Spotted...

The amount of people who just sailed past us, really fast rush rush home home me me me it's all about me, without even glancing at us, or offering help or anything. A lot of them would have been carrying more suitable stuff than we had, as the courier and I had skinny 700s (and he had no spare tube) but the commuter was using fat 26s, so we could have done with a fat schrader spare. I even asked someone who was riding past, who said, 'yeah I've got a spare, but I might need it up the road'.

I was struck by the selfishness of a lot of commuters on bikes. Maybe that's the link I'm trying to allude to.

It's something we hear a lot about people taking up cycling now. I think some of the general attitudes of some of London's population are just much more apparent that way. That said, at least some of those who were going past would have been thinking that she'd already found help and offering theirs might have been intrusive.