Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com), page 7

My crew for the day

Just cycled past a familiar face! This is me pretending to say Hi to @thomasp 👋

(even though I took this a couple of minutes after I left him)

Many hours later and I am almost home

Back at the top of GK again.

55km (34 miles) with 804m (2638 ft) of elevation gain and over 4 hours of cycling time.

I should also add that I was horribly hung over… but somehow I made this work.

#Strava

https://www.strava.com/activities/11448293354

Image from my Nokia 225 with its 0.3MP camera using an upscaler and tweaking the colours slightly.

Ok, yes it is still terrible but you do get some essence of the nice flower blossoms 🌸

[For those in Oslo, this was taken right by Carl Berners]

Norway… why you do me like that? This ain't fucking spring!!?

#HalfBike #Oslo #Oslove

Har du sett noen veltepettere sykle rundt i Oslo (som ikke er gul)? Hvis du har, gi meg beskjed. Jeg tror det kan være så mange som fire av oss som sykler på dem. 🤯

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🇬🇧 Have you seen any Penny Farthings cycling around in Oslo (that are not yellow). If you have, let me know. I think there might be as many as four of us that cycle on them. 🤯

#Veltepetter #Oslo #NorskTut

It has taken a few years but we are finally reaching the point where #unicycling has overtaken all other micro mobility solutions in #Oslo

#Enhjulssykkel #MastoBikes #SykkelTut #ActiveTransport

I feel like people out there who have not met me in real life underestimate how tall I am.

For the lazy, this will also demonstrate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_bicycle

Today I realised that I have not crashed my #PennyFarthing for 3 years, 11 months, 22 days.

This was the last time

https://www.strava.com/activities/3925863651

And people say they are not safe! 😜

#Strava

Sent to me via @atlemo

It seems I was noticed on my commute in today

Ok can I get a quick #WristCheck from everyone? I'm curious about the range of timepieces here.

Take a picture of your watch right now and say what it is. I'll start, Armitron Griffy.

Boosts appreciated.

@forteller I would love to watch it but I am not setting up a recurring subscription (which I will likely forget about and then be charged massively 6 months down the line) just to view one video.

Hmm… turns out that with a little messing around I can setup Signal messenger account with a UK landline from the Ladybank area code, which are UK numbers +44 1337 …

The is kinda nerdy 🤓

🤔 … hmm… maybe I should make this my main Signal contact point? 🤪

P.S. Thanks for helping me test that @atlemo

<sarcasm>X seems like a really nice place these days</sarcasm> 🙄

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-the-x-files-how-elon-musks-new-rules-allow-hate-to-flourish/

Safe and sound sleeping inside today, curled up like a fluffy weirdo in one of the kids seats.

@matt Ok I have two Punkt MP01s

I was also given by them as an early external tester/enthusiast and MP02 before it went live by the founder Petter Neby. I once met up with him in Oslo for a chat (he is Norwegian but no longer lives here).

I hate to say it but that phone was so fucking buggy I could not deal with it. It killed my interest in Punkt. I should probably start it up again and try updating it, maybe they fixed things but it was such a let down at the time.

@matt If you found the MP01 buggy… you will be dissapointed in the MP02. The predictive text is a fucking nightmare. I logged a bunch of bugs to them but I don not think they go me at all. It would be unusuable for Signal/Pigeon I reckon because of how hard it was to type.

Also the sound quality on my unit was attrocious (maybe I just have a hardware fault 🤷)

But at that point I was left thinking… why?