Love the layover: cycling in London
Although I’m experienced getting around London on foot and on the Tube, yesterday was the first time since high school that I traveled around the city by bicycle.
I still have a hard time with the “Look Left” part of crossing the street here. So I was glad to follow a guide during a Fat Tire Bike Tour through the city. Especially when I was issued a baby blue bike named Luscious for my journey.
All went well and, even though it was blustery and rainy, we encountered plenty of other city cyclists along the way. A lot of those folks were using one of the 6,000 public bikes stationed around the city as part of the bike-sharing program London launched this past July.
Dave Phillips, our Austin, Texas-born guide for the Fat Tire Bike Tour, is a big fan of this city-sponsored bike-sharing program. From his street-eye view, he says the program seems to be working out just fine. Especially since anyone with an annual membership gets to use the bikes for free if the check-out time is less than a half hour.
Brilliant!
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Your third photo makes London look really miserable. You cycle in that????
Yup. If you’re dressed right and need to get somewhere, you cycle in that.
We had plastic ponchos. Ugly, but the did they trick.