That's incredibly disappointing and rather spineless. Trans rights are human rights.

100% this! I'm going to start calling those two-wheeled electric vehicles with throttles that don't require pedalling "e-motos" too. Hopefully we can shift the narrative => e-bikes are NOT a problem in Toronto's bike lanes, e-motos are the problem. #BikeTO #bikesky

FOR SALE - the OH has decided to sell his electric G Line. He has the small Forest Green one and he has been out on it once for less than two miles. Ongoing problems with his knee force an end to any cycling ambitions for the foreseeable. £3000 no offers, it is mint condition DM me

As is so often the case, this article on motoring taxes misses the fact that drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles pay NOWHERE NEAR what they cost us. Start there. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

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No light bulb ever persuaded someone to kill themselves.

Doing God's work on dog walks.

Well Edmund "failed Think Bike campaign" King of the AA doesn't like it so it must be a good idea. If you look at the detail, EVs users still pay less, but EVs do actually cause congestion, and in a place which is bursting with public transport. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pfft. My house is on a traffic free cycle route linking NCN14 (a mile away) and NCN7 which could take me all the way to the Cumbrian coast. 14 links to NCN7, NCN1, and NCN10. Why is my house not on this list? By this measurement, it's a cyclist's perfect house 😀 www.theguardian.com/money/galler...

I agree with a pay per mile driving charge for EVs. But a key fact that many are missing is that fuel duty has been frozen since 2010 and petrol is cheaper now than 2 decades ago. It's about time conventional car drivers actually started paying a fair share too. www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

“In some areas reliability was up 300% post electrification. We’re here to get passengers and freight where they need to go, and that’s why we have electric railways: they’re more reliable, cheaper to run, cheaper overall even with higher capital costs. But most passengers don’t understand this.”

I’m selling my Riese & Muller Cruiser 2 Mixte Vario. It’s a lovely bike, I’m just not using it. Full specs in pics below. It’s 2 years old and done 2600 miles. Just been serviced. Tyneside. Niche so please share! www.facebook.com/share/1AGbtx... If you’re not on FB, can share more via DM.

Planet: am too hot now really much too hot stop pls tnx China: uh yes but no but infrastructural hegemony Trump: something something animals IQ test drug boats asylum Labour: let’s tax EVs it seems like the perfect time Ecosystems: I might just retire

Someone just shared this with me: 1967, 3,000 publicans marching against introducing breath tests for drivers. Barbara Castle MP got this introduced and speed limits and seatbelts as mInister for transport, and faced the standard opposition.

Which one is more English?

I see some are losing their shit over the suggestion of per mile charging for EVs, and the remote possibility of tracking mileage. My EV sends trip data to Peugeot and the app I have after every drive. It would be so easy to push that on to govt. If you don't want to be tracked then ride a bike

A good start

Given petrol is now cheaper than it was 20 years ago, I wonder how Reeves could "offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars"? #Reeves #FuelEscalator

Unless they're trans women, then @cyclinguk.bsky.social doesn't give a shit about them.

Ooo. New mini series celebrating Thunderbirds at 60 is on ITVX from today as well as itv retro YouTube channel. www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/th...

Electric cars are an attractive solution because they basically allow somebody else to fix it & most people to carry on largely as they were before. The problem is that they still pollute (albeit less), still require massive amounts of land, still endanger other road users, etc. We need fewer cars.

New diagram for @cyclinguk.bsky.social

I bought an EV last month cos I didn't want to burn any more oil. It is stupidly cheap to run even without the cheap overnight tariffs, it only costs about 4.5p per mile in leccy. So in the wider context this is good news, although it needs to hit ICE cars too www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Anyone who is more concerned about bikes on pavements than cars on the road is deeply unserious about pedestrian safety.

I wonder which special friend I could give one of these to...

Radio station jocks reading out crash after crash on the M50, N7, etc. Then in their next slot a phone-in competition where motorists are on their phones while driving. Every person who phoned in was driving. Perhaps radio stations could not accept calls from people driving & not normalise it.

Once again Starmer and Labour show that they cannot be trusted with the environment.

Trying to explain why car-dependency planning is utterly bad and is the main reason why their 1950s society wet dream won't come back to a right-wing carbrain is truly like trying to explain the concept of Norway to a dog.

A section of National Cycle Network Route 47 south of Tumble in Carmarthenshire has disappeared overnight due to landslide ⚠️ Please do not approach the site as it is extremely dangerous and unstable ⚠️

1985. Still waiting.

It's been a decade since we had to say goodbye to our dog and I often still miss him. Not on this night though. He used to be scared witless by fireworks. We should at least ban noisy fireworks apart from organised displays.

The curse of Bullseye strikes again.

20 weeks in jail for murdering someone by driving on the wrong side of the road, and lying about why 20 weeks is all your life is worth in this country on our roads 20 weeks www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Showing that you can't trust racing cyclists either, the local club's racing coordinator wanted the lane ripping out and replacing with 20 limit, that wouldn't protect ppl cycling to the schools and college on the route. Shame on them. road.cc/content/news...

Fireworks? No thanks. We prefer our sky art silent and extra magical.. ✨

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️ …and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

It is great to see that positive politics has won in the USA, from New York to California. Let's hope this is the start of that country getting back to being a sane and civilised society again.

Saving the planet is not optional. This would be about the stupidest nothing labour could do. We need to be pushing harder on environmentally friendly actions. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s indicative of how far our politics and media are captives of the roads & oil lobbies that they speculate endlessly about non-starters like wealth tax and “exit charges” but are positively Trappist when it comes to road fuel duty.

Absolute scenes in Oxfordshire. LABOUR voting WITH TORIES and the car brained IOA to remove a traffic intervention designed to speed up buses, and was recommended by 74% in the citizens assembly THEY ASKED FOR, AND that has already been praised by the BUS companies, after SIX days.

Rather less surprisingly than I’d have liked, it turned out that the Green Party voter spouted the anti-cycling views and the guy who says he’s going to vote Reform next election supported cycling.

I think a bigger shock will be if Reeves and Labour increases fuel duty. It's the new taboo. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A hero. An absolute hero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So lets do it, and at the same time introduce a congestion charge for cars to encourage people to leave cars at home to free up space for better bus services. Oxford has done it, why can't Tyneside? www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

'personally I do all my shopping at the big super store outside the ring road, this is why I can with expertise speak to the fact that we need to support independent businesses in our city, by making a point for protecting parking at the superstore at the edge of the city.'

Net Zero is a lot cheaper to achieve than the fossil fuel backed Reform lot and MSM would have you believe.

Good review. I have a IGSport BCS300 which is similar minus the touch screen. I do have Coospoo sensors. These newer brands definitely put up very good competition for the likes of Garmin and Wahoo etc. And as Will says provide good service and excellent value for money. ✅

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business" It's £10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...

How many Lidls are there in London? Cycling UK member Catriona knows, after visiting all 194 by cycling 550km in six days. 🗣️ “There was joy in exploring the contrasting roads across the city... and the Woolwich Ferry crossing was a delight.” Read her story: cyclinguk.org/lidl-adventure

More dirty tricks from the immoral fossil fuel industry. This time funding climate denial across Latin America. And taxpayers subsidise these monstrosities. Time to stop throwing money at them. They're like drug dealers on a planetry scale. www.theguardian.com/environment/...