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Service Course Ryan

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As the Service Course, I make the world's best bicycle wash kits. As Ryan, I manage the freelance side of the house at Escape Collective.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail, depicting French soldiers in a castle and subtitled with "fetchez la vache!"
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Oh, yeah. That’s some bike racing.
The tail end of the peloton riding through a downpour at the Tour de Suisse.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
counterpointcounter
An image of Canadian men's road champion Derek Gee-West in a pretty bad national champions jersey. The maple leaf is centered below his navel.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There are far more egregious issues with the NYT, but not explaining *why* this chair is called the Bibendum in an article on the 10 Most Important Chairs is a crime nevertheless.
Screenshot from a NYT article about the 10 most important chair designs, showing the Bibendum chair designed by Irish architect Eileen Gray in 1926. It's puffy, multi-tube shape clearly evokes Bibendum, aka, the Michelin Man.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Thanks, Belgium. You were great.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Kind of wild that Strava has been able to brand every major climb in Flanders.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Kind of wild that Strava has been able to brand every major climb in Flanders.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The struggle.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We stan a king.
Photo of a poster depicting Peter van Petegem riding to the win at the 2003 Paris-Roubaix.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
OMG, the sun.
A springer spaniel on a lounge chair enjoying sunshine.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I mean, I suppose I’m open to his ideas on the topic.
Photo showing the book “Collected works of Jim Morrison” on a bookstore shelf labeled Cleaning & Organization.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Trent Reznor would like a word.
Image displays the "NIN" logo of the band Nine Inch Nails
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Unredeemed boxed lunch ticket from the 2004 Gent-Wevelgem. The pressroom was in a library with a horribly fragrant bathroom, and Tom Boonen won his first major classic in apocalyptic conditions.
An image of a red and white card with several cyclists and the word "Lunchpakket" printed on it. It is a ticket for a boxed lunch issued to members of the press at the 2004 Gent-Wevelgem cycling race.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"How can we phrase routine traffic enforcement in the most inflammatory way possible?"
Screenshot of a WTOP online article headlined "New fine for drivers who get in teh way of bike riders in Montgomery Co.". The article describes new legislation under which people who park in bike lanes can be fined $60.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I see no possible way this could go wrong.
An image of a spray can of Great Stuff, a notoriously messy expandable foam filler.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Wish you were here.
A photograph of Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote great political obituaries, among other things.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
@ee1.nl Were we talking about the Burney/Cyclocross pic of Beat Breu? Found it.
Photo of a page in the first edition of Simon Burney’s book, Cyclocross, depicting Swiss cyclist Beat Breu riding a muddy cyclocross race.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“On the other side, it didn’t say nothin’ This land was made for you and me.” -Woody Guthrie
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Text reading “Still 46 dollars, for now” with a subhead reading “think of it as a sale from the future”, set against a background image of a Service Course brand conical brush, one brush included in the Service Course bike wash kit.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Seconded.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Happy 7-Eleven to all who celebrate. Go get your free Slurpee.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Top-notch work on the photo generation/selection.
A clickable headline reads "Wimbledon Results" under a photo of red-clad sports fans going crazy, complete with wigs, drums, confetti, and megaphones. You know, the sort of ambiance Wimbledon is famous for.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Pfft. Show-offs.
A photo of a black Volvo V60 with very modest Service Course magnetic signage on the doors and an air horn slapped on the roof.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The weather is at it again.
A screenshot of an AccuWeather alert that reads, “watch as a man uses a snowmobile to narrowly escape a charging polar bear.”
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
No way— I thought I felt an exploding manhole front come through.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
BYOB Wash Kits are back in stock in the online store until they aren’t. www.theservicecourse.com/shop
A photo of a Service Course brand B.Y.O.B. bicycle wash kit, which consists of three natural Tampico bristled brushes and a red microfiber towel in a black mesh drawstring bag.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I said nothing when they filed earthquakes under weather, and now here we are. Planes are weather.
An AccuWeather app alert about an airplane engine fire on the tarmac in Orlando, Florida.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
No thanks.
An image of an e-mail subject line reading, “You may be a fit for U.S. House of Representatives Communications Director role - Actively recruiting.”
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My contribution to Weird Schwinn bsky. Serotta-built Paramount Ti, which were exceptionally affordable if you were in Boulder in 1999.
A picture of a gold Schwinn Paramount titanium frameset sitting on a shelf full of bike junk.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
“You will be visited by three spirits” The three spirits:
Luis Ocana, Eddy Merckx, and Raymond Poulidor riding in the 1969 Tour de France
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This still cracks me up when the F500 surfaces each year.
A patch showing a marijuana leaf and words “Festive 420,” a parody of the Rapha Festive 500 holiday challenge. The tagline is “smoke weed and bleed.”
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tro Bro Leon posters will make an awesome coffee table book someday.
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
For some reason, I was looking at results for the GP Marseillaise and noticed this likely unintentional typo-slam on last year's winner, Neilson Powless.
Screenshot of results from the 2023 GP Marseillaise, which misspells winner Neilson Powless's name as "Powerless."
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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Feels like witnessing a start of big things.
Eli Iserbyt, Thibau Nys, and Pim Ronhaar standing on the podium of the first round of the cyclocross Workd Cup in Waterloo, Wisconsin, USA.
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