1970-1990
City
Council
Won't Curb Bicycle Messengers - For Now -
Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1990
Bicyclist
Battles
Odds To Do Job, Have Fun - Newsday, August
9, 1999
War
of
Wheels Boiling Over as Bike Couriers Vie With
Cars - Toronto Star, July 15,1990
Nerves
of
steel, tires, rubber - Philadelphia
Inquirer, June 28, 1990
Son's
death
stirs safety awareness - Boston Globe,
Monday, May 28, 1990
I
Was A New York City Bike Messenger -
Bicycling Magazine, March 1990.
Must License
Bike Couriers Metro Told - Toronto Star,
February 21, 1990
Biking
Madness - Boston Globe, July 25, 1989
Hope
Amid
the
Spokes and Wheels - Washington Post,
February 17, 1989
Basic
bicyclist
training - Boston Globe, January 30, 1989
Bike
couriers,
skateboarders topic for panel - Boston
Globe, January 20, 1989
His
Fault,
But She Rhymes With Witch - Washington
Post, December 27, 1988
Putting
on
the brakes - Boston Globe, December 10, 1988
Business
Cycle - OUR TIMES, December 1988.
Fatality
delivers
message - Boston Globe, November 27, 1988
Cop
Pleads
In Beating - Newsday, October 30, 1988
Sent
to
Toronto, Reid went for the cycle- Boston
Globe, October 9, 1988
Ex- Bruin Reid
Hopes to Deliver for the Leafs - Toronto
Star, September 12, 1988
Life
in
the Curb Lane - Report on Business Magazine,
September 1988.
Couriers
Peddling
Promptness - Washington Post, Semptember 5,
1988
Couriers
Say
They Fall into Two Basic Groups Vets and Summer
Jocks - Washington Post, Semptember 5, 1988
The
Messenger Business: Far More Than Bikes Now
- New York Times, August 16, 1988
Bike
Messenger
Progress(!) - Washington Post, August 5,
1988
Bicycle
Couriers Will Have To Pass Vancouver Tests -
Toronto Star, July 5, 1988
Courier's
life
a two-wheel jungle - Toronto Star, July 21,
1988
Pedal
Power
Makes Courier Alan Oates a Big Wheel -
Houston Post, June 26, 1988
Blaming
the
Messenger- Washington Post, June 23, 1988
Meese
Ends
Ban
on Uncomplimentary Shirt- Washington Post,
June 24, 1988
Life
in the fast lane - Toronto Star, Tuesday,
May 24, 1988
Bicycle
Grief- Washington Post, February 21, 1988
Bike
Messenger
Watch, Yes More - Washington Post, December
15, 1987
Bike
Messenger
was killed in Boston - Boston Globe,
December 12, 1987
Care
bicycle
messenger is killed by hit-run driver -
Boston Globe, December 11, 1987
Second
Bicyclist
Ban Proposed for Midtown - Newsday, December
8, 1987
Cyclists
are
fast, N.Y. ban is not - Miami Herald,
November 19, 1987
We
Don't
Need to Ban All Bicyclists -Washington Post,
November 9, 1987
Messengers
-
What Would We Do Without Them - Washington
Post, November 2, 1987
Bike
Messenger
Watch More Horrors - Washington Post,
October 27, 1987
Letters:
Two-Wheeler
Menace - Time Magazine, October 26, 1987
The
pedal
express - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 13,
1987
The
Rewards
and Losses of Being a Bicycle Courier -
Vancouver, October 6, 1987
Scaring
the
Public to Death - Time Magazine, October 5,
1987
Ban
angers
NYC riders - Boston Globe, September 11,
1987
Judge
Voids Ban on Bicycles On 3 Avenues - New
York Times, September 10, 1987
Bike
Messengers: Life in the Tight Lane - New
York Times, September 4, 1987
Do
the
Messengers Own Their Bikes? - Washington
Post, September 4, 1987:
N.Y.
