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@aggi
First ride in for months upon months following a bad back and general laziness.
Fine from a fitness point of view because I rarely made 50 yards without having to stop, mentally draining though. It was bloody warm though, tights were definitely a mistake.
Nice to see a variety of old red and green routemasters with conductors who looked like they were enjoying themselves, not so much fun with the nose to tail queues in the bus lanes as they all filled up with passengers. It was pretty much a ride of filtering followed by finding the occasional clear stretch of bus lane.
Even the quiet stretch that I normally nip down was nose to tail (including somehow managing to get a lairy BMW in front and behind me).
Interesting to see how few cyclists opted to filter down the right hand side of traffic, squeezing in between two traffic lanes seemed the favourite.
On the upside, it forced me to get back on the bike and I'll probably keep that going now.