Gareth Cartman
@garethcartman.bsky.social
I ride bikes, write books about riding bikes (We Rode All Day, Walko, Koblet & Kubler and soon - We Rode All Night), wrote for The Road Book in 2024, I run a recruitment agency (theexample.co.uk) and suffer Everton FC.
My first visit to HD last night (Trinity Bar) - the boy's first Everton home game too. From his reaction - not the last.
Thoughts - teething problems with ticketing, hopefully temporary. But I wish these tickets were always that price...
Thoughts - teething problems with ticketing, hopefully temporary. But I wish these tickets were always that price...
August 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
My first visit to HD last night (Trinity Bar) - the boy's first Everton home game too. From his reaction - not the last.
Thoughts - teething problems with ticketing, hopefully temporary. But I wish these tickets were always that price...
Thoughts - teething problems with ticketing, hopefully temporary. But I wish these tickets were always that price...
Reminds me of this Tim Key poem
July 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Reminds me of this Tim Key poem
Found it in my 1919 archives...
July 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Found it in my 1919 archives...
Flanders is way more fun hopping between the hills…
April 7, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Flanders is way more fun hopping between the hills…
WE HAVE TO GET BACK BEFORE THE CIPRESSA COME ON FFS
March 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
WE HAVE TO GET BACK BEFORE THE CIPRESSA COME ON FFS
Can you farm pop tarts?
March 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Can you farm pop tarts?
Somehow, I don't think he'd allow this bit of 'Trump Gaza'
February 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Somehow, I don't think he'd allow this bit of 'Trump Gaza'
I love how Kemi Badenoch is now running comms for the Lib Dems.
They fix things. Their constituents like them. They're not on Twitter. They're in their communities.
All good for me. Thanks Kemi.
They fix things. Their constituents like them. They're not on Twitter. They're in their communities.
All good for me. Thanks Kemi.
February 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I love how Kemi Badenoch is now running comms for the Lib Dems.
They fix things. Their constituents like them. They're not on Twitter. They're in their communities.
All good for me. Thanks Kemi.
They fix things. Their constituents like them. They're not on Twitter. They're in their communities.
All good for me. Thanks Kemi.
One for @cycologies.com here - is there any part of this extract that is factually correct? I'm struggling.
January 2, 2025 at 10:19 AM
One for @cycologies.com here - is there any part of this extract that is factually correct? I'm struggling.
What can Labour or indeed any political party that isn't vaguely Nazi do about this total detachment from reality? It's like half the country is in another world. Or on Twitter. Or both.
November 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
What can Labour or indeed any political party that isn't vaguely Nazi do about this total detachment from reality? It's like half the country is in another world. Or on Twitter. Or both.
This is how he gets people... he says something that is recognisably true - the food industrial complex and drug companies ARE killing people. You can't disagree.
And then he appoints a rabid nutcase who will do nothing about it & cause even more deaths. But it annoys the libs.
And then he appoints a rabid nutcase who will do nothing about it & cause even more deaths. But it annoys the libs.
November 15, 2024 at 10:36 AM
This is how he gets people... he says something that is recognisably true - the food industrial complex and drug companies ARE killing people. You can't disagree.
And then he appoints a rabid nutcase who will do nothing about it & cause even more deaths. But it annoys the libs.
And then he appoints a rabid nutcase who will do nothing about it & cause even more deaths. But it annoys the libs.
One of my favourite discoveries about the 1926 Tour is that it's the first time l'Humanite (the communist newspaper) followed the Tour.
And they really, really hated Ottavio Bottecchia. And oh yes, you bet I'm using this in the book.
And they really, really hated Ottavio Bottecchia. And oh yes, you bet I'm using this in the book.
November 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
One of my favourite discoveries about the 1926 Tour is that it's the first time l'Humanite (the communist newspaper) followed the Tour.
And they really, really hated Ottavio Bottecchia. And oh yes, you bet I'm using this in the book.
And they really, really hated Ottavio Bottecchia. And oh yes, you bet I'm using this in the book.
When nugget met the gruffalo (morning all)
November 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM
When nugget met the gruffalo (morning all)
All you need is bike…
November 10, 2024 at 2:16 PM
All you need is bike…
Nobody needs a timeline cleanse any more, but sod that. This was my view last week. Slightly obscured by my thumb.
November 10, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Nobody needs a timeline cleanse any more, but sod that. This was my view last week. Slightly obscured by my thumb.
This feels retro. So 2016.
November 8, 2024 at 4:07 PM
This feels retro. So 2016.
I had 9 months to write my piece for this year's Road Book, and I probably spent 8 of them on the first paragraph.
Which I ripped up and rewrote with a month to go.
Anyway, whatever. I'M IN IT YAY ME. And there are loads of other more important people like Mark Cavendish, Kasia Niewiadoma too.
Which I ripped up and rewrote with a month to go.
Anyway, whatever. I'M IN IT YAY ME. And there are loads of other more important people like Mark Cavendish, Kasia Niewiadoma too.
November 8, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I had 9 months to write my piece for this year's Road Book, and I probably spent 8 of them on the first paragraph.
Which I ripped up and rewrote with a month to go.
Anyway, whatever. I'M IN IT YAY ME. And there are loads of other more important people like Mark Cavendish, Kasia Niewiadoma too.
Which I ripped up and rewrote with a month to go.
Anyway, whatever. I'M IN IT YAY ME. And there are loads of other more important people like Mark Cavendish, Kasia Niewiadoma too.