Bike Courier in the winter

Back in the day when I was working for CBC Morning News I followed a bike courier around for the day. It was a cold cold winter day coming in at a high of -35 in Toronto. Produced and shot by Ben Aylsworth.

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[stcywll]

@edviperrrr You dont sweat in the winter..so sometimes its better. But the feet always cold, I just ride untill they go numb and then cant feel them anymore.

[SebastianDudesTipleS]

@wednos i saw a video of lance biking with messengers on a fixie i know shocking but he has the leggs =P

[edviperrrr]

I ride my bike here in Brazil. It´s warm most part of the year,

so our winter goes only to 50 F or 10 C.

So, I´d like to see how people do on cold weather such in Canada or Russia.

I was in doubt if bike messengers could work full time on winter too.

[brainstorrming]

Озадачен. Странно, сколько езжу - сбивали сбоку, сбивали сзади, хотя чаще всего пересекают и-или останавливаются на пути чаще всего, но ни разу, НИ РАЗУ никто не распахивал двери передо мной. Это что - наверно, чисто канадская специфика?

By the way, working bike courier in russia. Last 5 years nobody not open the doors on the way. (may be today?) Slightly surprised, what that especially of canada?

[v35k037V]

If you like testing your body and putting it to the test...being a bike courier is the best

new bike courier theme song ?

[sphinxrising58]

@wednos Oh by, must be really hard riding a bike all day long, laughs.

A. It's not rocket science, & B, kids do it every day, some even in winter, just for kicks.

[sphinxrising58]

@wednos You're talking out of your ass, and if you cannot handle riding in jeans and a jacket in really cold weather, then your ass does not belong on a bike, man up and stop whining like some sissy oy FFS

[wednos]

@sphinxrising58

jeans make you colder as they are made out of cotten and that sucks the heat away from your body, same with a t-shirt. Have you ever been in very cold weather?? A jacket just wont do, exspecially when your speeding with the wind and snow in your face and on your body.... you do need all that stuff. Also bike messenging requires tons of skill and bike messangers should be proud they can do it. I mean i dout lance armstrong could even be a bike messanger

[foreignpress1]

I'd never ride a bike with drop bars and 700c tires in the snow. Bars need to be straight with deep tread tires that are studded. That aside -- she's HOT!

[Kiddowesth]

at first I thought she seemed like a smart person, but then she mentions she smokes and drinks coffee. Why be so stupid ?