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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

First CX race of season, quite a shock to the system and some tricky features to handle.

Me in Otley CC kit on a slight descending turn on grass. Tape and bridge from course in background

Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Two weeks, 1055km, five countries, two park runs, the Black Forest, the Eifel, lots of cake, and a fair amount of radler, we're done. Zurich (Switzerland) to Ijmuiden (Netherlands) done. All ducks present and correct. Legs possibly less so.

A road bike with bikepacking kit (saddle bag, bar bag, top tube bag) affixed.

A yellow plastic duck with blue helmet poking head out of top tube bag

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Our cycle tours often accidentally bump into local festivals. This time it's Speyer Altstadtfest turning the town into a party

A panorama of a town street with a dj and full of people

A panorama of a town street with a stage and full of people

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Perfect audience for a cover of Killing in the Name Of. They introduce them to protest music early in Germany!

A teenage covers band with a few very young kids at the stage barrier

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Second night in a cabin aboard transport. When we wake from this one, we'll have crossed two borders and be in the heart of Zurich. Then we'll have to cycle back to the start! 😁

A grinning Helen in a sleeper train cabin

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A few snaps from #ToB 2026 St4 in Easingwold

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A great atmosphere and lots of joyful dancing for Leeds West Indian Carnival

A knitted postbox cover celebrating Leeds West Indian Carnival

A dance troupe in elaborate blue yellow and pink feathered outfits on the streets of Potternewton, Leeds

A dancer in a green costume made of large leaves and feathers on an urban street

A dance troupe with green pink and yellow feathered costumes

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Someone decided to pin their colours to the mast on today's ride! 😁

A cyclist sat at an outdoor table in a Canyon SRAM gilet

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Nearly go for the biggest cycle race of the week

Finish gantry across road at Otley Races

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Wigglesworth Giggleswick. A fallen jester with a noble background, outlandishly attired and specialises in pyrotechnic illusions! 😁

A road sign with Kendal, Settle, Giggleswick, Rathmell and Wigglesworth on

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Bike by bike. I needed to get a track bike to the nearby grass track, and the easiest way was in the bucket of a cargo bike!

A partially disassembled track bike in the bucket of a cargo bike

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This was the shot that made me think that. When animated, you can just about see her try to kick and get out of the saddle into the space on her left. However she does so more violently than she really should and about 1/2 second later contacts SB. It's all just messy from there

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A great turnout from Queensbury Queens at the start of the George Herbert Stancer memorial ride, an annual e event where riders from all over Yorkshire ride to Pocklington to commemorate the former head of CTC @cyclinguk.bsky.social

A large group of cyclists from the women's club 'Queensbury Queens of the Mountain' plus one from Otley CC

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trying to communicate something, just not sure what!

A yellow triangular sign with what appears to be a dog and person in wheelchair.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I love this set up for getting bikes to cycle training at a local park. Had four bikes on the trailer when it arrived!

A bike with a yellow three wheel trailer attached to rear. A second bike propped against it

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This popped up in my memories. Was a great way to get to us to the bike shop!

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This is probably only part of it!

A list of the different geographical terms for a simple bread roll across the UK. Sixteen names are defined.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Impressively poor bit of parking, pairing up to completely block (protected!?) cycle lane and pavement. @yplac.bsky.social #yplac

White car parked across cycle lane, between wands. Also rear of black car on pavement behind.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Overall a decent year. A bit of disruption in the second half i won't go in to, but some good long rides, our most complete tour and more time on the cx bike than usual. Also most consistent running (albeit one parkrun a week) for about a decade. @veloviewer.com

Veloviewer annual graphic 2025
13404km ridden, plus other stats

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

We've done long tours before, but this was the first time we've ridden from the front door and (with a bit of rail assistance) linked two different ferry ports (Roscoff to Rotterdam) over a couple of amazing weeks across four countries.

A map of UK, France, Belgium and Netherlands with a green line plotting a cycle tour route. Map from Fetcheveryone.com

A toy stork in the pocket of a yellow Otley CC gilet

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I was there. It started filthy and got filthier! Have we had a dry Dendermonde before?

Riders (Alvarado, van Alphen, van der Heiden) in warm up kit recce a tricky muddy corner at Dendermonde cx

A muddy off camber corner at Dendermonde CX

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Not a great video, but a load of sparrows dust bathing and bounding around to cheer the day

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Proper cross conditions at the Northern CX champs. I was crap, but it was great fun.

Me, in blue cycling kit, riding through a filthy muddy puddle on a cx course

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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! 😄

A young collared dove standing on the handle of a glass door looking in.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

There was a discussion about this on one of the @escapecollective.bsky.social articles. This is the relevant rule, and it appears there is 1km for the gap to properly form. I guess it's a question for the commissaires in the vicinity.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I'd hoped for a benign start to the cx season to ease me in. The course and my bike had other ideas.

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

For all noise around a tiny angry minority, it's the positive, vibrant celebrations of migrant cultures that draw the crowds. Leeds West Indian Carnival

A carnival dance troupe in bright loud feathered costume

A crowded field at Leeds West Indian Carnival

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Racing under way under bright blue skies at Otley GP 2025

Start of u16 men at Otley GP 2025, on Burras Lane

Start of u16 women at Otley GP 2025, on Burras Lane

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Not as good a pose, but I offer some other waterfowl in return.

Two swans, a load of cygnets, some ducks and a black headed gull swimming

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This on my commute is a horrible example. At the time I pass, it will have about 100 pupils standing waiting for the gates to open. Staff will turn blindly into the car park, and parents block it to drop off. 200m down it gives up and becomes very narrow, shared and somewhat blind.

A cycle path, with a car parked in it, by a car park entrance

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This paragraph from West Midlands road police captures their perspective on it as the people who have to deal with the consequences trafficwmp.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/j...

Cyclists don’t cause us, as an organisation, problems, that’s because they aren’t causing our communities problems, they aren’t killing nearly 100 people on our regions roads as mechanically propelled vehicles currently do. Yes we do get complaints of the “nuisance” variety, pavement cycling, some anti-social behaviour (usually yobs on bikes rather than “cyclists”), red light running etc. but you get the idea, most peoples interpretation of “1st world problems” or the “modern day blues”, nothing that’s a priority for a force like our own in a modern day society. Bad cycling is an “irritant” to the wider community rather than a danger, and maybe an improvement in infrastructure and policing may alieve many of the reasons that cause a very small minority of cyclists to be an “irritant”

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This one may amuse/infuriate you!

Road sign on crossing 'pedestrians, beware of left turning vehicles violating traffic lights'

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Let's watch some stripey jerseys get won!

Manchester velodrome for the National Track Champs

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Liam M @liamm82.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

They often get a great reaction (particularly with four of us together like below), but it's special when people outside Belgium recognise what they're about.