The extremist fringe

[PurpleFrog]

However dedicated a retrobiker you think you are, this guy has you beat. At least he does if you're not not Jacqui Phelan. For he has been a bike messenger for over 30 years and used the same bike all that time. That's 60,000 hours racked up on one frame by my calculation. Maybe even the same saddle, as it looks like a Brooks:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NJMIf7aDvI8#t=377[/youtube]

...I worked with him back when I was in San Francisco years ago, and it really does look the same bike! Anyone got any idea what it is???

 

[xerxes]

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The thing that struck me is that I'm in the wrong business; I should be making messenger bags. $120 dollars for a bag that can be made in 20 minutes!. :shock:

That's works out as about £220 an hour, minus maybe £20 or £30 for materials, that's considerably more than I get working in IT.

 

[Silvergoat]

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Why spend your life repeating "is it turned on?' or "is it plugged in?" when you could be sitting behind a shiny iMac with a small army of sweatshop workers in a garage rattling out your premium bespoke products maximising your dollars :xmas-big-grin: include an asymmetrical band/stripe/detail somewhere on it like Rapha and you'll be minted!

Great video. Hammond looked a tad awkward at times through it. Mr Shark looks a real dude though – looks like a bike whisperer. Quite agree with his sentiments regarding "frying your brains out under fluorescent lights in an office". I'd rather be doing something that requires being out in the fresh air and riding, a lot. Not sure what the bike is but it sounds like a tank at 65 lbs.

Ended up watching more crazy courier antics on Youtube after.

 

[NeilM]

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$120 dollars for a bag that can be made in 20 minutes!. :shock:

If it's on TV it must be true!

My son makes cycle related bags, and I don't care how good the manufactures are, there is no chance they made that bag from scratch in 20 minutes.

 

[xerxes]

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Why spend your life repeating "is it turned on?' or "is it plugged in?"

I work in IT, I'm not a member of the cast of "The IT Crowd".

 

[Silvergoat]

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Why spend your life repeating "is it turned on?' or "is it plugged in?"

I work in IT, I'm not a member of the cast of "The IT Crowd".

Point taken. Working in graphic design, people often assume mistakenly that I'm somehow the same as 'The IT Crowd' so I often tell them to try turning it on and off again (amongst other suggestions ).

 

[EggyBum6969]

knobie tyres on roads, an hamster is a cheesie git.
thanks for the vid tho, i stopped watching tv after taking media studies in 2007.

mind spam trivia, id rather read ride an ream an a bit of drawing now an again

"television the drug of a nation breading ignorance an feeding radiation"

 

[stewlewis]

I work in IT there isn't even a "switch it off and on again".
We just have a "switch it off", it's then turned on remotely, erased, installed and software applied.
I want to make bags.

 

[PurpleFrog]

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$120 dollars for a bag that can be made in 20 minutes!. :shock:

If it's on TV it must be true!

My son makes cycle related bags, and I don't care how good the manufactures are, there is no chance they made that bag from scratch in 20 minutes.

Also, I think Shark was making fun of the TV guy when he claimed his bike weighed 65lbs. Roy, otoh, who used to push a Schwin, very possibly.

 

[highlandsflyer]

Typical Hammond, absolutely nothing incisive about his questioning.

Didn't ask about the drug scene.

Didn't ask about much of interest.

Now Louis Theroux would have probed a bit into the problems the guy had. No one opts to messenger for that many years unless they have issues. It is cute for a while when you are young or between real work, but the guy was basically a bum.