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Hard won experience about knees. I've just had the last stitches out of mine and still can't bend my leg past 45 degrees. That's 2 weeks after the operation to clean the gravel out of it. It's easy to get casual about leg protection because it's a bitch if you're not on the bike all day but knees are complicated and take time to fix so I'll be looking after mine from now on.
I'm happy I did the Pizza delivery despite the accidents, some fun times. Not sure I'd want to do it again though.
Airhead
All true. I did pizza delivery when I was 16 and had so many crashes it's impossible to remember them. All my fault and never (fortunately) involving other vehicles. Aside from pinballing a bike down a narrow street after falling on black ice.
Motorcycle couriering was worse as I had to pay my own insurance - from memory, between 800 and sixteen hundred quid a year for various bikes from a C90 up. I don't know how guys do it these days - I was earning minimum 120quid a day, cash in hand in 1996 and from what I hear, rates have barely shifted since. If you're in central London be prepared to start looking like a heavily kohled chimney sweep...it's a dirty business, even if getting paid to thrash a bike around was seriously good fun for a bit.
Spot on with the knee protection - they take more of a battering in most falls than any other body part.