All service cancelled

Rochester Flyers is NOT Rochester Minnesota's bicycle messenger service. Rochester Flyers is NOT a cycling club or race team. Rochester Flyers is NOT a bike shop or a company. Rochester Flyers is just me, going on rides, attempting to return to racing, doing alleycats and spewing my opinion online.

Gunnar Soroos A lifelong cyclist born on the tropical island of Oahu, racing in Minnesota. His passion of cycling is combined with his faith in God to keep him focused on the real mission - the golden rule, love others as you would want to be loved. Peace.

Try not...
Do... or do not.
There is no try. -Jedi Master Yoda

Yes, Rochester Flyers is going to stop making deliveries. Today is the last day. When I started, I had markers to guage success. Mind you, I wasn't expecting to get rich in 3 months, but I have to be real about living costs and family obligations. Unfortunatly Rochester Flyers didn't meet these markers.

The choice then is to keep putting money into something that could turn around, or cut my losses now and persue something else. Right now I just can't afford to keep spending money with only a (very) minimal return.

So I regretfully have to say that today is the last day I will be making runs. Maybe it's just timing, and that in another five years this city will be ready to use the service.

One frustration I have is that, almost everyone I've met, has been extreemly supportive and understands the benefits of using a bicycle courier. But turning support and understanding into clients has been tough. It seems that hardly anyone is willing to actually use the service. And without clients that use the service, there isn't enough income for the business to grow, or even survive.

I want to thank the clients that were willing to take a chance and use the service. I also want to thank the media outlets that helped with the free publicity.

Rochester Flyers isn't exactly gone though. I can now give some more focus to putting on races and events. In trying to run a business, I haven't had the time to plan any races.

I'm sure there will be some changes to the website, though I don't know what they will be yet. Keep visiting the site to keep updated, and there may be some email announcements.

Mahalo plenty,
Gunnar T. Soroos