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Husband. Dad. Rider of bikes. Drinker of Real Ale. Breaker of Things. @RoadCC reviewer. 🌱-powered. Lapsed Kiwi🇳🇿-Newbie Scot🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿-Believer in Better
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Hey @wendling.bsky.social - your smearing of Veganism in this article is shameful. It’s barely a cult, and one person writing once about veganism doesn’t make it a ‘vegan cult’. Where does your anti-vegan bias come from? Complaint lodged with BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Clash fans: there’s an unedited version of Straight To Hell (top-5 song for me) with a *whole extra verse*: www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMu... It’s on the ‘Sound System’ compilation, end of Volume 7: tidal.com/track/220084... Mind>🤯

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah nah. Question: as I have NordVPN, can I use that to watch TdF coverage from other countries? I’m guessing Ireland would offer English-language commentary?

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

When AI writes your product blurb 🤦🏻 …or even worse, if your staff wrote it 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

With fascism on the rise (according to all accepted definitions) - what are your ‘red lines’? What would tip you over into protest, or insurrection? To take up arms? Unless you’re an *actual fascist/Nazi*, or are prepared to do nothing, you will have a tipping point. What is it?

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The only thing that makes an ice ride better is a dram of Kilchoman Sanaig.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote Words about the Dynaplug Micro.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Oh hai 2025. Noice.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

OK wow wasn’t expecting that. Long-time haters of semi-slick tyres René Herse have only gone and made one - with *three* patents filed for features that ‘solve’ the inherent shortcomings of other semi-slicks. www.renehersecycles.com/700x44-corks...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Slow Sad Love Song - The Verlaines One of the best Kiwi songs. The energy going into the last chorus is incredible. I only saw them live once, and the place went nuts. Typical Kiwi understatement ‘’probably see you ‘round” - when it’s about the suicide of a friend of the singer 😢

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Having worked for HWL (parent of Three) for a decade and lived the 3-4-5G dream, and now having to suffer Vodafone coverage, frequently reverting to *EDGE*, I am rather happy about this

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Full 40 Oz of Bacardi in the discarded bottles queue at LCY this morning. Don’t know whether to feel upset or happy for the previous owner.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

@aerlingus.bsky.social hey there. Your flight EI3253 from EDI to DUB is clearly not going to leave on time (noon) as we haven’t even started boarding. Can you ask gate staff to make an announcement as to eta? Why keep everyone guessing?

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

This light, for the money, is stupidly good value. Even if it’s annoying. road.cc/content/revi...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

PSA: *check your car insurance re towbar* This is just horrific: Allianz refusing to cover a crash because the customer had fitted a *removable* towbar that had nothing to do with the crash. And the ombudsman (who countermanded their own staff) is clearly on the take: road.cc/content/news...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Art.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

This is a cracking wee mount for just about any phone on any bike: road.cc/content/revi...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

@nick.clarey.org okwow

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

0.5°C, frozen mud, dry leaves and still. Perfect 🍂🍁☀️

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, in the Bike Trade…

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

This is why your tricycle cost £299 on Amazon. #AIcantBuildYourBicycle

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Much geekery here at Bosch 25 training day. The new ‘Gen 5’ CX motors are lighter, way quieter, less drag and better sealed. Makes me want a new bike 🤔

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s office, on the way to Bosch training in Aviemore 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Another Bosch-powered ebike light upgrade - the Exposure Flex 3300-lumen light, running off a 36-12V converter to avoid the 10% battery life penalty Bosch impose if you connect to the motor front light port. Had my own bike set up with this for three years now. No more charging wee lights!

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

That’s a lot of history down the e-gurgler. Ach well.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Shot of front shift inner liner (guides around the BB), removed from customer’s bike that was very hard to shift small-big chainrings. Black ball is Shimano polymer, worn off the cable and clogged the liner. Then convo where cust thanks me for making his wife’s bike not hate her. Slow clap, #Shimano

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Pleased with this.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

I guess I’ll be posting stuff from here then 😎. Oooh look - loads more characters!

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

Oh man that’s a bummer. www.islabikes.co.uk/pages/cease-...

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments

@kawamataryo.bsky.social hi there! I keep getting 'Error: Invalid identifier or password' using the Chrome extension - ideas?

submitted 491 days ago • 1 comment

In August I did a full @ShimanoMTB CUES drivetrain transplant on this customer’s @BoschGlobal ebike. Since then he’s knocked out a very mucky 1,000 miles. Chain wear? About halfway to the acceptable limit. See him in another 1,000 miles for a new £30 chain. This CUES kit is 👌

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments