by Gary Koenig, Denver Cycling Examiner

If you’re like me, you’ve invested more than a few idle minutes thinking about being a professional cyclist. What could be better than getting paid to ride all day long? Daydreams are fun, but sober reflection on the shrinking nature of the pro pelotons, both worldwide and domestic, would lead most of us to conclude that cycling for a living is not realistically in our future.

So what if I told you that I could get you a paying cycling job tomorrow? That you would enjoy the consummate cosmopolitan benefits just as other top cycling pros do. And to top it off, even though you’ll be riding 6-8 hours per day, you’ll never have to tackle a hill and headwinds will be as rare as a 12 ounce Ruth’s Chris ribeye. Furthermore, you’ll never have to answer to a surly directeur sportif who doesn’t even speak your language, never have to sacrifice your legs for an ungrateful prima donna team leader and never suffer the ignominy of watching an Italian gregario who has been latched onto your wheel for untold kilometers suddenly bolt by you to win a Grand Tour stage that so rightfully belonged to you.

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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

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