Niche cycling/gen-X/pedantry post www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/i-kee...

FAO councillors in Exeter.

Morally indefensible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still none in Exeter.

I'm sure there's some science behind it, but really? What next, big fans to blow the pollution beyond the environment?

Why we oppose painted only lanes on high traffic strategic cycle routes.

We need to just get on with Keir Starmer resigning, so that calls can begin for the next Prime Minister to resign.

One of my local wards makes it into @iandunt.bsky.social's newsletter. This time I was actually happy with the result – FPTP usually works against progressives in Exeter. But anybody with eyes can see we need to change the voting system in the UK. iandunt.substack.com/p/local-elec...

Virtually the entire election campaign in my city has been Lib Dems, Greens and Labour explaining that they're definitely best placed to beat Reform. The sooner we ditch FPTP, the better. There's a big progressive majority in Exeter, but we could still end up with a lot of Reform councillors.

Same as it ever was.

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

A friend of a friend is cycling largely solo across Europe to raise money for the Whizz Kidz charity. Please watch her videos, follow her Instagram (@emiliagoescycling) and if you can, donate to her JustGiving page (link in post 2). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGrB...

Zwolle is my go-to when people in Exeter say, "But we're not Amsterdam." Similar population, university city, rural region. So how come they've got amazing active travel infrastructure, and Devon County Council are actually walking back most of our (tiny) improvements?

Slow handclap for Devon County Council, who are consulting on spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of active travel funding on... making active travel more dangerous in Exeter. road.cc/news/plan-to...

This is absolutely fascinating on English language, and I regret that letters such as 'thorn', 'ash' and 'yogh' have disappeared. substack.com/home/post/p-... (Lifted from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social's newsletter Cultural Capital, which you can, and should, sign up to: jmarriott.substack.com)

My only real takeaway from the Gorton and Denton by-election is that no matter what the result, it's more urgent than ever that we replace our current electoral system. *Especially* if Reform win, in a constituency that seems to be around two-thirds left-leaning.

The latest @originstorypodcast.bsky.social covers 15-minute cities and urbanism. Much recommended. linktr.ee/originstoryp...

Me 🤝 Tom Dumoulin Running the second half of a marathon 11 minutes slower than the first. www.strava.com/activities/1... velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-tr...

This would see my wife getting deported. Fuck Reform and fuck Nigel Farage.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Truth.

74km to go, and the yellow jersey group is down to 13 riders – four Visma, four UAE + five others.

Read this piece, and also download Stubbleman's amazing 1:46:43 The Ventoux Trilogy. This may be the most fun I've ever had writing a cycling piece.

There have been more rider/moto interactions involving pieces of cardboard in this Tour than any I can remember.

There will be good days and bad days. Probably more bad days than good ones.

Hello, Pog's into the green jersey as well.

I find the 'Pogačar is vulnerable in week three' narrative mystifying. He's ridden seven Grand Tours, and won stage 20 in five of them. In the other two, he won stages in the final week. Last year he won the final three stages.

I’m going on a 3-day cycling trip in the Dolomites for a Rouleur piece. I’m worried about the amount of flying I/we do, and have resolved to travel sustainably, wherever possible. So I’m travelling overland from Exeter to Badia, using public transport/cycling. This thread will document my journey.

Ignore this. Updated GC has Frigo down to 27th.

Strange old Giro GC. After 15 stages, Rafał Majka in 23rd place overall is closer in time to the pink jersey than he is to Marco Frigo in 24th place.

Call an ambulance... but not for me

Not surprised he won tbh

Please donate generously to my friend and whisky enthusiast Tom in advance of his #GoodbyeLegsRide on Sunday.

Quick #JournoRequest I'm looking for a photographer based in or near the French Pyrenees/Toulouse/Pau for a couple of @rouleurmagazine.bsky.social shoots. DMs are open.

Quick #JournoRequest for those with experience of combining cycling and rail travel in Europe. I'd like to get from Exeter to Bolzano by train. With a bike. With the option to get off the bike and ride it once I arrive in Bolzano. Without fannying around with bike boxes etc. Is this possible?

At last, the Flanders TV controller has realised we don't need to see the back markers slowly riding up the Paterberg.

Absolutely no need for Van der Poel to ride up the Oude Kruisberg on the front, no-handed, taking his jacket off, and still not using the handlebars to turn the 90 degree bend at the top.

Currently simultaneously holding in my head the two thoughts that Pogačar did an extraordinary, elemental, paradigm-shifting ride today, and also that he made a slight pig's ear of the last 400m.

Lukewarm take from my comfortable armchair: Pidcock should have cracked on after Pogačar's crash.

Absolutely disgusted by Trump and Vance’s behaviour today. Shameful.

This beauty landed today!

This is shaping up into a lovely thread of beautiful sunrise/sunset photos.

🚨Rouleur is hiring 🚨 We have positions for both aspiring and experienced cycling writers ⬇️

Lovely selection of incredible sports photography here. Nice to see a cycling pic make the cut, even if it's not the first time I've seen the Gaston Van De Walle butcher's in a racing shot. www.theguardian.com/sport/galler...

The AI still not quite doing it for me on the research front.

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Cycling sponsors, spotted in the wild. A series. Bluesky version. 1) La Vie Claire.

London followers: please come and watch my taiko drumming group play at Blackheath Halls this Saturday evening. I've attached a quick Venn diagram explainer about what it's like. www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/tai...

If anybody is at a loose end in London on Saturday evening, my taiko group are doing a full show at Blackheath Halls. It will feature massive drums, massive rhythms, massive energy and massive smiles. Tix: www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/tai...

The reason so many people initially kick so hard against this kind of measure is that they're terrified the rest of us will see the tangible benefits. The longer schemes like this are in place, the more the data prove it was the right thing to do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...