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	New York Bike Messenger Association
		We went to the public hearing in Feb or March (Sarinya spoke on behalf of the messenger community) to express our concerns that this would be yet another selectively enforced measure to deter and inhibit messengers, among the poorest laborers in the city, while doing nothing to affect the behaviour of their employers.
		"The NYBMA is a worker's alliance of the messenger, by the messenger, and for the messenger.
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	www.nybma.com (3141 words)

	Bike Messengers \| AHealthyMe.com
		Because most messengers are paid by the delivery, time is of the essence: The faster they move, the larger their paycheck.
		On a recent Bike Messenger Appreciation Day in San Francisco, for example, messengers turned off their radios in a moment of silence to honor 50 Bay Area bike messengers killed on the job in the 1980s and 1990s.
		This is an informal association uniting bike messenger groups in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/bike (1728 words)

	Bicycle Backlash in Boston and Unionization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bike messengers are visible because of their clothes and the fact that they are the only people downtown who ride bicycles.
		Upon his return the messenger told us that when he got to the building he recognized a secretary from the office that he was supposed to deliver to, so he asked her if she would take the envelope up for him.
		Bicycle messengers are subcontractors to the delivery companies that hire them; this means that when a messenger is not carrying a package he or she is not a messenger.
	www.bikesummer.org /1999/results/bostonMessengers.htm (18564 words)

	IBF Newsletter
		Activist Messengers in S.F. San Francisco is a bike messenger Mecca with its incredible hills, narrow alleys and booming financial districts.
		Several messengers in the late 1990s formed their own companies to counteract lousy conditions in the industry, and company owners “with their bike seats still warm” offered higher pay and expanded benefits to cycling and walking messengers.
		The messenger subculture is full of expressive and imaginative artists, and the posters, fliers, and magazines they created are pointed, often hilarious, and always in the distinct style of the San Francisco bike messengers who created them.
	www.ibike.org /ibfnews.htm (2374 words)

	Bike Messengers from the CD Rom Shaping San Francisco
		Bike messengering became the starving artists' way of employment, and the number of companies soon reached over 10.
		Messenger companies start to fold, and the publics opinion of bike messengers reaches an all-time low.
		One Police officer even proposes to require every bike messenger to wear a identification sign on their shirt, visible from no less than 10 feet away.
	www.shapingsf.org /ezine/labor/messenger/main.html (736 words)

	Boston Bike Messenger Injuries Page
		Most messengers work as contractors and hence their injuries are not well documented.
		The second part asked messengers to describe their most severe or most recent (to minimize recall bias) injuries and the events leading to injury.
		While many messengers consider the occupation to contain moderate to high risk, only twenty-four percent of the messengers wear a helmet on a regular basis and 32% have health insurance.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /ergonomics/bike (388 words)

	BAY AREA / Fabled bike messengers seem to have hit the wall / On Bike to Work Day, a dying breed laments a dwindling ...
		Biking around town on a heavy junker with a bag full of legal briefs is just as hard as it sounds.
		In the 1990s, there were so many bike messengers in town that The Wall always seemed to be overflowing, and it was tough to find a place to sit down and "kick it'' between pickups and drop-offs.
		The fledgling bike messengers union is fighting for a $3 minimum per delivery to each messenger and a 50-50 split of the delivery fee charged to customers, but management has yet to go along with that one.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/19/BAGGNCR4QQ1.DTL (1052 words)

	SFBMA Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We the messengers of the Bay Area, known as the San Francisco Bike Messenger Association, or SFBMA hereby state our mission; to promote unity and solidarity within the messenger community and to raise the status of our profession.
		The San Francisco Bike Messenger Association was created in the winter of 1990-91, the brainchild of messengers including Parté King, Nosmo King, Markus Cook, and Joe Corio.
		A CD compilation of SF bike messenger bands was produced for the event: "Pothole" and a booklet of practical tips for messengers was published.
	www.ahalenia.com /sfbma (694 words)

	Bike messengers!
		I was a dispatcher for a bike courier company in the 80's and yes the summertime is hard to get hired because it's a good summer job for students.
		That is something that may be a hitch if you are under 18 the company I worked for would not hire you unless you were over 18 a policy not set by the company but by our insurance company they wouldn't cover anyone under 18.
		Are bike messengers giving cyclists a bad name?.
	www.bikeforums.net /archive/index.php/t-25306 (1095 words)

	bike messengers
		Bike messenger's are playing with fire, at least the ones here are.
		I saw a bike messenger riding with one hand on the bars, in the other hand was a Chinese takeaway lunch container.
		In one shot there are two trams heading in opposite directions toward each other, and the bike messenger rides in between the two of them as they are passing.
	www.bikeforums.net /archive/index.php/t-13660 (2546 words)

