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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Looking good, I have loop bars on my off-road tourer but the Moulton is even more swept back with Pashley North Roads...

A Moulton bicycle with Pashley North Road swept-back handlebars

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Not enough space frames in your day so far? Here's a couple of good ones, taken on my ride home from Pedal On Parliament '26 in Embra yesterday...

A Moulton bicycle in the foreground with it's space frame construction counterpointing the Forth Bridge in the background.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"According to the App we can stop and get wet here or keep going and get wet a bit further along instead...." 🤔😉

Cyclist moving through mountainous scenery in Scotland with no obvious shelter in sight

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So you're basing what you feel you have to wear on a bike on competition rules dreamed up by folk who prescribe allowable sock heights? Jogging pace comfortably exceeded soon after this taken, not hitting one's head actually easier than you seem to think 🤷‍♂️

Cyclist in traditional casquette riding through hilly terrain in Scotland.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You love a good bridge? They don't come gooder than this...

Looking down on the Forth Bridge from the top of the northernmost cantilever

A bicycle parked by the northern end of the Forth Bridge looking south along the span.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I have a Carradice cotton duck Brompton bag for mine, fits a bit better and the pockets are a bit more usefully accessible. One of these, recommended...

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New Toy put to good use... (pic shows wife's New Toy being put to good use ahead of me, on a multi-day circuit of Ben Wyvis)

A bicycle on a gravel track by a river, heading through mountainous terrain in Scotland

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Coffee time, and how better to spend it on a nice day than looking at a queue of cars backing up waiting for one of the 2389 spaces...

Part of a long line of stationary cars queuing to park at Ninewells hospital at 9:50 am on a weekday as none of the 2389 parking spaces are available.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

It's a great piece of engineering... but the Forth Bridge is *the* bridge!

View looking south from the top of north-most of the cantilevers of the Forth Bridge. The railway deck can be seen a long way below with a train, it's apparently small size giving an idea of the height of the cantilever.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Perhaps the Ranty Sarcasm Detector is malfunctioning? 😉 The Drumochter path...

part of NCN7 through Drumochter, a high point in a mountainous wilderness by the road between Perth and Inverness

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Never take pictures during the gig as I'm preoccupied with... the gig, but here's C. Duncan's band's gear awaiting their arrival at Stirling Tollbooth not long ago...

Concert setup for C Duncan and band before the gig starts, with instruments, microphones and monitoring speakers on a stage.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

That's not a cycle... *These* are cycles

2 cargo cycles loaded up with large crates in the foyer of a museum. One is an e-assisted tricycle and the other is an unpowered bike.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"According to the OS this is a road, narrow, but an actual road" "Do they have a symbol for 'Needs machetes and scythes'?" "Looking at the Heat Map... oh... not many people came this way... and they all turned back before now. Maybe there's a reason for that..."

Very overgrown abandoned path with a cyclist stood by a bike

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

And here it is... There was nothing *wrong* with the V, but just like there was nothing *wrong* with the TSR, the SST is better, while there was nothing wrong with the V, the Maggie is just better... Small things and certainly not necessary, but better.

Magura hydraulic rim brake on the front of a Moulton bicycle.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Here's one we had on Friday (dunes, woods and a café stop for lunch)...

Cycling through the dunes around Tentsmuir, Fife, Scotland. A rider astride her own bike holds up another during a photo stop. There are white clouds in a blue sky and a flowering gorse bush in the background.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I wonder if we're at cross purposes? How is the position in the initial picture particularly different to reclining on e.g. this, and if it is how is being on the bike easier than on this?

Folding recliner chairs, one set for reclined seating, one for lying

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My ride is here. All aboard the Bennie Railplane!

LNER poster with art showing the proposed George Bennie Railplane imagined in real use over a conventional railway line.
The Railplane is an aerodynamic, propeller driven vehicle suspended from an overhead monorail.

prototype of George Bennie Railplane built at Milngavie, Glasgow in the late 1920s.
The Railplane is an aerodynamic carriage driven by propeller and hands from a monorail on a gantry built over a conventional rail track.
(The system never got beyond the prototype.)

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

A space frame bike (Moulton TSR) by a space frame bridge (Forth rail bridge)

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

When I changed my Moulton earlier this year I decided to go with North Roads on the new one, allows me to ride in a very dignified upright stance but still lean over them for e.g. "interesting" descents. These are Pashley ones, The Traditional Cycle Shop swapped them out FOC for the standard flats.

Moulton bicycle with swept-back "North Road" style handlebars

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

And it's not so much long term investment as being able to stay where there aren't any hotels to stay in at any price...

Tent pitched high up facing the sunset in west Scotland overlooking Loch Etive

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As Gaz suggests keep the fuel as warm as possible. Also it helps to use a wick to light it, otherwise it can take a while to get it going. But a propane mix works fine in Proper Cold, especially using a preheat loop, as shown here, but you need it lit to start with for the preheat to work!

lightweight gas stove where the fuel line loops over the burner to ensure fuel is vaporised before ignition

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Having previously had Adam Tranter as active travel commissioner certainly didn't hurt when it came to getting some good stuff in place in Coventry, but I did see this recently, details at forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.ph... 😔

cycle lane default priority removed by white lines to giver cars accessing road from the side priority

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

@adamtranter.bsky.social had you seen this change to the Coundon Cycleway in Coventry... Just read about in the @cyclinguk.bsky.social forum at forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.ph... I know you've stepped down as the West Midlands active travel commissioner now, but perhaps worth following up?

cycle path that has had its priority over a side entrance removed by application of paint to give priority to motor vehicles crossing it.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Or just... a normal bag. Why carry a bag on your body when the bike frame can take the weight for you?

two children riding to school. Their bikes have luggage racks and each has a pannier bag. The riders are not using rucksacks.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have Pashley "North Road" swept back bars on my general purpose bike, makes for a ride where I can sit up straight or crouch forwards for aero/descending according to choice.

Moulton bicycle with "North Road" style swept back bars.

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The cats thing... Here's the Wilsation (no audio so you'll have to imagine the purring for yourself)

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Options where the smaller members get to do some of the work are available (and highly recommended once they're big enough, to give them a bit more agency)

Thorn Me'n'U2 kiddyback triplet bike with adult pilot and 2 child stokers

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And here we have Vera's co-cat, Willow (a White & Black Squeaker), "helping" me with a sudoku...

Cat sitting on a man's neck while he tries to concentrate on something in front of him

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Get one of these and make them work!

Thorn Me'n'U2 triplet bike for 3 riders, sized for an adult pilot and 2 child stokers (the 3 riders are shown in the image)

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Peter Clinch @peterclinch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hijacking this and moving off at a slight tangent, the *real* answer is at least once they're a little older you shouldn't need to do it at all, they can do it themselves. (I took this the last day I escorted them, I think they were in P4 & P5 (Y3/Y4), route a mix of this and "real roads")

two primary school aged children riding their bikes independently to school in Dundee, Scotland

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