Feargal McKay
@cycologies.com
Reviewing cycling books and writing about professional cycling's mythological past and the reality behind the stories told and retold by cycling's duff historians
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· Sep 13
Nellie Bly on a Bicycle
An 1889 newspaper article by Nellie Bly
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"To ride a bicycle is one thing. To learn to ride a bicycle is another. Did you ever see a man learning to ride? I saw one, and I laughed so much that I was too weak to eat dinner that evening."
Nellie Bly, the pioneering American journalist, wrote about learning to ride a bicycle in 1889.
Nellie Bly, the pioneering American journalist, wrote about learning to ride a bicycle in 1889.
Jonathan Vaughters is green with envy. Green. And fuming.
Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff to sell stake at $6bn valuation on.ft.com/3JuwPVP
Mercedes F1 chief Toto Wolff to sell stake at $6bn valuation
Team principal and co-owner in advanced talks over deal that would set record valuation for an F1 team
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Jonathan Vaughters is green with envy. Green. And fuming.
Is it really a decade and a half since betting was last presented as the bogeyman of cycling? Time flies!
This story opened Cav's first chamois memoir and not a single cycling hack even noticed it. In any other sport a really good scandal would have been woven from this admission.
This story opened Cav's first chamois memoir and not a single cycling hack even noticed it. In any other sport a really good scandal would have been woven from this admission.
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Is it really a decade and a half since betting was last presented as the bogeyman of cycling? Time flies!
This story opened Cav's first chamois memoir and not a single cycling hack even noticed it. In any other sport a really good scandal would have been woven from this admission.
This story opened Cav's first chamois memoir and not a single cycling hack even noticed it. In any other sport a really good scandal would have been woven from this admission.
With some hacks getting tired of telling us how much Pogačar is ruining cycling + trying to resurrect the hobgoblin of sports betting (it's become a story in American sports lately) + trying to tell us again betting is ruining cycling, a more intelligent + less hyperbolic take on sports betting:
Is Gambling Really Threatening the Integrity of Sports?
After a recent N.B.A. scandal, more writers and pundits have come out against legalized betting. But the case that they’re making is weaker than it appears.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
With some hacks getting tired of telling us how much Pogačar is ruining cycling + trying to resurrect the hobgoblin of sports betting (it's become a story in American sports lately) + trying to tell us again betting is ruining cycling, a more intelligent + less hyperbolic take on sports betting:
Everybody loves Roland.
But remember: the correct number of times to cite Barthes is always n minus one.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
But remember: the correct number of times to cite Barthes is always n minus one.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Everybody loves Roland.
But remember: the correct number of times to cite Barthes is always n minus one.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
But remember: the correct number of times to cite Barthes is always n minus one.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they are the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they are the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."
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But they didn’t have the cool green lasers
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
But they didn’t have the cool green lasers
Renault - sponsors of a cycling team and an F1 team - took cycling into the F1 era more then 40 years ago, testing bikes in the company's wind tunnel.
Cycling hacks can't remember nothing.
Cycling hacks can't remember nothing.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Renault - sponsors of a cycling team and an F1 team - took cycling into the F1 era more then 40 years ago, testing bikes in the company's wind tunnel.
Cycling hacks can't remember nothing.
Cycling hacks can't remember nothing.
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Pozzato showing as much knowledge of race organisers' financing model as the average cycling fan.
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
🇮🇹 Pozzato champions paid ticketing model for cycling’s financial survival 💰
🗣️ "To go and see a non-league football match you also pay €15, so why can't you pay something to see the best cyclists in the world?"
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pozz...
📸 Cor Vos
🗣️ "To go and see a non-league football match you also pay €15, so why can't you pay something to see the best cyclists in the world?"
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pozz...
📸 Cor Vos
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pozzato showing as much knowledge of race organisers' financing model as the average cycling fan.
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🇧🇪 Gent-Wevelgem officially renamed 'In Flanders Fields - From Middelkerke to Wevelgem' for 2026
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/gent...
📸 Harry Talbot
📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/gent...
📸 Harry Talbot
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
After dumping Astana and then Israel-Premier Tech, who should Premier Tech jump into bed with next?
With some sponsors, it's like watching Deirdre and Ken in Coronation Street as they work their way through the whole peloton...
With some sponsors, it's like watching Deirdre and Ken in Coronation Street as they work their way through the whole peloton...
‘Meerdere ploegen, waaronder Alpecin-Deceuninck, willen Premier-Tech binnenhalen als co-sponsor’
‘Meerdere ploegen, waaronder Alpecin-Deceuninck, willen Premier-Tech binnenhalen als co-sponsor’
Meerdere World- en ProTeams zijn na het aangekondigde afscheid van Premier Tech bij Israel Premier-Tech in gang geschoten om het Canadese bedrijf aan zich te binden. Wielerjournalist Daniel Benson weet onder meer te melden dat het om onder meer Ineos Grenadiers en Alpecin-Deceuninck gaat.Volgens
www.wielerflits.nl
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
After dumping Astana and then Israel-Premier Tech, who should Premier Tech jump into bed with next?
