... London cyclists, like Londoners in general, seem desperately competitive, but with unfailing self-discipline. The cyclists generally wear gear -- shorts almost always, a bright fluorescent rain slicker when it's raining (i.e. almost always), and usually a helmet.

As in Budapest, there's this John Henry-like propensity among street cyclists to test man against machine, and there is a large number of hard men on fixies. However, the London fixie crowd beats their Budapest counterparts by taking on the motorists in cold temperatures and horizontal rain.

The whole post:
http://cyclingsolution.blogspot.com/2010/04/londons-new-wave.html