Jon Bateman

RT @velofacts: Effort of the day by Ezra Bateman. #dailystrava

@mrendell Venturing back to X/twit just to say thank you so much that feature which is so important in sport now. That's on top of everything you've done to enrich the ITV coverage. Tonight's show was all the things the paid 'sport' coverage can't be and it will be missed!

Thanks to everyone who has thought kind thoughts about my small contribution to the Tour coverage over the years. My most important item since my first Tour in 1997 is in tomorrow night’s rest day programme (8pm, ITV4). Tune in, if you can.

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@Aviemoron TWENTY YEARS?? Some mistake shirley?

Laggan Wolftrax trail centre 20yrs old celebration today; carpark full, cafe full, loads of cyclists, loads of volunteers for a trail maintenance dig day. Looking around thinking, I made this. Quietly pleased with myself.

Four VERY varied incidents this week Lower leg injury, car in water, crashed aircraft, medical emergency. srmrt.org.uk/2024/07/22/fou…

If you're watching @LeTour and wondering why Saint-Martin-Vésuble is surrounded by a moonscape it's the aftermath of storm Alex in 2020 😬

@EllieWildbore Great to chat with you briefly - that was a fantastic effort on that 'fully loaded' bike! 😂

2 years ago in cardiac arrest territory in hospital. Today survived climbing the Cote de Bradfield. And I fuelled myself appropriately. I’m on such a high. So proud of myself. This was the hardest physical feat I’ve done. This is why I have to keep eating. 💪💪#anorexiarecovery

@LifeplusWahoo Fantastic news! Good luck today :-)

Wrexham we are here 💪🏼 All of our thanks and appreciation goes out to the many teams that offered and gave their spare team bikes and their mechanics time to get our girls on the road. We wouldn’t be starting without them!

"Gino was something more than a cyclist, not just worried about performance, a complete person" I still really miss Gino, by Pello Bilbao Read more: l8r.it/Crwg

@jessphillips It takes about 12 months to train a search and rescue volunteer. Not only do these people have no idea about young people, they have no idea about 'volunteering'

Are they going to be paid?

Stage 17 of the #GirodItalia passes along one of our favorite geo-landmarks of Italy, the Sella Pass, and the the famous Sella Massif! This massif is a Triassic (240 million year old) atoll! In the early to middle Triassic, the continental crust of (Greater) Adria continent broke up in two in the northeast, on the Balkan side. This was probably related to subduction processes that occurred in that region and that are now long-gone, but in any case, it was associated with formation of large volcanoes, also in the Dolomites. Once the volcanism went extinct, the region subsided and because it was close to the equator, limestone and dolomite deposition occurred. At the location of the Sella Massif, is a ring-shaped, high ridge made of reef limestones and dolomites formed, with in the center a flat area: a lagoon. The Sella Massif is an atoll! And it was uplifted, and eroded, but not much deformed, so you're looking pretty much at the original thing! Atolls are best known from the Pacific Ocean, where they form on top of seamounts - underwater volcanoes that reach shallow water. Reefs then form on the crater rims, and grow upwards to compensate for the subsidence of the volcano. It wasn't quite that setting here in the Dolomites, that may have looked more like volcanoes on the modern eastern margin of Australia. But an atoll is an atoll, and you can still imagine the white beaches and palm trees! Enjoy a cocktail at the pass today gentlemen! @UniUtrecht @UniUtrechtPE @UUGeo @UUEarthSciences

@TheScarboroNews This was last year (29/4/23)

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Updated - HC Result: Aims Cycling Hill Climb Nick Munro and Nuala Robinson put in impressive performances at the AIMS Cycling hill-climb event near Kildale in North Yorkshire in challenging conditions with damp and greasy roads. velouk.net/2024/04/29/hc-…

@SF_England That's what I'm going to do - I was hoping I could actually do it online but that seems to be impossible

@jonbateman One that's done we'll add your details and approve the application. Thanks, Graeme assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65afcca8… 2/2

I'd forgotten the Kafkaesque joys of trying to support a child's @SF_England student finance application. I think I've worked out that the only way I (with ancient student loan history) can contact them successfully is by physical letter 😂

@SF_England It's a continued application - so 24/25 following 23/24

@jonbateman Hi Jon, just to check, is it a 24/25 application that you're trying to support? Thanks, Graeme

@green_shane He at least matched the junior (u18) course record 🤪 🚴💨

Report on Saturday's hill climb - Ezra on the 'grown up' podium with 3rd (and 1st junior) :-)

@LukeB_MTB Slightly bored so I checked it out - I worked out there's about 10 tons of stuff on there, but it's an 18 ton truck, so should be well within load limits. No tax though ;-)

@simondbarnes @herbiehancock Back at yer 😀