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"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."
~ Samuel Johnson
Important February Dates.
2 Groundhog Day
2 Groundhog Day
3 HALFWAY THROUGH WINTER
4 Soup Day
6 Work Naked Day
9 Pizza Day
14 Book Giving Day
17 Random Act of Kindness Day
17 Pancake Day
18 Wine Day
26 Toast Day
27 Polar Bear Day
28 Public Sleeping Day
#cargobike and #ebike owners might like this trick for suspending your heavy bike while preforming maintenance!
29.01.2026 19:51 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Must have: ability to carry a trombone.
Must not have: fixed gear.
Take that, hipsters!
👏 @cyclinguk.bsky.social
kid in Darth Vader costume on bike on the road Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling.
Darth Vader Looking To Become Even More Hated In The Galaxy, Takes Up Cycling.
creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord
Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc
07.01.2026 08:11 — 👍 410 🔁 141 💬 19 📌 8If you buy from the kobo website it adds them when you next synchronise. It has always worked for me so far, including adding back the titles after a full reset of the reader.
16.12.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Some wonderful objects; including:
19 drawings of small "household gods", Roman period (234), found in Devizes in 1714.
Darker evenings don't mean more danger on our roads. Just a little extra caution — a bright coat of paint on your car, headlights on, pay attention while driving — can make a huge difference! #PedestrianShaming
15.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 132 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 0The offshore experience in the Maritime museum. Land a helicopter.
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“Hidalgo spearheaded legislation that constrains her eventual successor from reversing her policies & long-term goals, such as the creation of 55 acres of new green areas by 2040, and requiring at least 65% of any site bigger than 150sq.m remains soil or plants, with no building or paving allowed.”
12.10.2025 03:15 — 👍 110 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Photo of a man riding a Brompton small-wheeled bicycle, giving the thumb's up sign.
Hugh Jackman and his Brompton
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Hugh!
Born October 12, 1968
Photo of a woman and a man with a tandem bicycle. The woman, H.G. Wells' wife Amy Catherine Robbins Wells, is seated in the front position, and the man, H.G. Wells, is standing at the rear. It looks like he's adjusting something. They're on a street in front of what appears to be a greenhouse. The bike is a Humber "lady-front" tandem.
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
-H.G. Wells
Happy #BicycleBirthday, H.G. Wells!
September 21 (1866-1946)
Wells is shown here getting ready to ride a Humber "lady-front" tandem with wife Amy Catherine Robbins Wells.
Worth a read; well argued and persuasive. @garethdennis.uk
20.09.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
According to a fresh analysis from Clean Cities, cargo bike use across London has more than doubled in just two years, jumping by an eye-popping 104 per cent between 2022 and 2024. Yes, doubled.
momentummag.com/cargo-bike-b...
A set of locks for customers to use to lock their bikes up at a pub at Chester Train Station. The sign says "Free to use bike locks. Ask for a key at the bar. Bike rack with CCTV at front. Station bike racks to rear".
Based pub.
More businesses, especially ones where you spend time there, should offer this. Just a pity none are sold secure gold, which would prevent someone's insurance from paying out if the bike was stolen, but a good start.
Painting of two people with bikes on a hill in a rural village. One of them is riding, the other is walking with the bike up the hill.
The Bicyclers
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton
A landscape view of the Lake District, looking down a grassy slope to a large lake surrounded by lush woodland. A wide pathway leads up and down the undulating landscape and around the lake.
Time to cast your vote – help shape the future of the National Trust ahead of our Annual General Meeting (AGM): buff.ly/kmcNfha
It’s your opportunity, as a member, to tell us what matters to you. Make sure you have your say before midnight on 31 Oct!
Company appointed to roll out up to 300 secure on-street ‘Bike Bunkers’ lockers in Dublin City irishcycle.com/2025/09/01/c...
11.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Please share far and wide @petedyson.bsky.social @bathecho.bsky.social @bathvoicenews.bsky.social @lukejohnemmett.co.uk @gillkirk.bsky.social @bathnewseum.bsky.social @bathfringe.co.uk @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social
10.09.2025 15:10 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
More cyclists, even wobbly ones, a good thing!
A surge in 'strikelists' on the commute this week means some folk will continue cycling when strike is over - but "exposes the lack of capacity for cycling in London" says our Head of Campaigns @psimonk.bsky.social
metro.co.uk/2025/09/09/s...
Sign: Cyclistes pied a terre. Next to a zebra crossing and cycle lane with give way markings.
In case you were wondering the French for “Cyclists Dismount”.
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The Embankment cycleway (CS3) in London was purposefully built to be wider than was usual in order to future proof it.
Some said it would hardly be used.
Now there’s a decent case for widening it further.
Induced demand is real.
The exterior of a barn at night, revealingly a dimly-lit courtyard leading to two open doors. Inside, cows are feeding.
A rainbow beams through dark clouds over Lake District hills and valleys, covered in foliage and woodland.
A farmstead in the Lake District - a farmhouse and barn beneath giant hills.
A farmer feeds a flock of sheep as the sun rises.
Our next podcast drops tomorrow! This time, we're joined by award-winning photographer & sheep farmer Amy Bateman (@amybateman.bsky.social).
We discuss Amy's life as a farmer and her gorgeous book Forty Farms (photos below), chronicling the lives of forty farms across Cumbria and the Lake District.
Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands.
"Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars."
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By getting express trains off the existing network, HS2 clears space for others - particularly FREIGHT. Fewer lorries on roads = major CO2 win.
The northern legs, presently "cancelled", are the crucial part. We need to safeguard the routes and BUILD THEM.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
A hand holds a paperback book, “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle” by Jody Rosen. A male cyclist passes out of focus in the background along a red asphalt bike lane in Delft.
“200 years after its invention, we’re experiencing the biggest bike boom of all, transforming the places we live and way we live in them... In a rapidly urbanizing, ecologically imperiled, traffic-clogged, socially turbulent 21st-century, the 19th-century two-wheeler is a relic whose time has come.”
12.07.2025 07:38 — 👍 76 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2
A man rides a step-through bicycle with a front basket on a street.
Robert Shaw riding on Martha's Vineyard during the filming of Jaws
#Jaws50
