Kylie

@netwench

Active travel campaigner. Work in Comms. New to Cambridge. Married a Welshman. Maori/kiwi immigrant. Love: school streets, low motor-traffic neighbourhoods, cycle/walk infrastructure, parklets, climate action, Kidical Mass, 20mph, people-friendly streets.

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Kylie@netwench· 15h

The Big Bike Film Night - I went last year in Hackney and I'm going this year in Cambridge. 🚴‍♀️🚲🚵‍♀️ >> Check out screenings and get tickets here: bigbikefilmnight.nz/buy-tickets/...

Selfie taken looking back at Cambridge Bike Party group as we travel on a bike path away from Cambridgr North train station.

Kylie@netwench· 7d

Received the severe alert first in Cymraeg, now, minutes later, in English. It could have been sent as a message rather than a loud buzzing alert. The alerts should only indicate risk to life, not a message to not use BBQs.

Kylie@netwench· 14d

The old people are doing what?! 😳 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Article paragraph reads: We still get royalty cheques. The biggest was one year when we got £14,000 from Japan for ringtones. There was a CBBC remake a decade ago which went worldwide but the royalties from Kuala Lumpur are tuppence. I only get a standing ovulation from old people nowadays. But I still have a T-shirt saying “The bloke who wrote the music for Danger Mouse”!

Kylie@netwench· 21d

A reminder of #motonormitivity mindset. This person posts her belief that people walking/cycling deserve to be harmed by drivers for their mode of transport. This reply is in response to supporting a reduction in the speed limit from 30 to 20mph on some Cambridge roads. 🙂‍↕️ @camcitco.bsky.social

Reply to a call for 20mph on residential streets in Cambridge reads "if driving at 30 was dangerous there would be bodies everywhere.
Pedestrians should remember how mushy and soft they really are. Vulnerable road users bring it on themselves for the vast majority of the time. Often deservedly. It's good education to be bounced off the front of Doris doing 27mph in a 30"

Kylie@netwench· Jun 26

Look out for a yellow Frog 78 stolen from Cambridge train station Cycle Park yesterday, 25 June. www.bikeregister.com/stolen-bikes... #stolenbikes The thief took it into a bike shop to pump up the tyres, staff were suspicious & took pics. The name of the thief has been shared with the police...

Man holding my son's yellow Frog bike inside a bike shop after stealing it from the Cambridge train station Cycle Park.

Yellow Frog 78 bike with back rack and bike Register stickers.

Kylie@netwench· Jun 20

#ShowYourStripes for Cambridge, as the Met office issues an amber warning for extreme heat for Monday and Tuesday

Temperature change in Cambridge since 1850 in coloured stripes

Kylie@netwench· Jun 13

I hear you. 😁

A Workcycle Fr8 with a loaded front basket and panniers.

Kylie@netwench· Jun 12

Brompton, Workcycle, Circe and a fixie. 🥰🚲

Illustrated picture of a woman on a red bicycle with her plait and bag trailing behind her indicating her speed.

Kylie@netwench· Jun 3

On World Cycling Day and I rode the UK's first fietsstraat.

Kylie@netwench· Mar 28

I went for my first ride with the Cambridge Bike Party today & we visited the only bike manufacturer in Cambridge; FLIT, who are producing foldable e-bikes. I had a spin on one - it was great fun getting the motorised boost. Check them out here: flit.bike/our-story/

Four people on bikes and one bike with a sound system trailer and large flag reading Cambridge Bike Party.

Looking back at the cycling pack behind, on the ride in the sun.

Some of the FLITs - older version in the foreground and newer version in the background.

A folded FLIT bike with Alex the MD at FLIT talking shop.

Kylie@netwench· Mar 5

For #WorldBookDay my kid went as Safi from the Rooftoppers. No-one knew who she was despite the obvious giveaway of the boys' clothes, tape measure belt and red 'blood' smear on her cheek. She felt rebellious not to be an obvious book character.

Cover page of the book Rooftoppers with the title and author's babe Katherine Rundell, written mid and top of the cover, with a drawn picture of two children jumping across city roofs at sunrise.

Kylie@netwench· Mar 4

Bit late to posting day 4. It's not always easy to talk about, but yesterday I had a conversation with another parent about wood burning, air pollution, asthma rates, cargo bikes, most journeys under 5km, car clubs, school streets, idling & dangerous driver behaviour... Lots to discuss & worth it!

Kylie@netwench· Mar 2

Day 3: I delivered these excellent flyers about the pollution emitted by home wood burning to the Milton Road library in Cambridge. It can be surprising to learn how dangerous & harmful a fire burning in a gorgeous, ornate fireplace actually is! Cough, splutter, wheeze. #CleanAirCrowd

Kylie@netwench· Mar 1

Day 2: walking with large items... because you don't need a car to transport framed pictures. Choosing the right tool for the job. #CleanAirCrowd

Kylie@netwench· Jan 14

The @hackneylcc.bsky.social HCC Burns Night is the winter event you need to get through these dark days. Dinner, recitations, cash bar & cèilidh for an extremely good price (£35 waged/£22 unwaged). I thoroughly recommend this! 24/1/26 City Academy, Homerton hackneycycling.org.uk/news/burns-n...

