Bernard the Badger

@thebadgerpuncheur

MTB, gravel and road bike rider. Avid bicycle race watcher. Occasional snowboard turner. Art dabbler. 🇺🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️

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Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jun 12

Ahhh the Sinclair C5. A group of them being piloted along the beachfront between Bournemouth & Poole last winter. Presume an owners club.

A Sinclair C5 micromobility electric vehicle.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· May 10

“Roads are NOT play areas. At what point are adults going to accept that?”

Retro black and white image of children playing football in the street.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Apr 24

Heron Watch. Today’s favoured perch. A transit van. Just taking in the sights. #birdwatching #riverside #heron

A Heron in the sunshine perched on the roof of a works van.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Apr 3

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #weather a favourite shot in any weather we can see…..rain, wind, snow etc. The alt is #riverbank any bird capture on the banks of a waterway. Just a Heron, casually perched on some Thames riverbank railings.

A heron perched on some riverbank railings.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Apr 1

Crows - what a friendly bunch! Some beautiful pictures in this fascinating thread. And inspired me to dig out the pencils and get a bit sketchy!

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Mar 19

A society built around cars. And the cars chosen by a significant proportion of that car-centric society choose vehicles the size of a Sherman tank! I just don’t get it. If you want to drive & appear outdoorsy, what’s would be so objectionable about driving a cool little (Kei) 4x4 style minivan?

A tiny Kei car minivan with rugged styling by Mitsubishi motors.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Feb 26

Allister Heath headline generator with the e-bike rage lol

Allister Heath Headline generator spoof output: ‘The great betrayal: How e-bikes became the religion of the metropolitan elite.’

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Dec 29

Favourite memory of the year has to be riding the Tro Bro Leon challenge - a 132km Fondo around beautiful Brittany, France. Quiet roads winding inland through quiet villages and alongside beautiful beaches. Plus 20% of the route on farm tracks to keep you on your toes, all made for an awesome event.

Start line of the Tro Bro Leon cycling challenge, Brittany, France.

View over a small cottage to a sandy beach along the north Brittany coast.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 29

Visual representation of the water loss perhaps - same reservoir 2014 to 2022. Embalse de los Bermejales, Andalusia. Insane.

A water depleted reservoir in Andalusia. A tall stone watch tower, fully exposed on the reservoir bed, due to lack of water, with a dark stain showing where the water used to sit high up near the top.

Deep blue coloured water of a reservoir in Andalusia, with the tip of a stone watch tower peeking out above the water.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 16

What you looking at!? You looking’ at me!?

An Alpacha peers into the camera, with what seems a slightly quizzical expression.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 10

Last week it was blazing Spanish sunsets and a final hurrah for Vitamin D topping up. This week dull and drizzly - battening down for British winter. Roll on spring 😃

Spanish mountains silhouetted against a firey red sunset with pinky orange tinged clouds stretching to the peaks on the horizon.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Oct 27

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

The presenters of children’s TV show ‘Rainbow’.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Oct 13

Gino Bartali - Cyclist. WW2 resistance.

Black and white photo of Gino Bartali, renowned Italian cyclist of the pre WW2 years - Giro d’Italia winner in 1936, 1937 and 1946, and Tour de France winner 1938 and 1948. During WW2 he used his training rides to smuggle messages and documents to the Italian Resistance, and aid Jewish Italians to flee persecution.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Sep 21

Idly doodling tonight. #Antifa - June 1944, a beach in Normandy.

Pencil sketch - a US soldier storming Normandy beach.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Aug 23

Shaded woodland. And twisting singletrack. Love this sort of riding. Combined with some wonderful chalky upland drove roads with great views. And so peaceful!

A shaded woodland trail with mountain biker on it.

Chalk upland trail with mountain biker on it.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Aug 16

Was tempted to buy this riding shirt recently. Now I’m definitely gonna press buy, as apparently it’ll stop me being abused by impatient, entitled drivists. And it’s bloody awesome, so that’s a bonus too.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jul 3

Just arrived!@pippayork.bsky.social and David Walsh and a shared love of the Tour. So looking forward to reading this. (25 pages in - I needed a 5 minute work break, honest boss! - couldn’t resist, and so far, so wonderful).

