BikeRadar quotes one of our customers:

Further along the route Corsican Laurent Grossi, 32, was earning many admiring glances thanks to his classic Pashley cycle. But what passers by didn’t know was that the gleaming bike was so shiny because Laurent had only just learnt to ride it. In fact, he’d only been out half a dozen times before the Freewheel, cycling in Ireland with his partner John Fingleton back in July.
Laurent, who lives in W1, said: “I was under a lot of pressure! John really likes to ride so I thought I should learn. I found it a bit challenging.”
John said: “Laurent was learning in Ireland in July and it was quite hilly. He was riding my bike, which has 24 gears, and it was a bit much, so we got this bike from Velorution.”
Searching, but not quite finding the right phrase to describe how he felt about the day in English, Laurent added: “It’s unleashing the power of your happiness on the bike. London is a great city and just seeing it from a bike without being threatened to be killed by a taxi or a bus is great.”

The guy in the picture is not Laurent. Credits lost.