I live in Edmonton, Canada and have never messengered before this.

But... I am would you would call pretty hard core as I can ride all day at high speed (and do), can handle the core traffic, know the city, and have often been mistaken for being a messenger.

And I know bikes.

I took the job with the expectation that I will be allowed to build my own client list (I already have been assigned some good regs) and that my pay should nearly double in the coming months as I take on more and more work... expanding our coverage is a very attractive proposition as I can see us taking away a good deal of the car based work by doing it for less and still allow riders to make a decent wage.

I can make the trip from the city centre to our south or west limit in 8 -10 minutes by bike whereas a car could very well take twice that time due to traffic and limited bridge crossings... one of these trips is a $20.00 net.

When I am not mess'ing I work as a bicycle mechanic and do private work and wheel building which also helps pay the bills... I have a growing list of clients here too.

I work with a fairly forward thinking company that knows that it needs to take care of it's team if it has any hope to be successful and our client list grows daily since we are building a good rep as being some of the fastest biatches out there.

We're gonna need a few more bikers pretty soon as right now we're a small 2 man crew (bikers) and there are times we have to call in our boss to do backup due to the volume of calls.