And another one also from NYC. Thanks Squid for the uploads!

Great movie with a lot of good friends.

Bike messenger vs pro downhill rider…..

Back in 1999 my television career started when someone from the Dutch television called our company (Velocity). With the question if one of the messengers was willing to take on the Dutch champion downhill racing on a race down the longest stairs of europe for this tv show called ‘Dat kan ik ook’ (I can do that too). Everyone knew I liked going down the stairs here in my hometown (Arnhem). So I got this woman on the phone asking me if I would except that challenge. And of course I would, damn the longest stairs in europe you must be crazy not to except a challenge like that.
But she warned me because she first asked the messengers in Rotterdam and none had the balls to do it. Then see called the messengers in Amsterdam and they refused also but said to here you should call Arnhem, there’s a guy crazy enough.
So a couple of months later we went to Liège (Luik) in Belgium and searched for the stairs, then suddenly there it was….

That’s gonna be a whole lot of fun riding down this shit!

So after a couple of minutes we meet the camera crew and the girl who was presenting the show (Aniko van Santen). And also the man himself Gerwin Peters, dutch downhill champion and at that moment fourth in the UCI rankings. Later that year he would get second place in the overall ranking. A really nice guy who brought two massive machines with him. Two downhill bikes from the Dutch national team. I never owned a suspension bike let alone a full suspension downhill bike… And then they also gave me the bike from Bas de Bever a famous BMX and downhill rider here in the Netherlands and right now hard coach of the Dutch BMX team.

To make a long story short I told my colleges, i’ll crash or i’ll win!

So here is my television debut and for all the none Dutch speakers you can go to the action right here!

And a last shot looking down because it brings great memories.

While we are all waithing for Premium Rush we all missed THE movie of 2010!

Ramanna, is a bicycle courier who always ends up delivering his wares late. His boss claims that until he buys an auto rickshaw to go faster, he will not have a job.

A action packed movie from Bollywood. Full of bike stunts, music and dance. And to top it all his bicycle speaks

Here is the trailer:

But I recomend you guys watch the complete movie, more then 2 hours of entertainment! But if your only interested in the bike action check the movie from 4:46 till the end. And then click the CC button for subtitles.

Daniel is a dwarf bicycle courier living and working in Barcelona. One quite normal hot sunny day, a chance meeting and an act of kindness help Daniel take stock of everyday preconceptions.

“Daniel needs to deliver to the 33rd floor of a tall office building. Yet, he only takes the elevator to the 26th floor, and climbs the remaining seven floors on foot. Why?”

A beautiful little movie!

By Bryan Derballa

Apparently they (the Travel Channel) takes the show offline. But here is episode three; The Rain.

Thanks, MessengerMedia

You Can’t Dispatch

Dangerous traffic, bad pay and new technologies – Bike Messengers in Downtown LA are becoming an endangered species. This short documentary follows the Last Men Riding.

I prefer to remember that back in da days nobody would dare to refer to me as being a postbode, the horror. A simple mailman could do a daily round delivering letters, not necessarily in a hurry. As where the topnotch bikemessenger would ride his bike in highspeed all day delivering packages, doing errands and making sure the envelope would be on time all the time and with the certainty of delivery by appointment. But apparently things have changed since I stopped cause nowadays the people at Cycloon have become mailmen?!