Liam M

It's quite something isn't it. I was at her parents' a few days after the win, and a very proud dad was eager to show it off. It's something to challenge cyclist arm strength!

You can develop some amusing memories - we still refer to a turn as 'Sophie's Corner' after seeing a rider we vaguely knew lose her shoe in the mud several years ago! 😁

Diegem is an amazing atmosphere and very easy to access by train.

I recall there being shuttle buses from the train to Koksijde.

Most are really good fun live, and so it's mainly a case of logistics.

I always thought Beko using a giant inflatable washing machine was sharp placement for such a filthy sport!

Not a great video, but a load of sparrows dust bathing and bounding around to cheer the day

Not a great video, but a load of sparrows dust bathing and bounding around to cheer the day

Celebrating a successful post accident return to cycling in the sun. I'm not where I was, but I'm in a much better place than I could have been. I probably need to send this photo to my physio 😉

Will they actually cross a border!

Twice we've booked DB trains from DE to NL, and both times they've terminated short of the destination still in the wrong country!

Free training log and race listings for runners, bikers and swimmers - Fetcheveryone.com A free training log to track your running, cycling, swimming and walking. No paywall blocking the good stuff!

As today they start the annual advent calendar, I thought I'd share @fetcheveryone.bsky.social . A great little site for runners, cyclists or those otherwise into active pursuits, with route planning, analysis or just general nattering, run by a very enthusiastic owner. www.fetcheveryone.com

I know it's a slight aside of the article, but it makes me proud of my cycle club for getting involved in provision of and training on bikes for asylum seekers, to marginally soften the financial burden of local travel.

For all the public shouting, many of us want to support those in difficulty.

"Why would I hibernate when there's still food?" This one is eating everything in sight at the moment! (And taking my mind off the fact that the car broke down last night...)

Me, in blue cycling kit, riding through a filthy muddy puddle on a cx course

A mud clogged drive train on a bike

Proper cross conditions at the Northern CX champs. I was crap, but it was great fun.

I'm minded of the (Nobel prize winner) Heisenberg's line,

If he were allowed to ask God two questions, they would be, “Why quantum mechanics? And why turbulence?”. He was pretty sure God would be able to answer the first question!

Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think Humanity’s most recent common ancestor and so-called genetic isopoint illustrate the surprising connections among our family trees

@adamrutherford.bsky.social discusses the concept of the Genetic Isopoint in this article (and one of his books, but I'm not good at recalling which). Doesn't even need to be that far back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

In my case, Su tries to complete to Superprestige! Too much cx! 😁

I know it's not the focus of the post, but it appears that's an eBike.

If possibly the most successful women's rider of the year is happy to pootle about on an eBike, then nobody else should feel any consternation at using one!

It was a brilliant show - so full of joyous energy.

I can just about see myself in that photo! 😃

Lots of looking at bikes and listening to people talking about bikes. And showing off our knowledge of women's cycling trivia by both answering questions correctly and winning zwift musettes. Mind you my club membership would be revoked if I didn't know who won the first women's Paris roubaix...

I recall one of my first exposures to ebikes was on the coast in Flanders. We'd paused to do some navigation and a group of about eight retirees rolled past on a mix of mechanical and ebikes, happily chatting away, a moving social group.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.

Rivers are such interesting places - here glimpses of life on the Grwyne Fawr, in Wales.
Lovely to see the Otter moving upstream and the great variety of bats which were present.
Looking forward to reading 'Tarka Revisited' by Ian Parsons. He always writes with such great insight & intelligence.

A young collared dove standing on the handle of a glass door looking in.

I find their behaviour often gives away their youth.
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄

YouTube video by bikkebooboo Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding

Another one penned by Costello, but with a subtly different anti war approach youtu.be/Res3-YX4X8g?...

Free training log and race listings for runners, bikers and swimmers - Fetcheveryone.com A free training log to track your running, cycling, swimming and walking. No paywall blocking the good stuff!

I don't know if Strava has anything, but if you can think about how it may work and where the data is available, maybe have a look at Fetcheveryone.com ( @fetcheveryone.bsky.social ).
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.

Need to create a confusing and ambiguous cross over of riding concepts in the form of waxed legs!

I feel this. Emails can end up epic as I try to establish the assumptions and under what conditions they don't hold.

I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂

It's an interesting area of development. A lot of the technology is similar to that of oil and gas wells (drilling, managing fluid flows), but with heated water as the fluid.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.

Doesn't this point to exactly why the Road Danger Reduction Forum ( @chairrdrf.bsky.social ) uses that name.

However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.

That was my perception around Brittany. When they actually needed to be off road, they had a battered old tractor. Otherwise it was predominantly small vans.

Number of cars or vans - Census Maps, ONS Census maps is an interactive tool to explore Census 2021 data across England and Wales for different topics down to a neighbourhood level.

I recall looking at this when they first introduced parking fees in Leeds parks.

Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.

As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...

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