Hi everyone, this is my latest film on The Eager Cyclist - filmed in Victoria, London. This one is super important on the topic of rider safety and the need to create a 'safe riding space' around us at large junctions. Please share widely if you are happy to, and if there any particular large junctions that you'd like me to look at in future, please feel free to comment below. Thank you!

Hi London Cycling

I recently had a bike stolen from Finsbury Park Tube Station (Cube Hyde Race, 54 in case you see it online) and my insurance company wants to buy a bike for me instead of giving me cash to replace it.

I would like to get a new bike through cycle to work as I can obviously get more bike for my money that way.

So I'm wondering if anyone is in the market for a new bike around the £1200 mark. You can tell me what model, I'll ask my insurer to buy it, then you can have it from me at a discount once it's delivered.

It seems to be the default response that a bike is less of a killing machine than a car, or that cyclists have it worse trying to stay alive against cars rather than engaging with the core issue where it is often postulated that a minority but still a significant number of cyclists are not following the Highway Code and cussing inconvenience to pedestrians as a results.

Nb this is a genuine question - is it a deflection tactic or do cyclists really believe that the best way of responding to pedestrians having issues with cyclists is to compare it to the issues they face with car drivers?

Kids with balaclavas and the surron electric bikes waiting by Robin Hood gate to the park at 18:30 today (Tuesday)

Hi London cyclist, My girlfriend and I will be on vacation in London for 5 days, and we want to travel a bit around by bike. I discovered the Santander bikes, which are really cheap compared to German companies. It just came to my mind that we can't take our helmets with us, as our luggage is already booked. Is there a convenient method to rent a helmet, or would it be cheaper/easier to just buy one and then give it to a second-hand shop at the end of the vacation? (If its still intact, of course)

Thanks in advance 😊

One of 20 stop.

I was cycling back from work after already getting a flat so I was in a foul mood already and saw a guy littering out of his car. I just got up next to the car and said “you’re a fucking grim bastard”.

He looked shocked for a second then got really aggressive and said, “I’m gonna hit you off your bike.” He then swerved his car toward where I was riding forcing me to go down a side street that he swerved into. I managed to get out of the way and he didn’t hit me and he sped off.

Obviously, I realise I probably shouldn’t have engaged with someone who was already behaving like a prick, and in hindsight I’d have been better off just carrying on. But I’m also struggling with feeling like I somehow caused the situation by saying something.

If he had actually hit me, would people consider that partly my fault because I verbally provoked him? Or was I right to call out the littering, even if I could have handled it better?

(Throwaway cos its embarrassing and have people on my main)

Hiya all,

I'm looking for a new saddle, and I was wondering if any of you know a place where I can try them before buying

I had a small Specialized Dolce from the 2010s that got stolen last May (same week my cat passed, just to trauma dump a bit), and that saddle was PERFECT for me. I've looked around for a Specialized Riva Body Geometry, but they don't produce them anymore, I can only find similar ones on eBay

Any expert here who can suggest a similar saddle to install on my new Boardman bike? I do 6+6 miles per day 5 days per week, and I will participate to the London to Brighton cycle ride, so I would need something comfy but... sport-y?? My current one is a bit too hard and with no pressure relief, so I think I'll have to change it by next week the latest to get used to the new one before the marathon

Thank you for your help!! :)

Friendly reminder that after a prolonged drought such as this, when that strange 'wet' stuff does in fact fall from the sky, the roads are extra treacherous.

All the oil and grease and grime deposited over the last two months will rise to the surface of that rumoured 'rain'. It essentially creates a city-wide oilslick. While i dont want to overstate the danger its worth being aware that cars and bikes will slip, drift, and fail to stop more than usual.

Granted, I mostly know this from living somewhere hot and dry with particularly sadistic motorists, but I thought some might appreciate the warning.

Whenever that rain does come, that is...

https://www.rsta-uk.org/after-the-heatwave-slippery-roads-warning