Although he's from Oxfordshire, the cyclist here sounds just like a guy I know from Portsmouth who rides a clapped-out old knacker of a bike (mostly on the pavement), without lights, brakes or working gears (it's stuck in one gear). When I asked him, "how do you stop?!", he said, "well, it's not too baad, oi jus' sticks me foot on the toire or oi drags me feet". Quite ...