I have a pair of these on my Tailfin, they are v good for credit card touring (when 18litres isn’t quite enough) 😺

Did I pay £4.99 for an album containing a song about Travis Kelce’s peen? Yes…I did. (I’m not a Swiftie really! But she has at least 3 really good albums that I am well-acquainted with)

Reaction to most headlines nowadays = “fascist piece of shit”. Strange how it becomes normalised, strange how no one is doing anything about this. 🫥

Me whenever I look at over-cooked HDR photography

I slag off Vinted sellers a lot but this is the perfect way to sell your item.

White Lotus is full of heinous/unlikeable characters who are also, on some level, quite relatable, and I’m deep into season 3 now 👀

In silly little goals that I have set for myself for no reason, I hope to - 1) Get more than AUK 60 points before the season is out (I have 3 weekends left!) 2) Log 10,000kms on Strava before the year is out (not a lot by audax standards but that’s far more than I usually log)

I smushed out 130miles +a bonus 18 miles today. Storm Amy could have been much worse but she ended up being relatively benign down these parts!

I impulse-bought a heavily discounted dress online (12 quid?!) and it’s ridiculously flattering and lovely! My usual dress buying experience - I see something that looks nice on a hanger, try it on and cry with laughter because it looks horrific 🤠

Plan for tomorrow = a 200k audax with Storm Amy (and hopefully some other audaxers) for company 🤠💁🏻‍♀️

I rode my last big audax of the audax season last weekend! 400K through Suffolk, up to the Norfolk coast, and all the way back down again. The weather, the brilliant company on the road, the beautiful sunrise. The whole experience felt like a marvellous gift!

24hrs after ID cards were announced the first petition is heading towards a million signatures. Starmer really has the reverse Midas touch - everything he does turns to shit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The last big ‘un of the audax season tomorrow (400K)

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Are we getting Raptured today? I’m ready!!! I remember the original chat about this from ye olden tymes on Twitter

Pretty tired from a great weekend of tourdaxing (a wonderful combination of audaxing (100k per day, with very generous time limits) and touring/camping. I have mosquito bites and I am severely sleep-deprived but what a brilliant weekend!

“Little tip: if you tell a Maga supporter that his huge flag only has 49 stars on it, he’ll still be counting them half an hour later.” Jonathan Liew turns his gaze from football to the disgusting farce that is the Trump state visit 🤢🤮 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Ah shit

The flagshaggers are at it in Cambridgeshire (they must have put them up over the weekend) ☠️

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I thought I was a misanthrope but there is a bloke on the train who is clearly unable to cope with sharing space with other humans, especially high-spirited youths and scantily-clad, fake-tanned ladies with dyson-airwrapped locks. Impressive in a way 👀☠️

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

If I hadn’t ridden the northern loop of LEL in late August-early September, I would have gone this weekend. STORM AMY. Bucketloads of rain forecast for the north 🫨

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

once again time for this @manuclearbomb.bsky.social banger

I very rarely come across someone who is eager to do commuter racing in Cambridge but I’ve just raced my little heart out on my mini velo (and won!)

Flagging bigly after a cheeky, decadent pub lunch with an audax/cycling friend (in the area to build houses!). I don’t think I’ve had a decent night’s sleep or a proper day off/downtime for weeks now- I’m in desperate need of a weekend of naps and Netflix.

At York Station now! There are trains heading back to Edinburgh! I sometimes have intrusive thoughts at airports and train stations- what if I buy a ticket immediately and go somewhere unexpected/unplanned

Hills, headwind, a close brush with a farm vehicle (why do they drive so fast in these parts!!!!!!!!!!) - I’ve jacked in today’s DIY200 😆

I’m upset because I woke up at 4.30am and I’ve ridden a fuck load of surprise stabby hills in the rain to come to the realisation that cycling over Yad Moss would be fucking foolish. Visibility at 800-1000ft

Innerleithen is a little cycling and hiking town nestled in the borders. I love it here already!!!! So many bike shops and the cafe is dreamy AF

I really wanted the cooked breakfast but I opted for a salad. Wot a salad though!!!

My freakish ability of being able to go for days and days without healthy food is kaput! After 2 days of pastries, cakes, petrol station food, Irn Bru, Cokes… I am desperate for vitamins 😳

And pics from Saturday! Hairy times going over the Dales (high winds and rain, it was a relief to get out of there in one piece)

Some pics from yesterday! It was ridiculously beautiful.

Today’s food intake so far 👀

Not for any reason, just sayin

kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though

I daydream about being woken in the dead of night by the sound of shouts, cheers, and car horns.

Now for the Twilight Zone twist: WE’RE actually all dead and he’s the only one on earth still alive! (but he’s lonely)

standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”

Wait… what….!!!!!

Heading northwards to ride LFLTHENORTH over the next few days. Celebrating with an early morning sausage roll 🤩

Imagine being ousted as head of the CDC for being “pro-science” 🫠 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Out of curiosity I’ve made a playlist of all songs on Spotify titled “Amy”. Over 50 bloody songs?

It's almost a year since I wrote this. I'd be really curious to know if anyone still feels this way, or have things changed? open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

Listening to Widowspeak for the first time (ace, exactly my cup of tea). But… WDYM this isn’t the bloke from Flight of the Concords…