	Bicycle Blueprint - Profile of Bicycle Messengers
		For many, becoming a messenger is the most attractive option, since it's outdoor work with an unusual degree of autonomy.
		Because most companies hire rapidly without screening or training their messengers, many are sent out on the road with little or no expertise in city riding.
		Attempts by McGlynn and the ICA to create a messengers' union have run into a catch-22: because conditions are so poor, the turnover rate is far too high to get a union started to improve conditions.
	www.transalt.org /blueprint/chapter14/chapter14d.html (453 words)

	Bike messengers talk union
		San Francisco bike messengers are among the lowest paid couriers in the country, according to an informal survey conducted bybicyclist and former magazine publisher Chris Carlsson.
		Messengers receive about 50 percent of the delivery charge on each package, and often work more than 40 hours a week without extra pay.
		If they are supervised, denied the right to hire their own employees or start work without extensive training, bike messengers are likely no different than other employees, according to Section 10.5 of the state labor code.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1997&month=03&day=03&article=NEWS4543.dtl (979 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Milwaukee Buzz: Bike messengers dodge traffic, deadlines, Wisconsin weather
		Their Wells St. office is equipped with four phone lines, a two-way radio and a computer so bikers can be in constant touch with the dispatcher, who is, in turn, in touch with the customers, all of whom are in Milwaukee.
		The heat of summer can be more brutal to bike messengers than the cold of winter, but the worst weather is the cold rain of late fall and early spring, according to Sharpe.
		In addition to being bike messengers, the Breakaway cyclists also are pseudo-paralegals.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /buzz/articles/bikemessenger.html (670 words)

	bikecommuter.com
		Fascinating new research: The fact that increases in biking and walking actually improve the safety of bikers and walkers with respect to car collisions as car drivers tend to drop sloppy driving habits.
		Bikes Belong: An organization dedicated to bridging the gap between government, cyclists and manufacturers.
		Bike Metro: Bike routes in LA, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
	www.bikecommuter.com /links.html (1823 words)

	San Francisco Bike Accident Attorney, California \| Bicycle Accident Lawyer, Bike/Car Accidents \| San Mateo, Alameda, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Even on roads with clearly marked bike routes, drivers of motor vehicles tend to overlook the presence of bicycles.
		Bike messengers may also have the right to make a 3rd party claim in the accident.
		If you are a bike messenger and have been injured while riding on the job, call an experienced bike accident attorney.
	www.mjmandel.com /PracticeAreas/Bike-Accidents.asp (468 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "The Immortal Class" by Travis Hugh Culley
		The title "The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power" sounds like a scarily Nietzschean proposition, but this first book by 27-year-old Travis Hugh Culley is green and crunchy to the core.
		Culley sees bike messengers as an emblem of "the cult of human power" -- meaning, literally, human-powered vehicles -- that, he asserts, is taking back our cities from the vicious, fume-choked, corporate-dominated clutches of car culture.
		That symbolism doesn't really work for a variety of reasons, beginning with the inconvenient fact that what bike messengers are zooming across town to deliver are envelopes headed from one corporate client to another.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/04/10/culley (637 words)

	The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power reviewed, Mountain Area Information Network
		I have not read a more exciting nor a more convincing "soldier-in-the-field" account of how bike messengers and bike commuters are trying to end our bondage to a Car Culture that has both robbed us of the best features of our humanity and blighted our landscape with ceaseless anxiety, noise, pollution, ugliness, and destruction.
		Culley is a poet and philosopher and playwright all coiled within the tough, resilient, beat-up body of the bike messenger.
		Likewise, it is hard to exaggerate the exploits of those exotic creatures of outraged (and at times outrageous) individuality, the bike messenger.
	main.nc.us /books/books.cgi?theimmortalclass-bikemessengersandthecultofhumanpower (931 words)

	Messenger Mailing List
		This list is used to discuss issues pertinent to bicycle messengers all around the world.
		All discussions pertinent to bike messengers are encouraged by the list owner, though not always by some of its participants.
		Discussions not pertinent to bike messengers are discouraged by the list owner, though not always by some of its participants.
	www.dccourier.com /messengers (330 words)

	USATODAY.com - Internet cuts need for bike messengers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the peak, around 1992, there were about 14 or 15 bicycle messengers working for four or five companies in Portland, said Percy Wheeler, a former messenger who worked for several companies and himself as Mad Dash Courier.
		In San Francisco, Speedway used to have 30 bicycle messengers but there are now 12, said Lori O'Rourke, one of the owners.
		In Chicago, Velocity has half as many bicycle messengers as it did in 1999, when there were about two dozen riders, said Kyle Wiberg, a co-owner.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-05-05-bike-messengers_x.htm (675 words)

