Bicycle-Riding Motorist
@grahamecooper.com
Dr Grahame Cooper.
Grandad, retired Prof, naturist. I walk, I cycle, I drive, I use public transport.
Hitchens's razor applies.
Grandad, retired Prof, naturist. I walk, I cycle, I drive, I use public transport.
Hitchens's razor applies.
Remember to wear your hi-viz, folks, so that you won't be hit by a bus driver ... Oh ... www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2560646...
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Remember to wear your hi-viz, folks, so that you won't be hit by a bus driver ... Oh ... www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2560646...
Last year, I did a (poor) recording of a song I wrote about naked cycling. This summer, Col & Sadie (@freewilders.bsky.social) gave me the massive honour of singing it as part of their handfasting. I've now recorded a new, extended, better? version. Listen here:
freemusicarchive.org/music/graham...
freemusicarchive.org/music/graham...
Grahame Cooper - Yes You Can (long version) - Free Music Archive
freemusicarchive.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Last year, I did a (poor) recording of a song I wrote about naked cycling. This summer, Col & Sadie (@freewilders.bsky.social) gave me the massive honour of singing it as part of their handfasting. I've now recorded a new, extended, better? version. Listen here:
freemusicarchive.org/music/graham...
freemusicarchive.org/music/graham...
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. That's why I've signed the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics. Will you join me? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-sha...
Stop shady crypto cash flooding our politics
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. That's why I've signed the petition to stop s...
act.38degrees.org.uk
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK just opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. That's why I've signed the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics. Will you join me? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-sha...
Only five of us for the 51st #BoltonCriticalMass ride last night, but the weather stayed fine and we had a good ride.
November 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Only five of us for the 51st #BoltonCriticalMass ride last night, but the weather stayed fine and we had a good ride.
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Why vote Reform when it means paying for healthcare?
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September 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Share the hell out of this!
Less than 24 hours until our Halloween #BoltonCriticalMass ride. Come down to Bolton town centre for a spooky, slow ride to a ghostly playlist, and dress up if you wish.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Less than 24 hours until our Halloween #BoltonCriticalMass ride. Come down to Bolton town centre for a spooky, slow ride to a ghostly playlist, and dress up if you wish.
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
The next Bolton Active Travel Forum is scheduled for 12th of November.
www.facebook.com/events/64573...
www.facebook.com/events/64573...
Bolton Active Travel Forum November Meeting
Event by Bolton Active Travel Forum on Wednesday, November 12 2025
www.facebook.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The next Bolton Active Travel Forum is scheduled for 12th of November.
www.facebook.com/events/64573...
www.facebook.com/events/64573...
This podcast contains nothing that we (I) haven't already repeated ad nauseum to our council in the Active Travel Forum, but it is said in a way that really brings home how utterly sh1t our urban environment is in Bolton. Link is in the post, and lasts about 15 minutes.
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
#2541 Countering Car Culture - Bike Talk
Bike tech: Dynamo lights and pocket compressors (0:19). Charlie’s News (4:21). Two authors on what we’ve lost by making kids car dependent: author of A Love Letter to Suburbia Diane Alisa interviews c...
biketalk.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This podcast contains nothing that we (I) haven't already repeated ad nauseum to our council in the Active Travel Forum, but it is said in a way that really brings home how utterly sh1t our urban environment is in Bolton. Link is in the post, and lasts about 15 minutes.
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
biketalk.org/2025/10/2541...
BL66AAF. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this. The driver cut me up when changing lanes unnecessarily. (Both lanes are ahead-only.) I was surprised to see only a warning letter for this because ...
October 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
BL66AAF. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this. The driver cut me up when changing lanes unnecessarily. (Both lanes are ahead-only.) I was surprised to see only a warning letter for this because ...
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Hit someone with a car inside the workplace and a Health & Safety investigation is launched, to ensure it doesn’t happen again
Hit someone with a car in the street…
<tumbleweed>…
“Just a little whoopsie, just something that ‘happens’, nothing we can do to prevent it” 🙄
Hit someone with a car in the street…
<tumbleweed>…
“Just a little whoopsie, just something that ‘happens’, nothing we can do to prevent it” 🙄
Health and Safety investigation launched after man injured within car showroom
A man is currently in 'serious condition' in hospital after being struck by a vehicle within Arnold Clark's Kia garage showroom on Seafield Road The incident took place around 3pm on Tuesday October 14. The man was…
A man is currently in 'serious condition' in hospital after being struck by a vehicle within Arnold Clark's Kia garage showroom on Seafield Road The incident took place around 3pm on Tuesday October 14. The man was…
Health and Safety investigation launched after man injured within car showroom
A man is currently in 'serious condition' in hospital after being struck by a vehicle within Arnold Clark's Kia garage showroom on Seafield Road The incident took place around 3pm on Tuesday October 14. The man was taken by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where staff describe his condition as serious. The Health and Safety Executive have been informed and their enquiries into the incident are continuing…
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hit someone with a car inside the workplace and a Health & Safety investigation is launched, to ensure it doesn’t happen again
Hit someone with a car in the street…
<tumbleweed>…
“Just a little whoopsie, just something that ‘happens’, nothing we can do to prevent it” 🙄
Hit someone with a car in the street…
<tumbleweed>…
“Just a little whoopsie, just something that ‘happens’, nothing we can do to prevent it” 🙄
YX69NTD. Annoyed that I didn't get round to submitting this one to @lancspolice.bsky.social . Overtaking too close, at speed, over a double white line, forcing an oncoming driver to swerve onto the verge. Also a repeat offender (2nd clip) - warning letter sent by @gmpolice.bsky.social back in May.
