Practicalli Sustainable Life
May 19, 2026 · View on GitHub
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Book status
Creative commons license
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ShareAlike License (including images & stylesheets).
Overview
Practical guides to cycling route planning, training and essential maintenance.
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are most welcome although it is the maintainers discression as to if they are applicable. Please detail issues as much as you can. Pull requests are simpler to work with when they are specific to a page or at most a section. The smaller the change the quicker it is to review and merge.
Please read the detailed Practicalli contributing page before raising an issue or pull request to avoid disappointment.
By submitting content ideas and corrections you are agreeing they can be used in this workshop under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license. Attribution will be detailed via GitHub contributors.
Sponsor Practicalli
All sponsorship funds are used to support the continued development of Practicalli series of books and videos, although most work is done at personal cost and time.
Thank you to a wide range of sponsors for your continued support.
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GitHub Actions
The megalinter GitHub actions will run when a pull request is created,checking basic markdown syntax.
A review of the change will be carried out by the Practicalli team and the PR merged if the change is acceptable.
The Publish Book GitHub action will run when PR's are merged into main (or the Practicalli team pushes changes to the default branch).
Publish book workflow installs Material for MkDocs version 9
Local development
Zensical can be installed locally via vu or pip. Practicalli uses uv for simplicity. Commands are wrapped in tasks defined within the Makefile.
Clone the repository and change into the root of the project.
git clone https://github.com/practicalli/cycling
Install Zensical as a tool using uv (updating if there is a new version).
make docs-install
Build the website and serve locally at http://localhost:8000
make docs
Specific command if now using make:
Create a virtual python in the root of the project.
uv tool install zensical --upgrade
