You are reading a single comment by @dooks and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@dooks
get a riskshaw/pedicab.
i used to work one or two nights a week. weekends mostly, 7pm till whenever. don't know what is costs now but it used to be between £20 and £40 a night or £120 a week to hire the veehickle. the owners looked after maintenance and storage and all that. the idea was to make your rent by midnight and you're laughing. i worked one or two nights a week all though uni and a couple of years after. i used to make a couple of hundred on one one weekend night and maybe another night or two in the week, pay the rent on my flat in cash then sit about playing the guitar and drinking till i ran out of money then do it again. when i got really good later on i was working one night a week. grinding up regent street with three fat americans in the back of your 7 speed quad isn't exactly fun but using the £2 per person minimum fare loophole it soon adds up. i knew guys that made £2-300 a night. some of them are still doing it now (ten years after i started with the original 6 riders) and some of them started their own businesses (there's a couple of hundred of riders now split over half a dozen companies). it was diferent back then but having tried the courier thing too i'd venture that if you're a graduate moving to london who likes riding, wants to make some cash and to leave day time free for study/work/creativity/whatever pedicabing might be a better bet that couriering.
better still, get agency work and yeah, enjoy yr riding.
shit i sound like my mum. "keep music as a hobby".
balls.