I know it's a slight aside of the article, but it makes me proud of my cycle club for getting involved in provision of and training on bikes for asylum seekers, to marginally soften the financial burden of local travel.

For all the public shouting, many of us want to support those in difficulty.

I'm minded of the (Nobel prize winner) Heisenberg's line,

If he were allowed to ask God two questions, they would be, “Why quantum mechanics? And why turbulence?”. He was pretty sure God would be able to answer the first question!

@adamrutherford.bsky.social discusses the concept of the Genetic Isopoint in this article (and one of his books, but I'm not good at recalling which). Doesn't even need to be that far back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

In my case, Su tries to complete to Superprestige! Too much cx! 😁

I know it's not the focus of the post, but it appears that's an eBike.

If possibly the most successful women's rider of the year is happy to pootle about on an eBike, then nobody else should feel any consternation at using one!

It was a brilliant show - so full of joyous energy.

I can just about see myself in that photo! 😃

I recall one of my first exposures to ebikes was on the coast in Flanders. We'd paused to do some navigation and a group of about eight retirees rolled past on a mix of mechanical and ebikes, happily chatting away, a moving social group.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.

I find their behaviour often gives away their youth.
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄

Another one penned by Costello, but with a subtly different anti war approach youtu.be/Res3-YX4X8g?...

I don't know if Strava has anything, but if you can think about how it may work and where the data is available, maybe have a look at Fetcheveryone.com ( @fetcheveryone.bsky.social ).
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.

Need to create a confusing and ambiguous cross over of riding concepts in the form of waxed legs!

I feel this. Emails can end up epic as I try to establish the assumptions and under what conditions they don't hold.

I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂

It's an interesting area of development. A lot of the technology is similar to that of oil and gas wells (drilling, managing fluid flows), but with heated water as the fluid.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.

Doesn't this point to exactly why the Road Danger Reduction Forum ( @chairrdrf.bsky.social ) uses that name.

However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.

That was my perception around Brittany. When they actually needed to be off road, they had a battered old tractor. Otherwise it was predominantly small vans.

I recall looking at this when they first introduced parking fees in Leeds parks.

Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.

As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...

Ongeveer sommige (precies genoeg?)

They were just discussing this on Sporza - last time was 2019 Superprestige Boom, with Arzuffi, Lechner and Cant apparently.

Possibly Casasola or Verdonschot last season, but I'll admit it's not too common.