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Cyclist, bike madness, rider, two wheel explorer and cycle fixer. Sometimes I get to walk a dog. Writes software. Studied economics. Vote for communists, get free stuff. Vote for Tories get robbed of societal structures.
Edinburgh actuality
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My neighbour buying a tin of beans
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
These lines were printed after deliberate attempts by the newspaper to conflate and confuse readers, talking about cyclists and e-bikes when actually describing and showing pictures of electric and other motorcycles.
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Edinburgh Evening News printed these lines on a story about antisocial bike use.

‘police were allowed to run them off the road. Better still if other road users were allowed to do it’

I don’t think this is acceptable. The normalising, publishing, promoting of illegal acts towards a group.
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#bbcnews scotlands once again binfire of road violence. Normalising death on our roads. 😢

@policescotland.bsky.social @snp.org is there ANYTHING you can do about this?

Maybe trying more than asking for dashcam footage?
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The cycle paths that @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social actually implement. I wish they just meandered and were not actual death lanes.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social the last cycle path they built!
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Lovely ride into town this evening. 6.4km in 18mins. So quick, so reliable. But… so unsafe.

@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social I was closed passed by two large speed limit busting cars on Colinton Rd. A large heavy BMW X1 followed by an MG4. Both less than 1m clearance. 😬
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Up in Scotland we have a lot of #stickerwankers

Fixed it. Thanks @flagwankers.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I know I’m no perfect engineer. But what makes someone do this?
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Nothing says remembrance like a memorial driveway.

@remembrancewatch.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Some things haven’t changed in my lifetime. When the Major recession hit hard in 92 most of my friends were scattered far and wide. Work was not a thing that the NW had.

#manageddecline

Thanks Westminster 😬
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Dine like a king.

Fruit ✅
Slow release carbs ✅
Sugar fix ✅
Caffeine ✅
Protein (maybes)
Tasty (oh yes)
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Driver of this van was very busy watching a TV show on his phone balanced on the dashboard in front of his speedometer. 😢

So busy he was not able to see me approaching, standing in road, watching the same show. 😬

Didn’t want to stop until I got phone out.

We share the road with these psychopaths.
October 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Cut and paste response to both of us. I made a further complaint that I was not satisfied with this response. I said that their response that the report was ‘accurate’ was untrue. The pram did not crash.

They have given themselves 20 days to respond.
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thanks #SGN the pavement really was too wide compared to the road. There was only about 6m of road works that the sign could have gone into.

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social wheelchair user could not get past this obstruction.
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We share the road with these psychopaths.

So distracted they never saw me filming. One with phone resting on steering wheel watching a film. 😬

Any thoughts @policescotland.bsky.social ?
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If we could just have roads everywhere it will be all good. 😬
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
One of these sports is played in another country and has 1200 fans watching the live page. But gets close to top billing on the #bbc sport home page. 🤔

The other is a UK sport with the same number of fans watching. And is punted to the bottom of the home page. 🤨

What’s going on here #bbc ?
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Exhibit 1 😬
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The most fun, laziest and fastest way to get into town. I present to you… the e-bike. 😜

6.2km in 16min average speed about 22km/hr

Or about 50min on a bus end to end. Or 30+mins in a car including finding parking.
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM