Then this appeared:
After my knee-jerk reaction of feeling like I've just discovered one of my friends is shagging my little sister, I think I feel more like the Maoris probably felt when the Spice Girls performed a Haka a few years ago, The Westcoastmess says it's more like when a band you've been into gets big and everyone starts talking about them like they've discovered something new, without realising they've already had two albums out, and loads of E.P.s.
To quote Messenger Commentator Buffalo Bill " Hmmm..."
In all 'street' culture there's bitching about who's Real and who's Fake but in the Messenger scene it's cut and dried: if you don't get a paycheck from a courier company at the end of the week you'll always be a guest at these sort of things.* This non-messenger organised Alleycat completely changes all that.
It could be seen as the start of a new era where it's almost like separate Leagues. A Messenger one and ( for want of a better term ) a Fakenger one with each guesting at each others races, there would be top riders in each league and they could go head to head at the end of each year like a Superbowl.
But then what happens if someone is hospitalised in an illegal 'Messenger style' race that the University of the Arts has it's name on?
Hopefully that won't happen though.
Whatever your opinion at least I'll be able to cite this sort of thing when I ask the Bank for a start-up loan for the Bike Messenger Re-enactment Society.
*In Glasgow you stay a Rookie until you've done two winters (just in case the first one was an easy one) but it's all good natured. At one point you weren't allowed to be Old School until you'd quit to do something else then come back! Institutionalised I believe they call it.
