retiring as a messenger
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sVe

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From: Hellsinki, Funland
Bikes: Nishiki Continental fixed winter beater, Fixed Surly CrossCheck
retiring as a messenger
ok, so this is it. I lasted little over two years.
I sold my messenger Soma, and built up a nice 'retirement' fixie, Sannino pursuit frame, full old campy record on fir tubulars (pics to follow sometime this weekend)
It's been exciting, fun, terrifying, humiliating etc.
Starting next monday, I am a bstard dispatcher
This is B, giving my final signoff, legs are up.
I sold my messenger Soma, and built up a nice 'retirement' fixie, Sannino pursuit frame, full old campy record on fir tubulars (pics to follow sometime this weekend)
It's been exciting, fun, terrifying, humiliating etc.
Starting next monday, I am a bstard dispatcher

This is B, giving my final signoff, legs are up.
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the way we get by

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From: Wherever the f**k I feel it
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Originally Posted by Bikkhu
legs are up.
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Originally Posted by Bikkhu
ok, so this is it. I lasted little over two years.
I sold my messenger Soma, and built up a nice 'retirement' fixie, Sannino pursuit frame, full old campy record on fir tubulars (pics to follow sometime this weekend)
It's been exciting, fun, terrifying, humiliating etc.
Starting next monday, I am a bstard dispatcher
This is B, giving my final signoff, legs are up.
I sold my messenger Soma, and built up a nice 'retirement' fixie, Sannino pursuit frame, full old campy record on fir tubulars (pics to follow sometime this weekend)
It's been exciting, fun, terrifying, humiliating etc.
Starting next monday, I am a bstard dispatcher

This is B, giving my final signoff, legs are up.
Congrats! And farewell/hello. Never hate a dispatcher - to their face.
Enjoy~
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sVe

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Bikes: Nishiki Continental fixed winter beater, Fixed Surly CrossCheck
Originally Posted by [165]
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Congrats! And farewell/hello. Never hate a dispatcher - to their face.
Enjoy~
Congrats! And farewell/hello. Never hate a dispatcher - to their face.
Enjoy~
#6
Originally Posted by Bikkhu
I plan to try my hand at serious track racing in my spare time
I plan on returning to the velo this next season (our local velo was just repaved). I have raced a few times at the Olympic Velo in Colorado. Now that's a VELODROME...ah, now I need another bike. Right? RIGHT?
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Originally Posted by MKRG
Is he really an ENGLISH teacher? I mean, sometimes he sounds like a shop teacher. Congratulations Bikkhu.
Congrats Bikkhu -- Here's wishing you the best of luck at the 'drome
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NO! It is the FARGATE! It is not some other kind of gate from a movie or TV show that I've never seen! Notice that it has a wheelchair and a pink mohawk? We're not getting sued!
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the way we get by

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Originally Posted by s2sxiii
You know what they say; Those who can't do, teach.
Congrats Bikkhu -- Here's wishing you the best of luck at the 'drome
Congrats Bikkhu -- Here's wishing you the best of luck at the 'drome
Or rather it's because I am too busy to worry about silly typing because as a teacher I HAVE WORK to do while you lazy office slugs sip coffee and read the internet all day.
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Originally Posted by skitbraviking
Or rather it's because I am too busy to worry about silly typing because as a teacher I HAVE WORK to do while you lazy office slugs sip coffee and read the internet all day.
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sVe

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Thanks everyone... I am mildly worried that I might get fat and start watching ice hockey on telly... fortunately my 8 mile commuting round trip involves steep grade ascents and mildly terrifying downhills
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the way we get by

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Originally Posted by Bikkhu
Thanks everyone... I am mildly worried that I might get fat and start watching ice hockey on telly... fortunately my 8 mile commuting round trip involves steep grade ascents and mildly terrifying downhills 

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Originally Posted by skitbraviking
speaking of ice hockey on TV... how's the Finnish season looking with all the NHLers?
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Originally Posted by Bikkhu
Look, I am probably the only finn who really does not have a faintest clue what's going on in the ice hockey... or cross country skiing for that matter
NHL lockout = more Finns from the NHL and other NHLers skating for the Finnish Elite League
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You are not retired til you leave completely. Being a dispatcher means you won't ride every day but when they need you have the bike on standby at the job just in case.
If you get a messenger that don't want to take a late job , send him/her home .
Make the money for yourself.
S/F,
CEYA!
If you get a messenger that don't want to take a late job , send him/her home .
Make the money for yourself.
S/F,
CEYA!





