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This just made me realise that I'd completely lost track of what happened to On Your Bike. After they moved out of the London Bridge arches, they moved to a site west of London Bridge, where I never visited them, and I had a vague plan to stop by when they'd be back under London Bridge station, as I think was the plan when the redevelopment started. However, I twice couldn't find them there and then just gave up. I've only just looked up that they're on London Bridge Walk, on the upper level. I doubt that that's such a great site for them, despite the high level of pedestrian traffic. Also, it must likewise be only temporary, as the building is meant to be knocked down:
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/10/17/concrete-office-block-by-london-bridge-to-be-demolished/
The architecture there is interesting for the fact that it's a building erected sort of under the auspices of the City (by the Bridge House Trust), and of course it's the City that went for Buchanan Report-style elevated walkways, a project which they fortunately never completed, but applied here. There's no doubt that, quite apart from any doctrinaire convictions about what constitutes a good cityscape, here it obviously provided a convenient access to the station.
I hope On Your Bike find a good home if and when they have to move yet again.
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Oliver Schick
@Thrustvector
Don't know what the London Bridge branch of On Your Bike are like, but I've always had great service from their Brum branch. They're also premium dealers.