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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

Back to Stretford via Salford Quays. Cycle path overgrown again on Trafford Road.

Cycle path overgrown again on Trafford Road

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

On Deansgate. Riding down here is like Wacky Races, always some kind of incident, usually multiple.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

That’s some rise!

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

What is it with the sweetcorn on Market Street. It’s like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon backdrop, there’s so many.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

Getting across town. Be more tram.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

Surely they’re supposed to leave some of this clear?

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

Feeling very autumnal as I made my way towards Manchester and through Ancoats.

New towers in the distance on the Ashton Canal

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

After avoiding the half marathon, riding along the Bridgewater Canal, made my way over to the Fallowfield Loop, for the usual route 🧵

Leaves on the ground along the Ashton Canal

Looking along one of the locks towards Manchester

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 8h

Half marathon day in Manchester today. Always pleasing to see the A56 free of traffic and given over to people.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 15h

Katwijk aan Zee is a funny one. Huge sums spent on sea defences and installing an underground car park in dunes. Meanwhile there's only protected cycling on one side on the seafront.

In the latest #Netherlands24 post, join me on a loop ride to Katwijk, via the dune path and back inland #Bikesky

Netherlands 24: Loop ride from Duinrell to Katwijk

On the sixth day of our week at Duinrell, having a little time to kill in the morning, I headed out onto the dunes for a quick loop ride to Katwijk. This is somewhere we’d been previously, ba…

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

PSA: People on bikes aren’t swerving to annoy drivers, they’re just trying not to die or destroy their mode of transportation.
This is generally what the bike portion looks like of our “shared” roads. Glorious.

broken up piece of road next to the sidewalk.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Big rugby match at Old Trafford today, with the Super League Grand Final. Notice there isn’t a single car parked on the pavement in Trafford Park.

Clearly rugby league fans are far more considerate than those Man Utd fans who are too cheap to pay for parking for their SUVs.

No cars parked on the pavement at Fraser Place

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Video of Sunday's Drum & Bass on the Bike ride in Manchester now available to watch. Seeing how many times I can spot myself 😆
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO94...

Drum & Bass On The Bike - MANCHESTER

YouTube video by Dom Whiting

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Rare ride to the quays for lunch, with the whole family. Eldest usually has better things to do nowadays, than hang around with us!

Eldest and other half riding up the old Moss Road bridge

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Manchester half marathon tomorrow.

I quite like these events coming through our area, but I don’t like them closing the main cycle route to Manchester for 2 days each time, with no safe alternative route provided.

More car-brained thinking, as people on bikes don’t count.

Talbot Road closed the day before the event

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Saturday morning walk to the docs for a flu jab, then over to the Old Trafford cricket ground for coffee.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 2d

Riding from Duinrell to Den Haag across the dunes, then going up Uitzichtpunt Binnenhof and enjoying views of the city.

From this week’s #Netherlands24 post, see wp.me/p6f6qW-8nW for more videos and photos #Bikesky

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Same here, many fantastic holidays at Duinrell!

Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 1d

Riding along the seafront in Scheveningen, then back to Duinrell along the dune path.

From this week’s #Netherlands24 post, Riding to Den Haag and Scheveningen via Madurodam.

More videos and photos at wp.me/p6f6qW-8nW

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 2d

Riding from Duinrell to Den Haag across the dunes, then going up Uitzichtpunt Binnenhof and enjoying views of the city.

From this week’s #Netherlands24 post, see wp.me/p6f6qW-8nW for more videos and photos #Bikesky

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 4d

No one stopped me, but I had to mount the pavement

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 4d

F**king tories

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Dom Cycling @domcycling.com · 4d

Spring and autumn, definitely my favourite times for cycling

Autumnal trees on the edge of Hulme Park

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