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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

ARGH I KNEW THIS - this is the problem with living in Leith. Autocorrect killing me every time. Photo for proof. GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY. I love it there. I’ve fixed this before. It bit me because I was too busy enjoying my coffee. Tell Angus this remains a favourite of mine. 🙏

Autocorrect showing: Grantown with red underlines - offering:
Granton S
Grant-own
Grant own

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20/10/2026

Showing off my Treecreeper mug that my sister in law got me. Angus Grant - made in Granton-on-Spey 🤩 Top 10 bird for me. Love this mug.

Blue and white ceramic coffee mug, sat on dark cork on an aged teak table

The mug has blue colouring on the rim, and on its face: a painted treecreeper set into the glaze. Any beverage in this vessel automatically tastes better

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

When browsing in iOS increasingly more and more websites have been using JavaScript to detect DNS sinkhole blocking and then halting ALL usage of the site. Highly annoying. Upgraded to Wipr2 this morning finally after a decade on Wipr1. Problem sites are no longer a problem. £5 well spent.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Carrot Weather remains one of my favourite weather apps ever. It also has geographical challenges where it asks you to find landmarks on a map. Pretty fun. Today’s Lake Ontario challenge notes just add to the love.

Lake Ontario
Great Lakes, North America
Lake Ontario is the smallest of the Great Lakes by surface area, sitting along the border between the United States and Canada.
Fun fact: Ontario the province was named after Ontario the lake, not the other way around. So renaming the lake because it sounds too Canadian is not just stupid, it's chronologically stupid.
Read Wikipedia article

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Some of our friends from Japan are visiting and staying with us, and brought me something special. If you’re a pourover geek … you know just how rare it is to have one of these in Europe right now. Hario Alpha Switch Ceramic. Saying I am STOKED to make coffee tomorrow morning is an understatement.

Me holding the beautiful matte ceramic Hario Alpha Switch pourover V60 style immersion brewer over my well loved MCM table.

Overhead view of the ceramic pourover half. Beautiful edged markings that allow for the perfect extraction of everything you could ever want from a cup of coffee.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

Up in Sutherland and Caithness for the week, this time without a bike (was riding the Pictish Trail last May though!) Spotted a trio of Sea Eagles(!!!) being mobbed by ravens as we got up into Kinbrace. As we were through binoculars, got a midge bite on my elbow. Sizeably ironic. Enjoy the vid!

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

How we are all feeling today with the trams running down to Leith and Newhaven again. (Yes, the app yelled at me and threatened with a ban for taking a screen shot. 🤣)

Cropped screenshot from the Edinburgh Trams App, showing today’s password: Lucky.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

New popup mobility hub near Leith Links looks great! Across from the primary school, hopefully gets some local use. I believe it’s around for about a couple months.

Brightly coloured parklet with wood decking. Seating, planters, bike racks, and a small bike stand present.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

In other interesting news - 26/03088/FUL One of the barges on The Shore wants to change from offices to a bar/restaurant, and add an extra outdoor seating area over the water. One to keep an eye on.

Architect plan of the barge with an overhead view showing what is destined to be built.

Architecht plan. Side profiles of the barge with areas marked for development.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m something of an eclipse photographer myself. (Taken from The Mound as we rushed to a dinner reservation we were late to because the buses took an hour to get up from The Shore…)

Through clouded skies - the almost ring of the eclipse can be seen as a bright rune-arc shaped crescent against a backdrop of eerie yellow.

Also, Elden Ring.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

Our 16 bus from The Shore that showed up after a phantom bus didn’t has been so filled with people getting on and off, and in gridlocked traffic that two other 16s have passed us. A third literally just came by as I was typing this. The trams cannot return soon enough.

Elm row bus stop. Two 16 buses ahead of us as we remain in traffic offloading passengers.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

Just learned about the Daihatsu Hijet Deck Van and have never has the urge to remain car-free been so waning. 660cc Kei car, 4 seater, automatic. 4wd if needed, and has a truck bed. It’s the perfect automobile in a world where life exists outside of cities as well. I will not discuss further.

An olive Kei Car on a dockside facing to the right. Beautiful tiny wheels. Spacious interior hinted at with its boxy nature. The rear has chopped off, giving way to a functional truck bed. Is sublime in nature, and its presence makes a mockery of big American Trucks and Range Rovers alike.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026

That was a fun raceday out yesterday. Incredibly hard, and I’m in bits today, but incredibly fun. 6am start with a wheel dip in Lake Huron, and then 14.5 hours later finishing in Ludington to beat the sunset & dip a wheel in Lake Michigan. 28°C max, and huge gravel roads. Also: Sand is hard.

