bike messenger san francisco 1992

[chuckdamage]

I'm pretty sure that is from 1982

[auweia1]

@chuckdamage ..naw, I remember dogpaw..this was after the 89 earthquake

[PancakeRecipes]

The Wall!

[JenEpona]

haters and homophobes please die!

[PalmyBruce]

Why use the military metaphor (violent group domination using force over others) to dramatise a single cyclist who living a life of freedom rather than conflict?

[vivitar45]

get a mesenger bag that basket if you hit a curb or ,pot hole you loose the mail it be ok for boxes

[joynthis]

You can't stop a bike in any reasonable distance using only the back wheel, that's just physics. That's why this hipster fixie nouveu-Fred thing is self-limiting -- too-cool becomes bus ornament all the time.

[Dontbeglum]

Laughing at all you flaming hipsters "ironically" watching this bullshit video.

[XSAMESIDEX]

80's for sure

[britmus309]

tahahaha basket :]

[oldirtybrza]

@britmus309 Bags can hurt your back. Probably a smart move, but out of fashion now. In Europe, most messengers I spotted (this year) were wearing messenger bags that have two straps. The one a lot of real and faux-messengers like to use in North America are worse for your back.

[kingdiamondking]

aaahh yes! back when messengers had brains and brakes!

[parachuteclubbed]

This can't be any later than about 1986 or 1987. That's when rattails were big. Also, not a single car is newer than about 1985. Widespread use of Herbie's 1983 track "Rockit" was still pretty common during the mid-to-later 80s. By 1992, the Mondo 2000/all-black cyberpunk look had taken over.

[bandera001]

I agree with you,I was going to comment if this was '92 or '82!!!!!

[maelz]

haha i remember that dogpaw guy, he was all over the place in SF. Never knew his name

[xfire7]

spoof?

[thackmasterplus]

naw. you can't fake a 90's rat tail like the one at 1:20.

[kimsterjizznugget]

And, the mirror on his sunglasses..

[matchstickhelmet]

pre hipster bikers. niiiice

[12809inthetubes]

Think of him as a warrior! As an urban freedom fighter pedaling into battle! The blood of the city!

Epic win.

[brandonbearfruit]

all those rat tails..

[creamwhiteroom22]

Fixies are the fastest bikes that don't cost a fourtune. The people that just want to look cool with their fixies suck, but if you actually RIDE your bike, and use it to go from point a to b there is no problem with it. Besides, I went from a touring bike, to a singlespeed then to a fixie and regret nothing. Those fixed gears are some of the best bikes.

[newwavenewrave]

its by preference i think. and costs are all relative. i got my 12 speed for much cheaper than the fixes out in the market. coasting down hills and switching gears for uphill is awesome. fixies aren't good for your knees. i like riding a fixie with a brake though, its fun to keep the momentum with a fixie. all what you feel.

[Diamondbac]

Hahaha. He's got a third eye mirror. Just goes to show that fixed gear are NOT the preferred bicycles for practicability. No one with a sane mind making a living would ride one of those technologically obsolete hunk of junk. Kindda makes us recall why we ditched them for multi-gear bikes and freewheel bikes and why fixed gears have been stuck mostly in the realm of sport until FAM gay losers started riding on streets and "customizing" them into fashion accessories.

[tommyogtigern]

amen

[jokerbaby2]

FAG

get a fixie

[auweia1]

are you fucking kidding?..Fixies are the biggest flaming fag fashion accessories ever made

[kimsterjizznugget]

Wrong!

[fastrnb]

@auweia1

I don't think any bike is in and of itself a fashion accessory.

[oldirtybrza]

@auweia1 You are aware that fixed-gear bikes are what the modern bike (which is a design at least a century old; I don't mean modern as in the last few decades) began as? Fixed-gear was the original concept until freewheel/hub became available.

It has its uses and is not an irrelevant concept, even today. Trend, maybe, but not new by any means.

[auweia1]

@oldirtybrza

of course I'm aware of i..And I'm also aware that after the original fixies in the 1900's people felt compelled to invent gears for some odd reason, like reducing the strain on your knee cap tendons

fixies are good for shows that require backing up

[msteelr]

@jokerbaby2 Fixie? Why can't we just ride bikes?

[totoroben]

@jokerbaby2 Dude, this video was made in '92. In hipster-years this guy would be your great grandfather!

[JenEpona]

@jokerbaby2 Ride whatever bike you want and FUCK who you want! homophobes are closet fags!!

[JenEpona]

@jokerbaby2 closet boy

[texaswhatitdo]

so... he's a strong rider who used to mess in the 90's?

[Fragem420]

Why doesn't he carry a messenger bag, I always carry one

[elkento]

his bike lock was hand cuffs!

