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Video: Food delivery cyclist jumps onto moving train
A food delivery cyclist in Florida seems to have taken his employers’ motto of “freaky fast” delivery rather too literally – by slinging his bike over his shoulder and hopping onto a moving freight train before jumping off to land on the other side of the tracks.
The footage was recorded on a car’s dashcam in Jacksonville, Florida, with the motorist who took it sending it to local TV station News4Jax, asking, “Is delivering a sandwich really worth it?"
The delivery rider was apparently working for the Jimmy John’s chain, based in Illinois, which has more than 2,000 outlets across the United States.
Elizabeth Scott, who runs several of the company’s restaurants in Jacksonville, told News4Jax: “All of our delivery employees are expected to obey all traffic laws and make all deliveries in a safe, timely manner for themselves, as well as for other people on the road.
“We do not condone that type of delivery method,” she added. “We expect all of our drivers and delivery employees to follow all traffic laws and in this case, railroad crossing laws.”
It has not been reported why the cyclist decided not to wait for the train to pass.
But with food delivery drivers and riders often working on a freelance basis with income related to the number of drops they do, and freight trains in the United States up to 4 kilometres in length and moving slowly, perhaps he felt the pressure of making the delivery justified the risk?
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Next time he should do it with a bunny-hop, not dismounted.
That'd be worth a 2 minute news slot.
Maybe he was training and got confused by the term track stand.
I'll get my coat...
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Wow, more impressed by how they got a 2 minutes news piece out of it than his move...
He was wearing a helmet, what could possibly go wrong? The person with the camera seemed ready to film this. A common sight with the locals?
I can guarantee you that is not the first time he's done that. He knew exactly where to stand to time it right, getting over the train and come off the other side bang on the road, straight back onto the bike.
If he's happy to risk it, I'm happy to see it, great skill jumping on a moving train and back off again, aren't they looking for the new James Bond at the moment? He also must be handy when it comes to local CX races
NO way would I chance it, bike or no bike.
It must be a slow news day there to send a reporter, cameraman, sat truck and engineer to report on a story where nobody was hurt and nothing particularly interesting happened.
Mad skills? Has to be a former railroad/freight-train worker used to this type of thing. Also, some bike messengers like to go hardcore every once in a while. In any case, the achors sounded appalled but looked impressed. That move might serve him well in Roubaix, has to be sneakier about the cameras, though.