Originally Posted by
robertv
I dunno, I thought he had a point. This whole entire messenger thing is a bit ridiculous.
2nd day on the job I was sitting around talking to one of the older guys... "Really the whole myth of the messenger is a bit over the top, our work is hard, sure, but compared to competitive amateur cyclists we don't ride that much, 80ks a day is fairly doable" and he says "shhhh, don't shatter the illusion"
Do messengers really ride only 80 Km/day? That's actually rather little, especially when broken down in 10-50 periods. It's still hard job, doing that in traffic, but not physically (if the 80 Km/day figure is true).