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Oliver Schick
@olaf_von_pokemon
Respect to the bloke who might live by me and work near me who until yesterday I'd never seen. Last night going home along the Embankment I was going by some Cat 5 nodders when a missile flew by me (I thought it was an electric motorbike at first) eliciting cries from all of 'Fuck me!' He must have been doing close to 40mph on the flat, without a tow and managed to maintain it. Does he do it all the time? Well I saw him this morning near my house each of us at oppostite light (I was going left , he right along the same road). Lights went green and he shoots off I though I've got to see how fast he is so tried to get on his wheel. I managed about 45kph before spinning out (no it wasn't that I was knackered after 50m) and he was still pulling away. He must do a bit of a detour as he passed me a gain a couple of km down the road - he was flying. I've always wondered how big a gulf there would be between me and a pro - even more massive than I imagined.