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I thought most of the point of having a bike ('E' or not) in that there London was so people didn't have to take the tube(?)
No, it's to get to or from the tube or do the short journeys across London that are too fiddly by tube. I do an evening class in Covent Garden, I can get from my office in Vauxhall to Covent Garden by tube but it's quicker to use a Brompton, the same with Covent Garden to Waterloo afterwards.
I thought most of the point of having a bike ('E' or not) in that there London was so people didn't have to take the tube(?)
London is big, really big. That's like saying what's the point of improving the rail network between Manchester and Leeds when you could just ride a bike, it's roughly the same distance as Staines to Dagenham, or purely on the tube you'd probably get Manc to Huddersfield as equivalent of Richmond to Ilford.
I used to crash at a friends house and that involved getting the tube from Z1 out to Clapham IIRC, then a bus, then bike the last few miles back to his house in Brixton.
London transport is good, but I think non-locals assume that everything outside of Z1 is just as good as the little bit of the tube they see (or that the tube map is anything other than hilariously non linear). There might be 5 stops in a mile in central London, but then it's 5 miles to the next stop once you're past that.
Reading is on the Elizabeth line, but I can probably still get back from a gig in Bristol quicker than Alexandra Palace.