ScotiaLass
Guru
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- Middle Earth
There is a headless swan in your middle picture, @ScotiaLass
I noticed that!
Bloomin' thing wouldn't put his head up...another one that's camera shy eh?
Scotland : Edinburgh & Lothians CC Ecosse RV ride - Sat 15th February
- Thread starter Rasmus
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I noticed that!
Bloomin' thing wouldn't put his head up...another one that's camera shy eh?
HJ told me when I got home, very sad - yet another unnecessary death ...
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Not long home after a very fine day out 
. Met up with @Pat "5mph" and @Ellebells for the ride to Linlithgow in pleasant sunshine, and on a route carefully plotted for its lack of hills 
(thank you Garmin, you were kind to us!). Was good to catch up (not much chance of that!) meet up with @Rasmus along the way; and @Telemark , @HonestMan1910 , and @ScotiaLass at Linlithgow. Many thanks to @Telemark for guiding me to the Forth Road Bridge via routes I would never have found unassisted. I crossed the bridge and back, before heading into Edinburgh and going round in circles to get the distance covered for today past the 100km mark, for the CC metric century challenge.
Very sad news.
. Met up with @Pat "5mph" and @Ellebells for the ride to Linlithgow in pleasant sunshine, and on a route carefully plotted for its lack of hills (thank you Garmin, you were kind to us!). Was good to Very sad news
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You got quite close to Chez T's on your squiggling round Edinburgh! If we'd have known, you could have joined us for more tea & cake to celebrate your 100+ km, congratulations! There is always next time 
...My total for the day was 85+ km, I didn't go out again after finding out by mapping the route on Bikemap.net
, must get the new bike computer installed and the ice tyre wheel circumference measured before the next longer ride ...T
- Location
- Glasgow
Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
I hope he doesn't mind me posting this but i've read on facebook that the man mentioned in the article is infact @sleekitcollie 's dad
Very sad news
Louch
105% knowledge on 105
- Location
- Kingdom of Kinnard
I seen the posts on fb you shared earlier Colin, brings it home so much more
There's a thread running hereI hope he doesn't mind me posting this but i've read on facebook that the man mentioned in the article is infact @sleekitcollie 's dad
Very sad news
Col5632
Guru
- Location
- Cowdenbeath
- Location
- Glasgow
I must have cycled that road at least 4 times in 2013, once alone in poor visibility.I seen the posts on fb you shared earlier Colin, brings it home so much more
Even during PfS that stretch is not marshaled until the next village, Kirkinstone I think it is.
2 cyclist fatalities in a few months
Louch
105% knowledge on 105
- Location
- Kingdom of Kinnard
Even more reason for strongest possible attendance from all at pedal on parliament this year
I'll be there again at PoP, too. It looks like the date has been more or less agreed, I'm told there will be an announcement later this week.
Looking forward to it, in a sad and happy way at the same time. Sad that so many cyclists' lives have been lost due to largely avoidable incidents, and happy that their lives are being remembered and celebrated. A very powerful message is being sent to those who have the power to change things, and this message is growing louder every year - but it looks like it needs many more voices for something to be done.
As PoP so eloquently put it last year:
'We aren’t ‘cyclists’ – we’re everyone', We’re the roadies on £3000 bikes doing 100k at the weekend and the families with the mountain bikes on the back of the car driving to 7 Stanes. We’re the hardened commuters armoured up with helmet cameras fore and aft and the pensioners ambling down to the shops for the paper. We’re the mums with child seats on the back of their bikes dropping the kids off at nursery, and the dads pulling the kiddy trailers down the canal path on a Sunday afternoon. We’re the people driving to the gym to ride on stationary bicycles because the roads on the way are just too scary to contemplate, and the children looking wistfully from the backs of cars on the school run because their parents can’t let them take the risk of cycling to school. We’re the people who go out on a sunny weekend once in a while and the year-round committed cyclists with ice tyres and snow in their beards. We’re the partners who worry while their loved one is late coming back from their ride – and the families whose loved ones never did come home. We’re not ‘cyclists’, we’re people. And more importantly, we’re voters.
T
Looking forward to it, in a sad and happy way at the same time. Sad that so many cyclists' lives have been lost due to largely avoidable incidents, and happy that their lives are being remembered and celebrated. A very powerful message is being sent to those who have the power to change things, and this message is growing louder every year - but it looks like it needs many more voices for something to be done.
As PoP so eloquently put it last year:
'We aren’t ‘cyclists’ – we’re everyone', We’re the roadies on £3000 bikes doing 100k at the weekend and the families with the mountain bikes on the back of the car driving to 7 Stanes. We’re the hardened commuters armoured up with helmet cameras fore and aft and the pensioners ambling down to the shops for the paper. We’re the mums with child seats on the back of their bikes dropping the kids off at nursery, and the dads pulling the kiddy trailers down the canal path on a Sunday afternoon. We’re the people driving to the gym to ride on stationary bicycles because the roads on the way are just too scary to contemplate, and the children looking wistfully from the backs of cars on the school run because their parents can’t let them take the risk of cycling to school. We’re the people who go out on a sunny weekend once in a while and the year-round committed cyclists with ice tyres and snow in their beards. We’re the partners who worry while their loved one is late coming back from their ride – and the families whose loved ones never did come home. We’re not ‘cyclists’, we’re people. And more importantly, we’re voters.
T
