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Want to Be a Bike Messenger?

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Probably best to watch this video first! It tracks a bunch of bikers racing through the crowded streets of our fair city-- weaving in and out of traffic. You've got to have balls of steel to be crazy enough to contemplate doing this for a living. Bonus: Lucas' other biking vidoes, and our favorite bike-blog. Also, Times-Up is having a memorial rally today at 2:45 at the Manhattan Side of the Williamsburg Bridge-- it's dedicated to the 21 bikers who were killed in traffic accidents this year.

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  • DJnyclite

    EvilSteve: Relax?!?! Trying to make a living by disobeying all types of traffic laws and terrorizing pedestrians. Nice. As Brightliner states, I hope you're one of those jackoffs who I've had to knock off their bikes when they bang into me as I 'robo-walk' across the street. I feel no sympathy for bikers in NYC and your moronic statements are a reason why. Have a nice day.

  • Brightliner

    You didn't watch the video, did you? Earn a living, my ass. Believe it or not, lots of us earn a living without breaking laws or endangering the health and well-being of others. These jerkoffs were just having fun blowing through red lights, riding the wrong way, buzzing pedestrians, etc. And stop trying to blame the pedestrians. They had the right of way most of the time in this video. These guys should be arrested for the hundred-odd moving violations they made here in the name of "fun." Who knows, maybe with luck, some cop will download this and use it as evidence for an arrest warrant. You sound just like one of these selfish, arrogant SOBs. I rode my bike over 6k miles last year without so much as running a light. What's your excuse? Yeah, I thought so. It's always somebody else's fault, right?

  • EvilSteve

    Relax guy. Have a spritzer and a bubble bath. People just trying to earn a living. And like "JB" said, it'd help if peds disengaged from robo-walk mode and looked side to side every now and then.

  • jizzbomb

    as a biker, I have to say that only Bike Messengers are a little reckless. But if you want to talk about dickheads you got to look at all the crazy pedestrians who never look both sides when crossing the street, who stand almost in the middle of the street when hailing a cab, when they get out of the cab they don't look when they open the door. The crazy cabbies who always park in the bike lanes, the crazy new jersey dickheads who make u turns in no turn lanes. it goes on and on.

  • Brightliner

    EvilSteve: Better idea. I learned how to put a stick in somebody's front wheel decades ago. You'd better hope I don't see you or any of these other overgrown infants coming at me the wrong way on the street, or you're doing a faceplant.

  • Dave

    Hey that was "attention whoring," "poseurific," BAD-ASS-NESS!! The glorification of mornonic behavior continues, unabated, in the blogosphere. If it were the jungle, these hipsters would last about ten seconds before someone doored them or didn't bother to cut them a break when they were doing something stupid.

  • EvilSteve

    Brightliner: learn2dodge.

  • Brightliner

    You don't need balls of steel for this, just brains of mush. These guys deserve to be run over or at least incarcerated and their bikes confiscated. They're ruining it for everyone on bicycles by breaking laws left and right and menacing pedestrians. They really don't give a damn if cars needing to stop short as they blithely run red lights may cause accidents. There are just so many adjectives for these guys that I can't think of them all. Irresponsible, inconsiderate, assholes. I can't believe Gothamist is glamorizing these jerks.

  • I've seen those videos before, they are pretty cool, though the one on the frozen Charles is the best I think.

    However, by far, this is the coolest link in this meme:

    http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/3/19/133129/548

    Enjoy

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