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@ihatelaw
I love all the pictures of people commuting on FS bikes with full face helmets. They've got me thinking, what's the best addition/customisation/innovation you've seen on a fluoro commuter's bike? For example, the other day, I saw a guy on Stamford Street riding low on a road bike with aero bars. Each aero bar had a wing mirror affixed to the end, where the shifter should be. I was just like, "words fail me".
I once had a rock the size of a baby's torso thrown at me from a car on the long downhill from Epsom Downs to Epsom. Hit me on the shoulder, didn't knock me off my bike but bruised essentially that entire side of my body. At first I thought it was a bird strike. Actually, I did ride over a pigeon the other day in Old Compton Street, it flew away but there were feathers in my spokes...
I know an American girl in Pimlico who once apparently said to a cyclist who ran a red, "lick my cunt". ...