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Hm... Some of that makes sense. I can definitely get behind asm's theory about the tube being to blame for the black stuff in my hankies. Although to be honest, I don't want to think about that too much. If I'm blowing crystal clear snot when I step out from under the shower tomorrow morning, I'll be quite happy to forget all about it.
Not quite a "fellow Londoner" yet, Mr Buddha. I'm safely tucked up back in Glasgow, innit? :-P Maybe the traffic doesn't look quite as scary when you're actually part of it. Perhaps it seems worse from the pavement. Some of the stuff I saw was totally crazy, but I also saw lots of patient drivers waiting behind bikes, and lots of sensible cyclists taking the whole lane, just like Hutch mentioned.
Maybe I'll give it a shot if I find myself down there again. Then again, I'm not sure if it's something that you could just drop into for a couple of days. Three weeks to build up proficiency sounds like a good breaking-in period to me. It was a novelty to see so many folk riding fixed anyway. Lots of nice geared road bikes too. They were a hell of a lot more interesting than the touristy things that I did see.