looks like a motorbike at the back and a bicycle at the front? No number plate? And obviously no helmet. Is it an electric bike souped up to look like a chopper?
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Hmmm. It's a bit more like a bike than the taxi but probably still doesn't qualify for the ASZ. I saw a bloke on a low-slung thing heading down Regent Road on my way home from the photocall but don't recall if it had pedals or number plates.
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It is a "normal" pedal bike. Sorry photo wasn't better - I was rushing to catch a bus.
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There's a pedal lowrider that sometimes cruises the prom between Cramond and Silverknowes. Amazing contrapulation.
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This is definitely motorised - presume petrol rather than battery -
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Amir's shot is of the type of 'Chopper/ cruiser' bike we encountered parked at Back Beat Records. They are primarily for cycling slowly and attracting the attention of the opposite sex (and members of this forum!). Bit like a Dawes Galaxy ; - )
The owners do fettle with gold spokes and other bits of bike bling - but not gears generally. The chap we met in Edinburgh had made his own frame. Was a real work of art although I do like bikes that you can go touring on. The also like attaching fireworks to their bikes which certainly beats hi-viz. (see Firebikes)
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Soul Cycles had an absolute beauty with about fifty billion spokes in it late last year. It took a while for them to shift it, the season presumably not helping.
If I was in any way cool and a decade younger I'd have considered it, but no.
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Spotted the spotted thread hanging out in questions and support....Don't blame me !
The guy who owns that disabled trike Is always shouting at folk who rlj and commit other traffic atrocities.
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Hey I was looking for it - can never find it when I want it.
Arrelcat being very sleek and cool-looking, crossing Melville Drive.
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...but invariably out-chic'ed by SRD! :-)
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If anyone is tempted by a radical custom pedalbike I have the atomic zombie bike builders book that I can bring along to a py sometime and let people browse. It explains how to cut up bso's to get the bit's to make them B-)
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@arellcat - if they saw you, it might even convince mikael etc that it is possible to be chic _and_ clad in lycra ;)
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Uberuce-bait Ribble racer locked, for want of a better word, outside Sainsbury's: 531 steelio, Campagnola mechs, lovely bodge of downtube->STI shifter acheived with gaffer tape, and secured by one of the flimsiest cables I've ever seen.
I was seriously tempted to run back into the shop, find the owner(for I saw a cycle-clad chap of the right height for the saddle and ours were the only two bikes there) and ask him to wait in the fish section for 12 minutes - the time it would take me to go home, get my boltcroppers, steal his bike and walk into the shop carrying it, give it back to him and slap him round the face with the largest nearby fish until he agreed to lock that lovely device up properly.
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Posted on pavement cycling before but now in its correct place...
Walking back from Argyle Bar and about to cross Melville Drive
• Cyclist with no lights appears on our left going east against the traffic but on the bike lane.
• She didn't cycle through a red light though (!) merely on wrong side of road going head to head with cars but inside the bike lane
• A cyclist with lights was heading on lane towards her. She opts for pavement side and goes by without incident. So passed on 'wrong' side.
• Quite visible I'm sure in car headlights.
Not sure what it proves... facing oncoming traffic is recommended when out walking on a road with no pavement. Of course if she was continental then most cycleways are two way on either side of the road so you don't have to cross over!Looked risky to me...
If we had been closer I think I would have offered advice!
Wonder if the cyclist that went by said anything printable?Posted 12 years ago # -
I remember a few weeks ago someone asking me whether I cycled facing oncoming traffic. Cue long, disbelieving silence.
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I've passed people cycling the wrong way up the bike lane along which I was cycling in the correct direction. In the dark, they had no lights, of course. I guess it might be confusing if you didn't know any better.
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LB's post reminded me that yesterday evening as I was waiting to cross the West Approach Road to tackle the ridiculous zigzag, I saw a guy on a downhill mtb shaped object tooling along the road going westwards for either the Telfer Subway access or Angle Park Terrace. I was so surprised that I didn't call out at him or anything. The car drivers all seemed quite relaxed about it too.
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I almost ran straight into an unlit cyclist coming the wrong way down Melville Drive a while back. Got the sharp edge of my tongue they did.
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chdot, Fountainbridge.
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I believe that they are referred to as "salmon cyclists" on the "silly cyclist" youtube channel.
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Roibeard and ? his family on the cyclepath between Asda and Fort Kinnaird. He smiled at me as he passed pointing out some glass on the ground, I said hello thinking he had recognised me, as he was smilng. Then I realised I don't think I've ever seen him not smiling - it's one of those things that give cyclists a bad name ;)
[I hope it was him or else I'm going to look really silly].
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<grin>
No need to feel silly, it was indeed us, coming back from the kids' woodwork class at B&Q.
That's one of the major (dis-)advantages of cycling - we're much more visible than if we were enclosed in a car! We have to be on best behaviour...
Robert
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There's woodwork classes at B&Q? Honestly, it's not as though George Osbourne needs any encouragement with the privatisation...
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saw a trike outside the Beach Cafe on the Porty Prom today (think I saw a Revolution label?)
alongside a very cool wooden kids trike in the style of a wooden balance bike,but with the trike rear axlePosted 12 years ago # -
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Spotted. Anth waiting at the lights on Charlotte Sq. Nice to see you again anth.
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Anth - charlotte sq making it look harder than it needed to be :-)
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Oh tbc must have just missed me as I was riding along the north side heading for George St when I pulled up along side anth at the left turn for George St heading south.
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chdot: I spotted that folder yesterday on my way to Swanston.
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I have seen it too, almost took a phoaty.
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