James Smith @Floppy

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**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · 14m

This viewpoint is off to the edge of Everton Brow compared to the standard one, but you get a nicer view of the city centre.

Looking down the hill in a park, across grassed areas criss-crossed with a couple of tarmac paths. Beyond the grass are trees; and beyond the trees, in the distance you can see the city centre of Liverpool: skyscrapers and other buildings including the St. John's Beacon tower and the twin towers of the Liver Building, topped with Liver Birds just visible on the horizon. All under a cloudless blue sky

#InTheSaddle #Liverpool #BikeTooter

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · 20h

20h

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

The view from the soundsystem bike on tonight's #JoyRide. Excellent fun as ever.

#Liverpool #BikeTooter #InTheSaddle

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · 2d

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Out for a late #InTheSaddle in an attempt to salvage something from the evening after mostly failing at community management.

Happened to bump into a mate at the lights near the end of the ride, and had a good chat for a few sequences of green, so got home in a better frame of mind

An orange gravel bike leans against the railings alongside Canning Dock. The lights of night-time Liverpool reflect off the water, and two ships are moored in the background: tug Brocklebank and former ferry Daffodil, now a restaurant and festooned with strings of white lights

#BikeTooter #NightRider

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · 6d

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

The Cheshire lanes make for excellent riding.

Had a lovely 42 mile (74km) ride with some mates yesterday. Lots of picturesque country villages, two castles, and a water mill.

A country lane lined with green hedgerow leads away from us, curving slightly to the left. It disappears amongst trees which cover the hill ahead. Just visible at the top of the hill are the ruins of Beeston Castle, stood on a sandstone ridge

Not far from Beeston Castle, another view of a castle from a country lane. Another green hedge, a smattering of dandelions in the verge of this one and a lone tree wrapped in green creeper of some sort.

These hills are more rolling, rather than the sudden rise of Beeston. Atop one is the still in use (though as a hotel these days) Peckforton Castle.

A two storey building built in sandstone and black-painted horizontal planks of wood, with a slate roof. Attached to the right-hand end of it is a wooden overshot water wheel, also painted black.

A series of wooden bollards mark the edge of the road past the flour mill, and three bikes are leant against them. Two of the cyclists are stood at the open doorway to the mill, the third was holding the camera.

#BikeTooter #InTheSaddle #Cheshire

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Apr 26

Apr 26

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

All the south parks for last night's #FolkRidingBikes group ride.

Crown St Park -> the Mystery -> Childwall Woods -> Score Lane Gardens -> the Loop Line -> Camp Hill -> Clarkes Gardens -> Allerton Towers -> Calderstones Park -> Penny Lane. Then a stop to celebrate @Styles becoming a Dr. and back home via Sefton Park and Princes Park.

The view from Camp Hill, looking out across a grassy field to woods at the bottom of the hill. In the distance there are houses and just about visible is the River Mersey

Lots of bikes of all types parked up on their stands or leaning against a low wall around the park benches spaced out along it, at the top of Camp Hill

#Liverpool #BikeTooter #InTheSaddle

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Apr 20

Apr 20

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

GPS echoes.

Looking across a neatly ploughed field. The furrows nearest the camera run left to right, but just beyond that (and most of the field) has furrows running away from the camera and we're looking along some perfectly straight miniature valleys, laid out by a modern tractor with satnav

#InTheSaddle #Lancashire #BikeTooter

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Apr 18

Apr 18

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Took advantage of the bank holiday for an earlier #FolkRidingBikes ride, and we got a bit further afield too.

Rode up to the top of Clieve Hill just outside Aughton and back, via a brief stop in a 705 year old pub.

https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/bike-routes_491983#12/53.4805/-3.0006

A group of cyclists stopped outside an old whitewashed brick pub with a thatched roof. The sign on the side of it names it the Scotch Piper, and underneath proclaims "The oldest inn in Lancashire. A.D. 1320"

Although strictly speaking, these days it's actually in Merseyside

A map of Liverpool and the Lancashire plain to its north. Overlaid is a bike route that runs up to Waterloo, then across just past Sefton village, over to Lydiate and between Aughton and Downholland. Then retracing its route to Rimrose Valley where it picks up the Leeds-Liverpool canal and back to Liverpool

#Lancashire #Liverpool #Ormskirk

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Apr 6

Apr 6

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Made it back after an excellent weekend catching up with mates and taking in art in London in enough time for a quick #InTheSaddle ride along the river and back through the parks.

#BikeTooter #Otterspool #Liverpool

Continued thread

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 30

Mar 30

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

And another #InTheSaddle photo from the return journey from my trip home for Mothers' Day.

Somewhere beyond that wall there are lions. Couldn't hear their roars for the roar of traffic on the East Lancs a couple of metres behind me as I took that.

(It's the edge of Lord Derby's estate, home to Knowsley Safari Park)

An orange gravel bike with a petrol blue pannier leans against a red-and-white striped pipe (warning of the location of an underground gas pipe), in front of a sandstone wall, topped with iron railings which are painted black with white pointed finials

#BikeTooter #Knowsley

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 30

Mar 30

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Leaning my bike against a remnant of the old platform for the Skem to St. Helens line. In the background you can just see the footbridge between the platforms on Rainford Junction (now named just Rainford, even though it's in the hamlet of Rainford Junction and a mile or so away from Rainford itself) station.

