Tom Quinn
@geologiser.bsky.social
Active-travel advocate, renewable energy professional, cargo bike riding dad. Lapsed geologist.
@octopus.energy I just had to delete and reconnect my devices. IO has offered a 2 hour slot to charge 50%. ~35-40kWh in two hours with a 7kW charger… something doesn’t add up!
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
@octopus.energy I just had to delete and reconnect my devices. IO has offered a 2 hour slot to charge 50%. ~35-40kWh in two hours with a 7kW charger… something doesn’t add up!
“Boss, where should we leave the signs when we’re not using them?”
“Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do”
@bearswayfriends.bsky.social
“Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do”
@bearswayfriends.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
“Boss, where should we leave the signs when we’re not using them?”
“Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do”
@bearswayfriends.bsky.social
“Just chuck them on the cycle path, that’ll do”
@bearswayfriends.bsky.social
Made it to the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome with child 1 today for the first time. Incredible venue.
Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
August 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Made it to the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome with child 1 today for the first time. Incredible venue.
Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
Hitting those steep corners for the first time is scary but so much fun.
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Local campaign group Bearsden Safer Streets need our help. They are asking for local folk to contact their councillors to express support for piloting a 20mph limit across all streets in Bearsden - without exemptions.
Please look here and help if you can.
oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
Please look here and help if you can.
oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
We need you to take action against proposed 20mph amendments
Amendments have been proposed to the 20mph trial that risk exempting key roads and collision blackspots. Here is an urgent action we need supporters to take.
oursafestreets.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Local campaign group Bearsden Safer Streets need our help. They are asking for local folk to contact their councillors to express support for piloting a 20mph limit across all streets in Bearsden - without exemptions.
Please look here and help if you can.
oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
Please look here and help if you can.
oursafestreets.substack.com/p/we-need-yo...
Frustrating to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social calling this an accident.
Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
May 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Frustrating to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social calling this an accident.
Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
Being three times over the drink-drive limit and getting behind the wheel is not an accident, but a deliberate choice by Dosunmu.
How do you take a cargo bike for a service and get home again?
Put your bike in a bike!
Put your bike in a bike!
March 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
How do you take a cargo bike for a service and get home again?
Put your bike in a bike!
Put your bike in a bike!
Loads of parents & kids cycling to West rugby club this morning, but still no safe routes.
March 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Loads of parents & kids cycling to West rugby club this morning, but still no safe routes.
I’ll admit to breaking a road rule today.
Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened.
20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened.
20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
Bike lanes: good for everyone.
"It was found that just 4.9% of cyclists broke road rules when they were riding on cycleways. This rose to 14% of cyclists when there was no cycling infrastructure present."
"It was found that just 4.9% of cyclists broke road rules when they were riding on cycleways. This rose to 14% of cyclists when there was no cycling infrastructure present."
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people did so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
January 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I’ll admit to breaking a road rule today.
Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened.
20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
Light turned red ahead of me. I could have stopped, but didn’t. Car behind me flew through, so if I had stopped, I’d be flattened.
20+ years of sharing the road with cars and my spidey-senses are finely honed.
I’d like to see @octopus.energy offer a tariff for EV & solar/home battery owners that works in the winter better.
Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
January 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’d like to see @octopus.energy offer a tariff for EV & solar/home battery owners that works in the winter better.
Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
Lack of sunlight means our battery usually runs out just in time for afternoon peak. A second cheap window at 2-4ish (with higher £ peak) would see us through.
