🛎️ Leith Feeder Ride to POP 2026 🛎️
Saturday 30th of May
Meeting outside the cricket club on Leith Links at 0930 for a 0945 start. Find out more and let us know if you're planning to come along on our Facebook event:
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@pedalonparliament.org #POP26
Tesco own-bran is OK - a flattish, thin design, much preferable to the weird thick/curved stuff sold by Sainsbury's.
MOTORISED NED WARNING beside the playpark on the Jewel path/NCN1 behind the Magdalenes. Eight or nine black-clad roadmen with at least two possibly electrics scramblery bikes. #EdTravCyc
#EdTravCyc GLASS WARNING on the Chancelot Path AGAIN due to a bunch of kids making a wee barrier of sticks and broken bottles (and chucking stones). Sticks removed, glass mostly swept off and kids have fled, but watch your tyres as they're still about...
If anyone happens to be around the east end of Shandwick Place could they please check if the huge ruptures in the road surface near the tram tracks have been fixed, as a notification from the council about a recent road surface complaint claims?
#EdTravCyc Watch out for punctures from chopped branches along the Restalrig Railway Path between Seafield Street and Leith Links, where strimming has taken place but not yet any sweeping-up.
#EdTravCyc Seafield shared use path blocked just east of the Matalan bridge by badly-parked truck whilst a guy fixes a road sign next to the slope down to the beach.
#EdTravCyc Current position of Restalrig Road works means that there's a temporary-light-controlled single lane across the end of the slope up from the Restalrig Railway Path but which does not account for it, so watch out if emerging from the path and heading north/downhill.
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article...
One to keep an eye on when building starts as this may affect access to and the safety of pedestrian and cycle cut-throughs between Constitution St and Giles St/Kirkgate/Tollbooth Wynd
⚠️ Urgent call from @bikes4refugees.bsky.social :
"PROPERTY WANTED URGENTLY- EDINBURGH!
Our charity finds itself having to identify a new community hub/workshop in Edinburgh (& funds) ASAP due to an unexpected eviction notice along with other charities...
www.bikesforrefugees.scot
There were at least three others near this one, then three more and a tarmac scraper down at the corner of the Links. I assume they're awaiting their turn for the resurfacing on Restalrig Road, rather than being associated with the lesser drainworks on Pirniefield Bank.
It's here so that #EdTravCyc can see it, particularly in case anyone uses what's usually a quiet cut-through through the crematorium and doesn't expect to meet one of those giant tarmac-munching machines across the end of Boothacre Lane.
Already reported before I posted here.
Photo of a tipper truck with its tyres up on the footway on Pirniefield Place.
Watch out for loads of big heavy tipper trucks parked along Seafield Place, Pirniefield Place, outside the crematorium west entrance and along Claremont Park/Leith Links #EdTravCyc Also some footway parking on Seafield Place and Pirniefield Place
Presumably they're breaking at the hole you use most often? Perhaps glue a stretch of the leftover strap from a previous watch to a new one, spanning the potential break point, with a notch cut out to let the pin sit normally (but possibly gluing a small washer over the hole, between the straps).
Access restrictions to side _roads_ are noted, but not the path running beneath. The next nearest step-free access points are the Hawkhill Avenue slope to the east and Findlay Gardens to the west.
Medium-term (100 days) roadworks are due to start soon (9th-17th March) on Restalrig Road, with Phase 4 from Prospect Bank Gardens to Alemoor Park potentially affecting the steps and slope connecting the Restalrig Railway Path.
#EdTravCyc
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/road-project....
Photo from 23/02/2008 of a tree beside the Innocent Railway where a fallen section of tree looks a bit like the Xenomorph queens's extended, crested skull, protruding from between some spreading, outreaching branches which look a bit like arms.
It's gone now, but there used to be a tree between Duddingston Loch and the Innocent path which lookedvery slightly like the Xenomorph Queen...
Photo of the zigzag slope connecting the Restalrig Railway Path cycle/walking path to Hawkhill Avenue, Edinburgh.
GLASS WARNING on the Hawkhill Ave slope to the Restalrig Railway Path. Most of it removed but a few bits embedded in ruts in the tarmac. #EdTravCyc
FixMyStreeted in the hope that @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social can send a mini brush-wagon along there to clear it up.
Lots of glass on Chancelot path, south of Ferry Road, near Dalmeny Road. Seems like some glass recycling bins have been rolled down slope #edtravcyc @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social
Photo of two vans parked partially on the Restalrig Railway Path just clockwise from the Seafield St access point.
#EdTravCyc Restalrig Railway Path constricted between Seafield Street and Findlay Gardens by tree-trimming/felling/chipping people and vehicles.
Photo of the remains of a play park in the remains of an outdoor sea-filled swimming pool on Prestwick beach.
Also #EdTravCyc there was a big icy puddle at the bottom of the slope from the Restalrig Path down to Leith Links, though this has perhaps thawed by now.
Photo of an half-frozen puddle on the Goldenacre Path, looking north.
Screenshot of Google Maps showing a pinata the icy puddle on the Goldenacre Path.
#EdTravCyc ICE WARNING on the Goldenacre Path, beneath the puddle at the bottom of the slope from the playing fields. St Mark's Path bridge also a bit frostyslippy.
Photo of a BRAVILOR BONAMAT industrial coffee filter machine, with a BRAVILOR BONAMAT jug filled with coffee under the filter and another BRAVILOR BONAMAT jug filled with coffee on the hotplate on the top.
Somewhere in an alternative present, steam-extracted coffee was never invented and we still have to make do with a polystyrene cup of filter coffee of an unspecified origin from a simple glass BRAVILOR BONAMAT jug, where you could only hope that it was poured from the fresh jug at the bottom.
Age verification?
I remember when 20p pieces were launched, before pound coins, when the 5p/10p/50p were still big and when halfpenny pieces were still in circulation, with the manually-applied price stickers on goods in shops still sometimes specifying half-pence prices.
Loot that drops after defeating me:
- two cotton handkerchiefs
- small squeezy bottle of hand sanitiser
- 20 assorted bicycle lock/house/garage/shed keys in a small leather key pouch
- Endura Humvee ¾ baggy cycling shorts
- two packets rough oatcakes
...and any parked on a footway, blocking a dropped kerb, or just anywhere selfish.
