COMFORT & CONFIDENCE

GripGrab Original Stripes Crew Socks

Por GripGrab Field Notes

20 de May de 2021

Our new GripGrab Original Stripes Crew Socks have been extremely well received and have now been spotted on riders in all different settings and disciplines.

First up: meet courier Allan Shaw and follow him around Copenhagen on a working day.

Next: get in the mood for some after-work gravel grinding on the outskirts of the Danish capital, as the GripGrab chiefs along with GripGrab friends (usually referred to as Gripsters) participate in a local gravel race.

ALLAN SHAW

ALLAN SHAW

Courier at BY-EXPRESSEN, operating in Copenhagen, Denmark.

"Most couriers at By-Expressen can expect to cover between 80-100km a day around the city. Most people working full-time work four days a week, covering 320-400km per week around Copenhagen. I had been traveling around and working as a messenger across North America and Australia for five years. Working on temporary visas, tourist visas, and occasionally no visas. In 2016 when the Brexit vote happened it was a big shock for me, and I realized suddenly that if I didn’t want to be forced back to Scotland I had to come back to Europe and find a place to call home.

That summer I bike toured around Europe introducing myself to as many different courier companies as I could. Then in the autumn, while spending a few months working in New York City, I met some Copenhagen couriers at a cycling event and spent days getting drunk and having a great time. They convinced me if there was EVER a place to come ride a bike it was Copenhagen, and if there was EVER a company that I should want to work for it was By-Expressen.