London By Bike

Good bye Tube, no more crowded corridors, no more fucked services, no more waiting. London is just much more pleasant if you ride a bike... I rode a bike in Budapest for a year day by day 30+ km/day so I can tell the difference ... the drivers are more polite ... I do not feel the shadow of death even when I ride in heavy traffic, there are more bikers here so it is more like swarming than riding alone.
I do about 23-24 km-s a day to work and back. It is not much ... but it feels great. The sleepy mornings are gone ... I feel alive and well all day.
We are thinking about riding to Dover or Brighton in the weekend maybe but it depends on the weather ... It's so stupid that I waited so long so buy a fuckin' bike ... all the summer is gone but there is no real winter here so maybe I can still go on .
Another cool thing is that you get a different perspective of the city, I already found out a lot about it just in two days, I got a better grip on the distances, scale, proportions. I found some cool places along the bike trails really quiet streets with trees, birds singing .... all this in the shadow of some skyscrapers ... some really cool trails along the docks, riding through a labyrinth of alleys, small bridges and parks. Now I feel that I get the most of what I can get here .... I feel fine.