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Husband. Dad. Rider of bikes. Drinker of Real Ale. Breaker of Things. @RoadCC reviewer. 🌱-powered. Lapsed Kiwi🇳🇿-Newbie Scot🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿-Believer in Better
May 25 11 tweets 9 min read
This morning’s ride (or, What I Did On My Holiday): a thread

Depart Taynuilt 5:44am. Love the new @ScotRail bike carriage. PLEASE PLEASE Put one of these on the Inverness line now!


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Arrived in Tyndrum 30 mins later. And straight onto the West Highland Way. A few sketchy red-grade bits most folks will walk, but mostly nice.


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Mar 5, 2019 19 tweets 20 min read
@thomasrcock @bathlive @sampetherick @CycleBath Thanks for engaging positively here Thomas, appreciated. First let’s agree terms. In saying ‘hate speech’, I’m going with the Wikipedia definition that hate speech is “speech that attacks a person/group on the basis of attributes such as” being a cyclist.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_spee… @thomasrcock @bathlive @sampetherick @CycleBath Now hate speech is typically thought of as only being relevant to race, sexual orientation, etc. But it can be and is used as a tool to vilify segments of the population, usually those perceived as out-groups who are seen as minorities with no or ill-gotten rights.