"You glow under the bridge" said a bloke in a yellow viz as he passed me on Russell Road this morning. I wear a Proviz 360Reflect in silver, which I think very dashing and far more tasteful than yellow or orange viz.
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Posted 6 years ago #
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& to continue the dashing jacket theme, I was terribly flattered this morning when a beautiful young woman on the towpath asked me where she could buy one! Like me, she eschews the yellow or orange monstrosities.
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Cycle Republic on Morrison Street had one hanging up in a position that positively glowed when seen from the street at night. Don't know if it was a deliberate placement but it was very effective and made me think about getting one.
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@Stickman - they do glow at night and go a fetching space-age silver when wet.
Posted 6 years ago # -
@qwerty - I've found it's resisted monsoon rains so far.
However I haven't taken it touring as yet for the proper test against the elements.Posted 6 years ago # -
I've had a proviz 360 rucksack cover for close to 2 years now. It's really good but I'd worry about a jacket being breathable enough if its the same material. Also, the reflective bit is coming off at the top where I always access my bag.
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Micro-Greenroofer this evening, as we were playing at the bike shed (I was prepping a bike, he was riding his in circles) "Dad, what's a chainwhip?"
I thought "that's my boy!" and asked where he'd heard about a chainwhip.
He replied "Oh, it's something I read in my Beast Quest book"
Posted 6 years ago # -
Cycled up Braid hill to listen to the fireworks with the traditional thirteen second delay.
Two lights came straight up the north side over the golf course, schoolboys on MTBs, one with a loose crank.
'There's no difference between cheap bikes and nice bikes' he opined.
Who would I be to disagree, even if his 'cheap' bike was a nice Trek hardtail retailing at around £700.
I'll ride up where he did in daylight some time to see if I'm physically capable.
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Enthusiastic parent at the ERC junior cyclocross competition in Inch Park.
'Come on Chloe! Good suffering!'
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A few weeks ago at Morrison Crescent. Car with crumpled bonnet had pranged into a bus. One bystander to the other:- "They can't have not seen it, they must have been texting."
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In a restaurant, professor of science sat near me, talking about their recent experiences reviewing grant applications for a very general funding call for ideas to "progress the nation".
"... there was an application for research looking into how to get more people using cycle lanes. But, you know what was missing?
[incredulous]Anything, at all, suggesting training for people in how to use cycle lanes![/incredulous]"
A tongue may have been bitten.
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Just gone into the front room to find Mrs Greenroofer watching a programme on BBC Alba about refugees in Denmark learning to maintain bicycles. So that's a programme in Gaelic about people who speak Syrian talking about their experiences and people who speak Danish talking about their experiences. Luckily there were subtitles in a language I did understand.
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Meanwhile on red button team GB won two golds down in manchester
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Someone drove to a gym. Their car had a flat tyre. They drove on anyway, shredding the tyre and probably knackering the rim.
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Their car had a flat tyre. They drove on anyway.
This seems to be more and more common.
Maybe they think they have "run-flats"
Or maybe they have no spare, since manufacturers seem to have deemed them unnecessary.
Obviously the manufacturers have never seen the amount of nails that trades-people drop out of their vans...
Posted 6 years ago # -
I'm not sure everyone knows how to change a car wheel anymore.
It can be hard to spot a rear flat.
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Changing it's the easy bit. It's working out that it's gone in the first bit that's tricky:
In
mythe cars defence the road was very rough and so the ride quality didn't change much.Posted 6 years ago # -
"...everyone else is going slow but he was riding like he was at the velodrome...."
At least some Roseburn park residents recognise we're not all the same. And for the record "he" was properly trucking on when he passed me a few moments earlier.
Posted 5 years ago # -
If they had been there earlier they would have overheard me castigating a dog walker for having a wee against a tree (the dog walker, not the dog)...
It was difficult to find a choice of words that would prevent multiple questions from the kids...
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Overheard at the lights on Craigmillar Park at 18h40;
Gentleman with broad northern accent looking at his phone; 'Says on here sunset's at six forty.'
His lady friend; 'So is it dark?'
IWRATS looks at the sky, observes the sun setting and nods sagely.
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Overheard two colleagues discussing cycle routes. One was bemoaning the lack of a safe route she felt was safe enough to take her child to nursery in his trailer.
Posted 5 years ago # -
A colleague loudly swearing about the injustice of being given a £60 parking fine for parking in one of the airport hotel car parks. He had parked there in an attempt to avoid paying the airport drop off fee.
Currently an angry discussion going on, including someone saying that the drop-off fee is so high it stops people driving to the airport.
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The fee does seem a bit of a rip off at the airport, they also charge for taxis and the tram, possible even the bus, it costs more than a normal bus. The bicycle parking is also very limited considering the amount of people traffic through the airport. I think they have such limited bicycle parking to try and get you to pay one of their fees by using an alternative method than cycling.
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At the table beside me at lunch, a group rolling out all the usual cycling tropes (they all jump red lights, cycle on pavements, 5 abreast in the middle of the road). One of the men delighted in saying how he always passed bikes as close as he could, before the group moved on to discussing the hilarious times they’ve seen cyclists fall off their bikes or been hit by cars.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Stickman
Perhaps you need to tell HR that if if happens again you might have to go off sick with PTSD.
Or let them know they are harbouring people who condone criminal behaviour.
(I assume it was at work.)
Posted 4 years ago # -
Less overheard than "heard against my will, felt obligated to engage, eventually managed to escape". As shared on Twitter:
Today began with an aggressive rant from a contractor working on our flats because last week he saw a tourist cycling on the pavement on Princes Street. I was also asked to justify cyclists not using the cycle path in Holyrood Park. I was just wheeling my bike down the hall, man!
Did you know cyclists break the speed limit and never get stopped? Well, if the speed limit doesn't apply to them it should. They should have insurance & registration plates too. Yes, even children. It's not fair. He hates that Nicola Sturgeon (reasons were not given). Etc.
& those idiots who were all in Holyrood Park the other year closing roads & asking for cycle paths they never use, what about them, eh?
Me: You mean @POPScotland? I helped organise that ..
Him: Oh don't get me wrong, I USED TO OWN A BIKE MYSELF.
Me: [internally] *bingo*At least the shaky adrenaline spike got me up the steep hill at the start of my commute much faster than usual?
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Sounds painful. I suspect his cognitive dissonance was mainly caused by a cyclist making it harder for him to park on the pavement. I wonder if it extends as far as the fact that there is are B&Qs in Edinburgh so why on earth do people keep insisting on employing him?
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Colleague, grumbling about car parking at the The Gyle
"They weren't allowed to build enough spaces ... where do they expect all the cars to go? ... you just end up parking anywhere ..."Posted 4 years ago #
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