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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍

@blythegoescycling.bsky.social

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Retired bicycle mechanic, OU student, micro adventurer on bicycles, just a human trying to get around without wrecking the planet. Known to walk, take public transit and drive an EV. No ✈️. Follow me on ko-fi.com/BlytheGoesCycling

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 5h

Marks and Spencer’s 45% milk chocolate is REALLY good, like fantastically good. It hits that perfect spot between dark chocolate and milk chocolate

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 5h

If you want hills, and frankly i find that very weird, then come to Scotland. We have plenty. In all directions. To and from everything.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 11h

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I call sprouts 'fart bombs' I think bsky will allow that one

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 11h

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 11h

I so miss my Pashley Princess Sovereign. I was contemplating going out on my bike but that means getting changed from current skirt etc.
My Pashley had a skirt guard and a fully enclosed chain. It was bliss just being able to head out without even thinking about what I was wearing.

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 11h

Even weirder though...my husband's favourite veg are Brussel Sprouts

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, current dog. But sadly departed (aged 15) Reg the Staffie would actually look longingly and drool if he caught you prepping them

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, and my dog goes nuts for his 'little trees' too

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 13h

Very Stockbridge at least

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 13h

New bike day! No, not for me. I came out of M&S and there was just the happiest looking young man coming out of Halfords with his Dad. Passed him on the shared path on the way home and he was singing. Bless.

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 1d

Improved storage option for the Diverge with a Hornet Clug. Now I can open the wall cupboards again!

Bicycle stored upright on its rear wheel by pushing the front wheel into a wall mounted clug which grips around the tyre. Tyres must remain inflated to prevent it falling

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

Something deeply satisfying about this. The operators got some skills too. @thewaroncars.bsky.social

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2d

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

I’m wearing shorts, it’s October, it’s Scotland. This is very far from normal

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

Come on Karl, you should know by now, it’s never been the driver’s fault/choice/responsibility

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

@bsky.app it is really annoying that once i choose to play ONE video the app then auto plays every single other video until I close it.

I have autoplay set to off

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

The national misunderstanding of the words ‘public service’, especially amongst those in public office, is quite astonishing

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

Or even a count of drivers running red lights on ones without cameras

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

It is also worth noting that, in Edinburgh, the Western Approach Road has a limit of 1.5T excluding buses.

In 2018 a FOI request was submitted to see how many prosecutions were carried out (we suspect none)

Police Scotland refused to answer

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/driv...

Drivers stopped/ prosecuted for exceeding 1.5 ton weight limit on Edinburghs West Approach Road - a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland

The West (or Western) Approach Road in Edinburgh has a 1.5 ton weight limit (except for buses). For the past 3 years please document (per month) how many drivers have been:- - Stopped for exceeding ...

www.whatdotheyknow.com

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how many younger tradespeople are within the law?

How many of them don’t realise?

But then of course, we would need to see enforcement, something sorely lacking in all aspects of vehicles and licenses and the use thereof

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

Government snuck in a change to licences at one point to cope with new electric vehicles, although the cars just kept getting bigger and so that limit is now being tested. It is about time the Government took a stand against the car manufacturers (won’t happen)

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...

Major new driving licence rules introduced for electric cars

An updated weight restriction for category B driving licences has been introduced by the Government on 10 June.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 2d

Talking of car bloat…

It’s worth remembering this is the limit in weight, which includes passengers and luggage btw, for UK license holder who qualified in or after 1997

Some UK drivers may already be braking the law

www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...

Very weight’s maximum for UK car licence issued after 1 January 1997; petrol, diesel and hybrid vehicles is 3500kg and for all zero emission electric vehicles its 4250kg

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 3d

My range is 75miles, from central Scotland to anywhere is multiple charges

Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 3d

Driver attitude

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 3d

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