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@Chocky
Chap in a rather nice A-Z cycling top on a rather nice orangey brown single speed with a rack on the back and well used white tyres making progress from Regent Street down Haymarket towards Hyde Park yesterday evening. It was crazy ped hour and you seemed to be pretty worked up about it. Couldn't catch up and compliment your bike and shirt choice due to the trouble I had with the turbulent wake of confused and stumbling pedestrians you left behind.
Some gearie guy started drafting me on Northumberland Avenue along Embankment and then blew past once in the airless Blackfriars tunnel with ne'er a 'cheers' or 'ta'. He couldn't hack it on his own cos I doggedly span my 42-16 along Upper Thames St until I hauled him in at Tower Bridge. Twice fooled, me, cos he then drafted me another 2 miles down The Highway before shooting past on a downhill. Hi.
Big ring, scruffy white Specialized, red rims, union jack saddle, white headphones, Victoria Embankment this morning. You are quick.