Riders take part in the Tweedrun in West London, England.

I like the shot above because of the great confused expressions on the faces of the onlookers.  It’s 2010 and there’s a penny farthing and a guy holding a cup of tea and eating cake.  And lots of people in tweed.  Simply wonderful.

A little background…

It was Friday night and I read a blog entry on Boing Boing which simply read:

“If you’re in London this Saturday, you’re in luck! You have an opportunity to witness 400 people dressed in Edwardian attire riding their bicycles about town.”

Well I was in London and it did sound intriguing so the next day I packed my gear and off I went…

The little research I carried out yielded another blog that said they would go past Trafalgar Square at about 1PM and end up at Kensington Gardens at 1.30PM.  I didn’t manage to find a map route so I figured I’d just look out for the 400 or so cyclists in tweed.

I headed for Trafalgar Square first and I walked around trying desperately to get my bearings so I could predict where they would come from.  Not a sign of them.  I asked a nearby policeman if he had seen the Tweedrun.  Luckily he knew what I meant.  Unluckily he said they had come and gone and pointed me in the direction they had gone.

On foot, I had no chance of catching up with them so I headed back underground to the next location on my list.

I walked around Kensington Gardens a bit to try and guess where they might appear.  I just walked and walked until I noticed in the distance a few bicycles turning up.  I couldn’t make out if they were in tweed but who else could it be?  I headed towards the slowly growing group of bicycles.  Thankfully, it was the Tweedrun group!