Bike with a vengeance

28/05/2026

Pedal on Parliament 2026 is this Saturday and I have an idea how to add some excitement with a tiny route extension 😎💪

26/05/2026

Yesterday I continued my mission to find and document as many car-free (or very car-light) cycling routes out of Glasgow as I can.
This one was Balloch to Aberfoyle (with a quick mandatory loop of woodland gravel trails).
I hardly took any photos, and probably none outside of the shade of the trees (it was hard enough out in the open, going 100K up the hills in the scorching sun!) but I'll have a wee video one day (with the link to the route).
Tired but buzzing!
I'm back on the bike, with a vengeance.

16/05/2026

I spotted it yesterday morning... A removal notice from the council on a ghost bike 😢

This ghost bike, by the river in Glasgow, is a memorial to Emma, a young woman who lost her life on that corner while cycling to her classes. The driver was found guilty - but the bad infrastructure played a role in that tragedy and the corner was completely redesigned to allow safer cycling.

I didn't know her but her story, and the incredible resilience of her parents have moved me to tears.
I think about it every time I pass by.

Today... I spotted a notice on it. A removal notice from Glasgow City Council.
If that was the decision of Emma's parents - I respect it and I'm happy to delete this if it can spare them even more suffering.
But I have a feeling that's not what happened there.

I wanted to get it on camera while it's still there.
And in case this is just an extremely insensitive action from GCC - I wanted to let people know and stop it from happening.
I hope you understand.
I hope it causes no hurt to her family and friends.
I hope we can do better in Glasgow ;(

11/05/2026

28/04/2026

WTF moment of the day, 23rd April 2026.
Don't be that guy.

27/04/2026

For what it's worth, I'm happy to see First Bus Glasgow declaring support for the LGBTQ community.
I would also love to see their drivers respect the Advance Stop Line (AKA the bike box).
It's still 3 points and a £100 on paper, you know.

20/04/2026

A few photos from the end of yesterday's spontaneous ride

18/04/2026

Chasing the sun earlier this evening

08/04/2026

Here's a short, moody edit of the handful of drone shots I managed to get on my recent ride through the Arrochar Alps.

(posting a youtube link rather than uploading a video here, in case I get flagged again by meta bots for using music that was legally licensed and paid for. And let's face it, it looks better there!)

A short edit of a handful of drone clips shot on my ride through Arrochar Alps, where I was looking for solitude and found plenty of it.Full route: https://w...

07/04/2026

Yesterday's ride, celebrating the joy life on the 5th anniversary of my Mum's passing. I'm sure she would approve (maybe apart from that high speed crash I had on one of the descents...)
Arrochar to Dunnon through the mountains (with some hike-a-bike sections). Pretty short but with solid amount of climbing. Train and ferry where needed.
❤️‍🩹💪

02/04/2026

My 'Sunday Bike' posing in the old Govan Graving Docks building, now part of the brand new park.
This was a filming location on a music video I shot in 2017 that ended up never getting finished or released... and much more importantly, in Sam Mendes' war film 1917.
it's good to see the space finally being open to the public again after years and years of closure.

P.S. the Tennents can used for leaning the bike on was obviously already there but otherwise it looked a lot cleaner than it did the last time I was there!