Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Attn: Crabby Messengers:

A MBA type dude with an SUV just told me I have a "Nice Fix."


Doesnt that just tear your cold heart out?!

i love it.

A MBA type dude with an SUV just told me I have a "Nice Fix."


Doesnt that just tear your cold heart out?!

what's an MBA type dude"? :)

This might get the "most stereotypes with least words" award

Oh, sorry, I didn't know this was the messenger's forum. My bad.

This might get the "most stereotypes with least words" award

I think only if he ended the story "and than I was cut off by a badly driving drunken half black half white, quarter asian, mostly irish, hispanic old lady gardener soccer mom taking up two lanes driving a stolen SUV gypsy cab with car full of landscaping equipment and smelly cheap drunken mexican midget jews....honkey"

That happens to me alot. It never get less strange.
Today an old postal worker stopped me to talk about how the brooks saddle on my bike was 'just like the one he had as a kid' and tell me about a racing bike he was building.
****ing awesome. I hope I'm building 'racing bikes' when I'm that old.

Oh, sorry, I didn't know this was the messenger's forum. My bad.

somebody call the waaaaaaambulance.

If I was stereotyping messengers, wouldnt I have just said "Messengers?"

Oh, sorry, I didn't know this was the messenger's forum. My bad.

What are you trying to say?

Watch, as I effortlessly hijack this thread!

How many people here are or have been package jockeys?

I used to back in the day. This might also answer the messenger forum bit too.

Right after I saw you today, Mareesha, an elderly black woman walked by as I was locking up on 6th and said, "Nice fix." Happens almost every day. College students, Ready and Able guys, cleaning ladies, doormen. All the population agrees- Nice Fix.
I am a "package jockey."

Sweet.

And how many of you have SUVs?

To this day I have not owned any motorvehicle.

I've never gotten a drivers lisence. Beat that :D

lazy! :)

I've never gotten a drivers lisence. Beat that :D

what's a "driver's license"?

Six years messin in Montreal. Was an awesome time.

**** you need a license? :p

I have an MBA, own an SUV and 2 of my 15 bikes are fixed.
This tread is meaningless.

Enjoy

A MBA type dude with an SUV just told me I have a "Nice Fix."


are you an attractive male that just had his testicles removed and rides naked?---that might explain it

I have an MBA, own an SUV and 2 of my 15 bikes are fixed.
This tread is meaningless.

Enjoy


dude, you totally left out the part about how you used to be a messenger:)

what's a "driver's license"?

Yea, so I'm a little dyslexic. Rub it in, won't you?

Yea, so I'm a little dyslexic. Rub it in, won't you?

in all seriousness duder, i wasn't correctin' yer spellin'! you got me wrong! in fact, i hate when smartasses here do that--it's tacky. i was givin ya some guff cause ya said you never even had a license--"beat that" and i was "beatin' that" by sayin' "what's a license". . .ah, never mind. . . :D

22 posts, an MBA, fixes and no kevin bacon allusions?

in all seriousness duder, i wasn't correctin' yer spellin'! you got me wrong! in fact, i hate when smartasses here do that--it's tacky. i was givin ya some guff cause ya said you never even had a license--"beat that" and i was "beatin' that" by sayin' "what's a license". . .ah, never mind. . . :D

Ah, I see, I see. No offense taken.

What are you trying to say?

I was hungry, so I crawled out from under my bridge.

What I was half-seriously implying is that the title of your thread was elitist. People other than messengers are crabby, have nice bikes, and resent SUVs.

People like me who work in offices long to be able to ride around all day and get paid for it. But then again there are the days when I'm so so glad that I don't have to be out riding, and I bet messers wish they could be sitting in a nice warm office with free soda.

^^^^^smack!!!!^^^^^

Oh, sorry, I didn't know this was the messenger's forum. My bad.

Exactly! How dare someone insinuate that I, of brakeless fixed gear track bike, of messenger bag, of rolled jeans, of PBR, of tattoos, of chrome Nitto drops, of double NJS leather straps, of NY chain, of Selle Turbo, of negative rise quill stem, of lugs, of alleycats, of spokecards, of trackstands, of footless backward skids-- am, somehow-- a messenger.

FIE ON YOU!

<-- street/corporate world rat [package slinger]

I bet messers wish they could be sitting in a nice warm office with free soda.
I never, ever wish I could be doing anything other than riding my bike.
Ever.
Soda is revolting, i like having teeth.

<-- street/corporate world rat [package slinger]

but are you cranky!?
This thread may not be for you ;)

I am a very important person and I have a, wait for it...... fixed gear and a single speed. Back to the OP....fixed is the new "triathlon" for dickbag corporate types...deal with it, celebrate it.