October 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
YX69NTD. Annoyed that I didn't get round to submitting this one to @lancspolice.bsky.social . Overtaking too close, at speed, over a double white line, forcing an oncoming driver to swerve onto the verge. Also a repeat offender (2nd clip) - warning letter sent by @gmpolice.bsky.social back in May.
MA63JFU. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this one. Given the huge amount of space available in the lane, I can only conclude that this was a deliberate close pass. If so, the warning letter is not educational, because the driver already knows they are doing wrong. 1/2
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
MA63JFU. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this one. Given the huge amount of space available in the lane, I can only conclude that this was a deliberate close pass. If so, the warning letter is not educational, because the driver already knows they are doing wrong. 1/2
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This is absolutely bizarre. These LTNs, which from the start always had majority local support, & which were paid for by TfL, are now uncontroversial in practice. Removal of £2million OBGR improvements would be an unprecedented act of social vandalism & financial waste. Shameful stuff.
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
This is absolutely bizarre. These LTNs, which from the start always had majority local support, & which were paid for by TfL, are now uncontroversial in practice. Removal of £2million OBGR improvements would be an unprecedented act of social vandalism & financial waste. Shameful stuff.
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Excellent thread picking apart baseless accusations and misinformation.
In a modern world, it's very good for children to learn about and understand different faith systems and beliefs.
Of course the close minded racist idiots don't want that, they just want to spread fear and suspicion.
Excellent thread picking apart baseless accusations and misinformation.
In a modern world, it's very good for children to learn about and understand different faith systems and beliefs.
Of course the close minded racist idiots don't want that, they just want to spread fear and suspicion.
🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨
😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
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😱Sounds outrageous?
You know the drill…
If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some
1/25
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Excellent thread picking apart baseless accusations and misinformation.
In a modern world, it's very good for children to learn about and understand different faith systems and beliefs.
Of course the close minded racist idiots don't want that, they just want to spread fear and suspicion.
Excellent thread picking apart baseless accusations and misinformation.
In a modern world, it's very good for children to learn about and understand different faith systems and beliefs.
Of course the close minded racist idiots don't want that, they just want to spread fear and suspicion.
Lancashire police have served a Notice of Intended Prosecution to the registered keeper of this truck, which was going very fast (probably about 50mph) when the driver overtook me far too closely.
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Lancashire police have served a Notice of Intended Prosecution to the registered keeper of this truck, which was going very fast (probably about 50mph) when the driver overtook me far too closely.
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October 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Avec de nouveaux arbres, de la nature et plus de place pour les piétons, Paris change !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
La rue Charles-Baudelaire dans le 12ᵉ et la rue du Docteur-Magnan dans le 13ᵉ en sont de beaux exemples !
MC74NTT. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this close pass. We need something better than just sending letters one driver at a time; the problem is endemic.
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
MC74NTT. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this close pass. We need something better than just sending letters one driver at a time; the problem is endemic.
MD71JWF. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this. There was nothing to prevent this driver from leaving 1.5 metres gap when overtaking instead of the 0.8 metres that they gave.
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
MD71JWF. Warning letter from @gmpolice.bsky.social for this. There was nothing to prevent this driver from leaving 1.5 metres gap when overtaking instead of the 0.8 metres that they gave.
PE13LSK. @gmpolice.bsky.social sent a warning letter to Stagecoach bus company for this. This bus driver passed far too close (~1 metre) at speed (~37mph) on Wednesday. The crap bit of paint @boltoncouncil.bsky.social put on the road is irrelevant, but shouldn't be on a 40mph road.
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
PE13LSK. @gmpolice.bsky.social sent a warning letter to Stagecoach bus company for this. This bus driver passed far too close (~1 metre) at speed (~37mph) on Wednesday. The crap bit of paint @boltoncouncil.bsky.social put on the road is irrelevant, but shouldn't be on a 40mph road.
Good to see that @gmpolice.bsky.social sent a warning letter to this obnoxious driver that I encountered on Wednesday. He took exception to my safety flag (70cm) and abused the horn, then demonstrated his irrational, visceral hatred of people who ride bicycles. People like 5this are a danger to all.
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Good to see that @gmpolice.bsky.social sent a warning letter to this obnoxious driver that I encountered on Wednesday. He took exception to my safety flag (70cm) and abused the horn, then demonstrated his irrational, visceral hatred of people who ride bicycles. People like 5this are a danger to all.
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I often think about how so many cities are absolutely AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with so many streets & squares with no cars, or at most “tamed” cars.”
October 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I often think about how so many cities are absolutely AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with so many streets & squares with no cars, or at most “tamed” cars.”
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Spain's wholesale electricity prices were 32% lower than the European average in the first half of 2025 -- thanks to wind and solar reducing the influence of costly fossil fuels on prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the elec...
ember-energy.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Spain's wholesale electricity prices were 32% lower than the European average in the first half of 2025 -- thanks to wind and solar reducing the influence of costly fossil fuels on prices. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Four weeks until the #BoltonCriticalMass highlight of the year: the Halloween Ride. And this year it's actually on Halloween. Get some spooky lights on your bike (optional), dress up (optional), and come down to enjoy the fun. The more the merrier.
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
October 31st 2025
The Halloween Ride Usually the most fun ride of the season. A chance to dress up yourself and your bike and ride along to a spooky playlist. As the clocks will go back the weekend before, this…
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Four weeks until the #BoltonCriticalMass highlight of the year: the Halloween Ride. And this year it's actually on Halloween. Get some spooky lights on your bike (optional), dress up (optional), and come down to enjoy the fun. The more the merrier.
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
boltoncriticalmass.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...