Spotted...

Reminded me of the guy I saw in Shoreditch yesterday, slowing his brakeless SS with his foot on the ground.

The same guy as this one?

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.

Admittedly, I don't describe him very well.

I hope it's the same guy, anyway, just because I want to think that there's only one in London, but that's probably unlikely.