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I've never really thought of sunny day realestate as hardcore...
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will it be a comedy?
better they get you in a nice warm studio, point a U87 at you and let rip, I say.
I say, you know your microphones don't you sir!
Plus January also = Sales (fucking cunting shitting iPod wearing phone talking crowd following even if a bus is coming towards them at 40 mph) lemmings, aka peds who don't usually come to London. I hit one full on today and felt good about it, he did tell me to though..
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I'm used to riding around skate parks where you can be as sketchy as you want and you'll only crash due to your own lack of skill which once you know you're limits doesn't happen too often as well as everyone there being cycle minded. I come to ride in London and everyone is fucking nuts! Peds literally running and jumping in front of you, drivers to whom 'Mirror, signal, manoeuvre' is just a vague guideline for when they feel like it. Like I have said at some other point, up until I started courierifying I had had 2 crashes whilst riding on the road and never with a pedestrian, that's now gone up to 12 in the last 4 months.
Your concern is welcome though ;)
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I'm used to riding around skate parks where you can be as sketchy as you want and you'll only crash due to your own lack of skill which once you know you're limits doesn't happen too often as well as everyone there being cycle minded. I come to ride in London and everyone is fucking nuts! Peds literally running and jumping in front of you, drivers to whom 'Mirror, signal, manoeuvre' is just a vague guideline for when they feel like it. Like I have said at some other point, up until I started courierifying I had had 2 crashes whilst riding on the road and never with a pedestrian, that's now gone up to 12 in the last 4 months.
Your concern is welcome though ;)
Interestingly, I've had proportionally far fewer crashes since I've been a courierer (2 moderately serious spills in 6 months of recreational riding, cf. nothing to speak of in 3 months of 10-hour days). And this week I managed to have two crashes in two days whilst walking (bumped into a tree, and slipped over on an icy boardwalk). It's obviously far safer to ride your bike in busy traffic than to go for a gentle stroll in the country.
However, I may be statistically irrelevant.
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Sorry a little pun based upon the role of probability in statistics and a lame attempt to cast aside your self depreciative statement.
Oh I seeee! (I wasn't being self-deprecating - I probably am statistically irrelevant. After all, there are hundreds of other female couriers in London, aren't there?)
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I'm used to riding around skate parks where you can be as sketchy as you want and you'll only crash due to your own lack of skill which once you know you're limits doesn't happen too often as well as everyone there being cycle minded. I come to ride in London and everyone is fucking nuts! Peds literally running and jumping in front of you, drivers to whom 'Mirror, signal, manoeuvre' is just a vague guideline for when they feel like it. Like I have said at some other point, up until I started courierifying I had had 2 crashes whilst riding on the road and never with a pedestrian, that's now gone up to 12 in the last 4 months.
This my friend is London's Famous London.
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Oh I seeee! (I wasn't being self-deprecating - I probably am statistically irrelevant. After all, there are hundreds of other female couriers in London, aren't there?)
Name twenty.
I dare you.
In fact, you've been on the road three months?
Name ten.
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Ummmmm...
Aga.
Ais.
Judith.
The girl on the Cinelli.
The girl with the pink frame and purple rims.
The smiley girl on the Condor.
The red-haired girl with the cargo-bike.
The dark-haired girl who works for Excel.
Ummmmmmmm...
You win. (I'm surprised I could think of that many!)
plus you and nhatt makes 10, right?
or are you smiley girl on the condor?
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its no big deal.
if you really need money go do something else cause you aint seeing no money for a while.
its really hard to make more than 400 a week but its possible if you work hard and depending on the company youre on.
if you want to have fun on your bike and you have patience, go for it.
but its like anything else you like doing, sometimes you dont feel like doin.
so get your ass off the computer jump on your bike and start knocking on every companys door, if youre persistent, theyll take you.
it worked for me.and i definitely cant complain.
good luck -
Selimski and I decided to try and count girls last night, and including you (who I don't think I've met) we ended up with 23.
We also don't work for a city based company, so there could be a few we missed. As an example I know Aga, but not Ais (I think. Unless she's the part timer for cyclone).
We included Scarlet and Titta in this, even though they only work once every few months due to school stuff, so the number of girls that are even on the road as regular part timers is pretty slim.
I don't know who rides a Cinelli (unless your just going by colour, then it could be me. I ride a screaming yellow Jack Taylor)
the girl on the pink bike is Lovely Rita
the smiley girl is probably Chandra, although someone else pointed her out to me as surly once, I don't quite belive it.
Red Haired cargo bike rider is Mary (who ownes a large chunk of my heart)
Unless you mean Stoyanka (who has sorta brown hair), I think you might mean Corrinne, who now works for City Sprint (love it. Her call name is La Dee Da). Actually Selim said that he saw one of the brazillian girls with one of excel's bags recently, so maybe her.
Long story short, we couldn't even make it to thirty, whick means there simply isn't enough girls on the road. Hey, thanks for giving me the excuse to try and count. I've been curiose for ages and just never got around to it before.
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I"ve had to conceded in recent years that surly are sorta the business.
As far as suittable bike names to personality, I've had to settle for a set of pedals...
braincap
!Nhattattack!
Festerban
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Emilia
cliveo
emoxfag
hippy
_Zed_
freddo
INStrumenT-
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i grew up in the hardcore scene in the mid 90's. i was more into bands saves the day, sunny day real estate, dead letter auction and orchid than i was into cro mags and earth crisis, so some of the older dudes referred to me as "that emo fag" in a joshing manner. it's just what kids new me as for a long time.