I'm an office jockey now. No more getting paid to ride for me, at least not in the foreseeable future. I definitely don't miss having to be outside in freezing rain. That ish sucks.

My boss is cool though, he knows how to build wheels, watches race videos with me, and interrupts me to talk about my bike when I ride to work. Not having a boss like him would make my office suck.

I never, ever wish I could be doing anything other than riding my bike.
Ever.
Soda is revolting, i like having teeth.

i agree, unless liquor is in it....mmmm...whiskey and coke with a lime twist...maybe i'll go make one now...

but are you cranky!?
This thread may not be for you ;)


I'm not really that cranky, but I do like yelling at pedestrians when they cross stupid.

and I don't really like the gaper type rookies that work just one summer for a couple months, and then use that **** for scene points.

I'm kinda cranky. Unless you say hi in a nice tone, then I'll talk to you for hours.

and then use that **** for scene points.



whats the conversion from screamo records to njs parts?

is it like euros to dollars or dollars to yen?

i bet if i still had that you and i seven inch i could have gotten a sweet track frame for it.

Six years messin in Montreal. Was an awesome time.

**** you need a license? :p

You really have lived in Montreal for years if you know that having a licence means you're from Ontario.

People like me who work in offices long to be able to ride around all day and get paid for it. But then again there are the days when I'm so so glad that I don't have to be out riding, and I bet messers wish they could be sitting in a nice warm office with free soda.

Lance gets paid to ride all day. Messengers get paid to hand packages over, whether on bike, foot, or car. And that depends on where you work and how you define paid.

Though I have the fantasy daily that life could be as simple as riding around in financial district traffic all day checking my beeper and occasionally delivering a package, the hardest part being when you have to fill out a waybill yourself.

If only couriering was that simple, or that good.

A MBA type dude with an SUV just told me I have a "Nice Fix."

did you get his license plate number? let's beat his ass.

i own engines just no cars. i just run them and stomp on the gas all day. i might strap a v8 on my air purifier

Didn't need one til I moved to Toronto.... no car though, just the license..lol

<- have people's careers in my bag.


whoever said messengers would rather be sitting inside drinking soda... i dont tell you that youd probobly rather be outside riding your bike all day (even though i bet you think thats a great idea) plus saying stuff like that, you sound like my mom.

i'd dig bein' a messenger (and bein' all pissed off all the time and feelin' superior to everyone and cooler than thou and drinkin' cheap beer every night) i think. trouble is i like money more (and good beer and wine and sleepin some nights). sad but true. shameful, at least i admit it. :) :D :) :D

22 posts, an MBA, fixes and no kevin bacon allusions?

Kevin Bacon can jockey my package anytime.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/16384.jpg

I think only if he ended the story "and than I was cut off by a badly driving drunken half black half white, quarter asian, mostly irish, hispanic old lady gardener soccer mom taking up two lanes driving a stolen SUV gypsy cab with car full of landscaping equipment and smelly cheap drunken mexican midget jews....honkey"

my new sig. pure genius mrRed.

thank you.
the heebro

my new sig. pure genius mrRed.

thank you.
the heebro

I don't think I've ever been quoted for words that were put into my mouth! thats kinda novel!

whoever said messengers would rather be sitting inside drinking soda... i dont tell you that youd probobly rather be outside riding your bike all day (even though i bet you think thats a great idea) plus saying stuff like that, you sound like my mom.

No, I said most days I'd rather be out riding, and yes, I do think that's a great idea. But go ahead and tell me how great it is delivering envelopes in the freezing rain. How great is it?

To be out in the ****? I loved it I really did. It was the same kinda feeling one gets dropping in on a giant run in the snow. Better than a roller coaster. The complete freedom of messing? I felt like the captain of a ship, my ship. I don't ever expect you to understand.

As well when all the suck asses didn't come out and play, I made more money.
Maybe it's the difference between loving to ride on nice days and having to/wanting to ride everyday.

No, I said most days I'd rather be out riding, and yes, I do think that's a great idea. But go ahead and tell me how great it is delivering envelopes in the freezing rain. How great is it?

not that great, but for me, working an office or restaurant, or behind the counter job is not that great ever... id personally rather be working in the freezing rain than be sitting inside doing work that i cant feel attached to, if you can thats awesome, and to me amazing, im happy for you. and im not going to be a courier forever, but ill still never work a desk job, for me its less about biking all day... and more about not working a job that i cant invest and believe in, i dont mean any personal attacks, (but then again how subversive or progressive is couriering, our EAI cogs are the gears of this corporate machine)

There is nothing nice about being really cold, really wet, and not having a single thing you can do about it until you get home from work. Anyone who says otherwise is a masochist or has superhuman powers for staying dry.