An orange gravel bike leaning against an overgrown former railway platform. The bed of the railway is now just a gravel path. Off to the left of the picture is the wood-panelled signal box of the still-working line, and just visible in the distance is the lattice ironwork of a footbridge over the railway.

#InTheSaddle #Rainford #RainfordJunction

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 22

Mar 22

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Didn't have anything in for lunch, so went to Formby. CW for photo of food, but there's also a nice bike zine

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 22

Mar 22

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

First trip over the water this year for the #FolkRidingBikes Friday evening social ride.

Started in West Kirby and rode round the coast to Birkenhead.

#BikeTooter #Wirral #RiverMersey

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 15

Mar 15

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Bandstands of north Liverpool. An impromptu collection from today's #InTheSaddle ride

A wrought iron, octagonal bandstand, painted black, on a low red brick base in an open grassy park, with a couple of dirt paths passing by it.

This one is in Newsham Park in Liverpool.

A pretty octagonal wrought iron bandstand surrounded by a paved area in a park. It's mostly painted white, with coloured highlights, and a green copper roof. Just to one side of it is the Isla Gladstone conservatory, a relatively-recently restored Victorian glasshouse.

This is in Stanley Park in Liverpool, and while taking it I could hear the excitement of the crowd at one of Everton's last games at the nearby Goodison Park.

Another octagonal wrought iron bandstand, this one painted white with black details. It's on a stone-walled pedestal and surrounded by grass and then a black metal fence.

This one in Derby Park in Bootle

#BikeTooter #bandstand #park

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 15

Mar 15

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Last night the band Stealing Sheep joined us for a special #JoyRide listening party. We played their new album on the soundsystem and everyone decked their bikes out in colourful LEDs (inc. lots of @MCQN_Ltd's My Bike's Got LED kits )

They performed from the back of the trike and livestreamed it to their socials (sadly they're not on the Fediverse)

Here's a bit from my phone when we were down at the Pier Head

https://youtu.be/lHBB-LXvlJA

YouTube#JoyRide Stealing Sheep Listening Party at the Pier HeadBy Adrian McEwen

#BikeTooter #InTheSaddle #Liverpool

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 9

Mar 9

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

First shorts ride of 2025.

A view of the side of a British country lane. There's a strip of tarmac visible, then an overgrown grass verge before a farmer's field. Overlaid on the tarmac and verge is the shadow of a cyclist and their bike.

#ShadowSelfie #InTheSaddle #BikeTooter

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 1

Mar 1

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Got out for an #InTheSaddle ride round the city earlier. A couple of interesting visitors to the Pier Head (RFA Tidespring has been in and out of Cammel Laird's of late, having some work done)

The view down the dockers steps, from the bottom of the Bread Streets. A long cobbled alleyway and steps lead away from the camera. One side of the alley is lined with a brick wall, and the other with iron railings.

In the distance, under the setting sun, you can just glimpse the the ribbon of the River Mersey

Two ships moored up on the river Mersey. One is RFA Tidespring, a grey naval support ship; and the other is Atlantis Dweller, a red and white offshore support vessel with a prominent helipad above the foredeck.

#BikeTooter #Liverpool #MerseyShipping

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Mar 1

Mar 1

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Clear skies on last night's #JoyRide meant it was a little chilly down on the river but meant we could do a little star- and planet-gazing too.

Got a bit of a workout on the front-loader delivery bike with soundsystem as I chased the electric lead soundsystem bike to stay in range of the transmitter up hills and round corners.

A group of cyclists amass next to a shipping container that's been converted into a bike workshop. The container is painted black and has stripes of bright pink LED strips running vertically along its length, blazing into the gathering dusk

#BikeTooter #Liverpool #InTheSaddle

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Feb 23

Feb 23

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Friday's #FolkRidingBikes group social ride was just what I needed after a hard week; riding through the city playing tunes with a bunch of your mates is joyous!

Sadly I didn't have my camera with me, so didn't get the shot as we rode past the Liver Building where one of the couple of lads we'd collected en route passed me riding along a low wall while pulling a wheelie.

This photo is one my mate John Harris took, as we rode through Sefton Park

A group of cyclists ride through a park at night. The rider nearest to the camera has multi-coloured lights wrapped round the frame of their bike and along the rims of the wheels.

#Liverpool #InTheSaddle #BikeTooter

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Feb 15

Feb 15

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Another ride out for the Rode mic soundsystem extender last night. Kept mostly close to the city centre to ward off the cold.

Here's the view over the city centre from Everton Brow.

#BikeTooter #NightRider #Everton

Continued thread

**Adrian McEwen** @amcewen · Feb 9

Feb 9

Adrian McEwen @amcewen

Had to dig a shard of glass out of the back tyre on the way home.

The windswept East Lancs isn't the *best* place to do repairs, but at least it was dry and not half-a-mile further on when I'd have been next to a freshly manured field

It's night time on a lit dual carriageway with a segregated cycle lane running alongside.

A gravel bike is stood upside-down on its saddle and handlebars, and on the ground next to it are some tools, a pannier, and a water bottle.

#BikeTooter #Liverpool #InTheSaddle

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