Judge
blocks ban on bicycles - Boston Globe,
September 1, 1987
Midtown
Ban
Postponed; Bicyclists Claim a Victory -
Newsday, September 1, 1987
Ban
on Bikes Could Bring More Mopeds - New York
Times, August 27, 1987
Manhattan's
bicycle
crackdown miffs messengers - Globe and Mail,
August 26, 1987
Help
Wanted
- Bike Messengers - Cyclist, August, 1987
Bikers
Plan
Slowdown - Newsday, August 12, 1987
Bike
Ban
Isn't Fair - Newsday, August 6, 1987
Is
the
City
. . . - Newsday, August 6, 1987
Respect
Rides
A 2-Way Street - Newsday, July 28,1987
Riding
Their
Wheels Of Fortune - Newsday, July 27, 1987
Messengers
Pedal
to Protest - Newsday, July 25, 1987
City
Says
3 Midtown Streets Will Be Off-Limits to Bikes
- Newsday, July 23, 1987
New
York to Ban Bicycles on 3 Major Avenues -
New York Times, July 23, 1987
Couriers
Dislike
Message - Newsday, July 23, 1987
For Manhattan
Couriers, Brakeless Bikes Are The Way to Go
- New York Times, June 14, 1987
Wild
In
The Streets - Women's Sports & Fitness,
May, 1987
Proposed
Midtown
Bike Ban Dropped - Newsday, April 13,
1987
These
Streets
Were Not Made for Walking - Newsday,
February 10, 1987
Road
Warriors - Vancouver Sun, 1987
A
Novice Bike Messenger Tests His Stamina and
Nerve in City Traffic - Sports Illustrated,
December 12, 1986
Toronto's
85
Bicycle Couriers Have Skills to Outrace Danger
- Toronto Star, 1986
The
perils
of pedaling - Boston Globe, September 14,
1986
New
Target for Police: Bicycle Messengers - New
York Times, August 20, 1986
Slowly,
Surely,
a Bulb Lights Up - Newsday, August 14, 1986
City's
Courier
Companies Rush to Beat Competition -
Newsday, July 14,1986
Fashions
that
carry a message - Philadelphia Daily News,
July 9, 1986
The
nerd's
ideal: a bike messsenger - Philadelphia
Inquirer, July 6, 1986
Bike
Couriers
Love That Halifax Traffic - Halifax
Chronicle Herald, June 17, 1986
Couriers:
a
life in the fast lane - Philadelhpia
Inquirer, June 13, 1986
Bicycle
courier
killed in accident - Boston Globe, April 4,
1986
Bus-Bike
Furor:
Driver Suspended - Newsday, February 22,
1986
Wheeler-dealer
finds
happiness on his 10-speed - Toronto Star,
Monday, February 17, 1986
They
are
spokes men pedaling to nowhere - Miami
Herald, February 21, 1986
Bacon's
double
takes - Newsday, February 20, 1986
Fast
Company - New York Magazine, January 13,
1986
For
the
Bicycle Messenger, No Roadbed of Roses - New
York Times, November 10, 1985
One
Man's Art: Bags for Messengers - New York
Times, August 4, 1985
Ten
Speed Express - Vancouver Sun, June 24, 1985
Cruising
the
roads on a metal steed - Boston Globe, June
18, 1985
The
Uneasiest
Riders - Newsweek, 1985
Cycle
Couriers
Defend The Kamikaze Life - Sydney Morning
Herald, 19??
"Road
Warriors
& Road Worriers" - Processed World, 15
Dec 85
Koch
Approves Bill Regulating Bicycle Messengers
- New York Times, July 7, 1984
Blowing
Whistles - New York Times, July 3, 1984
"Get
Hot!" - Processed World, Jun 83
"Poetry
in
motion" - Processed World, Jun 83
Red Light
for Reckless Bikes - New York Times,
December 9, 1983
Fastest
Is Best as Messengers Pedal in Pursuit of a $100
Day - New York Times, December 2, 1983
Rain, Shine or
Snow (or Postal Strike), Bike Couriers Pedal On
- Toronto Star, July 2, 1981
Bay Window -
Toronto Star, November 19, 1980
Bike Courier Idea
Pedalled Into Business - Toronto Star,
October 14, 1980
Wheeler Dealers
- Toronto Star, May 25, 1980
Larry Solway’s
Open Line - Toronto Star, May 11, 1980
Peddling Their
Services: cut-rate bike couriers - Toronto
Star, June 2, 1979
Mercury on 2 Wheels
- New York Times, August 4, 1976
Undated:
"Get in the
way of these kamikaze bikers..." - People
Magazine, sometime in the late 70s/early 80s
"signature on line 16, please..." - Outside Online
"Life as a Cycle Courier" - Gearhead Mountainbike
Cyberzine
"Pushing the envelope" - Visual Cont@ct
"Adventures of a Bike Messenger" -
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