	Boston Bike Messengers Experience Very High Injury Rate and Most Do Not Carry Health Insurance, press release of ...
		Bike couriers have become as a much a part of the urban landscape as sky-scrapers and traffic clogged streets.
		But little is known about the occupational hazards or rate and severity of injuries among this group because many bike messengers are independent contractors rather than employees of a courier service.
		To quantify the injuries, 113 bike couriers in Boston completed a two-page, self-administered injury survey in July 2001, that assessed total injuries and frequency, injury severity as well as individual characteristics, job characteristics and perceived risk.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /press/releases/press11202002.html (693 words)

	BIKEsutra.com: New York Bike Messagers Affected by WTC Attack
		A growing group of New York bike messengers has been running supplies back and forth for Manhattan area hospitals during the aftermath of the WTC attacks.
		Hospitals were having trouble communicating needs for vital supplies through clogged phone lines when several messengers volunteered their services and radios, and started running deliveries between area hospitals and the trauma center at pier 61.
		A few messengers I know and spoke to at the park spoke of how they watched within ten blocks as the towers collapsed and they had to get the fuck away as the cloud of smoke blew through the streets, but they were completely fine and far enough away not to be in any danger.
	www.bikesutra.com /bm_attack.html (581 words)

	Bike Messengers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A bike messenger crashes into a prominent citizen, and a city is outraged.
		An October 30 collision between a unlicensed bike messenger and a prominent pedestrian -- William Spring, a school committee member and a vice-president with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston -- has triggered a wave of public outrage against Boston's bike messengers.
		The messenger, Jonathan Gladstone, escaped with minor injuries.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/97/11/20/MOVING_TARGETS.html (476 words)

	Amazon.com: The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power: Books: Travis Culley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He/she lasts anywhere from a week to a month, suddenly dresses "messenger cool" 24/7, stands around in the square conspicuously checking their pager, goes to "messenger bars" at happy hour, gets off on themselves and generally poses.
		I'm going to skip ahead to the end of the evolutionary line, to the LAST messenger: the "lifer" or "careerier." They are 28-35, with a different bike for every type of weather, they never have their hands stained with grease from roadside repairs, and even their "junker" bike is nicer than anything you have.
		It does a great job of painting the messenger "scene" in a number of cities, without demanding that you sign on for her epiphanic self-realizations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375760245?v=glance (2461 words)

	Mirror : News - Bike messengers fight for respect in the wake of a colleague’s death
		Namely, that bike couriers are far more vulnerable to serious accident and injury than most simply because of the amount of time they spend on the road.
		Their precarious legal situation has led Dalicieux, along with a few fellow couriers, to begin working towards the formation of a Montreal bike messengers association, a kind of junior union.
		As for Dalicieux, he says that a bike messenger organization “won’t give Nikolas his life back, but it certainly will work to prevent accidents like that.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/092602/news3.html (1084 words)

	Bike Messenger
		A1Express' Bike Messengers are available in several major metropolitan areas.
		Bike messengers are available to transport your packages to and from many addresses in downtown areas.
		A1Express bicycle messenger service is very effective in urban areas as bikes travel faster than walking yet won't get stuck in traffic or battle with the rising costs of gasoline.
	www.a1express.com /library/services/bikemessenger.asp (260 words)

	San Francisco Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not only did this mean that we would try to get bike messengers into the ILWU, it also meant that we would try to form alliances with driving messengers, dispatchers and office workers throughout the industry in the Bay Area.
		Many bike messengers have strong attitudes against the Auto(mobile)cracy and were hesitant about welcoming them.
		On March 14th, bike messengers at the SF branch of Dispatch Management Service (DMS) struck to reinstate a messenger dismissed for union activity.
	www.bikesummer.org /1999/zine/bikeMessengers.htm (682 words)

	Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
		I am a messenger in Chicago, and a delegate in the Chicago Couriers Union, and there are roughly 300 bike messengers in Chicago.
		The messenger is one of the most important links in the delivery of information to Chicago’s business community.
		Chicago messengers work in all weather conditions, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day if necessary.
	www.biketraffic.org /content.php?id=758_0_16_0_C (300 words)

	Bike Messengers \| News \| City \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		The city already has stats on how many people bike-it's estimated that 36 percent of Seattle residents ride for recreation, and up to 8,000 commute on a bike on any given day-and bike accidents are tracked to a limited degree.
		He and his cohorts-there are about a dozen bikers helping out-launched the Ghost Cycle project to raise awareness of bikes on the city's streets, especially as warm summer weather and sky-high gas prices means even more cyclists commuting or riding recreationally around town.
		Ghost Bike Pittsburgh featured white-painted, mangled bikes mysteriously sprouting up around the city, each a kind of art installation memorializing a speciﬁc bike accident.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=21659 (751 words)

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