View Poll Results: Have you ever seen a bike messenger in the flesh?
Yes
54
65.85%
No
28
34.15%
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01-16-06, 06:05 PM
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We have them here in Columbus. Most people consider us to be "Midwest." There are a lot fewer now in part because a lot of the courts and government agencies the messengers used to file things with now accept electronic filings.
01-16-06, 06:13 PM
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I find it hard to believe that nearly 1/3 of those responding to the poll have never seen a bike messenger.
I can't walk a block at lunchtime without seeing a few.
Every company I have worked for in SF uses them several times a day. I work for a real estate developer, and even though I make more money than they do and have better benefits, whenever I see them go by through the window in my cube I wish I was out there riding instead of sitting at my computer.
I can't walk a block at lunchtime without seeing a few.
Every company I have worked for in SF uses them several times a day. I work for a real estate developer, and even though I make more money than they do and have better benefits, whenever I see them go by through the window in my cube I wish I was out there riding instead of sitting at my computer.
01-16-06, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by edp773
I see they posted. LOL. I recieved an error each time that said no post was made. You cannot believe everything you read.
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01-16-06, 06:36 PM
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01-16-06, 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by The Fixer
Sometimes I pretend to be a messenger on my fixie with my jeans & messer bag on my commute to work.
01-16-06, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
How do you "pretend" to be a messenger?
Last edited by roadfix; 01-17-06 at 10:51 AM.
01-17-06, 12:27 AM
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Lots in downtown San Diego. Easy to spot. They're all riding fixed.
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01-17-06, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by BostonFixed
I have never seen the president in real life, but I have seen many bike messengers, so therefore the president is not real and bike messengers are. Maybe bike messengers are the president?
01-19-06, 04:01 PM
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kind of a scary neighborhood if messangers are being hit by swinging dead chickens 
01-20-06, 07:33 AM
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Lots of them. I linve in New York City. There are thousands (actually, I have no idea how many there are, but there must be a lot).
They mostly ride fixies. Some ride single-gear bikes, track frames, but have a freewheeling single cog in the back and a front brake only. Often the frames are completely wrapped in old inner tubes. The seat is usually about a foot higher than the handlebars.
They're amazingly fast.
They mostly ride fixies. Some ride single-gear bikes, track frames, but have a freewheeling single cog in the back and a front brake only. Often the frames are completely wrapped in old inner tubes. The seat is usually about a foot higher than the handlebars.
They're amazingly fast.
01-20-06, 07:39 AM
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Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention that my younger brother worked as a bike messenger for a couple of years. This was a long time ago -- at least ten years ago, maybe more. I'll have to ask him.
