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Mistaken for a messenger
Okay I wanna throw this one out there to BF-land.
I am not a messenger. I was for about two weeks in 1996, but I do not think that gives me any kind of pedigree. I do look like a messenger. I ride fixed, I have a big ol' bag, tats, a large collection of metal/punk t-shirts and a penchant for riding fast through the city. Does this mean I am fraud? Nobody owns this image, and much of my reasons for wearing/doing/having these things have nothing to do with bikes or are just practical. Do messengers think we're 'posengers'. Do I care? I'm not neurotic or apologising or asking people to validate my life. I'm interested in anyone else's experience. I've never had any negative reaction from messengers. Just quizzical looks civilians who look me uo and down and then find out I'm a Psych Nurse. |
Originally Posted by jetbike
Do I care?
Apparently. |
In Melburn, and Im sure most citys worldwide, anyone on a bike, with a sling type bag would be mistaken by the general public for a 'messenger/courier'.
This bites the MDMA(local community) in the preverbial here as we have 'zero tolerance' weeks to 'clamp down on reckless riding' when a commuter hits a ped and is mistaken as a courier. I got this directly from the police. Tattoo's may give the impression you are 'harder' than you are. |
Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between a stuffed animal and a real one, until it's too late.
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_aug20...ffedOrReal.jpg Keep it real. Please ride responsibly. This message was approved by the International Council Of Tattooed Fixed Gear Riders That Aren't Messengers But Carry Big Bags Brakeless with Big Lobes.(tm) |
u r teh gheywad
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I remember when I first started wearing teh shants - teh couriers would give me teh "look", as in "dis guy, he is wearin' teh shants, 'e mus' be teh courier, but I don' see teh license".
Regular folk think I am teh courier when I am ridin' teh elevator to my office - no tats, no lobes, no hair. |
Originally Posted by jetbike
Okay I wanna throw this one out there to BF-land.
I am not a messenger. I was for about two weeks in 1996, but I do not think that gives me any kind of pedigree. I do look like a messenger. I ride fixed, I have a big ol' bag, tats, a large collection of metal/punk t-shirts and a penchant for riding fast through the city, fast. Does this mean I am fraud? Nobody owns this image, and much of my reasons for wearing/doing/having these things have nothing to do with bikes or are just practical. Do messengers think we're 'posengers'. Do I care? I'm not neurotic or apologising or asking people to validate my life. I'm interested in anyone else's experience. I've never had any negative reaction from messengers. Just quizzical looks civilians who look me uo and down and then find out I'm a Psych Nurse. |
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You could start riding to work in a candy-stripe hat and a pink golf shirt.
Al Czervik: Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh? [looks at Judge Smails, who's wearing the same hat] Al Czervik: Oh, it looks good on you though. http://www.carlspackler.com/archive/cs_089.jpg |
Wear what you wanna wear and ride what you wanna ride. Who cares what anyone else thinks. :)
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My grocery pannier keeps me from getting mistook for a homeless guy.
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Sometimes I wear a suit and people think I'm teh big CEO money guy and give me fat bounses and offers to come back to hotel rooms for sucky suck. Am I a fraud?
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I get mistaken for Atom and his Package quite a bit. Not so much his package though.
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Originally Posted by 12XU
Sometimes I wear a suit and people think I'm teh big CEO money guy and give me fat bounses and offers to come back to hotel rooms for sucky suck. Am I a fraud?
If we could some how work that into the fake dog post... WE'VE GOT OUR SELVES A WEB-SITE!!! |
You're not a messenger/posenger, you're a f@cking tool!
Actually, I think you're Peter Petrelli. Can you fly? You sound like a freakin' Chester. I wish I could kick your tatted ass back to 7th grade. Stuffed animals are cute! Who wants some ice cream!! |
how would you know if this guys got tattoos on his ass or not? youre ****ing creepy.
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im in ur thred
giving no sh it |
Just do what you want. Who cares what other people think about you.
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why do these ****ing messengers need to co-opt my white-trash look?
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I'm old and over weight and ride to slow....... but in my mind I'm a young messenger stud.:D
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Originally Posted by genericbikedude
why do these ****ing messengers need to co-opt my white-trash look?
I was scummy, tattooed and unkempt long before I started riding fixed gear, thankyouverymuch. ;) |
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Originally Posted by guerillaidiom
im in ur thred
giving no sh it givin u aliens |
Originally Posted by jhowell
Actually, I think you're Peter Petrelli. Can you fly?
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i did a morning mess job for like 1.5 months this summer, then laser gave my ****ing paychecks route to one of the fulltime guys and i was ****ed. still pisses me off when i think about it; that was the best job i've ever had. i might try to pursue that sort of job again once i'm no longer a student, for now i just keep riding. and yeah, i look like a "messenger," but so does everyone else in richmond.
on this note, i found this image online today and wanted to share it with bikeforums http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y44...m/delivers.jpg |
Just be yourselves, kids. Just be yourselves. |
its funny, but for a change i read the OP and had no desire to talk **** about the guy.
that is very unlike me. |
I ride with alot of the messengers in town and hang out with them it is good fun my experience is as long as your on two wheels its all good
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I get mistaken for a courier here in Albany, but considering my MO hasn't really changed since I messenged it's really not surprising. Though it's kind of disturbing that I'm asked that when I'm not anywhere near my bike.
How anyone could possibly think Albany is set up so you could make a living messing is beyond me, but I digress. |
Originally Posted by 12XU
im on reply
givin u aliens readin ur nxt reply |
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