Strava screen grab. Map of Michigan with a big line through the middle from Lake Huron to Lake Michigan.

Text:

Michigan Coast to Coast 2026:
RACING THE SUN
Beat it. Job done.
Also known as the Extended Michigan Dawn Patrol
Your longest ride ever!
Distance
329.37 km
Moving Time
13:22:19
Avg Speed
24.6 km/h
Elevation Gain
2,083 m
Avg Power
135 W
Calories
7,266 Cali

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026

Back in America for a couple weeks to see family and friends, and take on a fun Gravel Grinder race at the weekend in Michigan. Everything arrived. Yay. AirTags are neat. On I90 headed back to the family home, and it always strikes me how *hostile* the environment is with huge roads and vehicles!

My well used bright red rolling case that’s seen far too many uses & many ovens crossings, next to my bike bag housing a well packaged and intact bicycle that I brought to the states for the event. Shot taken in the OHare baggage claim area, so the scenery about as nondescript as you can imagine.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

Reading through this morning’s @edinburghminute.com. This headline gave me pause. Edinburgh - cleanest city in Scotland? Maybe I’m jaded a bit from living in Japan, and then living in a well-funded London. This is NOT a high bar. Yikes.

Text reads:

Edinburgh has been rated Scotland's cleanest city in the latest annual survey of local authorities.
The council says it plans to invest more than £100,000 in upgrading or replacing bins in busy areas. - lan Swanson, Evening News.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

This has been my best addition to BlueSky filtering recently. Also does well for filtering out single-image low effort posters. Bliss. This shall remain an #AISlop free space. #AbominableIntelligence

Part of a screenshot from my feed. The post is removed replaced with a box hiding the content.

Text reads:

Al Imagery Poster (Account)

Labelled by @labeler.blackwall.gg.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

Generally a big fan of the graffiti wall on Marine Parade in Leith - always new stuff going on, and I feel like the area could use some investment to make it a really special spot. That said, today, I became a huge fan. 😅 One for you, @gundampixel.bsky.social! #gundam

The graffiti wall on Marine Parade, centered is a great piece of a white & blue Gundam (giant fighting robot from the Japanese Manga/Anime world) with its pilot being held in front of its head in an open robot palm. CALUM 2026 is the artists’ signature.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

It was an excellent morning with @leithfeederride.bsky.social and @pedalonparliment.org - greatly attended event, and glad I was feeling healthy enough to marshall this morning! Hopefully a sign of returning to health. #PoP26

Me at the Meadows, helmeted and smiling. Blue tabard to indicate marshalling duties. Loads of cyclists behind ready to roll out.

Looking down the Middle Meadow path, a sea of cyclists behind extending until pixels can no longer show proper resolution.

Top of the Royal Mile turn, cyclists everywhere heading down towards Holyrood.

Gathering on the lawn at Holyrood, waiting for speakers to start. Bicycles everywhere and slightly sunny skies await.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

Well. Guess this means we could use more bike racks on Great Junction Street. 😅 Who says no one is using the new Leith Connections infrastructure? @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

A MTB locked to the Leith Connectikns footrest/bar rest at the light - which prevents its use.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

If this is how you advertise your newly opening business - by littering all over The Shore - we’re going to have a problem. Found all over The Shore to the OT, many had fallen off as the magnets are not strong. How many would’ve ended up in the water? 😡 @sosleith.bsky.social @lhncc.bsky.social

Backside of a square magnet on the ground along Commercial Street

3 Square Magnets on a light post on The Shore. One has fallen off onto the ground.

A square magnet just resting on the fence of the Scottish Government Building

A handful of nearly 100 magnets that have been prevented from ending up as litter or falling into The Water of Leith Basins.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

We’re in the “8-days till Dirty Reiver” land, where forecasts start being paid attention to for the event on the 25th. This isnt terrible. 🤞

Weather line graph showing temps and conditions each day till the 26th. Varying from 13 for a high and 1 being a low with mostly sun towards the 25th.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

We had some fun in Greenwich over the weekend. Going to these places with people who have PhDs in the subject matter is even more fun.

