skinny-fit rolled-up-leg bottom half of an hipster.
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@wingpig
Pic please
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nooooo! ;)
not-SRD, yesterday on middle meadow walk, looked just like hr, riding a helios with stoker, but not. told them their lights were not working.
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"not-SRD, yesterday on middle meadow walk, looked just like hr, riding a helios with stoker, but not. told them their lights were not working."
My lights actually working (some of the time)
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There was a non-SRD-piloted Helios plus stoker (both resplendent in fluo-yellow hi-viz) cutting off MMW through to Quartermile this morning.
I reckon there's at least 4 Helios families in the vicinity. Unless there's some sort of helios club going on?
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Spotted a great looking Raleigh Reynolds Steel framed racer - blue and green, chained up outside the Sainsburys in the Raploch yesterday. Oversized frame, my kind of bike. Sorry no pic
also a huge chimney behind Freewheelin Bicycles in Slateford, it just sits there, no buildings, just the chimney, but maybe it has been spotted on the forum before, I don't think it has moved.
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Magnificent Pashley (think it was a Guvnor) outside Soul Cycles - sorry no pic - turned out it was owned by one of the chaps inside.
I asked my son - age 6 - which bike he liked, and he picked the Pashley - it really was lovely, Brooks, Carradice and incredibly clean - it looked wonderful.
Did I mention it was lovely?
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there is almost always a pashley locked to a pole on Montpelier, just down from the school, when i go by in the morning. On Friday, there was another one parked next to it. Looked like they were planning on producing baby pashleys. v. lovely
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Yarp, I've had a drool at Gav's Guv too.
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red trike coming down from the Inch,heading up towards Fort Kinnaird around 0945 today.
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Black recumbent trike heading down Morningside Road on Saturday afternoon. It seemed to have picked up a string of Tibetan prayer flags somewhere in place of a single flag for visibility. I was on the other side of the road from it, and in charge of a young man and his pushchair, so didn't get a good look. I suspect it had an Alfine hub.
It executed a neat right turn across the traffic and then 'parked' to get to the cash machine. Of course, you can't lean a recumbent trike against the wall next to you while you're using the cash machine (unless you want to block the pavement completely), so it had to park with the cars on the road.
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@kaputnik thanks for the info. as with breweries are we down to one biscuit factory now? Burtons at sight hill, as with brewery great smells meet the nostrils of passing cyclists. Should the Nairnshire oatcake factory be included in the biscuit factory category, that would make two. Principal fruit in the jammy dodger jam is plum.
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@gembo I dont mind which multinational biccy factories close - as long as Tunnocks in Uddingston stays in business :-)
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Lone cyclist on black Revolution, manfully leading a line of traffic up from Fairmilehead through the coned off single lane uphill. Cyclists have every right to cycle it of course but drivers will insist on driving about three feet from your back wheel. Another example of 'welcome to Edinburgh' where bikes are tolerated?
Also saw chap from Velo Ecosse on way to West Linton. Meeting of roadies around there. Quite windy.
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my boys funky retro Raleigh Scrambla
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If anyone hasn't sampled the nostril-tingling delights of Burtons factory at Sighthill, it's worth a toddle along the canal for a snifter. You can tell the jammie dodger baking days from smell of jam. Some days smell of caramelised sugar (maybe shortie?) others of coconut. Do Burton's make Nice biscuits? They sell broken-biscuits by the kilo bag if you're so inclined. Toffee Pops amusing as you have to break off lumps of toffee-bound biscuit. Animal crackers good too.
I like the malty smells that come out the NB Distillery. The smell out of the Caledonian Brewery isn't so strong, but can we warm and yeasty or wet and hoppy. All delicious.
I remember smelling it from Corstorphine when I was growing up - there would also have been the Fountain and Heriot breweries and the Caledonian Distillery still functional in them days. Perhaps even something at Holyrood. Not sure when they closed down operations there.
I think we maybe even used to have a "city smells" thread?
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A friend used to work for a pharmaceuticals company in town - she thought that some smells attributed to breweries could actually be from her company.
They were one of the few companies licensed to make heroin...
Robert
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If not the only one.
Yes undoubtedly source of some of the smells near North British (which used to get its water from the canal).
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@Roibeard - the medical heroin place is still there/ Sickly sweet chloroform-like smell out of it (we used to sniff the lab chloroform in SYS chemistry for dares - inbetween trying to anaesthetise seagulls out of the window with bits of tainted morning roll) It's the barrel-vaulted building with all the pipework around it between the distillery and Sainsbury's.
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@nelly I have a pal who grew up in Uddingston school trip was to the tunnocks factory. At the first machine the wafers were cut into biscuit sized pieces and every child was given one to eat. At the next machine the caramel was added to the wafer and every child was given a biscuit. At the next machine the chocolate was added and every child was given a biscuit. That is what I call a school trip.
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red trike coming down from the Inch,heading up towards Fort Kinnaird around 0945 today.
'Racer' type trike? There was one on the Audrey Fyfe Memorial Run today. Maybe the same one, certainly heading the right way.
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We passed an oldschool racing trike in with some of the presumed CTC run heading out of Dunbar,
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This was from yesterday - chatting to my neighbour in the street(about bromptons, oddly enough) when a large peloton of mostly dayglo, very slow and sedate (youngest by a long way about 40, oldest, hard to say.....certainly pensionable) riders on way down toward Argyle place.
Not sure if it was a specific club for people slightly older than the norm.
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@crowriver and kaputnik, that was most certainly one of the regular CTCers on the run today, on the red trike, another member who goes out regularly has a green one. The red trike owner has a handbuilt bike, made by himself, and can also be seen on a tandem with stoker. Quite a different riding skill required for a trike, cornering is really quite hard and is best taken quite gently.
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@crowriver yup,thats the one
caught my eye as it looked a bit skinny IYNWIM@Liz,yeah I noticed he was taking the right turn a bit gingerly
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chot - bingo.
Sounds a very civilised day out!
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Cool ... or not?
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