Sorry is this has been done before
If you short of time 0:55 to say 1:30 and 5:20 to the end might give you an taste
*Swoooon*
When does the antelope take one of them out?
It's old news now innit?
Select bits of that film (or one like it) were used in that Doc' last year to help stir up a bit of Anti-cycling controversy by the Beeb I believe...
If messengers want to race fair enough, just goes to prove you don't need Strava as an excuse to ride like a prick in traffic...
Out of interest what do they win?
When does the antelope take one of them out?
Just after Martyn Ashton does a backflip on a road bike. Did you miss it?
How many of them died? Must have been a high proportion, riding like that.
Just after Martyn Ashton does a backflip on a road bike. Did you miss it?
Is that before or after the posh bloke shouts at his dog?
Sorry 5 years or more too late
Got something out of my system though.....
And how much does sending a message with one of these folk cost?
Could be quicker than getting an email read in my office.
Sorry is this has been done before
Its 6 years old and has had 686,000 views...
if you like being outraged, the whole video is on youtube now
I hadn't seen it before, so thank you
Try this one too, bit of a grim perspective for their lives too!
About 42 minutes in there's some action with a messenger race!
When I was a youngster living in London backin the 80's I worked as a cycle courier. Then I got a job as a bus driver. Earning a living doing either job trying to navigate London streets was hard enough and the pay was crap. These people are idiots. Delivering a proxy message was never that urgent. Thank goodness for email.
As said ^^, that video is years old.
It's one of the old alleycat races - highly illegal courier races usually circulated by word of mouth - meet up at a pub and get given a load of "deliveries" to do - fastest person round all the checkpoints "wins". Never really anything other than the respect of your fellow couriers but hey, a win's a win. 😉
Requires nerves of steel, total lack of appreciation of danger, good fitness and an encyclopaedic knowledge of London streets. They don't really run them now for fairly obvious reasons.
It's one of the old alleycat races - highly illegal courier races usually circulated by word of mouth - meet up at a pub and get given a load of "deliveries" to do - fastest person round all the checkpoints "wins" ... They don't really run them now for fairly obvious reasons.
With the rise of the hipster there are more alleycat races than ever before but they're different to these, they're glorified treasure hunts but they are a lot of fun.
I remember hearing that this was happening with lucas brunelle in tow WAAY back in the day. One of my regrets is that I wished I had got on a train and competed. I was younger and foolhardier then.
Some ****ing lunatics in those vids for sure, many of whom sadly appear to have such little respect for themselves that the can't help but behave that way towards others.
Can my urgent delivery be not taken by the guy who falls on the first corner (0.20)?
I didn't see a single hand signal there...
Plenty of helmets there