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Andy

@drvxd.bsky.social
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Fetchie. parkrun #250club+#v250club, 4x26.2, 1 ultra, #LongCovid, twiddler of bits, counter of clock-cycles, orderer of the disordered, cycle a bit. 317ppm Low tolerance for bullsh*tters.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sorry to dunk on your old boat fun, but keeping tall ship access to the Pool of London is why we have no walking and cycling bridge downstream of Tower Bridge - the clearance needed by the Port of London makes bridges really expensive and it's time to remove that restriction.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Race car driver Graham Hill gets the most from his Moulton as he transports his children Damon and Bridget near their home in 1964 📷Victor Blackman
Photo of race car driver Graham Hill riding a Moulton bicycle with a boy riding on the front of the bike and a girl riding on the back. They're riding on a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion. news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Danielhadadlover Galit
Alt: A man has a large graph drawn on the wall with find out up the side and fuck about along the bottom with a straight line going up to the top right. There is a caption "as you can see, the more you fuck around, the more you're gonna find out".
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation
An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I always leave the door zone clear past there: it's prime location for doors being opened quickly. Especially the car that had just pulled in. So no, I'm not going to cycle "near the edge" Mr Shouty Driver Who Hooted Me.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cities around the world are taking action to control the threats posed by ebikes in cities.
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#DriverSparedJail after blaming the sun for his failure to see another road user, and killing them. The sun goes up and down in a regular and predictable pattern. Perhaps a spare pair of sunglasses should be a mandatory requirement in every car. road.cc/news/augsept...
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'Blind' driver fined £187 and avoids jail after badly injuring cyclist whilst not wearing glasses; 12 years for speeding driver who killed cyclist then lied to police; Motorist spared after low sun bl...
Stay informed with our road.cc sentencing round-up, featuring key sentencing stories from local and national sources across the UK.
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pedestrian islands are not refuges. They don't slow down drivers, & they leave pedestrians in a hazard or place. If there's space for a pedestrian island, there's space to widen the pavements, narrow the carriageway, and install a raised crossing.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Branch Manager is in storm clean-up mode
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Happy 61st birthday to the mighty Thunderbirds from @gerryanderson.bsky.social 1 week younger than me and I've always been a fan
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Thunderbirds Launch Countdown Sequence
ALT: Thunderbirds Launch Countdown Sequence
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a refuge on a residential street. The guy leaning on his bike is at the primary school entrance, hence the green fencing beside him. The bollards are pencil shaped to say “KIDS HERE” the plastic bollards on the refuge have been flattened. There is no #WarOnDrivers there is a #WarOnWalkers
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Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th October #parkrun is celebrating its 22nd Birthday. No pressure on me! I’m the Run Director again at #Barrow #LoveParkrun
You're invited
Celebrate 22gether is parkrun hits 22. 
What?
When?
Where?
Dress Code
RSVP
parkrun's 22nd birthday
next weekend (3/4 October)
any parkrun or junior parkrun
tutus encouraged
invite 2 friends
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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Got my Covid booster and my flu shot today. Having never snorted cocaine off the toilet seat, I thought it was a good idea!
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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The good news is London has this problem with slightly different texture roughly every couple of decades. Need more bus priority and bus lanes. Fares have been held down remarkably well, despite the various pressures to increase them.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Actually all cycles should be exempt from Vat. It would be an easy thing to do. Would help many get a bike and they make the user healthier with every trip. Especially when fuel for cars is expensive. If we can cut fuel duty then why not? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Blind Paralympian Lizzi Jordan wants VAT cut for tandem bikes
Cyclist Lizzi Jordan, from Guildford, campaigns for tandems to count as adapted for VAT purposes.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reasonably balanced but inexplicably fails to consider the impact of ever-larger cars, which surely must be relevant especially when you see how declining bus speeds are so international. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised
As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society
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Commuter cyclist @smallfoggyhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is good to see, but there would be far cheaper ways of Thames Valley Police making a dent in mobile phone driving. For example, actually doing something about reports from members of the public, especially when they come with video evidence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
The undercover HGV catching drivers on their phones in the Thames Valley
More drivers are risking lives by using mobile phones despite tougher penalties, police say.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hospital parking is never free. Someone always pays. In the NHS it steals money that could be used by frontline services. Do you want to make children better, or park for free? Oh and I bet there's no free bus services to that hospital either, so it's even more unfair
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The family make the mile and a half journey by car" This is why our roads are so congested and knackered.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“I think I shouldn’t have to pay a charge for parking on this clearly signposted private road because I’m doing the school run” isn’t the slam-dunk legal argument you think it is, Mr Loud Shirt In A Built-Up Area.
