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@Oliver Schick
Ah yes, another Tower Bridge-related spot this morning--I think my first sighting of the Lesser Spotted Brakless Single-speed Foot-dragger. I noticed him at the lights at the northern end but didn't pay much attention to his bike--looked like just an ordinary beater. This changed just as I'd slowed for a queue of cars ahead on the downhill slope of the southern bridge approach, primary position behind a car. He overtook me by weaving in a very close arc around me on the outside, then somehow managed to insert himself between car and kerb, and it was at this point that I realised he was riding single-speed brakless. As he weaved through the queue, I realised his stopping technique was to drag his shoes along the ground. Oh dear.