This morning's commute and other commuting stories

For the second time in as many weeks I've been behind someone who all of the sudden stacks it for no reason. Last week it was a girl on a town bike, this week a chap on a fg/ss with bullhorns, just boom tumbled over themselves. Maybe a foot in the front spokes? But no curb, no other cyclist, no external factors. In baseball it'd be what's called an 'unforced error'. Just people crashing for no reason. Anyway I stopped and checked on them and they were fine, stayed with them while they did a self-assessment and for the adreneline to cool down. But weird man.

I went for a run around Kensington Gardens yesterday lunchtime - it was like god was playing invisible skittles with the boris bikers, they were toppling over all over the place. Some crashed into each other, others just fell over on their own. At least they were in the park rather than on the road...