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Today the London’s cycling subculture has reached the level of a populist movement. Bike cafes like Container Cafe, Lock 7 and the summer pop-up Rapha Cycle Club are the city’s latest hip hangouts. A recent addition is Look Mum No Hands, a bar, cafe and workshop in a lofty garage space on busy old street in Shoreditch. Vintage bikes and heirloom tomatoes dress up the window displays, and a scattering of desks and built-in benches fill up most of the room.

Look Mum No Hands also serves as a kind of bike salon. Serious riders bring in expensive racing bikes for repairs; bike messengers sit in the attached courtyard fueling up with quinoa salads. Curious commuters lock up their bikes out front and come in to use the free Wi-Fi or study one of the giant cycling maps. There are weekly events, from route planning sessions to bicycle film nights, and the bar stays open until 10 p.m. serving up chilled microbrews from France, Italy and Spain. It’s a popular place and a welcome addition to traffic-snarled London, where, incidentally, a new bike-sharing scheme called Barclays Cycle Hire will add 6,000 new bikes at 400 docking stations around town on July 30.