Burns Night poster invitation to the event on 24 January 2026, and QR code for more information.

Kylie@netwench· Nov 23

I think this is a better image of safe cycle lane infrastructure - the lane should be raised level to the pavement (not at road level as in your photo). Photo: Google Streetview, Queensbridge Road, Hackney outside Haggerston School

Kylie@netwench· Oct 24

Compare Camden's safe cycling junction proposal, with separate cycle track and cycle-only lights, to Hackney's woeful design: a few seconds of advanced lights (for only some arms of the junction) and periodic paint on the road!! This will NOT keep cyclists safe. 😨

Kylie@netwench· Oct 24

Camden leads where Hackney fails. Pembury Junction redesign should have separate cycle track. @hackneylcc.bsky.social gave indicative, fully specced designs. Camden show (at York Way & Agar Grove junction) they know how to build-in safety, whereas Hackney wouldn't. @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social

Four road intersection design specs with separate cycle track included.

Kylie@netwench· Aug 14

Hope you struck a pose with the mural! 😁

Child standing in the ground and a woman standing on struts protruding from the wall to interact with a mural and look like she is holding up the other white people shaped figures in the mural.

Kylie@netwench· Aug 12

Recommendations for panniers! We bought two sets of Ortlieb panniers 6 years ago expecting them to last a lifetime, they claim they're "built to endure". Not so. One set has the same manufacturing fault of torn seams that Ortlieb says are "unrepairable". Let me know of better manufacturers please!

Ortlieb website with capitalised text stating "BUILT TO ENDURE"

Ortlieb website stating "Durability is what makes our bags and backpacks so unique. Repairing rather than disposing is what we have been doing for more than 40 years."

The torn seam with gaping gap on an Ortlieb pannier bag that Customer Service says is unrepairable (and therefore must be thrown away). The seam separates at the junction of two different fabrics and is a clear manufacturing fault.

The torn seam with gaping gap on another Ortlieb pannier bag that Customer Service say is unrepairable (and therefore must be thrown away). The seam separates at the junction of two different fabrics and is a clear manufacturing fault.

Kylie@netwench· Aug 12

Notes from good, welcoming public realm in French towns; 1. Colour the separated cycle track surface 2. Introduce fun images (superhero cyclist) 3. Prioritise people walking/cycling at junctions & lights. Zebra crossings on side-streets. 4. Create outside third spaces -> picnic tables for 20+ people

Kylie@netwench· Aug 12

Agree! We didn't have high hopes on exiting the train station as it was an expanse of tram, bus and car lanes, but soon found a cycle track with wonderful cyclist symbols! We were delighted, especially with the superhero cyclist! The flags of Le Tour were still flying across the streets too.

Kylie@netwench· Aug 11

Followed today by the despair of the Newhaven to Brighton signed National Cycle Route. What an embarrassment that the route advises cyclists to dismount, is either on back roads with appalling potholes & too many parked cars & drivers, or shared narrow footpaths beside heavily trafficked roads. 🤮

Sign initiating a cycle route to the Newhaven ferry and another sign that says Cyclists Dismount on the same cycle route. Road is unpaved shingle.

Kylie@netwench· Aug 9

The beginning of the return trip back to London, after a great cycling adventure along the Loire.

Kylie@netwench· Jul 27

On the way from Brighton to Newhaven a few days ago we rode on what must be a historic bus stop bypass. It was far preferable than our children riding on a high-speed, busy and dangerous road. Please don't try to ban these important pieces of infrastructure @meghillier.bsky.social

Cyclists riding on a shared path with painted bike in the right hand side of the path and a bus stop shelter on the left, beside a busy road.

Kylie@netwench· Jul 25

Let the French cycle touring begin!

Four bicycles standing next to a green tent in the early morning light. In the background is a silhouette of a town.

Five french patisseries in elegant sugar splendor sit in an open box in the open air.

Cycle and pedestrian metal and wood bridge spans a river.

Kylie@netwench· Jul 8

It just makes sense. My local pharmacy (Norlington Chemist, Hackney, London) is on a no-through-road, five minutes walk from my house. I usually don't wait, instead I go down the road for a coffee or to the bakery & come back to pick up the prescription. Everyone should have this. #15MinuteCity

Street view of independent shops on a local high (main) street with two people walking away, and further down the road, another person on a bicycle is cycling towards the viewer.

Kylie@netwench· Jul 5

Cycling through @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social is such a shitshow of close passes from MUST-GET-IN-FRONT drivers. It's so dangerous that I understand why delivery cyclists add illegal motors to their bikes. Also unbelievable is that tourist hotspot Brick Lane is sacrificed to parking & speeding cars.

The wheel of a vehicle drives over a painted bike on the road where cyclists are supposed to ride, it is a poignant reminder that paint is not infrastructure.

Kylie@netwench· Jun 30

Children cycling on a bus stop bypass cycle track should not be controversial or legislated against!

Child cycling on a cycle track past a bus stopped at a bus stop bypass.

Child cycling over a zebra crossing (as no pedestrians are waiting to cross) on a cycle track bus stop bypass.

Kylie@netwench· Jun 20

If you are in or near Hackney this Saturday morning, @hackneylcc.bsky.social has breakfast for you. 🤩🚲☀️