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Oliver Schick
Desperate to get out of the house, I went for a short solo pootle around the sinner Circle of Regents Park.
Not many out and all either solos like me or pairs who generally looked as if they might well cohabit. A couple of families on bikes as well. Walkers were mainly in ones or twos. Not much traffic.
And then five young men on road bikes came along chatting loudly. I was deliberately riding slowly as I am still recovering. They sat on my wheel for almost a lap and then overtook me. I braked and let them go on.
Sadly it is people like that who will get cycling banned and ruin it for everyone.
By their riding gear, it is probable that they were all fair weather irregular cyclists (all in shorts without leg or knee warmers and one in a polka dot KoM jersey) but still cyclists to the rest of the world.
I feel like a grumpy old man writing this. Perhaps I am.