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i ride a chair all day, playing at graphic designers, but every-so-often out comes the 'fixie' on goes the Timbuk2 and the fakenger hits the streets looking the part (prat?) but without all that radio chatter and having to go where people want me to go and generally doing the delivering stuff thing...
being a graphic design ponce also means i can celebrate my fakengerness like this...

Can I get one of those?
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I think I am a fakenger. I spend so long worrying about this.
I mean I have the bike, the clothes, a messenger bag, hang around at messenger pubsBut I am an ex-courier so what the hell does this make me. I am having a personality crisis over this one
It makes you an exenger,Mike!
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I think that's bullshit. The only people that would laugh at that bike are snobbish couriers who believe fixed gear was intended only for the use of messengers and they must be black with shitty insulation tape wrapped all over it. i'm sure a few people who work for the magazine ride fixed any.
ooh get her!
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Possible sponsors? Bike lock companies, surely these fellas would want to help promote bike security, this could work both ways. They create awareness of bike theft (and what they sell), Chris gets cash to move this organisation forward. Jury still out on the reward scheme at the mo, wouldn't the LCEF help out a messenger in need anyway, or are they more for messengers involved in accidents so can't work?
You are correct when you say the LCEF help out only injured couriers but we are still a young organisation.Maybe one day we'll be able to assist people who've had bikes stolen.
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Isn't this offering incentives to people to steal bikes owned by couriers? How is that helping?
And who is to say that if rewards were given that they should only be given to couriers? Others are very much dependent on their bicycle too. Not I sure, but I'm sure you can find people in London living in poverty and for whom a bicycle represents a great deal of their freedom. A courier is surely more likely to be able to cobble together a replacement than that person in poverty.
Besides, isn't it an occupational hazard? Surely that is up to couriers and their employers (if you're not self-employed) to solve?
Chris is doing something constructive,why knock it?From what I gather he used to be a courier,he knows that a lot of riders are fucked if their bike gets nicked.What's the problem?That everyone's fucked if their bike is nicked?Yeah of course!But not everyone works on it.Fight the good fight Chris.
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Get pac cross-strap if you got the cash.....they dont budge!