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Immigrant: london > north turtle island, mechanic, educator, delivery worker, often sending post. www.calumonwheels.com Bike focused-podcast too calumonwheels.podbean.com 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🚩🏴

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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 30/08/2026
the financial costs of bike maintenance are absolutely heartbreaking. It was so much cheaper pre Brexit 🥲🥲
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 29/08/2026
As someone who has done a job where I got a lot of inadvertent fines from timed LTNs, with cameras obscured owing it to being night time, hard agree. I would gladly have driven around the filters.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 27/08/2026
Policing is bad and that includes nagging people about the clothes they wear. I will not wear head armour every time I get on a bike for the same reason I won't wear a mountaineering lid when I go for a walk.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/08/2026
That's another rotation over in this goofy job. Thankful to have my health and to still be here. Photos from stolen land.
Photo of someone waiting for a helicopter. They are wearing full soil sampling gearPhoto of someone clambering into a helicopter. They are in fluro safety gearPhoto of a Dutch augur in a hole. A bunch of dirt is beside it on a rucksack.A toad on a forest floor which is covered in moss
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/07/2026
just another day of the website I use to buy 2nd hand outdoors gear actually promoting Nazis to me, unsolicited. Evil website run by an evil person. Mark Zuckerberg is actually a piece of garbage.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 20/07/2026
The UK 'news' industry is just bullshit opinon served up as news while they ignore the news happening all around them.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/07/2026
I got evacuated in a helicopter after doing my job. Got to thunder bay ontario and smog made everything dark brown. I had plans to go somewhere else but my boss demanded 'where are you going' and nothing was mature enough to commit to. So I flew back to vancouver. wild scenes. Climate crisis.
Photo of thunder bay airport blanket in brown orange smog from ash.Photo of forest fires from overheadPhoto of a big ash cloud viewed from the end of a pier.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026
its making our huge concrete cities even more hot and making the problem even worse. London is enormous and entirely concrete. It doesn't cool down overnight. We dont like other people telling us to buy more expensive stuff. We want to be listened to and our proposed solutions taken seriously.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026
honestly as a ex postal worker I am a lot less worried by this than actjal dogs that act like big toothed guided missiles towards anyone at the door when the owner conspicuously thinks 'hmm whosthat' while opening it and letting the 'friendly' creature do as it pleases.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026
going back to work from time off is exhausting. I am wearing my arsenal stuff as a confidence booster. I've already been high fived by an airline worker and someone in security, its pretty great
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026
back to work. Flying to winnipeg to join my squad and drive a long way to the camp. So the morale moustache is back in full force.
Selfie of me riding a bike with a moustache
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 25/06/2026
I was giving a tour once at the east end of the mall, and there is still a cook statue there. While I was yapping about how vile this person was, a bunch of people posed under it with an Aboriginal flag. It was nice to see.
Aboriginal flag.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 24/06/2026
je ne pense pas que c'est un obstacle massif, mais c'est a massive pain in the ass nonetheless.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 24/06/2026
I had a cool consultation with an immigration lawyer this morning. The upshot is that I'm in a good place to get Canadian PLR, but that A. I have to get an actual job for a year and B. I have to learn French and sit a test, scoring good grades. I guess those guys won after all this time after all.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 24/06/2026
'But everyone works inside' no they absolutely do not. I have spent my whole adult life specifically conniving to not do this.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 24/06/2026
actually doing my nut in about the 'just buy air con' discourse regarding london. 1. Poor people especially homeless people cant afford it 2. Its a city of 8 million people. We dont have that many units to give out. 3. Huge amounts of us work outside. Air con wont help me there. We need a day off.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 23/06/2026
This has to be rage bait. Surely people out there arent actually doing this and this is their way of raising awareness via the media. I really have to hope.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
And my pal had just had a tattoo done, so they had a heap of it lying around. Really good result, I'm pleased with it. A lot of wound dressings come loose and fall off and let the nasties in. Not this stuff.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
found a really good healthcare hack. I fell off my bike (massive speedbump in a mall car park) last week and got bad road rash. So after cleaning and etc my wounds, I've wrapped them with tattooing recovery 'second skin.' It is breathable and keeps the burns covered while also flexible and strong.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
Oh no doubt, but we will get there.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
spend the £100 on yourself doing something nice if you can afford it.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
Some of my best friends are in prison because of this chinless ghoul, but I'm not letting myself feel bad and sorry for myself. I owe them that much. It'll get better!
