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    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 14th 2007 edited
     
    title says it all really. uni is shit and i wanna come back to london, but if money is bad at the moment, i'll hang around and work in bike shop here for a bit.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    why's uni shit? too much like hard work? :tongue::wink:

    my uni's wicked, best fucking thing i've done :bigsmile:

    what is it that you're studying? error numero uno when choosing courses is choosing something you don't give a shit about.
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    i'm doing sport and exercise science, which is somrhting i want to do, but when only one other person rides a bike and not too any level that would make it fun to ride with him and the bike shops are full of dirty cheap bikes that make me want to puke, i think i'm in the wrong city if you can call nottingham a city i rode round and memorised all of it in an hour, its fuckin tiny.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    how long is the course? surely you've only been there 2 months, you might regret leaving early for the £3000 or so it'll cost you for nothing. there will be riding clubs if you're serious about riding, having ridden with you you're probably not though :wink:

    you could buy a bmx and learn how to ride/injure yourself on that. i've heard notts is quite good for that sort of thing. i doubt fixie worship exists where there are no messengers.
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    Nottingham is down the road (ok, quite a way down the road but still) from Matlock, which has a big cycling community.
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    i dont wannna ride competitively thats why i dont really like clubs (i went on a ride once and my out of date bike just weren't good enough for sum of those elitist pricks on their two and bit grand shiny, never crashed carbon pieces of ....), i just like to have fun on me bike, but at a reasonable speed and at a reasonable level of drunkeness (lol).

    not even two months either, i didn't even start till October.

    i'll have a look Matlock and see what its about.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    "i went on a ride once and my out of date bike just weren't good enough for sum of those elitist pricks on their two and bit grand shiny, never crashed carbon pieces of ...."

    a. are you sure they're not just better riders than you? :wink:

    "not even two months either, i didn't even start till October."

    b. no way give it up then. like i say, you'll have lost £3000 and you'll almost certainly [if you have the slightest modicum of braincells] regret not sticking with it- especially if it's something you're actually interested in.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    Oh no...another NIK thread......
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    pretty sure they weren't better than me cos i finshed ahead of most of em, they just made snide comments about my bike, 'oh, you might find it quite difficult to keep up with us on a bike that old, and i'm afraid we just cant wait around for stragglers'.

    @ Winston: might make 200 this time, just let me say something controversial, got it,

    'Helmets are for losers and anyone that wears one just isn't cool enough to ride a bike!'. LOL
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    Some cycling clubs are like that. Personally, I wouldn't go out on a club ride that wouldn't 'wait around for stragglers'. That's totally not what a club ride should be about. Going out for a training ride is one thing, and going on a club run is another. I mean, I would disappointed if there wasn't at least one town sign sprint, but that's friendly rivalry. Club runs are supposed to be social.

    One of the reasons that Brixton C.C. is popular with messengers is cos there's none of that nonsense.

    I would just try another club, or even better, try starting my own ride scene thing.
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    i'd quit uni and start cycle messengering. it's an easy £30,000-£40,000 a year job, you can take the day off it its rainy or cold and other men will love you and your fixie with no brakes and a d-lock in your back pocket.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    I agree with Papa.F@ck education.Become a london cycle-courieier and behold the great wonders of our fine city.Also,you can take a shitload of bad drugs then crash into an oncoming cabbie.You'll love it!
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    My ambition is to become a london cycle courier too. Once I am 'good enough', that is. I am just practicing in brum at the moment for the big step-up to london.

    I'm totally glad that I quit uni (twice ), I mean look where quitting uni has got me! I am now brum's one and only (or should that be lost and lonely) bike messenger, earning slightly more than minimum wage, and I really feel that this career choice has opened up a load of opportunities for me and enabled me to learn valuable work skills.
    • CommentAuthorifbm
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    Nik, don't be a muppet, finish uni and then, if you still really want to, come back on circuit. I'm 99.9% sure nothing will have changed.
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    ifbm is right.

    Having a degree is no barrier to becoming bicycle messenger. Some guys have two.
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    Don't come the bull, Bill! Everyone knows that degrees are for losers and that dead-end jobs are for winners.
    • CommentAuthorlurkette
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007
     
    i dropped out of uni after 1.5 yrs when i was 23 and moved to the states to become a business manager for musicians. i had a lot of fun, but got bored eventually because it wasn't where my heart is (although i had to try it to discover that). moral of the story is that i am 32 and in my final year of a degree. it shouldn't have taken me this long. if you're smart, which admittedly is questionable, you'll stick it out.
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      CommentAuthorPapa44
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2007 edited
     
    or you can scrap the whole uni thing and take up busking
    • CommentAuthordazzler
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2007
     
    get your education finished. you owe it to yourself.

    you can always go to Uni afterwards!
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeNov 16th 2007
     
    lolz @ dazzler- very true
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    Nik, old bean, you chat a lot of turd i think. My dad aint no courier, and he aint no roadie, but he would merk you in a competition of healthy pedalmanship, up hill and down dale. dont drop out or in 5 years you'll have been broken by the circuit and you'll be a bitter old donkey moaning bout the good old days. And you won't have shit else to do.
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      CommentAuthorwinston
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2007
     
    sounds familiar...
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2007
     
    i wasn't envisaging ideas of doing it all my life, i was just gonna do it until i could re apply to a different uni, one that was a bit nicer. i still aint given up dreams of gettin my PhD, i know where i want my life to go, and it aint outside in the cold all winter cursin at my controller cos he aint given enough to work for me to keep warm. its inside a nice warm air conditioned lab, in a very sexy lab coat playin around with very expensive pieces of equipment and workin with elite athletes on improving whatever they want to improve.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2007
     
    it's probably more likely you'll be a PE teacher. a fuck of a sight better than being a messenger- holidays, sick, pay... blah blah blah. and hey, this country actually needs more PE teachers.

    another dose of realism: quitting your first uni after 2 months is extremely unlikely to get you into a better one. the first thing your next uni will want is a reference from your current one (at least, that's what any decent one will want). what can they say apart from that you quit easily?
    • CommentAuthorNIK
    • CommentTimeNov 17th 2007
     
    a PE teacher??????? NEVER!!!!!!!

    its all about becoming a research student for for one of the lecturers, that way you get to start working with elite athletes and improving your cv, also you need to get as many journal articles published as possible cos that makes you look gooood as well.

    workin with kids just aint for me, i'd rather be a personal trainer, more money.
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    then do some training not drinking and injuring yourself, creating work for others to have to fix doctors have enough money already, and so do physio therapists, and massuses.
    you just need to find a girl to occupy your mind and before you know it degree in hand life in order and laundred with a lady in toe head on off to where ever it is you wanna go, hey imsure space station will be hiring educated individuals by then...

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