The Bluffer's Guide to Cycling by Rob Ainsley

Author:Rob Ainsley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bluffer's Guides

Helmets are very common in London, usually so people can fix cameras to them to use in evidence later.

Helmets are very common, usually so people can fix cameras to them to use in evidence later. There’s a high-pressure, competitive road culture: all traffic is in a hurry and there’s a constant conflict for road space between taxis, buses, cars, cyclists, pedestrians, ambulances. Indeed, as previously mentioned, some more aggressive couriers carry a heavy lock on the handlebars to use as a weapon should a driver incur their displeasure. Hitting a vehicle, no matter under what provocation, is not something the bluffer should ever condone. It could damage the lock.

London has two showpiece cycling infrastructures unique in the UK:

Boris bikes (Barclays Cycle Hire).

Cycle Superhighways These are marked by blue stripes painted on main roads to show commuter routes leading into the centre. For example, CS8 goes from Wandsworth to Westminster. There will be 12 eventually. They have no legal status – they’re simply visual route-finding aids. Either you think it’s a simple and effective way to remind motorists that cyclists are sharing the road too, so that they can be prepared to shout insults about road tax for instance; or it’s a shabby excuse to avoid installing proper cycling facilities, and that blue paint could have been better used to spruce up 100 municipal swimming pools.

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