Notices by Pete (pete@masto.hypertelia.com)

All dry stone walls impress me, but limestone ones are something else. The sheer number of stones that are required is mindblowing. And at some point a waller must have placed that first stone, then another and then just gone on, and on, and on …

#Clacton, Your Count Needs You. #VoteBinface

Not tiny, not balancing, sheep.
#sheepOfMastodon

I’m marshalling a couple of crit races this evening and should have worn a warmer jacket. Shivering as I post this! #cycling #bikeTooter

#TinyBalancingSheep Am I doing this right? 🤣️

And finishing the day with an actual #TinyBalancingSheep

So #BikeTooter seems very excited by this noise-cancelling headphone negating bell, but I don't get it. Pedestrians have priority. End of. They don't need to hear you. Many can't hear you even if they wanted to. Thinking that dinging a bell comes with an expectation of a clear run is no different to drivers honking a horn and expecting cyclists to get out the road. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#Cycling #BikeTooter

A four seasons in one day kinda ride today, which made the sunny spells extra special. #gravel #cycling #bikeTooter

Y' can tell which way the wind is blowing this morning. #SundaySheep #SheepOfMastodon

1% of our coffee comes from Pedro, whose wife and kids we keep locked up in the basement.

@ai6yr Better (in that it's always nice to have the proper tool for the job) than calipers are seat post gauges, eg: https://wheelsmfg.com/products/seat-post-gauge or https://www.worldclassbikes.com/bike-hand-seat-tube-gauge.html With myriad alternatives out there too.

"Olympic Park velodrome reflects 'fireworks as farts'"

Amazing! 😂
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c77z50zxzyxo #bikeTooter #architecture

'Resumed ceasefire after airstrikes'. Yeah, and I'm resuming vegetarianism after beef burgers. #FreePalestine

Another paper published with my name on it, mainly involving people far cleverer than I am but hey, a credit's a credit. https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-025-05566-6

Mastodon made me do it: Inspired by @jerzone and @LillyHerself mentioning him the other day, this afternoon I rode out looking for a couple of Andrew Goldworthy's pieces from his 20+ year old Sheepfolds project. The published grid references were a nonsense, but the old map made sense and managed to find them.
One was, I imagine, pretty much as built, but nature had rather taken over the other. #cumbria #scupture #cycling

@ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite A2 #BikeNite I run tubeless, so will carry bacon strips and/or dynaplugs/WTB rocket plugs for if a hole won't seal. I'll usually leave these in place 'forever' but will sometimes do a proper repair with either mushroom plugs or cement and patches. I needed to patch a patch the other week.
When running tubes I'd replace them out on the ride, but then repair once home. Using proper cement and patches and not the self-adhesive things.

@Neil @ascentale @bobjonkman @bikenite Cleaned with brake disc cleaner and then very lightly roughed up: I think you want to keep as much rubber (rather than thread/casing) in contact with the adhesive. I had to stitch this one up first as well.

“We clicked “accept” on 90,000-word privacy agreements that we didn’t read, signing away all our data in exchange for convenience and dopamine hits. We handed over our personal information to Mark Zuckerberg, a man who called his users “dumb fucks” for trusting him. We carry tracking devices in our pockets and watch “smart” TVs that watch us right back. We sold our privacy cheaply, creating surveillance billionaires in the process.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/coldplay-kiss-cam-ceo-hr-story-sinister-truth

#FensterFreitag

"The frame has no dull sounds when checking so no cracks from what we can tell" 🤨 #Fleabay #Cycling