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Bob Downie
@geomannie.bsky.social
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Sometime geologist, fascinated by bicycles, cycling & digital map data, Twitter refugee. Lives happily on top of a drumlin, Glasgow.

I post mostly on Mastodon but can be followed directly in BSky via @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy .
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Not really, but poor beam focusing and poor positioning are an issue. Just use German standard StVZO compliant lights.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Thanks for writing 🙏
December 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I just tell it as I remember. As a kid I just thought it normal, but in 90 degree summer heat cold food wasn't the worst option.
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Dredging my memory from my 8 childhood years spent in North Carolina, on the side of the plate, cold.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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This section is as relevant now as it was in 1922
The streets in the middle o’ Gleska were laid oot for a population no’ the size o’ Greenock. The great mistake was that they werena made o’ kahouchy.” (rubber) As lang as Menzies busses and the horse had the cairryin’ traffic there was nae great inconvenience to the foot passenger; he could stop In the middle o’ the street and tie his laces, and there wasna ony need for an ambulance. “But any kahouchy quality the streets had vanished when the tram-rail and the motor came in vogue.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Or this satirical piece written I'm 1922 by Neil Munro (of Para Handy fame) predicting Glasgow's road congestion 20 years hence.
glasgowcycleman.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/g...
Glasgow in 1942
Lovers of the Para Handy stories may not know that the author Neil Munro ( also wrote humorous stories about other characters living in and around Glasgow. Here is a tale from his stories of Erchie…
glasgowcycleman.wordpress.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
geomannie.bsky.social
Or this satirical piece written I'm 1922 by Neil Munro (of Para Handy fame) predicting Glasgow's road congestion 20 years hence.
glasgowcycleman.wordpress.com/2018/09/06/g...
Glasgow in 1942
Lovers of the Para Handy stories may not know that the author Neil Munro ( also wrote humorous stories about other characters living in and around Glasgow. Here is a tale from his stories of Erchie…
glasgowcycleman.wordpress.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I remember learning a version of this in 1st year geology, using a sledgehammer as an energy source & geophones on the ground. Profiling the subsurface was done using Hagedoorn interpretation.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM