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Now a reality.

https://www.scotsman.com/here-s-scotland-s-first-bus-you-can-wheel-your-bike-onto-1-4910966

2 bikes per bus, rising to 4. It's a start.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 4:51 pm
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Good stuff.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:16 pm
 aide
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Oooo, hopefully be able to use it between Galashiels and Peebles too as it's the same route (x62). Happy days as I remember phoning them a few years ago to be told I had to box a bike up to travel on their buses


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:17 pm
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Phew...

Thank **** the rack's not fatbike or tandem friendly.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:33 pm
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Excellent. Stops just outside my flat door. And I don't have a car.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:33 pm
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Great addition, can't remember are there lockers at glentress in the shower block?


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:40 pm
 geex
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You moved to Embru Mik?

Wanna go riding?


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 6:51 pm
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There are lockers in the Glentress shower block.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 7:23 pm
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Cool, sure I'd just hold you back geex not in Edinburgh but it would be great for an escape out on a work trip to be able to do it and I'm sure the bus company will hope people get out of their muddy gear before getting back on.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 7:26 pm
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Strictly speaking you need to get in front in the first place to hold someone back Mik.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 8:13 pm
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Good news.
Eldest_oab will be looking up uni digs on the route I'm sure...


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 9:13 pm
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Can you book a space? Borders buses have an app, be good if it says whether the spaces are taken. I suppose I'd be better telling / asking them.


 
Posted : 18/04/2019 10:08 pm
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I'm more excited the other direction for commuting and ride back.

Can see it being a nightmare for visiting goentresss though. Bus your bike down then no room on the way back?

Matt if your son os going to be at herriot watt I can taxi him down. I can also provide him with some gear storage if he needs it.


 
Posted : 24/04/2019 10:41 am
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Can see it being a nightmare for visiting goentresss though. Bus your bike down then no room on the way back?

This is the issue, no booking currently available so availability is a gamle


 
Posted : 24/04/2019 11:53 am
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What an embarrassment to Big Hitters


 
Posted : 24/04/2019 12:11 pm
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Hae you handed your badge in yet?


 
Posted : 24/04/2019 12:51 pm