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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Started adding cyclist-friendly cafés to #WillCycle routes. If YOU know of good cyclist-friendly stops along #TrafficFree cycle routes listed on www.WillCycle.com, please let me know?

Cyclist-friendly stops on this route
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Café · Approximately half a mile. off route · Featured
Rockets & Rascals is a cycling-themed cafe, with excellent coffee, good food, and they have a (small) indoor bike park.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Name lists of US PoWs who died in Dartmoor Prison. Saddest of all is, after the USA win the war of independence, most of these men remained locked up, while Britain and the newly-formed USA argued over who'd pay to repatriate them. As a result, they rioted, and many were gunned down.

Memorial for the US men buried behind the Dartmoor Prison. It says they're not forgotten, but the cemetery is not in great shape.

A large granite slab, carrying the names, dates of death, and places they came from (where known).

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Out of focus selfie. Past the parts of my bike in the foreground, you can just see my yellow coat reflected in a glass door.

A bicycle partly seen in the foreground. Behind it there's a stone building, with glass doors.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Out of focus selfie. Past the parts of my bike in the foreground, you can just see my yellow coat reflected in a glass door.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Spent too long bike fettling this morning, so I drove into Plymouth, and cycled from there. Encountered some heavy congestion whilst cycling.

A rural lane, with some Dartmoor ponies, a few pedestrians weaving their way through, and some cyclists behind them.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

3 more traffic-free cycling routes added within the past 12 hours. I actually have another 17 route guides that are almost ready to publish. Why should you use my route guides, instead of that of Walk Wheel Cycle Trust, given they built the NCN? For […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

A screenshot of the multi-map from WillCycle (this one is from the app, but the website shows the same data). on the map of the UK and Ireland, there are multi-coloured lines, representing the different routes.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Padstow hates cyclists, despite profiting hugely from the cyclists on the #CamelTrail. Nasty little village, with anti-cycling signs everywhere. If you're telling me to dismount somewhere cars are allowed to drive, I'll make a point of NOT dismounting, and you probably won't like my 2-worded reply.

A sign on the edge of Padstow, telling cyclists to dismount.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Everything you didn't realise that you badly wanted to know about the #WillCycle app. This is a cycling app completely unlike any other, offering unique features that will make your life better. www.willcycle.com/willcycle-app/the…

A screenshot of the WillCycle app. It offers 8 buttons, entitled Browse, Navigate, My Routes, Share Location, Games, Bike Profiles, Touring Routes and Settings.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Rain radar highlights the problem I have with trying to test the WillCycle app's rain warning: no rain showing near me, so the app won't warn me of rain. Sigh...

A screenshot of the rain radar map, from www.willcycle.com, showing most of Dartmoor, and surrounding areas. there's rain showing to the north-northwest of Dartmoor.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Cycling home was hard work! Had to battle with a fierce headwind most of the way. Several branches were down along the route, too. The branch in the pic wasn't the biggest, but a minute or so before, I had to stop to let a car pass in the opposite […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

A narrow rural lane, with vegetation growing in the middle, and hedges either side. To the right, and overhead, there are trees. In the lane, mostly blocking it, is a branch.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Had a good day, visiting eldest daughter. We had a mini road trip, and visited the grave of Kitty Jay (if you don't know the story, do look it up!) and later we had ice cream by the beach. Sho got me this 7" single, too. She knows my taste in music.

A colour cover for a Sisters of Mercy 7" single. On the cover, it shows the lead singer, Andrew Aldrich, and Patricia Morrison on the cover.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

Gorgeous hike on Dartmoor. From near Buckfastleigh, I set off towards the Avon dam, then followed the river upstream. I wanted to go to Redlake, but I set off too late. Only a 5 mile hike, but plenty of 25% gradients.

One of the stone crosses on Dartmoor, which used to mark the way between the abbeys at Buckfastleigh and Tavistock.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Where are YOU going cycling this weekend? Find awesome traffic-free #cycling routes near you, and experience the very best, most detailed route guides. All for free! #WillCycle www.willcycle.com/traffic-free-cycl…

A map of the UK showing traffic-free cycle routes as squiggly coloured lines.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

My #StravaHeatmap is done - these are all my rides from Strava, since 2013. Clearly, there's SO MUCH of the UK, and Ireland, that I still have to go cycle! What will YOUR heatmap look like? www.willcycle.com/strava-heat-map

A satellite view of the UK and Ireland, with a bunch of bike rides showing as pale blue lines on the map. Most are in the south west of England.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Any London-based cyclists into horses, and single-line art? If so, I can let you have the GPX for this route, built using the #WillCycle #GPSart Generator. And did I mention you can use it for free? What routes will YOU design with it? It works globally […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Screenshot of a map of London. Overlaid on the map is a cycle route, tracing a single-line drawing of a horse's head.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Happy with how the #WillCycle Route Builder is now. See how the route line changes colours? That indicates gradient, right on the route map! For the rest of this week, the Route Builder is free for everyone to use: www.willcycle.com/route-builder #Cycling #GPX #Mapping

