Originally Posted by humancongereel
yeah, sure. i only feel a little bad most of the time. but the other day, when i dropped a girl riding a 30 year old cruiser with a wicker basket just cruising along, i felt weird. like "why am i not doing this?" i spent almost 2 months looking for work 8 hours a day, the whole day on a bike...and i don't know how to ride other than "fast as i ****ing can", and after 8 hours, i felt fine, no matter how i pushed myself.
Keep riding for a couple more years and you'll learn that riding as fast as you can all the time isn't very smart, whether you're doing messenger runs or the tour de france.
If you really want to race messengers, you should do an alleycat. That's a much better indicator of how you'll stack up than blowing by someone in the street.