2008-07-30 - Rider Down, Sloane Street

...and it's not just the sound of traffic you need to hear - what about your bike? Or an emergency siren? Or a hot girl shouting out your name? In the city it's totally pointless to switch off one of your senses when it's crazy enough on those roads some days. Besides, I love the sound of my tires on tarmac too much.

A month or two ago a 2-stroke motorbike/scooter rider was killed by an ambulance jumping the lights at the junction of Clapham Common Northside and Rookery Road. Apparently he didn't hear the siren. Irony of ironies, the ambulance was responding to a motorcyclist who'd been hit at the junction of Wandsworth Road and Silverthorne Road. :(