bicycle couriers

Kowalski

Hola, any bicycle couriers in here...?

Do you like it? Is the pay as bad as i imagine? Is there much work going about? There isn't any bike couriers around here (probably for good reason) and i was wondering if it would be a good idea to start up a lil business. Any advice / suggestions / tales would be appreciated.

Cheers

heavymental

And there goes the Challenger, being chased by the blue blue meanies on wheels. The vicious traffic squad cars are after our lone driver, the last American hero, the electric sitar, the demigod, the super driver of the golden west. Two nasty Nazi cars are close behind the beautiful lone driver. The police numbers are gettin' closer, closer, closer to our soul hero in his soul mobile, yeah baby. They're about to strike, they're gonna get him, smash him, rape the last beautiful free soul on this planet. But, it is written, if the evil spirit arms the tiger with claws, Brahman provideth wings for the dove. Thus spake, the super guru.

heavymental

Apparently this speed maniac you've been chasing all over your territory is a former professional road racer named Kowalski, K-O-W-A-L-S-K-I. Repeat Kowalski. First name unknown, other particulars also unknown.

overmars

Heavymental wrote:

And there goes the Challenger, being chased by the blue blue meanies on wheels. The vicious traffic squad cars are after our lone driver, the last American hero, the electric sitar, the demigod, the super driver of the golden west. Two nasty Nazi cars are close behind the beautiful lone driver. The police numbers are gettin' closer, closer, closer to our soul hero in his soul mobile, yeah baby. They're about to strike, they're gonna get him, smash him, rape the last beautiful free soul on this planet. But, it is written, if the evil spirit arms the tiger with claws, Brahman provideth wings for the dove. Thus spake, the super guru.

:shock:
I don't know what you're on. But I like it. 8)

overmars

Kowalski

I was a courier once! It was my dream job. I thought I'd speed around London delivering mail, free from the restrictions of working in an office box.
The pay was crapoll@. But brothers, it wasn't about money. It was about love, excitement, adventure. Pushing the envelope (yes I've seen "The Right Stuff" 8) )

End of my first day with one more package to deliver. Some plum opened his car door on me...

... that was my first and last day as a cycle courier.

I figured I wasn't very good at it.


Good luck with your new venture!

Kowalski

haha, yep Heavymental, that's the one. "got any balls in that mother...?"

cheers overmars, that seems to be the jist of all i'm finding out, great when it's going well really bad when it's not.

chairs for the info though