Greetings and God's speed,
It is strickly business at UPS, it's nothing
personel against bikes...reduced claims
equals more profits. We now ship much
bigger and heavier stuff and bikes are a
higher claims risk than computer paper
boxes, heavy pumps, "freight". Our first fleets
consisted of messenger bikes with paid
advertizment signs built into the diamond
of the frame!!, inverted monkeybars to help
carry stuff in between the bars and double
walled tires?? We even had a' racer' for that
urgent message delivery!!! the bikes and
uniforms are brown because it hids the dirt!! I am sorry for
how some supervisers strap on their tyes too,
but I just pray for them and remind them that
for 23 years I have ridden this dock and would be
happy to ' train' them again if need be !!
Steve Kistler in Okla, where my kids and
wife and I just rode to our lake to feed the geese and revelled in spring...