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Ride the North jerseys continue to be spotted around the world of cycling. Today it's Sri Lanka!! Huge thanks to Doris and Simon for the picture from what looks like an amazing gravel riding adventure ...and for kindly coordinating with RtN 2019 purple jerseys!

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A 6ft Pictish stone engraved with an axe-wielding figure was ploughed up by farmer Kevin Alston at Barflat, near Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, #OTD in 1978. ‘Rhynie Man’ is believed to date from the 5/6thC.

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Aberdeen has recently had a campaign to call out the enemy within for moaning. Will any of those voices be turning their attention to racism? * I am a white man not a victim ...but I'm not a blind man and it's become horribly visible in our city

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Spring. Duthie Park, Aberdeen

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Cycling is always a great escape. I went for several hours without hearing 'his' name!

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A spring day on the gravel bike on magnificent Deeside

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Aberdeen

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This is awful news. Seems a pretty shameful attempt to 'protect' such an important piece of heritage. Good luck to the community in Aberlemno in efforts to keep the stone in it's home and to have it cared for properly @leftpeggers.bsky.social

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Friday Photo: RtN 2024, Arbroath Harbour

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I always wondered if Sunderland played a part in the AFC stadium saga. The cost/timeline is sobering: Planning approved Nov 95. £15m contract signed. 42,000 seat stadium complete in summer 97. Extended to 49,000 in 2000. Total final cost = £23m* *£54m at 2025 prices. For 2.5 x capacity we need

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It would be great to see the city invest in a sporting event that could bring visitors 😲😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Teensy weensy bit of politics ... Today all 4 other members of my household became citizens of Ireland 🇮🇪 They can all now live and work in any one of 27 countries as they wish. I'll be staying in the UK enjoying the special relationship we prioritised our American cousins!

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Zoe, Janet and Sally (along with friend in saltire jersey) are regular visitors to RtN from Edinburgh. However, this time settling for a visit to Almuñécar in the Spanish Province of Granada ...or more specifically to a summit 19km uphill from the Costa Tropicale! Thanks for the great picture!

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Ride the North spotted in Tenerife! The now retro 'red/tartan' 2017 jersey sported by Derek Smith of cafe ride on the South coast near El Médano. Thanks Derek! 🚴😎

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Replicated childhood walk to school this morning. 40 years on!!

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Omloop of Fetteresso ...with a wrong turn!

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What a beautiful day in Aberdeen. There's a chap sunbathing 'taps aff' immediately behind where I'm taking my pic!

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Friday Photo: RtN 2024, Brechin Events only happen because kind people volunteer to get involved ...thanks to the Friends of Anchor team for their fantastic support to all riders. 🚴🧑‍🤝‍🧑⚓🌷

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Aberdeeenshire blaming the elderly for Council finances is a gift to the Evening Express and it's quest for comments on Facebook!!

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With cycling's classic season about to start, a note of regret that Scotland's direct ferry to Belgium has now been gone 15 years!! A number of headlines in recent years about resurrection ...but it's not happened

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The fact this makes bbc news in the south of England is quite enlightening! 👀 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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When you are planning a route through Spain and trying not to be influenced by potential cheap joke pics for social media ...

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The upshot of this in my household has been root and branch rip-up of all tele/telecommunications contacts and subscriptions. Vodaphone broadband, Giffgaff mobile, movie apps are in the bin ...and all because it's omloop het nieuwsblad on Saturday

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Spring declared in Aberdeen! 🪻☀️

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Out for walk in Torry 🌉

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Union Street, Aberdeen Visuals published, Spring 2015 Construction (of something similar) 10 years on

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Pubs of Scotland: Radar's in Aberdeen, 1980s. American diner-style bar on Belmont Street. Pic: Press & Journal

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Hadn't seen the sun for a while. A visit to the Moray Coast has come to the rescue

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Friday Photo: RtN 2024, On the Road! 🚴‍♀️🤟

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We (Aberdeen) are building Union St cycle lanes in an area where vast majority of 2-wheeler (mostly food delivery) are presumably not allowed to use them due to riding bikes that are not classified as e-bikes. I'm curious to see what happens/what expections are/what research sits behind it all

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Presumably they looked at Scotland and decided to tweak the policy and go for £1 rather than free www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Marking (only) 50 years since state schools in the UK switched to teaching in metric ...this year's RtN will be measured in km! 😲 I think I flirted with this for an event that was cancelled during the pandemic. This time no U-turn.

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