DaveC and chum, passing me and chum as we lumbered up the slope to the bridge. With leg-pumping efficiency they disappeared over the brow of the bridge's arc never to be sighted again.
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Ah that was you!?! I did wonder for a split second whether you might be cycling over the bridge as we approached you two. So sorry I didn't see you to say hello. Let me know the next time you are going in on your own and I'll chum you in.
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Mr TheBikeChain on the Canal path this morning (I was running ahead of time and decided to ride into a new thread that's to come here in a mo) - even got his cheery wave on the video camera...
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@DaveC
No way! ;-) As we ambled along behind you, Neil and I shared stories of having each been blown away by both you and your mate on separate occasions. "Maybe next year ...." I said to myself as you became little red dots on the horizon.Posted 12 years ago # -
L&B police car with siren and lights heading east along Melville Drive as I was heading south on MMW.
I wondered why they weren't going faster till I realised that they were alongside a cyclist on the bike lane. One officer leant out window and told him to stop. Maybe ran a red light at Jawbone Walk crossing.
Compare and contrast though with a tour bus that drove through a red light from a standing start watched by a police van and a taxi last night at Deacon Brodie junction.
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"Compare and contrast though with a tour bus that drove through a red light from a standing start watched by a police van and a taxi last night at Deacon Brodie junction. "
Simply fixed, take the registration No's of the Police car and the bus and write a letter of complaint to the Chief Constable.
The Officers who get hauled in to explain themselves wont like it, but tough luck really... the laws apply to all!Posted 12 years ago # -
Brown recumbent with green luggage box on the rear carrier, heading west along London Road from Meadowbank area, 18:40 approx. this evening. Recumbenteer had grey hair, pony tail. If it's anyone on here, a second apology for signalling left to then (sort of) cut you up just before Abbeyhill. You got mildly irate, though stayed polite (laid back?). Tried to explain my bungee had come loose from front carrier on one of a myriad of ruts, bumps, and potholes, thus threatening to pitch my cargo into the road, thus had to avoid inside left. However time was short and traffic bearing down on us both.
One minute later,
cream Birdy'sand' Mezzo folder*, heading east on opposite side of London Road.Unusual to see two exotic bikes in the space of five minutes in Abbeyhill.
* just checked the online image bank.
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"Unusual to see two exotic bikes in the space of five minutes in Abbeyhill"
Must be the Eastsidebikes effect.
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Crowriver, was it this one? I've never met the owner; I think Kim has seen it before too.
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That's the beast, indeed.
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Very nice team raleigh five speed left in my work bikeshed today. Yellow, red and blue. Spot on the other side of the down tube for second gear lever. Thought maybe the 5 speed god was paying me back for my Dawes 5 speed being nicked from 54 Hillhead St in 1984 when NT left it unlocked in the close. Still apparently rankling.
Also chaP on a chopper on towpath just before Heriot Watt. Choppers best for drive by style showing off rather than long distances, also once you are grown up the dimensions don't work so well. As a kid there could not have been anything more cool in 1970s Britain
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@cb, from his blog it sounds like he souped up the Chopper for touring: brakes, gears, front wheel, tyres too.
All the extra gearing goodies were stripped off and Chopper's front wheel replaced. The brakes and brake-levers were put back to normal, the original tyres fitted, and I put on a new chain with the original Sturmey Archer sprocket.
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Dude on a fixed cycling the wrong way up morrison street against the flow of traffic. Cop car in front of me throws both doors open and both cops get out. Fixed dude jumps off and puts hands up...... cops switch places ( passenger jumps in drivers seat) and drive away .... they didn't even notice him... Fixed dude looks very sheepish... jumps back on bike and continues cycling against the traffic.....
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Outside the Bike Station this afternoon, in the rain.
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Anth out looking for otters. Hope he had more luck than I did.
Chuffed to get post 2357 :)
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Someone on a recumbent in Port Seton heading towards Edinburgh today, late morning. And two people on road bikes who shouted my name just before that.
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Forgot to mention this at the time, but last week No.1 son and I were overtaken the wide downhill bit of Porty prom by a man and two boys on a red triplet childback tandem (presumably a Thorn). They were going at a fair lick! The triplet passed us a gain going the other way around 10 minutes later.
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@Excitableboy I did, albeit very very briefly. Still no photo. And later in the day at the fox spot I mentioned there was a fox cub - didn't get a photo of that either....
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Higgins racing tricycle at EBC today. made its way from Lands End. I googled Higgins racing tricycles and the tricycle association had some good pictures of people cornering at speed on racing tricycles - they get right off the bike and lean way over
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Yesterday: Kim and I guess Son of Kim on Argyle Place as I was heading in to see if the Paper Bike in Bike Station was LaidBack's. It wasn't, and shortly afterwards LaidBack used his arm-twisting powers on me to give the 8-speed and singlespeed Paper Bikes a whirl, as well as the Helios.
Very impressed by the Helios. That's not to say the Papers don't do the business too - it's more that you get a heads-up from the weight-testing lift'n'shoogle in the shop that it's going to cruise you down the road Like A Sir, so it's not a surprise when it does just that.
I was however expecting the Helios to be a pig to handle and a chore to climb with, so when it daintily nipped through the off-Meadows side paths, went up Tollcross-Bruntsfield in 4th because the lower gears were too spinny for my tastes, and then got nice and brisk along Melville in 8th, I found my brain thinking "This is a bit good."
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Very nice Boardman hybrid locked up outside Morrisons on Portobello Road - with the keys still in the lock! Managed to reunite the owner with his keys. Somebody's lucky day.
Locks work!(see above) - but only when used in accordance with the manufacturers instructions ;)
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Locked up next to another Giant Expression DX today - think it's one of the newer ones...disappointed to see that Giant appear to be rolling them out with pannier racks that look a whole lot less solid and reliable than the one on my DX.
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Lots of nippy bikes at the Halfords Tours Series in Kirkcaldy this evening.
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Spotted SRD rolling up through Bruntsfield Links for Bruntsfield Place and onwards. I was heading for Biketrax.
Then later on spotted our man in black, chdot, going like the clappers past the museum and into Bristo Place. I was heading for Chambers St and thence John Lewis.
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hi there Arellcat! thought it might be you. haven't spotted you on your folder before. I was late for school collect...
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"going like the clappers"
Yes well that was me using Strava for the first time - only to find that most of it wasn't a "segment".
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Rather lovely old Flying Scot racer in the window of Eastside Bikes yesterday. Wonderful lines that frame. Been turned into a single speed: now that would be special.
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Speaking of Strava (and sorry I don't want this to become the Strava thread) I left a freind behind listnight on the way home in Inverkeithing. When he caught up at the top of the hill he ask why I'd sped off. Well I now use Strava and didn't want to put in a slow time... ;-)
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