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Video: London cyclist shows off the good bits of riding in the capital

Parks, deer, sunnies and ice cream

To cheer up your Tuesday, here’s a short, fun edit that shows that London’s not a horrible place for cyclists after all.

You could easily get the idea that cycling in London, or any big city, is all about fear and frustration, especially if you look at lots of helmet cam footage of negative encounters between riders and drivers.

Here’s the helmet cam upside, though: vid of a rider zooming through a variety of London locations looking like he’s having a good time, wearing a load of different shades and eating ice cream.

Producers TomAndSteve specialise in social media video for the internet, so we’re willing to bet the prominent Go Pro logo here is no coincidence.

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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mrfree | 10 years ago
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Epic video  16

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billyman | 10 years ago
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very cleverly made, loved the 360°spin around.

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captain_slog | 10 years ago
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Nice. Wish we had a bit longer to see where the locations were. The only one I had time to recognise was Richmond Park.

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