No, I don't hate bike messengers. I am actually impress with these guys for their swift and agile riding manuevers around downtown in heavy traffic. Some cops patrol on bicycles and talking on their radio, but most of them wear helmets. I say some occasional riders exaggerate their ride like few guys I know who doesn't own bike computers but regard the distance in miles by the estimated total time in the saddle. Just as sports fisherman coming home and relating to others that he hooked with a big one but it got away.