coruskate said:
I was with the crowd of skaters waiting at Hyde Park Corner when the mass decided to stop and block the road while crossing into Hyde Park. Nobody I spoke to was particularly impressed by that, and it took ten minutes after they'd all gone for traffic to return to anything approaching normal
If you want to "have fun cycling around London", that's cool, so do I. But how is your fun enhanced when the people you are cycling with pull stupid stunts like that?
I saw a guy on a mountain bike mouth "you sad c.....s" to his mate as we went past.
It made me laugh, one cyclist, started fussing that car drivers didn't make it better for themselves and were causing congestion by the way they overtook the mass....I just told him I don't think we can talk - considering they overtook and were being patient. Some people on it just fussed too much about things.
I'm not saying I didn't stop in stupid places along with others, but I moved along after we started to get yelled at by Mr Plod.
I think, stopping the traffic to let everyone past does make sense. May as well keep them all together. We got a police escort through Barcelona when there was a group of 60, never mind a group of how ever many hundred....but just stopping and chatting in places is going to aggravate people.
Still had a good time though.
Having said that, I got past all the skaters right at the beginning, so didn't see how it unfolded!