Three of us standing over the Prime Meridian. View is looking at our shows / legs, with each of us half in the Western Hemisphere & the other in the Eastern.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

Great weekly mail as always @edi.bike !!! Just so you have a data point, I did indeed read it this morning AND clicked through to the web version. 😉 There’s a non-zero chance that any tracking pixels, etc. don’t get loaded because Pi-hole … but the support is there. 😁

Dashboard screenshot of my Pihole setup. 4 coloured boxes with the following:

Total Queries
61,817

Percentage Blocked
26.4%

Queries Blocked
16,307

Domains on Lists
2,554,432

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 12/04/2026

I realised I had some pálinka which remained as a gift when my mates visited Edinburgh last! This is for them & and other Hungarians seeing some hope in a long long time. I knew I was saving it for a special occasion! Egészségedre !

Me holding a small glass of cherry pálinka next to a really nice bottle of a cherry version of the spirit. A gift from Hungarian friends when they last visited.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 11/04/2026

You legend. Thanks for the tip! Just been and while they were out of the Gundam Base Clear Wing Zero, picked up some fun easy kits and also got my pin badge! Cheers! 😁

My two Gunpla models I picked up, boxed in my backpack.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026

What a day. 21.5 miles hiked along the Fife Coastal Path from Newburgh to Dundee. Beautiful sun, a hefty amount of tailwind, and even some sleet thrown in to keep us on our toes. 😅 Ember bus back to Edinburgh - not waiting for the train. Tomorrow. A rest and a roast dinner. 😁

Beginning archway of the Fife Coastal Path in Newburgh. Clear skies and morning sunshine.

Looking East along the River Tay along the Fife Coastal Path. Inland a bit on the green pastures and rolling hills now. Mixed clouds with scattered sunshine dotting the landscape.

Top of Normal Law overlooking the Tay - a white trig point in the foreground. Dundee in the far background. More blue skies and scattered clouds. Lots of wind can be seen on the water in the distance.

View of the Tay Road Bridge from the Newport on Tay side looking towards Dundee. Cloudless blue sky. Golden light on the landscape. The Tay is covered in waves as a steady 20mph+ wind continues on blowing - as it had all day.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026

Today we had our first cloudless morning as the Edinburgh Dawn Patrol left Seafield on the way along the coast towards Portobello. The first Dawn over the Forth was seen of 2026. It was something special to take in. Cheers to Markus Stitz for this amazing photo of myself and two mates on Patrol.

Golden hour sunrise over the Firth of Forth, three cyclists silhouetted in the golden light as they ride along the Seafield promenade with waves gently lapping in the background.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026

NEW FAVOURITE DUCK SOUND FOUND!!!!!! Have never been this lucky to have them so close before. Absolute treat!!!

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 21/03/2026

Heart rate not above 125 throughout the ride. Quick pull into Æmilia on the Porty high street for a porchetta sandwich & limonata (no need to worry about parking because BIKE!) and that’s continued to just the most lovely ride out along the water. These are healing days for sure.

My bike against a metal bench on the water’s edge looking West towards the Mussleburgh sea wall & Edinburgh. The skies match the water with a light blue of filtered sun coming from the upper left of the photo. In the far distance you can see Arthur’s seat rising at horizon’s edge.

Same background scene as other photo, with the highlight being an absolutely banging porchetta sandwich in the foreground. The focaccia looks light enough to float away, and it can be confirmed that it nearly is.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026

Right! By the time I got there this afternoon the next frame was already moored and ready to unload Was amazing to see them all the way from the Forth Road Bridge.

Handlebars of my bike in front of a giant transport ship in orange, with a huge yellow windfarm frame that sits on the seabed on it. Blue skies and blue water.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20/03/2026

9am this morning. Using the new Leith Connections to get from The Shore to Foot of the Walk by bike to commute to a meeting. One couldn’t even get onto the cycleway though, with this van blocking the entrance at the start of Leith Walk. Poor form on all accounts by the business.

Delivery van for food supplies parked in the entrance to the cycle lane at the bottom of leith walk. Photo quickly snapped as I was on my bike riding past at the time - obviously not in the cycle lane myself at the time because of the carspreading going on.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 19/03/2026

Cannot get over the sheer size of the ships coming into the port these days. Those yellow transition pieces? 28m tall, 8.3m diameter, and 600 tonnes. Each. 🤯 Get to Western Harbour & Lighthouse Park over the spring when these ships are in. You will NOT be disappointed.

