I have questions.

Watched this guy swing aggressively onto the pavement on brick lane. Because he couldn’t be bothered to park to go to the mini mart. Blacked out land rover defender, so entitlement is obviously off the charts.

If roughly 80% of uk drivers speed in a 20mph and 45% speed in 30. With 40 million registered vehicles you’d only have to hand out a single £100 fine per year for each offender to raise £3 billion per year… how much was that pothole cost again?

When people look out of their car windows and moan about congestion in London. I feel like they aren’t actually looking at whats in front of them. Its Delivery: Vans, lorries, countless ubers with blue circles in the back window, taxis. Many of these are driven around most of the day empty.

Gen z are starting to call a walk in the countryside without signal “going off grid” and this fucking grates

The real life M current head of MI6 is also a woman, and MI5 had Dame Stella Rimington and Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller 🤷‍♂️

Rode past the junction at Oval where tragically the girl in her twenties was killed by a tipper grab lorry. While waiting at the lights, guess what blasted across the junction going too fast through an amber… another tipper grab lorry 😔 why are they driven like go karts?

A bit like the near complete lack of enforcement on the roads, Politics has got too deep into the pockets of the corporations. Which has not only lead to hige amounts of money being siphoned away from the public and public services, but the lack of fightback has allowed capitalism itself to get lazy

Brits fundamentally don’t understand how to keep homes cool in the hot weather. You cannot persuade my wife that if its 33 outside and 26 inside you should close the windows. Even with hard data. Cos its about the feeling. And feelings beat data.

Before moving to our new flat I investigated the two bike hangars on the street, applied for a place in both, but there was a waiting list of 9 for each. In the 3 weeks or so i’ve been here, i’ve not seen a single person open a hangar to get their bike. My hunch…

People are sleeping streets at night to deliver us takeaway in the day. It’s completely dystopian. The gig economy is a race to the bottom and these companies can’t wait to remove the human cost from the equation completely.

Just had to tell Claude not to answer a science question with GBNews and LADbible as sources. FFS

Town? Last time i checked Richmond was part of a city called London apple.news/A9S0E8NzZQTe...

Two utter horrors on the road today. One van driver who overtook me dangerously then swerved across a junction caused a cab and a bus to slam on their brakes. He then nearly reversed into a delivery rider who gave him the finger. The van driver then gave up on parking chased the rider down the road.

I rode past shortly after this happened as its in my area. Horrific. The rider was meters away from a protected cycle lane. Its an HGV again. High cab usually driven like go carts. This needs change. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

In the uk this would be filled With raw sewage because we privatised our water companies and sewage in the water makes them More profit for shareholders

When racers are described as “true racers racers” what happens when true racers racers rate another true racer? Is it a “true racers racers true racer”? Or “true racers racers true racers racer”?

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

On my pedal home this evening while watching general behaviour from drivers pedestrians and other cyclists, i wonder What is the cost to society of male risk aversion?

In my pedal home this evening while watching general behaviour from drivers pedestrians and other cyclists, i wonder What is the cost to society of male risk aversion?

Also why isn’t the UK doing this… same for industrial flat roofs over a certain area with a help scheme for battery storage

My favourite hypocrisy is people who use the word “sheeple” but simultaneously have a PCP finance family SUV.

Why do people always ask about how much my cargo bike costs, but no one ever does this for cars?

In news to surprise nobody who isn’t in their twenties and only lives through the lens of influencers. christ this headline is cringeworthy apple.news/AKvAHqcIyTa6...

🚨: NASA just dropped a full disk image of Earth taken by Artemis II 🤯

Misinformation sticks around cos “engagement”

After seeing yet another fake AI image of #artemisii I’m starting to realise that most people don’t actually care about reality that much

Please use the cycle path: a wry cartoon by @davewalker.bsky.social

I find this with hire and delivery e-bikes. Riding to work attracted a type of person, e biking has opened the doors to people who want the convenience but not the effort and while overall this is excellent, with that comes the full spectrum of people who haven’t picked up the etiquette yet

You should read this. It’s excellent communication & story-telling. “I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more. Before I began driving less, I had long had a melancholic sense that the city lifestyle I lived was cut off...” #UrbanTruth From @irishtimes.com

Apple’s parental controls are a clusterfuck. That is all.

Saw another lime bike rider splayed out on the road today on my ride home. 2 police cars and and ambulance attending… can’t jump To any conclusions about what though. Even though i know that junction like the back of my hand…

The problem with mens mental heath crisis isn’t that men aren’t good at talking about feelings. Its that society as a whole simply doesn’t give a fuck about your feelings. And often express anger if you do express them.

Just saw a #waymo driving around our residential area. It had two people in the front, was speeding and didn’t indicate once at 3 of the junctions i witnessed it negotiating. I have zero confidence in them based on this

Videos of grown men doing skids on 8kg gravel bikes gives me the ick and i don’t know what it is

A new chain day is always a good day

Can anyone who’s driven a tipper lorry in London help me work out why most of them are driven like they are go-karts? Is it time pressure? Corporate culture? Or just an intrinsic lack of basic duty of care?

I think the death of a parent really young really rams home the need to do something with your days. I cannot understand people who just sit around at home scrolling phones. 1. because i’m a parent. But 2. There just so much better stuff outside.

Realised this morning that my rear hub which i’ve been commuting on for a decade has done about 40,000km now. Bearings still as smooth as butter. If. Find this super satisfying.

This year i’ve had more bike incidents where a pedestrian has nearly had me knocked under the wheels of a bus because they were on their phone, and incidents with other riders knocking me into the path of traffic by undertaking dangerously than i have had vehicle incidents.

Ugh, the “your opinion is invalid if you can’t show me verified data” crowd are infuriating. Some of the world’s most important ever discoveries started as hunches or observations that had no relevant data.

In an example of how viral social media trends are enshitifying professional life, i received an agency creative deck the other day referencing the popularity of POV content. With some animated GIFs as examples. Not a single one was a POV shot.

There should be a glass door type site for rental properties . Landlords have to evidence issues they have addressed and all of this info should be freely available for people who want to buy the property subsequently.

Pedalling about with the cargo bike today and ruminating about how drivers in London are generally super selfish. I’ve ridden in many countries, but theres a specific aggressiveness here. I always thank those who are generous or actually abide by the rules, because it seems so uncommon.

Love this. I've been banging on about this for a while. The reason Lime & forest riders skip lights is that the business model encourages it... see this great tool by Matt Taylor: tk.gg/posts/lime-b...

Had to move 8 lime bikes this morning to lock my bike which were so tightly stacked by Lime staff that the sheffield stands were completely unusable. My personal NYs resolution is to move these into a nearby parking bay for Lime to save them money.

I swear if @zackpolanski.bsky.social just put banning cookie acceptance popups on websites he’d sweep to power

Finally left X for bluesky. It had become an angry divisive regressive place. I’m absolutely going to miss a bunch of accounts. But this is a way calmer happier place.

Having to adjust my riding style at the moment to ride closer than my usual 70cm from the kerb to stop lime bike riders from undertaking me. 😐

I woke up this morning and realised that we basically subsidise crime with insurance payments