i have always been curious, do you ever find a conflict between your cycle training side and couriering side? i.e. do you rlj, wrong way one way, etc.? or do you find there is no conflict?
I am pretty sure no one else is interested but since you ask....
I long ago decided I was not going to end up crippled or dead so that some crappy advert could get from post production to ad agency a little quicker. And I don't care how 'urgent' you tell me it is to get this bag of clothes from a Mayfair boutique to the Belgravia home of a Jordanian princess I am not hurrying. Still, even if I had not made this decision then age and bad knees would have made it for me.
RLJing and pavement riding isn't, in a way, a particularly explicit part of cycle training . It is implicit though in that it is about making sure people have the skills and the confidence to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances. I don't consider a client's desire to have their package get somewhere quicker than it can safely be got there to be a circumstance; it is an element of the exploitation of couriers to be ignored, with a rueful smile at best and with a barely concealed fury at worst.
So, in short, for various reasons I am not a very quick courier but nor am I leading a double life of riding one way and encouraging other people to ride another.
I am pretty sure no one else is interested but since you ask....
I long ago decided I was not going to end up crippled or dead so that some crappy advert could get from post production to ad agency a little quicker. And I don't care how 'urgent' you tell me it is to get this bag of clothes from a Mayfair boutique to the Belgravia home of a Jordanian princess I am not hurrying. Still, even if I had not made this decision then age and bad knees would have made it for me.
RLJing and pavement riding isn't, in a way, a particularly explicit part of cycle training . It is implicit though in that it is about making sure people have the skills and the confidence to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances. I don't consider a client's desire to have their package get somewhere quicker than it can safely be got there to be a circumstance; it is an element of the exploitation of couriers to be ignored, with a rueful smile at best and with a barely concealed fury at worst.
So, in short, for various reasons I am not a very quick courier but nor am I leading a double life of riding one way and encouraging other people to ride another.