Wise angle shot. Calm sea. Blue skies. HUGE ship with a massive crane holding the transition pieces, loading the last one board. The disused lighthouse is to the left of the ship.

Closeup of the crane apparatus. A tiny control box that fits people is dwarfed by the sheer size of everything.

Closer view of Seaway7 with 5 transition pieces on board, last one about to be lifted on board.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026

I wish to give everyone today’s worst parking photo that I’ve seen in a long time. The absolute audacity of this. Even diners at the nearby Granery restaurant just outside shot were laughing in disbelief with me. Hazards on. Driver can be seen kitty-corner about to cross back. Words fail. 🤯

Amazon delivery van parked in a 4-way stop-lighted intersection. Its front is completely over the marked pedestrian crossing, its rear sticking out into traffic coming on Commercial Street.

The driver in visibility vest is on the opposite diagonal corner about to walk back.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 18/03/2026

And another for good measure! 😁 Great mini talk today as well! Your Venn diagram is something I’m absolutely borrowing for the future. 😂

Beautifully blue sky sunny morning showing off a section of of the Leith Connections active travel route ribbon cutting, with members from the city council, construction team, and Walk Wheel Cycle Trust in the foreground cutting a ribbon & many helmeted young kids just behind ready to ride through once it’s cut.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 14/03/2026

Cafe Truva on The Shore - I need to come here more often.

Turkish coffee. Small cup and saucer with blue Turkish styling. Two Turkish delights. Cup filled with coffee poured from the copper Turkish coffee maker to the right.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026

I knew there are overwintering chiffchaffs in Edinburgh as we saw them in December. Moments ago here I am, reading comments on Lothian Birdwatch about them while having a coffee and suddenly over my shoulder … A WILD CHIFFCHAFF APPEARED! It used immense joy. It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE!

Beautiful little chiffchaff. Small songbird with hints of yellow along the back and a dark line on the wind edge and a small white eyebrow. Sitting in a grey alder tree. Closeup, taken from a video.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social Your Report Incorrectly Parked Vehicles webform isn’t accepting images currently. You can usually find people parked on the footpath just where the new Dockside development is just on Ocean Drive. Just go in the evenings. Like catching fish in a stocked loch.

Red MG parked over a footpath where it really shouldn’t be.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 03/03/2026

Some morning zen, brought to you by Leith Connections.

My gravel bike, morning sun rising in the back left to cloudless blue skies.

It’s against a bollard with a bicycle lane indicator. The stone setts forming the new separated cycleway over the Sandport Bridge on The Shore form the ground cover curving up with the Shore’s buildings in the background. Golden light everywhere.

The crankset is not level, nor are the valves perpendicular to the ground - an obvious omission in which the photographer says is due to the fact that this is actually a decently busy cycle way at times, and he didn’t want to impede anyone with the photo op.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 28/02/2026

Post a pic you took to bring some zen to your feed

Evening autumnal sun coming in through conifers over a small loch. In the front is a quite good looking steel gravel bike silhouetted by the golden light.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 23/02/2026

A reminder to other cycling orientated folks out there as we start edging closer to Spring: 1. When was the last time you topped up your tubeless sealant? 2. When was the last time you checked your brake pads? Some quick maintenance this afternoon to address both these questions. 😁

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 22/02/2026

Used up all the sunlight today and it was absolutely stunning out. The Water of Leith was decently high after the rain, and flowing quickly. A half dozen dipper PAIRS were spotted, a single Kingfisher, and too many songbirds to count. Bonus appearance bid a fox at Murrayfield. 10/10 day!

Lovely part of the Water of Leith on a rocky beach, looking down stream. Sunlight filtering through the trees. Imagine the blue flash of a kingfisher zooming down the way, as that’s what happened not long after this picture was taken.

Flowy turbulent water with two dippers perched on rocks standing amidst the large-in-comparison rapids. One dipper at the top of the frame, the other at the bottom.

