As reported by BBC News, a cyclist was killed
after a collision with a coach on Wormwood Street last Friday (3rd
February 2012). Various posters on the Moving Target forum expressed
their concern that it was a courier, and Rico Logistics have apparently
confirmed that it was Henry. If this is the case, then Henry would be
the 9th London bicycle messenger known to have been killed whilst
working.
I’m sure that all Moving Target readers & posters will
join me in expressing shock and dismay. My condolences to friends and
family. There’s some talk on the forum of a ride on Friday. Watch that
space.
I got nothing to say. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck. I'm going to run out of versions of this song.
It's not about the money, if it were just that..... well. we wouldn't be having this conversation. It's about honor and it's about having a code to live by. It's about doing your fucking job and doing it well and not having to take shit from inferiors and well, fuck it try as I might I can't explain it no more then I can explain "The American Dream" Yeah fuck it, you'll never get it
There comes a time when you just have to stop. You tell yourself that it's just for a little while and after a time you will be back on the road where there are no lies, only truth sometimes brutal and ugly sometimes beautiful and wonderful and you are one with it all in that cosmic flow. Then one day it's. "Go ahead stick a fork in my ass, fuck it, I'm done." This may be the roughest winter since my rookie years and I'd sell my soul to be right there in it, riding the big snows and the sub-zero lows. fuck fuck fuckity fuck.
And here I am now and there's a thought in my head something about being a bike messenger and just what that all means, the thought is so profound and so true but the words fail me and when I read this in the hangover future I might remember that thought and I just might find those words so true and so profound to say what I need to say, one bike messenger to another. Yeah, I know it's a Beatles number but when they do it I just don't buy it. Now Cocker....you know, we can talk about our personal shit, one bike messenger to another, it may be different shit but we have that same background noise in our heads, that thing that well....you know?.
Classic and ahead of her time.
She was so cool she could freeze an ocean
with just a glance.
She was at the same time so hot that
she could bring that same ocean
to a boil
with a different glance.
Someday she'll come back to us
back from the land of stupid..
Until then I remember you and what you were
and what you can be
and now heres a cute little video from the seventies...
The best and worst bike messenger in Anchorage, Alaska.He's a complicated man. No one understands him but his woman. He's a bad motherfu... Shut your mouth! But I'm talkin' 'bout Kirk. We can dig it.
Feel the pavement when you bounce from it, hear the engine of a car roaring behind you, answer the static coming from your two-way, embrace the corner of the box that craves your spine while you´re carrying it in your bag, taste the cold and yet sweet taste of beer when it sparkles in your mouth.
tales from the front
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2:55pm
i'm leaving 315 Bay st. after meeting up with 50 to hand him a job going
north that's got more than an hour left. I'm headed to 235 Mo, to grab a
j...
Back in the Belly of the Beast—رجوع إلى بطن السوء
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I’ll continue with the travel narrative in a bit, but here’s something a
bit more recent Well, after a hellish day of traveling, I’m back in the US
of A. ...
Hartstikke Bedankt
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10/9 is global Messenger Appreciation Day. A big shout out to all collega’s
around the world for putting up with me all these years. I do feel truly
blesse...
Tea vs. Coffee
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Tea is simple. To make an excellent cuppa simply requires a thick-walled,
pre-heated teapot – something that requires an investment of a mere fiver.
In add...
New Site For Messenger Town
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The Messenger Town blog is no longer hosted by Blogger - the entire blog
has been transferred to a new site at www.messengertown.net - that's a much
better...
Big week!
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Enids on the edge of Williamsburg and Greenpoint started delivery with us
this week! We also can't keep saying to to the messenger work coming out of
bro...
The End
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Well, it had to happen eventually. I couldn’t just ride around in circles
in central London for the rest of my life. Last summer I started to get
itchy fee...