Outside work
Life
What I do when I am not fitting bikes.
Road, track and mountain
Cycling
These days I ride for fun, for fitness and for my mental health.
In a former life I raced on the track at a high level. Team pursuit and the sprint were my strongest events.
I also raced mountain bikes at elite level for many years, until 2012.
Distance logged
- Road bike, Giant Defy
- 20 309 km
- Before that, Scott Foil, retired
- 26 070 km
- Mountain bikes
- Cube Stereo, a Reign and a Stevens Sonora SL
Distances as logged on Strava, October 2026.
On the ice
Ice hockey
I have played ice hockey since I could barely walk. In Canada I played and coached at the highest amateur levels.
After a break when I moved to Europe, I am coaching again, to support my daughter's hockey ambitions.
I wrote PuckPlan, a drill designer for ice-hockey coaches that knows the shape of a rink.
A rink, to scale
3D printing, carbon and code
Making things
I am interested in how things work. I do a lot of product development, and I try out ideas with 3D printing and carbon-fibre moulding.
Things I have built:
- The velodrome aero test system and its Android streaming app
- The studio's booking and operations platform
- PuckPlan, and the coach app at icehockey.lloydthomas.com
- This site, its mark and its type system
The working systems are on Systems.