Bicycle No. 11: Wednesday January 24, 2007

Finally! I've been so busy house-hunting that I haven't had time to take pictures of bikes. But the snow this morning prompted me to keep an eye out for something en route from Clive's pad to the bus stop, and I was rewarded with this. Not just snow on a bike, but the typical way of storing bikes in London -- chained to a fence and with the front wheel removed, just in case. What a relief!

Bicycle No. 7: Wednesday December 20, 2006

Cycling in London is not for the faint of heart. What cycle lanes there are last for 10 meters, before merging back into the bus lanes. Cars pay scant attention to their two-wheeled foes. And taxi drivers believe that cyclists would deliberately throw themselves under cab wheels were the Dutch system of attributing automatic fault to the car driver in the event of a car/bike "interface" ever to be introduced over here. But the number of these hardy fools seems to be increasing; they're making their presence felt. If you click to enlarge the photo above, you'll see one cyclist powering his/her way down Gower Street, well-wrapped up against the bitter cold and trying to maintain a good distance ahead of one of London's bendy buses. Rather him than me.

Bicycle No. 1: Saturday November 18, 2006

Canals, barges, and bikes? Got to be Amsterdam, right? Wrong. I took this outside the Narrow Boat pub (great food) on the Regent's Canal opposite the Wenlock Basin, just behind Islington. A lovely escape from the filth and fury of Angel.