A screenshot of a map showing both Horrabridge and Yelverton, on Dartmoor. There's a cycle route line that changes colour, depending on the gradient.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

What routes have you designed with the #WillCycle #GPSart route generator? Though WillCycle is focused on the UK, the tool works anywhere in the world. www.willcycle.com/gps-art #Cycling

Screenshot of a map of London, with a cycle route in blue superimposed on it. The route forms the name WillCycle.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Any Brummie cyclists fancy doing some #GPSart? Let me know, and I can let you have the GPS for this route shown in the image below. Route generated using the #WillCycle GPS Art Generator: www.willcycle.com/gps-art YOU can use it, too! For free! […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Screenshot of a map showing Birmingham, with a cycle route superimposed in a wiggly blue lane, roughly tracing the line of a bicycle.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

Cyclists, BEFORE your bike ride, check this rain radar map, and also check the wind speed and direction, as that could help you avoid getting wet. Tell your friends, too, and bookmark it! www.willcycle.com/rain-radar-map #Cycling #WillCycle

A map of the UK and Ireland, showing rain radar data.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

Today is #NewBicycleDay for me. But not in the way you're thinking! I got 2 of these model bikes. They come in kit form and I had to assemble them. They'll each be mounted on a bookend, for my bookshelf #Cycling #WillCycle

A model bicycle kit, in unassembled form.

A fully-assembled green model of a classic bicycle

A green, classic model bicycle on a bookshelf, with some cycling books behind.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

In this hot weather, are you familiar with the science of hydration? This guide is for cyclists, but also applies to anyone spending time outside. www.willcycle.com/2025/04/08/the-sc… #Cycling #Hydration #Heatwave #WillCycle

A wineglass full of clear water, slightly spilling to the right, on a white background.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

These 2 women led the ceremonies at the start. The one wearing sunglasses is the woman I'm trying to find details for:

A picture showing 2 women, in pagan dress, One is wearing sunglasses. They're holding hands, and dancing inside Stonehenge.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

I feel the architect who designed the monstrously ugly #Stonehenge Visitors Centre needs a complete change of job.

A very ugly, square building, with a roof that looks like a scaffolding structure

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

Bike rebuild is done, and I've taken it for a test ride. I'm well happy with it.

A blue bicycle on a slightly overgrown lawn. In the background is a garden table and chairs

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

Couldn't help myself, so I finished spraying the 1st colour coat onto my bike's frame. It's really a great colour!

A close-up of part of a bicycle frame that's painted a pearl blue

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It it a UFO? No, it's Will's little drone, caught on the rear-view camera.

A picture showing a street, from a rear-facing, bicycle mounted camera.
The road is grey tar, and too the left you can see the pannier carry-handle loop. Behind that is a 2-storey stone house, with cast-iron ornate fencing. To the right is green lawn, and beyond that are some more houses.
The sky is mostly blue, with a few white clouds. Clearly visible above the road is my drone, following me.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2025

I got so lucky with the weather, for cycling the Camel Trail, from Bodmin to Padstow. As a there-and-back, it's 25 miles. As an added bonus, despite the weather, it wasn't particularly busy, either. May have surprised some people with the drone following me along the last 4 miles or so.

A view out to sea, at the mouth of the Camel river. Padstow is visible ahead to the left.
The tide is out, and there's a lot of sand showing.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

When you see this view while out cycling, despair! The photo only shows 1/2 the drop into the valley. It's a double-dip valley, too: you ride up a reasonable 16% gradient, then it kicks up and stays at 29.5%. When you reach the summit of the 1st climb, you have Darkie Hill ahead & that's worse

A rural lane disappearing around a bend. Ahead is a green, steeply-sided valley, with a house on the hill.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025

You could buy a plain white T-shirt from Prada, for £690. OR, you could get this awesome T-shirt for just £25 (if using discount code willgives£5off ) Discount valid till 17 April 25 only, so hurry! […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

A black T-shirt. On the chest, it reads in large letters, Freedom, and above that, there's an image of a touring cyclist riding along a winding road towards the rising sun.

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

Only my 2nd time ever in Budleigh Salterton. Not a bad view for a café stop. After, I need to cycle back to Exmouth and might do some exploring there, before heading home. This is the (mostly) traffic-free route: www.willcycle.com/2023/11/04/exmout… #Cycling #WillCycle

A view out to sea, from inside a café porch area. There's a waist-height white wooden wall in the foreground. Beyond that, there's a parasol, and the sea in the background. The sky is almost completely covered in cloud

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WilliamNB 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025

Isn't that just the fluffiest little lamb you ever saw 😍 From my bike ride this weekend.

A view across a metal gate to a farmer's field. Through the gate you can see a very fluffy ewe, and her equally fluffy lamb. The background is fields of green, and the sky is blue, with plenty white clouds.

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