Since coming to the UK over 10 years ago, Ive constantly cycled in Lambeth, out of necessity but also because weaving and darting through traffic is something of a way of life, under my own steam, ambling home after a night out or charging to work in rush hour.
Im often carrying a heavy bag of camera equipment so Im taking my life and my life's work in my hands on a daily basis!
Ive always pedalled about on total bone shakers, hodge podge mechanisms donated by friends or bought at boot sales until I found my dream racer for half the £500 RRP in a sale last year...the final direct debit had been just days out of the bank when it was snatched by an opportunist thief in Brixton two weeks ago ...I chased him through the streets at full pelt engaging the help of 'white van man' along the way, but he had the luck of the devil and was away to the bowels of hell on my racer. R.I.P. If Id had a can of beans I could have taken him out, but it was not to be ...
