Liam M

@liamm82.bsky.social

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Cycling enthusiast and occasional (poor) racer. Engineer professionally

Finish gantry across road at Otley Races
A road sign with Kendal, Settle, Giggleswick, Rathmell and Wigglesworth on
A partially disassembled track bike in the bucket of a cargo bike
Text from page of Rouleur magazine The earlier start for the women should ensure two things, though: a stronger start list (last year, for example Demi Vollering, Pauline Ferrand Prévot and Kasia Niewiad- oma all swerved it), and a similar dose of icy suffering that the men routinely face. There is no guarantee that the summit finish in Sestriere at the beginning of June won't be a white-out. I do hope not*.
A large group of cyclists from the women's club 'Queensbury Queens of the Mountain' plus one from Otley CC
A yellow triangular sign with what appears to be a dog and person in wheelchair.
A bike with a yellow three wheel trailer attached to rear. A second bike propped against it
Me in a bright orange jacket on a bakfiets, with my partner in the bucket in a rainbow stripes bobble hat
A list of the different geographical terms for a simple bread roll across the UK. Sixteen names are defined.
White car parked across cycle lane, between wands. Also rear of black car on pavement behind.
Veloviewer annual graphic 2025 13404km ridden, plus other stats
A map of UK, France, Belgium and Netherlands with a green line plotting a cycle tour route. Map from Fetcheveryone.com
Riders (Alvarado, van Alphen, van der Heiden) in warm up kit recce a tricky muddy corner at Dendermonde cx
Some sparrows dust bathing.
Me, in blue cycling kit, riding through a filthy muddy puddle on a cx course
A young collared dove standing on the handle of a glass door looking in.
Fat dog on stage, with Lovely Eggs 'Fuck It' scarf held up in foreground
Poster for Otley CC 2 Stage Hill Climb, 4th October 2025, around Nidderdale, Yorkshire. Entries close 23 September
A bike drive train covered in thick mud
A carnival dance troupe in bright loud feathered costume
Kevin Vaquelin checking out the Caen TT course against a bight blue sky
Start of u16 men at Otley GP 2025, on Burras Lane
Two swans, a load of cygnets, some ducks and a black headed gull swimming
A cycle path, with a car parked in it, by a car park entrance
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”
Road sign on crossing 'pedestrians, beware of left turning vehicles violating traffic lights'
Manchester velodrome for the National Track Champs
Four people in a line wearing X2O badkamers duck hats.
Large crowds around circuit at Dendermonde
A very muddy field
A small man made hill on a cx course
A photo of the course at GP Sven Nys
Sign saying merry crossmass
Unicycles aren't often thought of as cargo bikes, but the brothers would even ride them to their paternal grandparents' farm to collect milk. "When we'd tell Tadej and Tilen to go fetch some milk, they'd say: 'It's too hard to walk. It's easier to go by bike,' so they'd go by unicycle," Marjeta laughs.
A rider in Movistar kit riding through trees on a cx course
Part of a banner for a cycle hire company outside a cafe, featuring the line 'Hills Hurt, Couches Kill'
Blue bicycle against wall looking out from summit of Pico de las Nieves
A clear tubular altitude tent over a bed.
A very muddy front wheel on a cx bike
A photo of me in a cx race. I appear to have been shrunk!
Excerpt from UCI regs on conduct in races pertaining towards violence
Shopping list item "2 x haricot/cannellini beans" with clarification added "tins of, not individual beans"