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Old 04-08-08 | 10:52 PM
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From: Lexington KY

Bikes: 1970s or 80s concord pacer, 2007 dawes roadbike, 2005 raleigh supercourse

lexington could never have bike couriers... the downtown is far too small. cincinnati has flying pig, who barely makes it i think, and city dash had a few but cut them out i think. im not sure about louisville. those are other regional options though. you might also consider lynn imaging, they have several locations and currently drive all their copies and plots around im pretty sure.

here around campus you would probably do well delivering food though, since gas is so pricy, youd make a lot more money than other drivers. try pita pit, the jimmy johns around campus (limestone, waller, and the new one going in downtown), i think the limestone subway might deliver as well. you could also talk to pizza or chinese places, though the orders would be a little tougher, since they usually deliver serveral orders at once (maybe a modified xtracycle?). the nice thing about working for one of the campus locations though would be that 95% of your business would be within a 10 minute ride, even though lexington is planned radially and from downtown you are pretty much limited to a 7 mile ride to new circle, which is nice, but might be problematic given those roads traffic conditions (namely nicholasville and broadway). oh, and stells deli on the northside of downtown is EXTREMELY cool to cyclists, sponsoring alleycats and whatnot. if they deliver, you might try them.

if you do find a job with a restaurant, definitely post it up on lexrides.com. maybe ask about jobs there too, all of us there im sure would request our food delivered by you, and would likely tip you better haha.

cheers, good to here from another lexvegasonian
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