London couriers?

[Eddieb]

Any ex-London Bike Couriers on here?

Yep, 18 months through the IRA bombings in '96 & '97. I was at Canary Wharf a couple of hours before they blew that area that up.

[Katman]

Yep, 18 months through the IRA bombings in '96 & '97. I was at Canary Wharf a couple of hours before they blew area that up.

I was there at the same time. Who did you ride for?

[Eddieb]

I was there at the same time. Who did you ride for?

Square Moves on the GT550's, and you?

[Katman]

Square Moves on the GT550's, and you?

Post #16. You probably wouldn't have noticed us - we weren't made to wear bibs.

[Eddieb]

Post #16. You probably wouldn't have noticed us - we weren't made to wear bibs.

I did 3 weeks for Courier Systems also, in that time I suffered 3 lemon bikes and a 50% drop in income so I went back to Square Moves.

[90s]

London couriers do not survive.

And yet here I am ...

At the very least their mental health doesn't

Ah, replied too soon ...

Still, I only did a little bit casual ... I was more suited to commuting through London than racing through it ...

[Pedrostt500]

He meet up with some of the Paris Dakar racers on his way down to South Africa, there was a photo of his bike taken by a photo jurno that made it onto the front page of a few World News Papers, he tells the story better than me though it is his story.

Good stuff - those BMW's are indestructable - have you ever seem them in Paris-Dakar?

[xwhatsit]

London courier -- what a wicked job OK, maybe not acutally doing it, but if you want to bandy around silly phrases like `real biker', surely that would be an applicable situation.

I'd love to try, not sure how I'd do though. At least in terms of making money! I'm fairly gentle with my filtering

[Andystructible]

Hi Guys - I worked for Canon Couriers, started in Oct 1989 until Dec 1991. Can't believe what we got away with in those days.
Nickname was Frank and call no. was 11 (if anyone out there remembers) When I started with them they only had 30 riders, when I left over 100.
Good times !!!

[sinfull]

This is a gold dredge !

[Katman]

Hi Guys - I worked for Canon Couriers, started in Oct 1989 until Dec 1991. Can't believe what we got away with in those days.
Nickname was Frank and call no. was 11 (if anyone out there remembers) When I started with them they only had 30 riders, when I left over 100.
Good times !!!

You would know my mate Sean then. He was one of their originals.

[cheshirecat]

Late 80's for me. Ended up with Motorcycle Messengers city stuff, lawyers merchant banks. Went back a couple of years ago and it seemed so tame 'cause of all the surveillance cameras. Seemed the late 80's the bus was in decline. Boy I learnt how to survive pretty quick. really strange but I miss the cut and thrust of London traffic.

[cheshirecat]

London courier -- what a wicked job OK, maybe not acutally doing it, but if you want to bandy around silly phrases like `real biker', surely that would be an applicable situation.

I'd love to try, not sure how I'd do though. At least in terms of making money! I'm fairly gentle with my filtering

Our company had a phrase "gone by lunchtime" for newbies. Ask anyone here about their first few 10/12 hour days.

[Andystructible]

Yeah Katman - I travelled from Oz back to London with Sean Kay in 1989 and he got me the job at Cannon. We all lived in a squat in Elephant & Castle a few years before that. Knew Sean for years.

[Road kill]

My mate here in Taupo had a job once (at the height of one of the IRA's bombing campaigns)to deliver to an address in Horse Guards Parade. He parked (illegally), went in and delivered the package and when he came out there was a policeman standing beside his bike. The cop pointed up the road to a soldier manning a security checkpoint and told my mate that the soldier had told him if my mate had broken into a run after he parked the bike he would have been shot.

It was a freaky sensation to have a rolling security checkpoint pull up in front of you and suddenly be confronted by four soldiers with machineguns trained on you.

I wonder why the people with the guns are so paranoid ?

You'd think they would be the most relaxed being armed an all,but that doesn't seem to be the way.

Anyway,forget it carry on.