commuter at wurk
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Glad that someone started this one! I am a former bike messenger, and I have around a dozen bicycles of all styles. Here’s a few, starting with the utility haulers and such:
Small cargo bike pulling a Surly trailer to the dump, that’s a Crust Clydesdale fork on an old DBR Zetec Pro cross country hardtail with a parts bin build:
My custom work bike, a disc dinglespeed with a White Industries Dos ENO freewheel and a Pass and Stow porteur rack. This was me riding home a 24 sq/ft bundle of hardwood flooring recently:
My all-road touring bike, an old Clark-Kent F-14 titanium hardtail from Colorado, with a Surly Troll fork to make up for the lack of nips on the frame:
And here’s my big cargo bike, an Omnium, carrying my All-City Big Block to a little fixed gear race my friends put on last year:
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cool set of bikes man 
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All of those are brilliant. You must have some hench calf muscles dude. Lol.
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Where’d you work?
I did it in Boston for… 4 years I guess it was, a loong time ago.
Oddly enough I had a fix-it guy a friend recommended at the house a few summers back and we got on the subject of bikes… turns out he also messengered in Boston, at the same time. I was a weirdo and didn’t hang out where the messengers hung out, but we knew people in common and I vaguely recall seeing him around back in the day.
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I worked in New York, mainly Manhattan and Brooklyn for almost a decade. It’s definitely the kind of job where you run into people in the most interesting places who used to do it! Even my therapist used to be a foot messenger in NYC and SF, which was a very funny coincidence for us to realize one day.
The spot in Boston used to be Winthrop Square under the statue, right in the CBD near a few of the messenger lofts in Chinatown. Sadly they fenced and boarded up a lot of that triangle a few years back to put up a new skyscraper and it seems like that scattered people on standby, though I haven’t been back to look for myself in years now.
@Mestizo thanks man, my calves are pretty good but I’m a thigh guy, lower cadence on a heavier gear so that’s where the meat is
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Yep, Winthrop Square was the spot in the mid 90s… I wonder when that started.
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Pretty awesome stage today at the TdF. Wanted to walk away and do other stuff but couldn’t bring myself to do it.
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heres a better picture of the hipster-transporter, i have Tannus tires that have no air, full-of-rubber type tires, not as smooth but never any flats!
originally like this
but it looked too nice and where i live, people jack nice bikes
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hell yeah i have that seat too!
bro your bikes are extreemly bad ass!!
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Thanks dude! I’ve probably spent more time and money on my bikes than anything else in life, and gotten most of them for a very good deal, so my collection is out of whack with my income, but I like it that way
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I got more money in my bike than my car
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It’s the dirtbag rule: the bike on top has to cost more than the car it’s on
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I had a Marin nail trail aluminum mtb I only put primer on as a theft deterrent, it had a dura ace shifter with the bottom arm removed, and I think the remaining spring was flipped. There was a kind of dummy cable so you could hop off and change gears manually, so it was basically a single speed with a tensioner that could do three gears.
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Selle Anatomica?
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yeah i’ve had one for years now, so many miles on it, i like it tight as hell lol
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where are all the wonderful lugged italian steel frames of OG haha. Im trying to see some beautiful De Rosas, and maybe some Belgian Mercx.
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