Bicycle Tag of bike

It appears Backstop knows it, but I’m drawing a blank. The green with the pollarded plane trees and the cross is quite distinctive, so I don’t think I’ve seen it before. I did do a perfunctory search for Katherine’s churches etc.

I know where it is. Looking for foul weather gear

Old: St James Gardens, near the Foundation of St Katherine, Butchers Row, off CS3 Limehouse. I’ve been past this many times. Over the Rotherhithe & Limehouse Link tunnels

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New: the concrete tower, not the Borg Cube of News in the background

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Nice one, I'd thought of tagging that tower next time I was in the area.
There's a certain blog providing a few tags recently.

Geezer?

appears Backstop knows it,

Portal to the rotherhithe tunnel has come up before, which is adjacent and so not a retag

Another clue: there is another one like it 750m away on the other side of the river, embedded in a much bigger structure.

Your clues are very clear.

Got a BTOB story from last night.
I feel like I have a lot of puncture repair experience. I've had very few in the past few months, then got two within 2km yesterday, in different tyres. So on my way out east this evening just before Blackfriars, just after the CS crosses over Embankment my new Durano Plus on the rear wheel goes, quickly. The forecast was not good with a long band of showers lined up with London which had already started moving in, so sheltered under an office porch area overlooking the cycle path. I put so much effort to get the tyre back on the rim that I was repeatedly out of breath from the exertion. Not matter how perfectly I eased it on, it just wouldn't go. I tried every method I know. first time I've ever given up. Started looking up how to boris bike, to ride back with both bikes. Started downloading the app, dejected. I'd had a little rest so while I waited tried one last time, using the heel as lever method. It started going on! Then I noticed a tiny piece of inner tube peeking out from between the rim and the tyre bead. Was wedged in so hard that I struggled to get the tyre off to release the inner tube. Somehow managed, and then miraculously got the tyre back on. Tried pumping it up, but instantly deflated - pinched. Resigned to getting boris bike, no ways my exhausted hands could manage another attempt to fix and change innertube. Spent 10min trying to enter credit card details unsuccessfully for rent bike app with shaky bloodied blistered fingers. Eventually realised I could do contactless, from a stand a mere 30m away. Can't believe how heavy they are. The first bike had awful gears so that I would slide off the front of the saddle when the chain would unexpectedly slip. Made it to Hyde Park Corner, swapped bike for a much better maintained one. Managed some quick bits especially downhill with all the weight, going areo tuck down hill at Holland Park, 36kph. Quite like the green front laser light to be fair. Next stop Sheperds Bush docking station and onto the home straight. Swapped rear wheel and straight back to Westfield. Forgot I was fixed twice in the beginning! Had two near misses on way back. Tailwind so when I braked, I couldn't control the momentum of the 30kg boris bike I was holding and the bbike handlebars went flying into my bar, nearly crashing me. Followed by a big pothole 50m down the roadss so the Bbike started bouncing around uncontrollably. It bounced too close for comfort so I threw it away from me, at about 25kph. People nearby thought there had been a crash. My bike felt amazing on the ride back into the rain and by then the flake of metal or whatever it was that had flown into my eye at the beginning of the way back was gone.
tldr: got a puncture, boris biked it back, no tag

Old: will check later for address

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New: another river crossing

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Had I tagzumped you, it would have added insult to injury! Blackwall Way

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Designed by Terry Farrell & Grade II listed, the N ventilation shaft for the southbound (eastern) Blackwall tunnel is apparently made from gunite, not boring old concrete:

gunite, n. Pronunciation: ˈɡʌnʌɪt Forms: Also gunnite.
Etymology: gun n. + -ite suffix

A mixture of cement, sand, and water applied through a hose. Also attributive.

1914 C. Weber in Jrnl. Western Soc. Engineers Mar. 278

The product of the Cement Gun is called ‘Gunite’ in order to distinguish it from the ordinary cement stucco or plaster work, and for the reason that the material develops qualities which put it in a class all by itself. Gunite is usually a cement mortar composed of about one part of Portland cement and three parts of coarse, sharp sand passing through a 3/ 8 in. screen.

It’s nearest to Blackwall Way. The Borg cube in the background of my picture and oat44’s is a Reuters building/datacentre, hence Paul Julius Close.

Interesting. Didn't know about gunite. I also hadn't twigged that the millennium dome is effectively punctured by the sister vent south of the Thames.

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The circular structure with the * ⃝ on the top is a smoke ventilation thing for the northbound tunnel—it opens by the “petals” folding up from the centre.

CSB alert
I have a couple of friends who work in the data centre
AND
If you ever drive northbound through the normal southbound Blackwall tunnel in the dark, the millennium dome looks like you are flying into the deathstar

Thank you, very kind!
After my tyre trauma the other evening, I'm considering getting one of these. Anyone had any experience of them?

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ive used them at various jobs, i think theres a few in every bike shop out there. They can be handy but arent some magic bullet. Still a nice alternative if tyre levers aren't working well for whatever reason

I've got a VAR lever, which helps a bit:

Thanks both, will check those VARs out

OLD: Bridge across Bow creek to London City Island, probably one of the very worst developments in London.

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NEW: Googling a basic description should find it, as there are very, very few in London.
If it's a retag I have back-ups.

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I didn't know Cannondale were into toddler bikes

Old..... explanation to follow

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