[R3POMAN]

two wheels for life, fu@k a suit and a tie

[grilled15]

The orchestral music is the theme from "Patton". The early 80's electro is Herbie Hancock's "Rocket"

[brianmcg321]

That guy stole Grant Peterson's bike!!

[holke79]

wow!

the One..

[lJohnnyTheFoxl]

This music is not 1992 music

[auweia1]

yeah, well, unless it's newer music than 1992, it could be any music earlier than that. But I became a bike messenger around that time, and I remember Dogpaw quite well. saw him every day. might have been 93. I have veen a messenger more than a year when I saw the Floyd at Oakland in 94

[v4mpir33d]

@auweia1 What is Dogpaw doing now?

I wonder what happens to bike messengers after that kind of time span

[auweia1]

@v4mpir33d

I haven't seen Dogpaw in years, and neither has others I've asked...No idea where he went

[5401nick]

where o where are you now, messenger man?

[stillben]

yeah that's much older than 92. i'd say early to mid 80s.

[den9]

dirty hippy

[DJINEVIL2323]

In 91 or 92 a bunch of mssgrs lived over in the 3rd and Jessie abandoned gay porn store (it was near dispatch, some had electricity) That was a fun squat. The junkie skinheads stayed downstairs and kept to themselves.

[kbah6669]

Dogpaw? A freedom fighter? Haaahaaa! That was hilarious!

[georgesmartskate]

lol year i was born

[distantslider]

I wonder what Dogpaw is up to these days.

[RockOnBob85]

Old school!

[maskedban]

does it rain much in san francisco?

[mexterminator]

250 days out of the year.

[panpanfarmason]

Check it out... he's got handcuffs dangling from his basket starting at 2:11... is that his lock? Man times have changed... That guy is a far cry from the hipster infested bike scene of today. That was more like caveman.

[theman4130]

Amen to that!

[iamthethursdaykid]

captain caveman!

[TenderloinBurrito]

I think the dude with the sweet mullet at 1:17 is calling you an asshole.

[daoodism]

checko, check check checky.

[auweia1]

check!

[M3xicanxXxRaccoon]

wtf i ride a skate around frisco and get cufd on fo going downtown on a skate so fuck dis shit

[auweia1]

skewl is a wunderful thang. it teeches basik things lik speling

[Eggwich]

How did bike messengers ever come to be seen as these countercultural figures when all they do is deliver packages for corporations? Bike Messenger is like the original outsourced, no benefit occupation. The opportunity to wear fun clothes doesn't make up for it.

[grubgrob]

let me explain for the non belivers.

It's the freedom or riding past you whils your in gridlock. It's the fact your tie dips in your food. It's because we dont get frustrated cause a van almost scratches your front pannel.

Being a bike messenger is in the elements and it's outside. Whilst every day we get stronger and fitter you get to push paper and get power for that.. all the luck to you.

[gsxrkidd]

i cant stand this video, it makes me want to explode with rage i dont know why......

[auweia1]

hmmm, yeah....Just be glad it evokes something. I've seen a few movies lately that make me feel nothing at all. Those are the worst :P

[tomorrowisclosed]

beautifully put. even hate is better than bland.

[teamlevon]

what a stupid video

[mission12]

What makes you say that?

[TheBalloonProject]

hot damn! in sf land!

[waroffutility]

Its amazing how things changed from basket bike to colnago in SF. Back then you did a lot of truck tags and the basket bike ruled.

[rhettnyedotorg]

not 92, more like 72. check out the vehicles.

[luismauricio]

you talking about the vw bus? Don't trip off that, that thing is probably still rolling around the city. You can almost always tell the decade by the MUNI busses.

[biggss2000]

Yeah, I was thinking 82 though.

[danylsan]

you think "dogpaw" is gonna be at the nacc in sf this year??

[yourmomscooch]

i hope so, ill be there

[medesin]

.... this really is too dorky.

[drewnicity717]

this is like '82

[nico060]

PLEASE DON'T READ THIS you will die in seven days if you don't post this comment on 10 videos in the next hour. if you do, tomorrow will be the best day of your life

[dingdook22]

This Piece looks like 1980's When Chris Gardner was In San Francisco

[Lundadeuna]

"they're over there somewhere on the 15th floor *click click click* typing away.." That's me, sadly..

[gavnila]

YOU ARE NOT ALONE BROTHER

[billjitsu]

"the streets are the veins...and we're the blood."

Interesting take.

[auweia1]

that is 92..latest 94 because I remember Dogpaw myself, but he's been gone for while, I wonder what happened

[illmitch123]

Nice video but there's no way that's '92

[almac4]

awsome!

[EndlessBlockade]

ahh... the days when you could bring your bikes inside buildings...

[phobal]

urban freedom fighter...a warrior. awesome!