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Liverpool dad could end up in court over taking kids to school
Steven Thompson said he felt it was unfair parents were being targeted on the school run
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bikes bikes bikes! (and some scooters) This isn't even all of them. 50 people used the organised bike bus to travel to this community event, and more came separately. But apparently nobody cycles in Sheffield because it's too hilly.
A LOT of bicycles of all shapes and sizes parked on the grass under a tree. It includes tiny kids' bikes, teenagers' bikes, adult bikes, and some cargo bikes. A very long chain is laid out in the ground for people to lock their bikes to.A blue gazebo a man under it working on a bike. Several more bikes are hanging from a stand, waiting for work.More bikes: two cargo bikes in the foreground, and in the distance some more bikes locked to a signpost in the park.Three cute little kids' scooters (red, purple and blue) lined up in a row in amongst the bikes, with helmets hanging from their handlebars.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No joke. You trashy asswipes need to put those damn traitor flags down and figure out how to better your own lives. Hating others for stupid reasons won't improve your situation.
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Pharmacist on a Pushbike @ppushbike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
SMIDSY x 100 www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/w...
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Watch: ‘Blind’ driver smashes into cyclist after forgetting his glasses
A "blind" driver was caught on camera smashing into a cyclist after "forgetting" to wear his glasses.
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Andy @drvxd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It seems that the @libdems.org.uk have been busy trying to think up new and exciting ways of embarrassing themselves in public.
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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Lib Dems have now turned populist.
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This Is Fine Meme
Alt: This Is Fine Meme - a cartoon dog with a hat sits on a chair with a cuppa on the table as the room burns with smoke rising up. There is a caption - "This is fine".
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Stevil Kinevil @stevilkinevil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You’ve been tricked into thinking you need to drive to your bike ride.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This violent behaviour needs to be clamped down hard as it can be fatal and has killed workers. The UK needs to be much much tougher on dangerous drivers. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Drivers ignoring roadwork closures to skip queues ‘wilfully putting lives at risk’
Hundreds of cars driven through cones or barriers in England this year, says National Highways
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deadmanrunning1.bsky.social @deadmanrunning1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"They included footage of the M1 motorway in Hertfordshire, where repeated incursions earlier this year led to it being closed completely to keep workers safe, creating a 10-mile diversion for drivers." Something something yeah but cyclists...
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Drivers ignoring roadwork closures to skip queues ‘wilfully putting lives at risk’
Hundreds of cars driven through cones or barriers in England this year, says National Highways
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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Car running a red light crashed into a scooter but city councilor blames bike advocates. youtu.be/TX0VKQtVDXE?...
youtu.be
Advocates install unauthorized bike lane on same corner where fatal accident occurred
YouTube video by CBS Boston
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026
In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.
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Matthew Lewis -- living in the era of cults and consequences @mateosfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Total banger from @jeremyst.bsky.social : "The solution is not to punish early adopters of a revolutionary technology; it is to aggressively invest in dedicated space on public streets." sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: The e-bike revolution is here. San Francisco isn’t ready for it
Bike commutes are up 52%, shared bike and scooter usage has doubled, and injuries are rising too. What the city needs isn’t a ban — it’s a backbone.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I see a few cyclists skipping a red light at this junction but I’ve never seen a cyclist do this. Don’t worry though; this is just the usual deadly danger & destruction from motor vehicles. As you were - keep talking about cyclist behaviour.