A picture of a book ‘The Escape - The Tour, The Cyclist And Me’ by Pippa York and David Walsh

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· May 10

132km. 20 ribinoù sectors (gravelly, rocky farm tracks). Just over 4 and a quarter hours of tough riding around the Breton countryside. Hard but rewarding! #trobroleon challenge.

A roughly surfaced countryside lane in Brittany.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Apr 20

Cycling in Almería is a wee bit different to the U.K. It’s a game of spot the car. Once in the mountains and onto the back roads it’s 1 or 2 per hour. Heaven.

Yet more empty mountain roads in Almería

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Apr 13

Not at this year’s Paris Roubaix, so here’s a throwback to 2018, Mons en Pévèle sector - World Champ Peter Sagan on his gold Specialized.

Peter Sagan, World Champion cyclists, rides his gold bicycle over the cobbles at Mons en Pevele during the Paris Roubaix race 2018

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jan 20

Lovely little walk this evening. Refreshingly cold & crisp with a blush of orange in the sky.

An orange sky at dusk reflected in the still water of the river Thames.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jan 11

Topping up on Vitamin D. Glorious cold beach walk.

A picture of deserted Beach under a crystal blue sky. The beach is near Sandbanks chain ferry, Poole, Dorset.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jan 10

This is what climate change with lack of rain/snow and resultant drought look like. Photos of a reservoir near Granada, Spain taken 8 years apart. Normally filled with snow melt and winter rains, ever warmer winters and lack of precipitation has left it but a puddle.

A picture of a full reservoir near Granada, Spain with a stone tower perking above the water line.

A picture of the same reservoir as previous photo near Granada, Spain but now the stone tower is visible right to its base on a dried up bed and water level fallen massively.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Jan 1

First event of 2025 booked. Tro Bro Leon sportive here I come!

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Dec 28

Random picture alert. A heron just chilling on the bank of the river Thames as I stroll past.

A heron stands on the bank of the Thames

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Dec 14

Ride starting and finishing through Longleat estate. Murky, muddy and lumpy and pretty chilly at times - but 1st ride towards 2025 goals. #cycling

A view of Longleat House with my bike lent up in the foreground.

King Alfred’s Tower, Stourton, shrouded in mist. It’s a round tower follie standing some 50 metres tall completed in 1779 to celebrate an ancient victory by King Alfred over the Danes.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 30

Damp. Misty. But loved it. Nice 40 miles around the New Forest on super quiet roads and gravel.

Cyclists (my brother) riding along a road that was once a WW2 runway, near Fritham, New Forest.

A view along a peaceful New Forest gravel road, following my brother on n his gravel bike.

New Forest ponies canter across the road in front of me as I cycle.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 28

Marco Pantani portrait as he wins a stage while wearing Pink in the 1998 Giro d’Italia.

Pencil and watercolour portrait of Italian cyclist, Marco Pantani. Here he celebrates a stage win at Cavalese wearing the leader’s Maglia Rosa of the 1998 Giro d’Italia, crossing the line, eyes closed, arms outstretched to his sides.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 23

Looking forward to the Classics already! But in the mean time remembering some classic spring races of past seasons. Retro bike race Saturday. La Flèche Wallone 1994. Gewiss Ballan crushed it. Gorgeous De Rosa bikes, Campagnolo gears and Shamal wheels, classy blue kit. I wanted a De Rosa so bad!

Three cyclists of the Gewiss Ballan racing team riding the 1994 La Flèche Wallone race in Belgium. Riding Italian De Rosa bicycles and blue cycling kit, they’re all out of the saddle as they take on a Belgian hill on their way to the finish as a race winning trio.

Bernard the Badger@thebadgerpuncheur· Nov 21

An unexpected snow day today. Dusting in the local woods this morning before the afternoon melt!