Sweat glazed his face and made his beard glisten. It was time for for Bobby Lentell, 28, a Denver pedicab driver, to take a break.

“I’ve been trying to stop for lunch for an hour,” he says, buying a cup of lemonade from a vendor on Writer Square. “I actually hid in the shade for a minute to get a rest. I just got a call from my boss — there’s a 100-person wait for a cab at the Grand Hyatt.”

It’s been a crazy week for the city’s 60 pedicab drivers. Most of them pick up guests at the same time they drop some off. They start around 7 a.m. and drive well into the evening.

“Gotta go to the Hyatt, man,” he said after he slugged back his lemonade.

As he pedaled off, a guy on the street said, “Hey, can I get a ride in that thing?”

“Hop in,” Lentell said.

Douglas Brown, The Denver Post