SportBikes Inc Magazine May 2014

should be possible. We got paid by the delivery. The more deliveries you packed into one day, the more money you earned.

Combine that pay structure with a two wheeled troublemaker attitude and you begin to see why the life expectancy of a London Motorcycle Courier was, at one time, just three years. I did the job for four years.

Does this make me a skilled, meticulous rider? Not in the slightest! I was an absolute idiot, learnt more about bikes in those four years than most, including what crashing feels like... many times! Quite frankly it makes me a very lucky guy to have lived through it. But it did also make me a more careful, more aware rider in my later life.

The shit I saw, and the stuff I did while working that job definitely affects the way I ride today. I am constantly looking into car mirrors, noticing the girl putting on her make up while driving. The business guy texting as he does 70MPH on the freeway. Even the jealous, resentful look that car drivers throw bike riders as they glide past them in traffic.

All these things come from my years as a tearaway hooligan motorcycle courier.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way! SPORTBIKESINCMAG.COM | 129