Looking for daily commute from Falkirk to Edinburgh
| mcdonakp | 10 Apr 20:09 |
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Joined: 10 Apr 2010 Posts: 2 Bike: | Hi, I live in Falkirk and work at Gogar on the outskirts of Edinburgh. I am looking to commute by bike at least part of the journey to work. Does anyone have any route suggestions. I was thinking about driving to Linlithgow and taking the canal to Edinburgh. Does anyone have any experience of that? Just looking for some advice Cheers, Kevin |
| fatman69 | 13 Apr 03:46 |
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Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 1 Bike: | It's an easy enough route, but even parking at linlithgow it can take an age to get into edinburgh. Have you considered parking at winchburgh and going in from there? I've done it from falkirk into edinburgh and back and cycling over the three aquaducts without decent lights at night is scary. Gates on the towpath slow you down a bit as you have to get off to negotiate most of them. It may be worth having a few dry runs from different places to see what the timings are. Good luck. |
dudley 
| 13 Apr 10:10 |
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Joined: 16 Jan 2009 Posts: 498 Bike: My Profile | my advice for any drive-and-ride commuter routes is to park at a train station, wherever it may be. That way you have an excellent escape route in the evening should it be torrential rain / you've had to work late etc etc. Having to cycle back to a car in the middle of nowhere can be a pain if you dont have too.. I park at Inverkeithing station, and cycle into Edinburgh from there. |
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| Flash Gordon | 21 Oct 22:26 |
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Joined: 21 Oct 2010 Posts: 2 Bike: | hi i cycle sometimes from leith to grangemouth if you go through polmont to linlithgow then out the three mile town then follow the road till kirkliston then from there you can go to ratho or carry on till the A90. apart from the roads from the A90 on its prity quiet for traffic. coming home after 7 12 hour nightshifts it takes me 1hour 30min on a specialized globe. this route means if you work late or its really wet etc you can just get on the train with no car to worry about. |
