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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 8h

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

skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 8h

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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 8h

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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 15h

@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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Blythe Goes Cycling 🚴‍♂️🚏🚍 @blythegoescycling.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 1d

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

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

Driver attitude

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

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

I drive an original leaf. I don’t see any requirement for a more powerful motor, it goes quite well enough even in Eco mode. Range, yes that can be an issue for long journeys but these don’t really happen for most people often, and tbh, in that case i get a train

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

In case anyone is wondering, it's not a three peg day but a four peg day in Fife. I have retrieved my bedding from the wrong end of the garden twice already.

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

@cyclinguk.bsky.social magazine letters, a woman is asking for advice re saddle sores, the Dr replies with absolutely NO mention of ensuring that the saddle is wide enough to support the sit bones rather than the squishy bits. Discomfort is not necessary or something to get used to, its fixable.

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

Or if you’re a disabled 5ft 2” cyclist with any bike

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

This is why you shouldn’t charge anything overnight or out of sight

StuInNorway @stuinnorway.bsky.social · 2d

When you start to wonder if you "are" smelling a burning smell or are imagining it, then find this.... 😱

Small basic powerbank that has short-circuited (possibly it was the cable caused it) and begun to smoulder and stink...

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

I am

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

What i said was they need to raise their own profile in the same way. They don’t need to emulate Zack, they should be themselves, but they do need to get more media attention and build a similar momentum

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

Yes this is a common problem. With many trains only taking two bicycles they go very quickly. In Scotland, you don’t always need to book and it’s first come first served. The problem with this is families being split over two or more trains, often hours apart, with instances of different days even

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

I know. My point is exactly that. The momentum he is generating needs to be mirrored by the Scottish Greens.

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

Yesterday I drove to the station, left my car taking a space for 14hours, did my return intercity train, drove home.

Until yesterday, and as a direct consequence of BTPs announcement, I would have cycled.

One more car on the road, one less parking space. Multiply this out across the UK, daily

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

For those not old enough to remember have a look at this

www.bloodandcustard.com/br-1-mlv.html

BloodandCustard - Motor Luggage Vans (MLV)

www.bloodandcustard.com

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

Lets be honest, taking a bicycle on a train is an absolute pain in the arse, even folding ones. It’s difficult to get them on and off, the storage is extremely poor, and buying tickets is way too complicated.

It didn’t need to be this way, that used to put them in a guards van. Wide doors, simple

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