Decided to leave work early tonight - and got home while still (just) light !
Does that count as spring? My daffs are almost out.
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Me too. Very pleased (although I did leave quite early to run an errand...)
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If this is the "signs of spring" thread, then may I add a Thrush singing this morning at the bridge over the WoL at Fords Road and the crocus spotted about a minute before that. Haven't needed lights on the way to work for a few weeks now.
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You had your light on this morning when I spotted you, I thought it was illuminating despite not being completely necessuh
Snow drops finally out in the garden. Crocus leaves poking through. Snow tomorrow
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@Gembo I have thought about turning the dynamo off. Then I figured someone would drive into me and tell me they hadn't seen me, so left it be.
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"the bridge over the WoL at Fords Road"
Forgot to say, since you showed me that way, its my daily route - much nicer than the full slateford / chesser experience, ta.
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Turning right into fords road can be hazardous? Mergansers abound there though
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It isn't spring until the last spiked tyre has been taken off?
I remain enough of a physics snob to be disgusted by myself for finding it anything but entirely predictable, but this last Friday I could legally have ridden home unlit and I had a happy from it.
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Turning right into fords road can be hazardous?
Getting into and out of Fords Road is simple - so long as the pedestrian crossing is in use. Otherwise you can wait for a good 10 minutes with a wall of cars in either direction and there's no central filter lane in which to shelter. The angle is very difficult to pull half across and wait to complete the turn as if turning out of Gorgie Road. But I like going that way to see the Mergansers in the morning and avoid all the lights.
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It isn't spring until the last spiked tyre has been taken off?
Aye. I'm leaving mine on until the end of the month. Though I have looked out the wee folding bike and given it a dust down ready for spring commuting duties...
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I'm just about to leave for work, still v dark. It will be some weeks yet before I can dispense with the lights.
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@kaps, yes the pedestrian crossing was often in use by me, I would then push bike across the road. I got this out of cycle craft. Can piss off some drivers but lets those waiting to get out of fords road access the main road. Good bright dynamo by the way
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*checks if wearing shorts and intactness of tan line*. Yep, it's still winter. For you. :-)
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I'm still running both headlights on my commute, sort of 0830-0900 time usually. I'm carrying them anyway, they're bright, and they're easy to recharge. I was perhaps grateful for them this morning when white van man came storming along Murrayburn Road to the Longstone roundabout and braked very heavily when he realised there was someone already using it.
Mostly I'm still riding home in the dark, so it's not quite lighting-down time yet.
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Re Fords Road: When I'm delivering the coxwain to his granny's I'll generally just ride over and use the traffic lights to go up Robbs Loan, trying to cross gorgie with the wee yin is more stress than I can cope with in the morning. Usually do the same on the return.
My lights lacking the high-tech sophistication of a power switch remain on all year though I might break out the road bike in the next few weeks.
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