ojwithbikes

When I moved to London about 4 years ago to study an MA (don’t ask me what I’m doing with it) I moved to Brockley and did Deliveroo for a bit as I still had an active account from doing it regularly as an undergrad student in Cardiff couple years before.

I had an old road bike - an old Orbit 27” wheeled thing that I had bought in Cardiff for £100 and then eventually spent the summer before moving here revamping the thing, stripped paint, Shimano 600 tri colour parts, long drop brakes, it was really cool in hindsight and was the first bike I’d ever built up - and used to ride it into Greenwich to wait for orders. I knew nothing about the city really but saw that Greenwich looked pretty affluent at surface level , had a good amount of restaurants, and was only a 10 min cycle from my place in Brockley.

Doing Deliveroo from Greenwich in my first few months living in London meant that this part of town was my first experience of London beyond the postcard pictures of Parliament and Tower bridge. It makes all the roads around there feel pretty nostalgic.

That combined with how I then soon got into fixed gear bikes and the fixed beers rides used to frequently go through Greenwich foot tunnel north or southbound means there’s even more nostalgia lurking around there and gives me a nice warm n fuzzy feeling whenever I’m there :*)

I’ve fell out of love with the kind of fixie riding I used to love and haven’t been riding it much over the last year which is sad in a way as you could say I owe a lot to the fixed gear community here.

Anyway to try and stop this tangential rambling, I’ve just killed a couple hours on a mega slow 30km cruise around SE that hit all my nostalgic hotspots and also featured an expensive iced coffee and an iced cream. What more can ya want.

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