Originally Posted by NYCommuter
According to what the newspapers say, this guy was delivering coffee and pastries. There are tons of folks doing this in the city, for local restaurants or delis. They ride beat up MTB, in a 2 mile radius from their shop and usually go like 5mph. They are not messenger, their job duties include cooking, cleaning, and sometimes also delivering stuff to the customers.
I don't get how someone can just die from a falll while carrying coffee on a bike... I don't get it.
This one hit close. These folks deliver to my work, my home, we ride side by side in the city, they deliver in the rain, snow or 100F weather... 24 hours a day. They are not speed junkies riding vicariously through the city.
This is so sad.
The memorial ride is in 20mins. Am going.
Actually I got the impression that he was a bike messenger and the muffin and coffee was his breakfast. I think one of the articles just said he was carrying his breakfast, and another article had an eye-witness stating that after the crash he was still clipped into his pedals.
But regardless of what job he had, it certainly is tragic.