Liam M
@liamm82.bsky.social
Cycling enthusiast and occasional (poor) racer. Engineer professionally
I recall one of my first exposures to ebikes was on the coast in Flanders. We'd paused to do some navigation and a group of about eight retirees rolled past on a mix of mechanical and ebikes, happily chatting away, a moving social group.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I recall one of my first exposures to ebikes was on the coast in Flanders. We'd paused to do some navigation and a group of about eight retirees rolled past on a mix of mechanical and ebikes, happily chatting away, a moving social group.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.
It sold me on them and proper infrastructure.
I find their behaviour often gives away their youth.
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I find their behaviour often gives away their youth.
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄
This one landed on the door handle and calmly but confusedly tried to work out how to either get inside or off it for a couple of minutes! 😄
Another one penned by Costello, but with a subtly different anti war approach youtu.be/Res3-YX4X8g?...
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
YouTube video by bikkebooboo
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November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Another one penned by Costello, but with a subtly different anti war approach youtu.be/Res3-YX4X8g?...
I don't know if Strava has anything, but if you can think about how it may work and where the data is available, maybe have a look at Fetcheveryone.com ( @fetcheveryone.bsky.social ).
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.
Free training log and race listings for runners, bikers and swimmers - Fetcheveryone.com
A free training log to track your running, cycling, swimming and walking. No paywall blocking the good stuff!
Fetcheveryone.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I don't know if Strava has anything, but if you can think about how it may work and where the data is available, maybe have a look at Fetcheveryone.com ( @fetcheveryone.bsky.social ).
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.
It's a hobbyist's running site that became so much more, and he loves creating new ways to explore athletic data.
Need to create a confusing and ambiguous cross over of riding concepts in the form of waxed legs!
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Need to create a confusing and ambiguous cross over of riding concepts in the form of waxed legs!
I feel this. Emails can end up epic as I try to establish the assumptions and under what conditions they don't hold.
I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂
I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂
November 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I feel this. Emails can end up epic as I try to establish the assumptions and under what conditions they don't hold.
I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂
I'm not sure some colleagues appreciate it, but I'm also not sure i know how to do otherwise! 🙂
It's an interesting area of development. A lot of the technology is similar to that of oil and gas wells (drilling, managing fluid flows), but with heated water as the fluid.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It's an interesting area of development. A lot of the technology is similar to that of oil and gas wells (drilling, managing fluid flows), but with heated water as the fluid.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.
For the engineering side of energy at least, it should be a fairly easy pivot.
Doesn't this point to exactly why the Road Danger Reduction Forum ( @chairrdrf.bsky.social ) uses that name.
However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.
However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Doesn't this point to exactly why the Road Danger Reduction Forum ( @chairrdrf.bsky.social ) uses that name.
However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.
However you present your safety metric, the objective should be maximising a child's freedom to use the streets around their community.
That was my perception around Brittany. When they actually needed to be off road, they had a battered old tractor. Otherwise it was predominantly small vans.
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
That was my perception around Brittany. When they actually needed to be off road, they had a battered old tractor. Otherwise it was predominantly small vans.
I recall looking at this when they first introduced parking fees in Leeds parks.
Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.
As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...
Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.
As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...
Number of cars or vans - Census Maps, ONS
Census maps is an interactive tool to explore Census 2021 data across England and Wales for different topics down to a neighbourhood level.
www.ons.gov.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I recall looking at this when they first introduced parking fees in Leeds parks.
Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.
As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...
Across the city, about 30% of households didn't have a car/van, rising higher in less affluent areas.
As was, it was effectively a regressive tax; the fee a small attempt to rebalance. www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/...
Ongeveer sommige (precies genoeg?)
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ongeveer sommige (precies genoeg?)
They were just discussing this on Sporza - last time was 2019 Superprestige Boom, with Arzuffi, Lechner and Cant apparently.
October 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
They were just discussing this on Sporza - last time was 2019 Superprestige Boom, with Arzuffi, Lechner and Cant apparently.
Possibly Casasola or Verdonschot last season, but I'll admit it's not too common.
October 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Possibly Casasola or Verdonschot last season, but I'll admit it's not too common.
Good stuff. I was trying to watch on VRT, but they appear to have uploaded Belgian parliament! !🤔
October 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Good stuff. I was trying to watch on VRT, but they appear to have uploaded Belgian parliament! !🤔
It did open up more options about where we could take a tour that wouldn't have worked if we had to return east of the Ijsselmeer.
It does however mean that Flevoland is the only Dutch province we haven't cycled in (or indeed visited at all)
It does however mean that Flevoland is the only Dutch province we haven't cycled in (or indeed visited at all)
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It did open up more options about where we could take a tour that wouldn't have worked if we had to return east of the Ijsselmeer.
It does however mean that Flevoland is the only Dutch province we haven't cycled in (or indeed visited at all)
It does however mean that Flevoland is the only Dutch province we haven't cycled in (or indeed visited at all)
Felt the section on crossing the Afsluitdijk - let's say we were glad when a cycle tour entered Noord Holland from Friesland, there was a mandatory bike shuttle bus and we didn't have to ride it!
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Felt the section on crossing the Afsluitdijk - let's say we were glad when a cycle tour entered Noord Holland from Friesland, there was a mandatory bike shuttle bus and we didn't have to ride it!
Pick a handful of costal cities by lottery, and make exact but inverted replicas of their seafront extending down from the surface. Bonus if it can account for tide levels.
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Pick a handful of costal cities by lottery, and make exact but inverted replicas of their seafront extending down from the surface. Bonus if it can account for tide levels.
I'm also not sure how well the intermittent disruption of climbs compares to that of cobbles, but picked Roubaix as something at least more staccato than say Scheldeprijs.
I do think there is a mental element that helps him win before the start, but not practically sure how it can become a tactic.
I do think there is a mental element that helps him win before the start, but not practically sure how it can become a tactic.
October 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm also not sure how well the intermittent disruption of climbs compares to that of cobbles, but picked Roubaix as something at least more staccato than say Scheldeprijs.
I do think there is a mental element that helps him win before the start, but not practically sure how it can become a tactic.
I do think there is a mental element that helps him win before the start, but not practically sure how it can become a tactic.
I do wonder if the only way is to have an underestimated rider, like Healy was when he came close in the Ardennes a couple of years ago.
Or maybe like Hayman when he won Roubaix (or Jackson at the women's equivalent).
It'll likely only work once per rider though, and those who can do it are rare.
Or maybe like Hayman when he won Roubaix (or Jackson at the women's equivalent).
It'll likely only work once per rider though, and those who can do it are rare.
October 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I do wonder if the only way is to have an underestimated rider, like Healy was when he came close in the Ardennes a couple of years ago.
Or maybe like Hayman when he won Roubaix (or Jackson at the women's equivalent).
It'll likely only work once per rider though, and those who can do it are rare.
Or maybe like Hayman when he won Roubaix (or Jackson at the women's equivalent).
It'll likely only work once per rider though, and those who can do it are rare.
I'm the current organiser of a long-running series (Pool Triangle) that earliest records I've been made aware of suggest started in 1892! There have been variants, but in some form, the same course is still raced.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm the current organiser of a long-running series (Pool Triangle) that earliest records I've been made aware of suggest started in 1892! There have been variants, but in some form, the same course is still raced.