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@General_Strike
I use the stretch of Regents Canal between Broadway Market and Limehouse Basin most days, and I have experienced all of the ills of canal riders that others report, but still find it more pleasant than the road. The most annoying one is probably bike users who think that other cyclists' bells ringing under bridges is a signal which doesn't apply to them, which happens fairly regularly. However recently plastic speed bumps were added in a couple of places directly before bridges, which makes passing under the bridges really awkward. It's particularly bad as one of the bridges has very little space to pass, so you have to slow to a crawl anyway, and at those speeds the risk of the speed bump deflecting the front wheel in an unpredicatble fashion is elevated.
Basically I don't think that these bumps are positioned effectively to reduce speed (in the middle of long open stretches would be better), but they are positioned perfectly to bounce cyclists who are already making a slightly awkward manuever, into the drink. Does anyone know who got them installed and on what pretext?