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
I know where you're coming from, but the writing is on the wall to these people. If they keep doing as they're doing, they are just going to keep losing seats in cities, and their own party people are getting upset over losing their jobs.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
How I feel watching on as a bad and disgraceful thing happens to a bad person who deserves it and their career folds, in total humiliation.
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Homer Simpson: Big Toasty Cinnamon Bun
Alt: Homer Simpson: Big Toasty Cinnamon Bun gif.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 22/06/2026
It's going to get better. These freaks are wising up to the fact that losing themselves to hate is getting their city friends lost jobs. It is very difficult but we can all a. Genuinely feel things will get better and b. Howl with laughter as a bad person gets their career ended in humiliation.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 21/06/2026
Put my friends in jail and see what happens. You think im going to hold my nose and vote for yo? Wrong.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 21/06/2026
and I did a blog post about it. I like my blog posts to be short and contained, so I used the '3 things I learned' framing. Hope you like it. calumonwheels.com/2026/06/21/v...
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3 things I learned from going cycle touring without a bike or an itinerary in Vancouver Island, and why it was really fun
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to live life without the internet. One of my best friends’ books Strangerland is about how her parents migrated with just letters, some really …
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 20/06/2026
these are the kinds of important, high speed activities a military career can open up to you.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026
Sundry snaps.
Photo of a large rocky pool.Photo of a bicycle leaning against a red metal gate.Photo of a bicycle with a large wooden trestle bridge behind it.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026
Seriously.
Photo of a stream. It is very calm.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026
This is an astonishing place.
Photo of a landscape in vancouver island. A lake is surrounded by trees.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 18/06/2026
countries come and go bicycles and haunted food choices from the gas store are forever
Photo of a rear rack bag on a bicycle. It is open and a mix of bad junk food is inside.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
done.
Photo of a written letter to George Monbiot
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
maybe i should send him mail.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
Plus there are mail boxes on it often. Just stick your letters in the red to-go bit.
Photo of canada post mail boxes.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
The galloping goose trail is really cool. I think it is worth the boat trip and I'd come do it again for sure You dont even need to own a bike, you can just rent one from Victoria BC like how I did.
A photo of a bike on its kickstand stood up on a rail trail. It has big panniers on the back
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
hung out here by this lake for 2 hours. It was so great. I did an out and back loop so just pulled over when I wanted and so didnt have any time pressure. really nice. For a heap of time i just watched the sun sparkling on the water with some wind squalls. No artificial noise at all.
Photo of a bicycle with panniers leaned on its side. A big lake is to the right Photo of lake surface. You can see the sun sparkling on it and some wind patterns.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 17/06/2026
It's not that hard to accept if you're one of the minorities Labour has been abandoning for years
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 17/06/2026
I try to assume the best of people, maybe they actually think they are being helpful by doing this 'change from the inside' type stuff, but boy does their behaviour get me steaming every time. is it too much, to at least just once, say that the big posh boy club is actually really bad. Maddening.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026
really funny moment earlier today when I walked onto a ferry with this openly clipped on to a drybag, and a ferry security person politely but firmly told me we are not on ontario and I could just walk around with this stuff on.
Photo of a can of bear spray
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026
anyway here i am on vacation in some stolen land But I am having a great time
Photo of a hybrid bike lying against a log with lakes and a mountain behind it
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 16/06/2026
everyones reminder that mail is the most goated form of communication ever made and it is at a highly affordable cost. You get to send a whole ass handwritten thing all the away around the world, delivered by hand, for so little. Send some mail.
Photo of a letter held up against a canada post box
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 14/06/2026
That's just doctors being unbelievably arrogant and lecturing people about good health all while they stress themselves and their colleagues out like crazy, that is common across the 'developed world' unfortunately.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 14/06/2026
And this is me having moved to a very comparable majority-English speaking place. Goodness knows what it must be like moving with a language barrier. Astonishing.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 14/06/2026
the mental and emotional toll of migration really is crazy. Its only when you actually dig yourself up and you move that you realise how much your habits and regular networks were helping your general mental condition, and you really have to start fighting to just do regular things. It is bananas.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 13/06/2026
I really want to know what tf this uh 60 black hawk is doing over vancouver because boy is it noisy and dangerous. Might be a fire thing fr24.com/40295ff2
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/06/2026
I have done nothing today whatsoever. Ive yapped with one friend on the phone, made some bread, made some scones, walked round a block with another friend with the scones I've made, got my headset sorted and drunk two coffees. Its been tremendous.
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/06/2026
My guy was from India he's an immigrant too! Took a call from his brother during my trip it was neat
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CalumOnWheels @calumonwheels.com · 11/06/2026
the taxi drivers like it though so at least they're making some bank
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