A fox amongst the elder ivy growing in the bank opposite Murrayfield. It looks like it has just awoken from a nap with the bleary eyed stare it’s giving.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 14/02/2026

Spent the afternoon at Malones in Leith with fellas from my street to watch a triumphant win for Scotland for the Calcutta Cup. Now spending the evening with my fav person in the world, as we open this bottle of Arran we bottled on our 14th anniversary last July. Happy Valentine’s Day! 🤩 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😍

Bottle of Arran Single Malt
Distillery exclusive with the label showing it was finished in Amontillado casks. Two Arran dram glasses sit in front of the golden liquor within.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026

I'm through this exact spot often on a bike. The photo was familiar, but something was off. There isn't a floating bus stop there. This LOOKS like a precarious position for a pedestrian to attempt to board a bus, but it's not a place to do it. That situation doesn't even exist on current roads.

Google street view showing the same space as the headline photo in the article, this one taken October 2025. There is no pedestrian crossing lines, and the bike land has been updated a bit more. There is no floating bus stop anywhere near this space, as the photo in the article shows a pedestrian crossing a bike lane straight towards a bus - which insinuates that this is how floating bus stops work, when in reality none of them look like this and are much safer.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 26/12/2025

It was a very Merry Christmas Dawn Patrol yesterday morning. 8 of us met up for the usual route, added a side quest for a great zip line and some swings, and still finished bout 7:30 for some outdoor coffee outside our fav cafe as they were (quite rightly!) closed for the holidays. 10/10 Patrol.

Edinburgh Dawn Patrol, still an hour before sunrise, on Xmas morning outside of Cairngorm coffee. Big smiles for the cyclists pictured, due to good ride, good people, and of course some nice camp-stove made outdoor coffee made at the end.

Mince pies and mulled wine not pictured, but can be assumed.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 20/12/2025

I wonder if it’s… Oh there it is. Right above a photo of “A Deathtrap in Florida”, neat. The photo isn’t even of the finished lane, so it’s missing all the broken pavers and current imperfections in the surface.

Photo from the Momentum Mag article, showing the Leith Walk cycle lane shortly after it was constructed (albeit unfinished in the photo)

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025

Seeing this in an ad absolutely sent me.

Ad for a MiniCooper. A giant round iPad style touchscreen in the middle of the dashboard. Bigger than the steering wheel. The speedometer says 0mph but we all know the likelihood of the driver reaching for this when stopped instead of while driving is roughly the same 0.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 15/12/2025

Edinburgh Dawn Patrol brightening up North Charlotte Square. Especially the cut-through with the curb hobs. 😁

Strava heatmap, showing a particular route from George Street, around Charloette square, through a little bike lane back alley straight to Cairngorm Coffee. The route is significantly brighter than the rest of Charloette square, and you can see a little corner cut in the NE corner where a lot of the riders cut over the curb to get to coffee quicker.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 07/12/2025

103 miles yesterday with the Wintersmith Audax + riding from Edinburgh to Galashiels. ~2340m of climbing. Really worked on “audax pace” and felt amazing at the end, and given enough light and more time - could’ve easily carried on. The rain gave way to beautiful golden light. 10/10 day. 🤩

My bike. Pre dawn. Gumwall wide tyres looking brilliant in the low light.

It’s against some old tractor tyres blocking off a road. Front light shining on the long grass, red hue cast upon the white frame from the rear lights of my riding mates.

Dreich photo somewhere between Kelso and Selkirk in the borders. Grey skies, low clouds, wet roads, and me in a black and yellow rain jacket in the middle distance as the long road rises up towards the rolling hills.

Bonus gravel section from the Audax. Wet, muddy, puddly road between the hedges. Golden light starting to shine through blue skies and white clouds.

Two cyclists in the far distance, having suffered a puncture, stopped to fix before carrying on.

Smiling me selfie style. Golden light. Blue skies. Riding along a damp road with trees and a hedge in the background. Helmet, lensss tinted, smile shining.

I’m obviously proud of my latest kit purchase, a thick fleecy red flannel jersey. I look rather dashing in it if I do say so myself. The beard adds a lumberjack vibe.

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A Geo who Cycles @geocycle.eurosky.social · 22/11/2025

I’m at the Leith Market with @sosleith.bsky.social, @riveralmondaction.bsky.social, and @ercscot.bsky.social - we’re launching our campaign to Clean Up Scotland’s Sewage! Stop in by to see us, or please please do sign our petition and share! Thank you! 🙌 www.ercs.scot/clean-up-sco...

Photo of out booth at the market. A map if the shore with CSOs marked on the left. Our CLEAN UP SCOTLAND’S SEWAGE campaign materials on the right in blue and white colouring.

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