Whos the crazy courier guy who stares at everyone he rides past. I used to see him riding from herne hill/camberwell/elephant way and just spotted him again this morning central. Hes great.

Black guy, beard, dreads, wears like addidas tracksuit bottoms n rides a geared bike, he rides like a fuckin maniac and just stares at people dead in the eye at traffit lights and when he goes pat em.

Hes the best character ive seen on a bike in London. Whats his story?? Someone must know him.

edit: oh yeah i fucked up the title.

Hmmmm... not sure, I saw a dreaded courier last year stop and have a piss in the middle of the road on Windmill street, it was packed full of people, bit bizarre.....

No the best character is the Orange-coated superbikeman that tynan filmed.

My favourite london cyclist is the homeless italian bike mechanic with the crazy double bike + millions of things loaded on it, see him round South Bank from time to time.

Never seen the starey dread man

Nope, best cyclist is the guy who commutes to work in Wetminster on a 36" Unicycle. He has better control and road sense than about 95% of riders out there and his trackstands are killer.

Word, sometimes see that guy posted up at Temple tube. Weird selection of bits and bobs

Damn, thought this was about courie. It's actually spelt 'curry'. Mmm.... drooool.

Theres an old boy who rides brakeless around Angel he doesn't go that fast but seriously he must be about 70 - 80, I give him a nod when I see him. He gives me a "I fought Hitler on a fixed and now you think you can ride one!" look. :D

I wonder if that's the same fella I've seen in Brixton a coupla times... Long, straggly grey hair? Mental!

It was a couple of years ago and I can't remember the hair. I've only seen him on or around Albert Bridge in smart trousers, a shirt and a backpack. Fairly tidy.

I saw this mental fella in Victoria Park the other day, only a small chap, had a little red cap on, bombing around with no brakes, total lunatic. It was less of a bike and more of a mini scooter actually, the geezer was probably no older than nine, ten. Well bum!

sounds like the dude who comes in from Hackney. I witnessed him and a older rasta man rider chatting in London fields last summer, they swapped bikes for a bit and ended up laughing at eachother quite a bit.. wish I'd been part of that exchange it was cool.

Quality. I hope to be like that when I'm older. Apart from the 'having fought' bit.

There's an old fella who often rides up the Old Kent Road on a customised mountain bike. He's fitted a big plastic mixing bowl in front of each handlebar grip, with the bases facing forwards in aerodynamic-stylee. I suppose he wants to keep his hands warm coz he's even 'double-glazed' it by mounting a smaller mixing bowl inside the larger ones. It ain't easy to describe this fella's set-up, but it brings a smile to my face everytime I seem him - and I always have to look over my shoulder about five times to check out the full effect when I pass him.

Theres a builder from some far off eastern realm working on one of my sites at the moment, who has a rattlecanned 80' mtb of unknown origin, with an old desk top fan stripped down so it has no cage welded onto the handlebars, and jerry rigged to power the old skool dynamo lights

In Sofia I saw a guy riding a foling bike (Raleigh 20 style) with the handlebars replaced with a leatherbound steering wheel. Conemplated doing that with my recumbent one drunken evening.

Giraffe Boy, that's his Mark II version. Mark I was a basketball cut in two and then stuck on the bars.

Genius!

not on a bike:

That dude who has a large copper or brass thick wire pyramid on top of his wildish curly mop...

I think he's communing with the cosmos (or David Icke) as he trolls about down New Oxford Street.

He was a regular in HMV on Oxford St when I worked there. He's really nice, if a bit wishy washy. He bought the pyramid from America via mail order, and he claims that it's stopped him eating chocolate. This is no joke, I asked him, he swears by it.

@ conan
You are talking about Effri and he is londons coolest courier.
He's just got back on the bike after a very nasty accident involving a HGV.

Definatly the coolest courier ive seen in London. Why does he stare at everyone like hes about to murder them?? He scares the shit out of me whenever i ride close to him.

I hope we're talking about the same dude.Effri's a lovely fella tho the job does attract nutters for some reason,I've seen shitloads of em over the years.

oh, the irony!

he comes in from hackney, right? in fact there's a couple of them, sometimes they ride together.

SuperBikeMan™ !!!!

You gotta' love him. :D

http://www.vimeo.com/1368591

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/index.php

needs a board raid!

I also like these two nut bags. New Oxford Street and Clerkenwell Road.

Mr Where's Wally ? And Mr ELO, he's was flying along like a bastard, I have noticed that the weirder someone looks the faster they tend to go, perhaps they are trying to escape the voices in their heads ?

Hahaha! He's extraordinary. I bet he just threw that outfit together on the way out of the house. :-P

Have you seen him before? Does he ever wear other colours?

I have seen him once before, he was wearing the same gear, some other poster here said they know him from when he used to come to the bike shop they worked in, they said he does wear other mad gear besides that SuperBikeMan™ red set up.

Probably depends on what crimes he is solving or which super villans he is battling with that day.

I saw a guy the other day on Hackney road riding with a dog over his shoulder. That was the craziest I've seen in a long time. Just didn't react fast enough to take a photo. Did anyone else?

pretty sure the same dude blitzed past me on Vauxhall Rd heading away from Victoria on Tuesday evening. Fully caning it, no handed, staring at me whilst he went past. Ultra gnar points due to the amount of potholes on the road

I love Super bike mans stand-up-buttock-crunching action... work it tango man!