With some sponsors, it's like watching Deirdre and Ken in Coronation Street as they work their way through the whole peloton...
With some sponsors, it's like watching Deirdre and Ken in Coronation Street as they work their way through the whole peloton...
Are the principles Of Lamarr and Antheil's patent really used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today?
www.americanscientist.org/article/rand...
www.americanscientist.org/article/rand...
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Are the principles Of Lamarr and Antheil's patent really used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today?
www.americanscientist.org/article/rand...
www.americanscientist.org/article/rand...
Pozzato showing as much knowledge of race organisers' financing model as the average cycling fan.
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
🇮🇹 Pozzato champions paid ticketing model for cycling’s financial survival 💰
🗣️ "To go and see a non-league football match you also pay €15, so why can't you pay something to see the best cyclists in the world?"
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pozz...
📸 Cor Vos
🗣️ "To go and see a non-league football match you also pay €15, so why can't you pay something to see the best cyclists in the world?"
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pozz...
📸 Cor Vos
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Pozzato showing as much knowledge of race organisers' financing model as the average cycling fan.
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
Why are people struggling to understand that ASO, RCS, Flanders Classics, World Championship organisers and other race organisers all do this already and have been doing it for a long time now?
I'm not nostalgic for the past. I just find it easier to cope with than the present.
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm not nostalgic for the past. I just find it easier to cope with than the present.
Frisky Victorians! The Horrible Histories bits the BBC producers blushed at and cut?
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Frisky Victorians! The Horrible Histories bits the BBC producers blushed at and cut?
Hit the ground running? Froome is back!
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Hit the ground running? Froome is back!
"We considered offering you an opt-out from us taking your content and presenting in on our platform and then we thought ... fuck you, loser!"
We considered creating an "opt-out" from Pinksky, but it would go against ATProto's core nature. Some people enjoy seeing photos, others videos or text. Fragmenting it would be like returning to the “silos” that traditional social media have built. It’s a very tough discussion.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"We considered offering you an opt-out from us taking your content and presenting in on our platform and then we thought ... fuck you, loser!"
"We threw over Astana for this train wreck? What the hell were we thinking?!?"
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"We threw over Astana for this train wreck? What the hell were we thinking?!?"
The Tour de France - reaching the parts of France other bike races don't reach.
Except for those curiously large gaps.
What the hell have those people done to offend the Tour's organisers?
Except for those curiously large gaps.
What the hell have those people done to offend the Tour's organisers?
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Tour de France - reaching the parts of France other bike races don't reach.
Except for those curiously large gaps.
What the hell have those people done to offend the Tour's organisers?
Except for those curiously large gaps.
What the hell have those people done to offend the Tour's organisers?
Usually people go to rebab before writing the latest volume of their autobiographies in which they disclose their cocaine addiction and declare themselves cured and clean.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Usually people go to rebab before writing the latest volume of their autobiographies in which they disclose their cocaine addiction and declare themselves cured and clean.
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#SubTweet
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Yeah, I’ve had it set to “warn” for ages, mostly to see what that label catches, and I think I’ve only seen it come up twice? It really is not a language filter or secretly hiding your posts
November 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Yeah, I’ve had it set to “warn” for ages, mostly to see what that label catches, and I think I’ve only seen it come up twice? It really is not a language filter or secretly hiding your posts
If you've totally been turned off Netflix's The Diplomat by the sight of Rory Kinnear's flabby white arse pounding away, you could slow things down with its BBC version, The Ambassador in which (the now late) Pauline Collins plays the British ambassador to Ireland. It's on streaming + Youtube.
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you've totally been turned off Netflix's The Diplomat by the sight of Rory Kinnear's flabby white arse pounding away, you could slow things down with its BBC version, The Ambassador in which (the now late) Pauline Collins plays the British ambassador to Ireland. It's on streaming + Youtube.
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And there was me thinking that after the the protection of children codes in the U.K came into force, I would no longer have to see coddle in my feed.
Going to have to look up the criteria for a super complaint. This will not stand.
Going to have to look up the criteria for a super complaint. This will not stand.
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
And there was me thinking that after the the protection of children codes in the U.K came into force, I would no longer have to see coddle in my feed.
Going to have to look up the criteria for a super complaint. This will not stand.
Going to have to look up the criteria for a super complaint. This will not stand.
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Piracy used to be a British industry. The decline of a skilled and motivated workforce since the 17th Century has resulted in opportunities for those from developing nations like Somalia... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...
Verifying image of fireball at Russian power plant 450 miles from Ukraine
Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Piracy used to be a British industry. The decline of a skilled and motivated workforce since the 17th Century has resulted in opportunities for those from developing nations like Somalia... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...