This weird and generally unnecessary consultation on raising ebike power and throttles raises many questions that noone is asking. Detectives needed to find why this and why now? 🕵️

Alsatian on the roof of The Castle Tavern, Craigmillar, Edinburgh, 1980s.

Photo © Graham MacIndoe, all rights reserved.

Cab (https://toot.bike/@cabd) #FBPE #NAFO @2_Wheeled_Wolf @ mastodon.social 🇪🇺 The discomfort many people seem to have with not being physically anonymous on the road is truly remarkable. I can't see it all being to do with being unidentifiable for various reasons, symptomatic of a wider anxiety?

Chopper bike riders in New York City, circa 1976

If I ever get my hands on a Sinclair C5, I want it to be in this JPS livery, like Ayrton Senna's here.

Doing your community park a favour because you hate sand. Graham Street Park sand pit water feature/ paddling area cleaned up for better weather.

We ask our kids to be the goddamn adults on the road so drivers can behave like children.
That's the entirety of our approach to road safety.

RIP, Eleanor Coppola, co-director of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, probably the best documentary about the making of a film. Wife of Francis Ford Coppola, mother of Gian-Carlo, Sofia, and Roman. This is a great loss for all of us.

cinephiliabeyond.org/apocalypse-now/

OJ Simpson died on the same day Ford issued a recall on the Bronco

I’m bored of saying it but just remember all this is with the temperature rise of just over one degree when we’re heading towards 3°. And we won’t get net 0 until 2050. Racing towards the cliff.

E-cargo bikes (and bikes generally) are so ridiculously tainted with privilege that I can afford to own outright 2 of them, a Brompton, a couple of Moulton's and 3 other bikes for less than the cost of the average price for a car in the UK: £14K.

You'll be reading a lot about the supposed suffering of UK drivers having to pay higher insurance premiums.

Eg this account theguardian.com/money/2024/apr… which refers to higher costs of repairs.

Why are repair costs going up? I'd say we should consider:

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BrewDogs owner hanging out at Nigel Farage’s 60th is just another on the long list reasons not to drink BrewDog.

A targeting system called ''Where's Daddy?'' is among the strongest prima facie evidence of genocidal intent the world has ever seen.

Remembering the beloved cinematographer Robby Müller— #BOTD in 1940—who forever altered the landscape of cinematography and created some of cinema’s most enduring images, transforming the everyday into the extraordinary from the back roads of Germany to the expanse of the American…

Intriguing.

Amazon billed its 'Just Walk Out' stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped.

How insanely dystopian. gizmodo.com/amazon-reporte…

8 speed is all most people need.

I will die on this hill.

m.pinkbike.com/news/shimano-r…

It’s discombobulating that so much of our culture is based around nature - the Easter bunny, snowy Christmas scenes, summer holidays abroad - the actual reality of that is under threat now. All human experience and culture is about to change - and hardly anyone seems to…

If you can afford a holiday that’s fine. But for those of us who can’t, taking your kids to the beach for a paddle, or swim in a river is now a luxury we’ve had taken away. It may not sound like much to you but for us it was everything. So thanks a lot Tories for literally taking…