Originally Posted by manual_overide
cleveland has more because of geography too. cleveland is flat while cincy is very hilly, many of which are very steep. outside of the flat downtown core, it's mostly faster to hire a car courier because bikes take too long to climb the hills. I only know of one or two messengers in cincy. that's really all there needs to be
By my count, there is one courier: da Flying Pig, Mark
There are also several food delivery guys, namely my friends at Jimmy John's.
I don't think the lack of messengers is due to the hills...there are tons of urban cyclists who climb them through all four seasons with aplomb. They are badass, but there is simply not the volume of messenger work that you'd see in the state capital (Columbus) or, like Alex said, the law hub (Cleveland). Also, Mark is really friggin' good at what he does and probably pulls the amount of work that several slacking messengers would be assigned.