Messengers need mountain bikes

Treadly and Me

Work is just something I do between bike rides

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Heh!

By Treadly and Me ⋅ 10 March 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Bike messengers need to jump on the MTB bandwagon, not just for their “strength and comfort” but also because they “beat bad roads and bad traffic”.

From John Olsen’s 1989 book Mountain Biking:

'Average' bike messenger, circa 1989

Bad roads and bad traffic remain, but 20-odd years on—WTF, did messengers ever really ride MTB and dress like that?

You know what, I vaguely recall that they did…it was the ’80s after all.

Or like this?

http://smoothandtricky.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-jessica-alba-bike-messenger-eve.html

Posted by James | 11 March 2011, 12:37 pm
Now that I come to look at it, isn’t that Kevin Bacon in the photo above? :-)

Posted by Treadly and Me | 12 March 2011, 7:27 am