Choose a job you love, and you’ll never do a day’s work in your life, as Confucius never said. So how about cycling for a living? I’m a delivery cyclist for Deliveroo, which right now is bringing some restaurant food to a house near you. I work part-time, four evenings a week in York, one of 30-odd cyclists and half-a-dozen motorcyclists.
In a typical five-hour evening shift, I’ll cycle about 25-35 miles (40-55km), I’ll do 8–12 deliveries, and earn about £40-£45 including (rare) tips. Good sunny weather increases the likelihood of tips; freezing cold, dark rainy nights yield the fewest.
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Highs
- Gliding along the riverside cycle path on a warm summer evening
- Restaurants that give you coffee while you await a pickup
- Shortcuts
- Muster-point banter
- Arriving home satisfyingly tired
Lows
- Students who lie about their address (because their hall is two miles beyond the university reception, which is the limit of our delivery area)
- Unnumbered houses down dark lanes
- Customers who aren’t in and don’t answer their phone for 10 minutes
- Potholes. Cobbles
- Lairy stag and hen groups
- Mechanicals
Some like it hot
We’re all ‘professional cyclists’, but of course I wouldn’t equate us with Peter Sagan or Lizzie Armitstead. No. We’re better than them. Anyone can cycle fast, but few know how to avoid spilling your bowl of Wagamama soup on Fossgate’s cobbles. Google Maps? Pah! We have the local knowledge, the unmapped shortcuts that avoid the lights and rush-hour traffic so that your curry arrives hot.
Your tool for the job
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