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Please support the campaign for Presumed Liability. Presumed liability shifts the burden of proof to the insurance company in a collision, and is intended to compensate vulnerable road users more quickly and effectively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
@carltonreid.com
@carltonreid.com
Petition: Introduce presumed liability for civil cases from road traffic collisions
Introduce presumed liability for civil cases relating to certain road collisions, to shift the burden of proof. It would mean when vulnerable road users, e.g cyclists & pedestrians, claim against a mo...
petition.parliament.uk
December 30, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Please support the campaign for Presumed Liability. Presumed liability shifts the burden of proof to the insurance company in a collision, and is intended to compensate vulnerable road users more quickly and effectively petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
@carltonreid.com
@carltonreid.com
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"Do we not want to protect and encourage active travel in Scotland? Do we not need a justice system that helps achieve that? Do we not recognise how incidents like this can cause serious injury or death?"
road.cc/311763
road.cc/311763
"Justice needs to provide protection": Cyclist close passed by wife of ex-Scotland footballer, before filming driver use phone and run red light, criticises Scottish courts' "very obvious issues" afte...
The wife of the former Rangers and Scotland footballer received six penalty points and a £255 fine having agreed a deal with prosecutors to only be punished for a mobile phone offence
road.cc
December 17, 2024 at 10:46 AM
"Do we not want to protect and encourage active travel in Scotland? Do we not need a justice system that helps achieve that? Do we not recognise how incidents like this can cause serious injury or death?"
road.cc/311763
road.cc/311763
@kennymunro.bsky.social good to find you here.
I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council.
Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council.
Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:34 PM
@kennymunro.bsky.social good to find you here.
I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council.
Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
I’m reopening the defunct rat-run access road on Bearsway (Alexander Grove) with the council.
Can copy you in some emails if you’ve got the energy.
@magnatom.bsky.social I joined a call this morning to show and state support for A807 redetermination and speed limit reduction. Was outnumbered by objectors stating the same old nonsense, but not outgunned and thankfully it’s still all going ahead.
Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
December 4, 2024 at 6:53 PM
@magnatom.bsky.social I joined a call this morning to show and state support for A807 redetermination and speed limit reduction. Was outnumbered by objectors stating the same old nonsense, but not outgunned and thankfully it’s still all going ahead.
Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
Was mention of “cyclists with helmet cameras”
More path clearing cardio today on the school run. Amazing what 10 minutes here and there can achieve!
September 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
More path clearing cardio today on the school run. Amazing what 10 minutes here and there can achieve!
A very satisfying 14 minutes spent this morning. Needs some willow spiling to finish it properly.
September 11, 2024 at 9:57 AM
A very satisfying 14 minutes spent this morning. Needs some willow spiling to finish it properly.
I felt furious at the time (and nervous on my bike), and now even more furious at the total lack of action.
6 months on from Una’s death and nothing has changed in East Dunbartonshire to make it safer to walk & cycle.
The council has a long list of quick (and less quick) wins from the active travel consultation carried out THREE YEARS AGO.
The council has a long list of quick (and less quick) wins from the active travel consultation carried out THREE YEARS AGO.
September 5, 2024 at 1:34 PM
I felt furious at the time (and nervous on my bike), and now even more furious at the total lack of action.
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Hello lovely new Bluesky people. If you missed it, here's a recent video where GCN came over to Swansea to talk all about our motonormativity work youtu.be/-_4GZnGl55c?...
Carspiracy - You’ll Never See The World The Same Way Again
YouTube video by Global Cycling Network
youtu.be
August 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Hello lovely new Bluesky people. If you missed it, here's a recent video where GCN came over to Swansea to talk all about our motonormativity work youtu.be/-_4GZnGl55c?...
Not visible - pond with LOADS of frogs 🐸
August 18, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Not visible - pond with LOADS of frogs 🐸
Committee appearance in House of Commons today. Stood under a very unsettling portrait of the Iron Lady…
October 25, 2023 at 4:22 PM
Committee appearance in House of Commons today. Stood under a very unsettling portrait of the Iron Lady…
I’m not bitter, was just getting inundated by bots and nonsense on the other place.
I have made bitters.
I have made bitters.
October 19, 2023 at 7:04 AM
I’m not bitter, was just getting inundated by bots and nonsense on the other place.
I have made bitters.
I have made bitters.