Craziest payload as a messenger?
#53
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Umbilical cord caked in **** along with a woman's cervix, half cancerous. Both ground scores.
#56
i like bikes.
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From: 614, Ohio
Bikes: iro rob roy - ss cross, iro mark v pro - fixed, bianchi via nirone 7 - road, trek 1000 - 1x9 city bike w/ rack
bump.
Tonight I had to transport 16 fragile flute champagne glasses from my restaurant to my restaurant without breaking the glasses. that was a pretty good challenge. There was a lot of traffic due to the local community festival, so it made it fun.
Tonight I had to transport 16 fragile flute champagne glasses from my restaurant to my restaurant without breaking the glasses. that was a pretty good challenge. There was a lot of traffic due to the local community festival, so it made it fun.
#57
lets see here, poster sized packages we call mounts that some times are like 36 x 36 or some ridiculous sizes that act like sails in the wind. i also carried about 85 pounds in my backpack(reload) that consisted of a copy box and 3 pretty hefty sized rolls.
#61
Is maith liom mo rothar
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From: Dublin Ireland
Bikes: paganini, gromada, look
a fake vibrating vagina not in a box to a solicitors firm.
2 cheques for over €million (return)
bring back a dvd to the video shop
a six pack to the biggest newpaper in ireland.
2 poster tubes a least 4 foot high and about 9 inches sqare.
i letter to the postoffice that was addressed to a place on my route to the post office and i had to RETURN the dockets from the post office to the company.
some sort of biohazardous polestyrene box.
a wedding dress.
thants all i can think of for now.
2 cheques for over €million (return)
bring back a dvd to the video shop
a six pack to the biggest newpaper in ireland.
2 poster tubes a least 4 foot high and about 9 inches sqare.
i letter to the postoffice that was addressed to a place on my route to the post office and i had to RETURN the dockets from the post office to the company.
some sort of biohazardous polestyrene box.
a wedding dress.
thants all i can think of for now.
#63
Gizmo

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From: Austin, TX
Bikes: custom Moyer track bike, '94 Bianchi track bike, 99ish Bianchi Reparto Corsa 9speed record/chorus, '81ish Koga Miyata FullPro, '84 trek 720 touring bike, mid-80s Montagner slowly being built w/period campy
largest at work was probably a 70-75 pound gift basket. weirdest is hard to say. i did some nba finals tickets a few weeks ago. some townes van zandt demo tapes. a $4 million check. someone's homework....
#64
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From: Williston, VT
Bikes: Bridgestone RB-T, Soma Rush, Razesa Racer, ⅔ of a 1983 Holdsworth Professional, Nishiki Riviera Winter Bike
Not a messenger, but I've carried some awkward loads. the best were probably a wheelchair, and an 8 foot long pine 4x4. Also a couple of times I've carried boxed bikes down to the post office.
#65
alacrity and brio
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From: urbs in horto, IL
Bikes: miyata track, serotta colorado tg, kona unit
Originally Posted by Landgolier
One of the Chicago vets was talking about a client they used to do some crazy weekly run for that was a big wheelie tub full of stuff, you just threw your bike in it and pushed it, only like 4 or 5 blocks or something but still ridiculous.
weirdest tags: 2 bottles of champagne, a pack of nudie cards, and a 3 foot tall rendition of the eiffel tower to a hotel guest, during the sox world series celebration madness. heavy ass box with an umbrella sticking out of it. box of rocks. box of feathers.
Last edited by unelite; 06-24-07 at 08:05 PM.
#66
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From: Brooklyn, NY
Bikes: 2011 Cannondale CAAD 10, Moser "Special", RIP- early/mid 90's Zullo "Sprint" (ultegra grouppo, stronglight crankset), 04 Bianchi Pista (stock except for the saddle, front break and pedals)
not a messenger. . .but my best load was strapping a bass drum to my bag and riding home with it. not heavy, but pretty big and awkward. i've also toted a djembe around which was both heavy and awkward but didn't have the visual appeal of the bass drum.
#67
Not a messenger, but I work at a gym as a trainer. One friday my buddy calls me up and tells me he needs a couple plates (45lbs. each, probably about 2 ft. diameter) and a couple of 25lb. weight plates so we could train the next day. I loaded them all into my bag and proceeded to ride home 4miles uphill. Not ****ing fun. My shoulder went numb w/ 140lbs. of weights back there. The chrome bag did hold up pretty well though.
#68
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From: massachusetts
Originally Posted by Otto Rax
I pedicabbed 3 200+ dudes 3 miles uphill once. They tipped me out $50 and made it almost worthwhile
#70
Junior Dinosaur
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From: philadelphia
Bikes: Allan Wanta road bike,Cannondale cross bike, bob jackson classic road, bob jackson touring.
there are courier bags and careeriour bags. the careeriour bags are over couple hundred dollars and you can fit a small village inside, or a copy box and some. Unless your paying rent with a bike, bag and radio, you don't want or need something so big. There was a kid at the naccc's that had probably the largest custom bag I've seen, he was from chicago? mabe, I don't really know, but he had a huge bag that he could fit a small, but full grown, skinny adult male inside, all of him except his knees and up and head, and ride with this grown man on his back.
#71
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From: PGH
Pedicabbed three linebacker-sized dudes and their equally corpulent girlfriends a mile or so after an ASU game. Had my ass slapped my many a drunken ASU student, not to mention a few cougars out for a night on the town in Phoenix. Rode a mile and a half with a dude's money to a gas station, bought gas cans and filled them with gas, took them back to dude and his outtagas car where it was parked illegally. After a Suns game I hauled a drunk guy less than half a mile to a hotel so he could sleep it off--he gave me a C-note. Broke a derailleur cable in Tucson and hauled a few people up that goddamn hill from the U of A stadium to the parking lots across Speedway stuck in the middle ring and the second cog from the small end of the cassette. Drunk Red Sox fan gave me $40 to trade ballcaps; his was Sox, mine was ASU. I think he thought I was a Diamondbacks fan.
****, I'm gonna miss pedicabbing. But my hat's off to the messengers who dodge traffic with file boxes balanced on their bars.
****, I'm gonna miss pedicabbing. But my hat's off to the messengers who dodge traffic with file boxes balanced on their bars.
#72
alacrity and brio
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From: urbs in horto, IL
Bikes: miyata track, serotta colorado tg, kona unit
Originally Posted by ecpowertap
There was a kid at the naccc's that had probably the largest custom bag I've seen, he was from chicago? mabe, I don't really know, but he had a huge bag that he could fit a small, but full grown, skinny adult male inside, all of him except his knees and up and head, and ride with this grown man on his back.
#73
live free or die trying
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From: where i lay my head is home.
Bikes: bianchi pista workhorse, cannondale r1000, mountain bike fixed conversion
Originally Posted by stronzo
largest at work was probably a 70-75 pound gift basket. weirdest is hard to say. i did some nba finals tickets a few weeks ago. some townes van zandt demo tapes. a $4 million check. someone's homework....
what!?!?!! tvz demos?





