Voi bikes A great way to get around central (and not-so-central) Edinburgh: pay-as-you-go hire e-bikes.

Claud Butler Ridge 2  Behold, an e-bike.  It looked like the cycle to work scheme was going to be culled in the November 2025 budget, so I signed up in advance. In the event it wasn't but the bike certainly makes the circa 10 miles from Leith to Heriot-Watt (and return) pass more congenially. The range is quoted as 40 miles, but it seems to be slightly more with the power on 1 or 2 (out of 5), which is plenty for Edinburgh streets and cycle paths.

Claude Butler hybrid  Old faithful, pressed into service more recently for Munro bagging.

Cube Travel EXC 2020  A nice hybrid with hub gears and a belt drive rather than a chain. It was bought at the start of the pandemic and then, ahem, not used that much thereafter.

Toyota Yaris Cross  The infrastucture isn't quite there yet (for me, at any rate) to go fully electric, so it is a "mild" hybrid for the time being. The previous old-school petrol Yaris lasted for nearly 10 years and 100k+ miles, let's see how the fancy modern tech does.

Hainan Airlines  Edinburgh-Beijing-Xi'an - for teaching at Xidian University , as part of a data sciences Joint Education Program (JEP) between Heriot-Watt and Xidian Universities.