Journey of a bike advocate. Goes on bike ride - smile emoji Experiences the danger - shocked emoji Approaches city council - straight face emoji nothing changes angry enoji person throwing a molotov cocktail Dreams of ending car culture
It all happened so fast.
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Did it lift at all? We’re back to pouring rain again today!
05.03.2026 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Dundee lived up to its reputation as Scotland’s sunniest city today, but cold again by home time!
04.03.2026 18:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I cycled to work this morning and it was definitely more 'flipping Baltic' than 'a bit chilly', although it's supposed to get to 10'c later, so an afternoon ride maybe?
04.03.2026 11:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Robertson's Cycles and Repairs, 17 Strathmartine Road. Next door was MacVey's Radio, TV & Records, according to the directory.
Date: c.1965
Ref: BW151-18
#TransportTuesday
![[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihhidhwl25tow22vbq3xkki6olpr4wmt2dtv6inh3dlcpwlxoyjha)
[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]
C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI
11.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 525 🔁 177 💬 2 📌 3
In the Netherlands, cycling and public transport aren’t competitors—they’re teammates. Invest in one, and the other gets stronger.
Nowhere is this clearer than at railway stations, where every design decision sharpens the bike infrastructure network and makes the door-to-door journey even smoother.
This is cycling in Copenhagen.
No hi-vis. No helmet mandates.
People cycle because it’s safe — by design.
This is what cycling should look like.
Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
I’m having a hard time thinking of an interview between two human beings I enjoyed more than tonight’s interview of the great Ian McKellen by the great Stephen Colbert. Every moment of it was a pleasure that I highly recommend… but then came the most REMARKABLE ending that you really HAVE to watch.
05.02.2026 07:26 — 👍 534 🔁 173 💬 23 📌 34
Photo of Bill Murray riding a fatbike. He's wearing a long, black woolen overcoat and a black bicycle helmet. His bicycle basket contains a groundhog wearing a red bicycle helmet.
Happy Groundhog Day, bicycle friends!
02.02.2026 16:16 — 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Many people with various types of bikes (including cargo bikes) stand outside
Larger group of people standing in the the cold with lots of different bikes
Spoke card with “we saw what happened” on a bike wheel in the snow
Two bunch bikes are parked - one with ice out poster and the other w/ cargo bike library logo and an adult passenger
More photos from Minneapolis’ unity ride for Alex Pretti today:
Of course cargo bikes were there.
🚲 ❤️
Impossible challenge. Even people in wealthy areas with busy high streets complain endlessly about there being too many nail bars, restaurants and vape shop. They demand the reopening of all the retail businesses that they drove into ruin by no longer shopping there.
28.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 35 🔁 3 💬 9 📌 0
💬 Big moment for #MyRideOurRight
Yesterday, MPs from across parties debated women’s safety while walking, wheeling, cycling and running, hearing how road design must reflect real experiences and why safety fears still deter many from cycling.
🧡 cyclinguk.org/westminster-mror
Bike people are good people 🚲
27.01.2026 21:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0$125,000!!! Bow down before the knitters!
26.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 55 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 2
Saw this somewhere and stole it.
24.01.2026 04:29 — 👍 42 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Recognition for @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social's work! Now an OBE! 👏🤩👍🏅
She was one of @cyclinguk.bsky.social's 2024 women in cycling.
She makes the well-researched & evidence-based case for everyday #walking #wheeling #cycling & the benefits of physical activity to @eastsussexcc.bsky.social
We will not be stripped of our joy. Our community is strong and we will win.
17.01.2026 22:17 — 👍 139 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 0
Scotland’s budget brings a welcome boost for walking, wheeling and cycling, with active travel funding up nearly 20%. It shows campaigning works, but we’re not there yet.
Our Scotland Advocacy Lead digs into what the numbers really mean: cyclinguk.org/scotlands-budget
We're down visiting family and couldn't believe how busy Longsands was, with lots of folk using the mobile saunas 😱 and so, so many dogs!
01.01.2026 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mmm beer….
28.12.2025 19:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Antique postcard featuring an illustration of Santa riding a penny farthing bicycle with reindeer following. Santa is holding a holly branch in one hand. There a rabbit in the lower right. Snow is on the ground. It says, Merry Christmas “ at the bottom. Happy holidays to all using text readers!
Merry Christmas, bicycle friends!
25.12.2025 15:18 — 👍 199 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 3
Merry Christmas from York, where the beer tastes like ginger cake 🎄🧑🎄🍻
25.12.2025 13:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Dundee #Criticalmass #Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Free Christmas parking is an outdated concept. Most modern cities don’t subsidize parking but support transit instead.
As Donald Shoup said: ‘free parking has to be paid by somebody, and that somebody is everybody including people that are too poor to own a car.’
youtu.be/cy1CKltrA2Y?...
Recently learned it's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen. Or to put it another way 'lads - don't worry, be happy' 😊
19.12.2025 13:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Crowds of people walk, cycle, and dine while sitting along Manhattan streets that lined with protected bike lanes, planter boxes, and terraced areas.
A car-free “school street” in Paris includes bike parking, vegetated areas, and white asphalt painted with colorful games.
A green bollard sits in the middle of a pedestrianized cobbled street in Brussels. Rows of flowers hang over the street.
People of all ages—from young to old—walk, sit, and play in a pedestrianized “school street” lined with planter boxes and wooden seating.
A new World Bank report calls on governments to create dedicated Livable Streets Investment Programs, steadily scaling funding to 10% of road budgets by 2035.
Why? Because livable streets deliver some of the highest returns in transport investment—up to €16 per €1 spent: investinlivablestreets.info
A Goldfinch perches delicately atop a pine tree, its vivid red face, black-and-white crown, and golden feathers glowing against the blurred green backdrop. It tilts its head to one side, looking slightly puzzled, as if wondering what all the fuss is about. The star, after all, is right where it should be...perched proudly on top of the tree.
POV: Everybody's asking where the star is and you're confused because *you* are the star 🌟
📷 John Lindsey
The car industry doesn't want you to cycle because you cease to be a customer
The fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to cycle because you cease to be a customer
The NHS would LIKE you to cycle because you cease to be a customer
Bicycles travel at the speed of, “oh that’s a cute coffee shop. I should drop in”
13.12.2025 17:12 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
