Max Leonard

Patchy but when it’s good it’s good. I also love the Ebony Tower…

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“Unpack once” is such a great - but minor - promise to feature in an ad for a cruise. #itv4

Anyone else used ChatGPT for gym / running training programmes? Because all you're doing on subscription apps is putting some data into an algorithm right? i.e. give ChatGPT all the info that you're usually asked on an app sign-up and you're away.

Isn’t it good when you feel good on a bike.

Heatwave across large parts of Europe. If you're riding around France in summer and don't have a team car then www.eau-cyclisme.com website can be very useful, lists places where you can get drinking water for free

Four days on the Alta Via Della Frontiera, Alpe Marittime 💜 www.instagram.com/p/DLdKfmRMyv...

Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Member Don Cook Has Died - Mountain Bike Action Magazine "In 1983 Don and a small handful of riders started a Mtn Bike Club called the Crested Butte Mountain Bike Association. After two meetings the 'handful' quit and Don and his wife Kay were left to keep ...

RIP Don Cook mbaction.com/mountain-bik...

He wasn’t a hit tho, TBF.

But George Lazenby! (Who was excellent)

Nick Cave.

I mean, who takes crampons to a pub in Forest Gate? 🙋🏼‍♂️

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce This revealing portrait of the early days of Silicon Valley was Tom Wolfe's final piece for Esquire.

Great piece here by Tom Wolfe – his last for Esquire – about Bob Noyce of Intel and the beginnings of Silicon Valley… www.esquire.com/news-politic...

That very particular feeling of sunburnt toes.

Reached that stage of the hike where everything smells like saucisson

Well done. I found the Altopiano della Gardetta to be truly special on a mountain bike when I visited years ago. A high, hidden, paradise.

It’s a fixture on the Torino-Nice Rally

Been wanting to make it here for years!

Screengrab of a Muppet of a Swedish fisherman and a Muppet seal with the number 7 on a card around its neck. The Seventh Seal, in other words.

Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

From the archive, 7 years ago: #Top10 Geographic Anomalies independent.co.uk/voices/top-1...

I posted the first of these pictures on the other place in October 2024, and I’m back in Cannes eight months later and see the second bike in exactly the same place, and all I can say is this guy has some bike collection and very little regard for its safety.

This is a long way out there.

“Only upon later reflection did they realize that the seemingly authoritative system was a word-association machine that had pulled them into a quicksand of delusional thinking.”

The childlike joy of Americans on Eurostar. The tiny glasses, the cutlery. How civilise train travel can be!

In honor of Brian Wilson's passing, here are the four categories of Beach Boys songs:

1. surfing is great, you should try it
2. I have a good vehicle
3. I reach beyond myself into the ineffable, and that's where I find you, my love
4. sloop john b

Out tomorrow -- just in time for father's day. It's certainly what I'm giving my father.

Yeah. Or maybe it's for the best.

Sometimes I wonder if we were being replace by AI years ago…

@snfschlee.bsky.social I'm sure you saw this, but … mailchi.mp/7cafaa77b217...

Another wild view of yesterday’s Mount Etna eruption that sent tourists and guides running

Sun Ra departed the planet earth on May 30 1993. He travels the spaceways from planet to planet. Space is the place. #SunRa