[Closed] Racing The Tube

Why?
I'd like to see him do that in the rush hour - looks like a Sunday if Tubes and the City were that quiet

Surprised he wasn't shot by police for that behaviour.

Good work! Used to work around there, and ride down that back street.

Always amused to see people taking the tube for silly journeys, such as getting on at Victoria, off at St James's and then walking back towards Victoria!

Stuff like this is pretty cool, as it shows how easy it is to get around lots of London on foot, not just on a tube!

Enjoyed that - nice find Jamie.

I love how he gets a round of applause from the passengers 🙂 Great stuff.

Very good!

I like the little helpers in Hi-Viz at the road junctions.

Great video. But I can't see how the vid describes him as 'beating the tube'

The train pulls into the station before him. It's not like he was stood on the platform reading the metro waiting for it?

They probably define beating the tube, as getting on it before it departs.

Tough crowd.

[i]Tough crowd. [/i]

Their expectation for teddy bears in rucksacks and tassles in primary colours weren't met.

Also done on the Glasgow Subway:

edit: I can't find a less irritating video, skip to a minute in.

brooess - Member

Why?

Because it's there

If you were to put two people on the street by the station and challenge one to get to the other station via tube or on foot, he'd have won easily.

Spice it up, the go pro on the tube should be on a mount.

Fail and lose it...

Twins

Can't see the vid from here. Which 2 tube stops were they racing between?

As well as the street level aspect, how many actual journeys are from tube station to tube station, rather then a short (/longer) walk at either end?

did he oyster out and in at the two stations. In which case it's cost him 2 journeys instead of one.

Clear Fail.

That was fun 🙂

brooess - Member

Why?

(what is you do at weekends? ride your bike around in a big circle by any chance?)

Can't see the vid from here. Which 2 tube stops were they racing between?

Mansion House and Cannon Street.

@lemonysam - one of the STW forumites, that is.. (in case you didn't know).

BRILLIANT !!

Not fake, doable

I'm sat, right now, 150yards from that entrance of Cannon Street Station

And to add from my post on the other thread.

Not sure it is a sunday, think Cannon Street is closed at weekend.

This has got me thinking - Victoria Line Walthamstow Central to Vauxhall is roughly half an hour. On road, i.e. bike, distance I make it just under 10 miles...

Guess you may well be The Flat Boy if you try that.

Be careful ... it's one thing running along a quiet back street, somewhat different trying to average 20mph in a built up area.

But then you know that 😀

Fair play ,race the tube chap.

Victoria Line Walthamstow Central to Vauxhall

It's not hard to beat the tube in the central London area, suburbs are a bit harder though as the distance between stations is greater.
I do Tower Hill to Earls Court faster than the District line trains.

Work is going to be fun now with all sorts of drunken idiots trying this over the weekend, a couple of them will probably leg it down the tunnel and cause havoc!

Something for you Londonistas to have a crack at...

To be honest I wouldn't make it past the Hatchet, which is an old school London pub, with the added amusement of watching those doing the circle line pub crawl.

I used to work with a guy who could navigate surprisingly quickly around London streets using the tube stations. Taught me quite a bit about the most efficient way of getting round.

Which isn't much use to me now, 20 years later in Derbyshire.....

If he picked his stations carefully he wouldn't have needed to run:

I'd be screwed at that one. I navigate around London by the tube map. Once I'm above ground I stand around like a slack jawed tourist looking for landmarks. I've lived and worked down there for years but the tube map is like a cruel joke designed to trick people. The little dots look really close together on the map but it can take three years to walk from one to the other.

Ro5ey - Member

Guess you may well be The Flat Boy if you try that.

Be careful ... it's one thing running along a quiet back street, somewhat different trying to average 20mph in a built up area.

But then you know that

I do, I know all those roads pretty well, though not well enough to remember that the Vic line terminates at Brixton not Vauxhall. 😳

Which would make it 37 mins by tube / 12 miles by bike... well doable!

Not fake, doable

edit: and as for navigation above ground... I've known people to get the tube from Picadilly Circus to Leicester Square. Think the curvature of the line is the only reason you can't see one platform from the other.