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Couriers didn't always cycle fixies !

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    Diarmuid
    Registered Users Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭Diarmuid


    Verb wrote: »
    . Jesus, youtube really is incredibly timewasting.

    +1000 :D


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    72hundred
    Registered Users Posts: 1,333 ✭✭✭72hundred


    Seems like alot of sitting about waiting for jobs...


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    Bambaata
    Registered Users Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭Bambaata


    haha no way, i know one of those in that, Pádraig.


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    Chris Peak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 216 ✭✭Chris Peak


    I know a few of those people. The blond guy with dreads once stood by my bike, took out his multi-tool and had a quick look around before mooving closer towards it. He spotted me glaring at him from accross the street, and hoped onto his own bike and peddled off.... I'm not suggesting that he's a thieving c*nt, but..!

    The Scotish guy, Jan Borza, was very badly injured soon after that program was made.
    I was beside him when they switched off his life support machine. He started breathing on his own, which surprised the docs.
    A few of us and his work mates from Secure Speed raised money to fly him home to Glasgow. Not sure what happened to him after that.


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    steinone
    Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭steinone


    Quite a few of the couriers in Dublin still dont ride fixed, its simplicity over preference really.


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    Gavin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    Yeah, I ended up watching another courier program on youtube, this one I spotted on the dublin messengers blog

    The need for the 'at risk' guy to get a singlespeed/fixie was pathetic. (Well the show overall was pretty terrible, but I guess it's pitched that way)

    I found the idea that by being a courier one is a rebel, free to act as one wills, sticking it to the man, etc was fairly naive. It's a job, just like a job in an office, or a job on a construction site, 9 to 5, do your work and go home. Go home where you pay rent/mortgage, go to the shop to buy food, pay your taxes etc.

    Anyway, this is more timewasting, I must get back under the thumb of the man and do my work.


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    Anzer123
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Anzer123


    Ha ha...the fella saying at the end of part 2 sayin he could have been delivering things for bertie ahern!! that must be the missing link the the recent scandal with bertie! couriers are taking down the state!


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