It will be a very good year.

Welcome to 2011.

Back from holidays. The best ride you never did report coming soon.

I don't pretend to know what you want but I offer these distractions.

{youtube width="700" height="200"}tqWNQrZLGg0{/youtube}

{youtube width="700" height="500"}NOHqY-R-4x8{/youtube}

{youtube width="700" height="500"}sdLj2Nvv3k0{/youtube}

For your eyes only.

For Nick and his dualing monitors.

2560x1024px

So you want to be a courier?

People often email me wanting to be a courier.

I like to think of myself as a nice guy and I will tell them to call up all the companies in the book, ask who's hiring, and do so on particularly nasty weather days when courier fall victim to mystery illnesses and injuries.

I tell them to try every other company other than my own which is the standard response. For all couriers know that for every extra rider on the fleet the pie is sliced a little thinner.

Courieringering is a highly glamourised unskilled labour job. Being a good courier often has little do with bike handling, but 'people' handling. Pedestrians, motorists, clients, dispatchers and fellow couriers. Being the best on fleet has little to do with winning alleycats, trackstanding, backward circles, skids and sprints. It's the simple task of turning up on time every day, with the right attitude and being able to tell more than just a few white ones.