{"id":35530,"date":"2019-03-15T16:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=35530"},"modified":"2019-03-15T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:19:54","slug":"potholes-and-death-threats-punk-bikes-and-the-best-job-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/15\/potholes-and-death-threats-punk-bikes-and-the-best-job-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Potholes and death threats: Punk bike riders have 'best job in the world'"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a saying that in a large city you are never more than two metres away from one.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThey work best at night, or in the first blinks of morning, when the roads are empty and the pavements abandoned.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThey are the deliverers of late-night takeaways to stoned students and of early morning court documents to prosecutors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThese are Cardiff’s bicycle couriers and messengers.<\/span>
\nI\u2019ve come to Punk Bikes, a small bicycle workshop tucked down an alleyway just off City Road in Roath, to learn a bit more about being a courier in 2019.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe alley and the outside of the workshop has been dipped in graffiti \u2013 a large Punk Bikes coat of arms on one wall reminds me of a motorcycle gang’s clubhouse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
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