Steel bollard flattened by motor vehicle with pavement and kerb at its base destroyed. Junction of New North Rd and Eagle Wharf Road
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wear hiviz. Carry a big sign that has the word STOP in big letters. Stand on a crossing with flashing beacons and stripes. Means f all when a driver is high on drugs. How do we even start to fix this clearly broken and dangerous road system?
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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
War on Cars latest. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-n...
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Horrified children look on as lollipop man struck by car on school crossing
Shocked children and parents saw the lollipop man suffer a suspected broken leg
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One more time: Inheritance tax *is not unique or even uncommon* in being "double taxation". The coffee I just bought was paid for with wages on which income tax and NI had been levied, but was also subject to VAT. Just stop it.
elen Whately: “One of the problems with inheritance tax is that it's a form of double taxation.
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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I did have a look at recent pedestrian deaths last night and it is shocking. It is almost invisible - many of the deaths don't even get reported in the local news. Here are a few of the recent ones:
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Relentless negativity & exaggerated criticism of cycling in London getting you down? Take comfort from the huge progress already made for a safer cleaner & more sustainable city.
A window cleaning business run out of a cargo bike. Bikebubl.com

One less van on the road. Less danger. Less pollution. Less impact. And lower costs for the operator. Enabled by safe cycling LTNs and policies to reallocate roadspace.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we need more bats on here
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 14/09/2026
Danny Tommo (real name Daniel Thomas) was stopped driving someone else’s car without insurance and, naturally, calls it persecution. The police car had ANPR. His plate flagged. He was stopped using TPAC. That’s not persecution. It's the system working. And "I'm on my way to church” doesn't wash.
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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well next year's London Marathon is going to be 2 days. But they could not possibly use one of those days for Ride London. Oh no. Can't close the roads. Oh no. (Same event company now runs both. LME got hold of Ride London and cancelled it.)
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The A1300 in South Shields. Closed down and empty for the Great North Run. Could we do this more often please?
A major dual carriageway in South Shields.
At 10am on a Sunday with no vehicles because it's closed for the Great North Run. A major dual carriageway in South Shields.
At 10am on a Sunday with no vehicles because it's closed for the Great North Run.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm all in favour of cars in principle but idiot drivers who park like this give the rest a bad reputation. It only needs a molecule of common sense* *pavement parking is normalised & socially acceptable, despite the fact that it's virtually impossible to get past. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Driver wedges Kia SUV on Wales Coast Path at Mumbles
It was jammed between a concrete fence post and a bench, and had been abandoned by the driver.
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sending up the Bollard signal. More bollards needed. Honestly you have to wonder about some drivers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Driver wedges Kia SUV on Wales Coast Path at Mumbles
It was jammed between a concrete fence post and a bench, and had been abandoned by the driver.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love the Irish🇮🇪
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kaydeepix.bsky.social @kaydeepix.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@parkrun has genuinely been transformative for both of us - we met and made friends with such awesome people from all walks of life, plus their challenges, highlights, cakes and puppies - feeling pretty chuffed to belong to such a brilliant bunch of lovely people...
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Virtually every time I try to cross busy main road, this happens. Far more dangerous & less accessible than a bus stop with a cycle track, & happening everywhere. Yet no moral panic & media hysteria.
Car stopped on crossing when green man is showing for pedestrians- usually they will move off as soon as there is space even when crossing still in pedestrian phase. Car stopped on crossing when green man is showing for pedestrians- usually they will move off as soon as there is space even when crossing still in pedestrian phase. Car stopped on crossing when green man is showing for pedestrians- usually they will move off as soon as there is space even when crossing still in pedestrian phase. Car stopped on crossing when green man is showing for pedestrians- usually they will move off as soon as there is space even when crossing still in pedestrian phase.
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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"T shirt proud" as my other half described my parkrun clothing choice this morning #loveparkrun #lovernli
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
When people say things like this they are advocating putting the lives of other people at risk. Blocking bike lanes makes it more likely someone will be killed or injured. All because drivers are entitled little babies.
When in doubt park in a bike lane.
Maybe if they didn’t take away so many parking spots you wouldn’t have to.
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