Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Dwain Walters, 21, competes in a relay race for bike messengers at this year ...

Angelenos may rely on cell phones and BlackBerrys to conduct business amid the traffic and sprawl, but some unlikely throwbacks to an earlier time hang on: Bike messengers. A hardy bunch of about 100, ...

Last Friday afternoon, May 27, dozens of bicyclists gathered near the cool mist of Westlake Center’s water fountain, defying the summer’s first heat wave. They were waiting for the start of the ...

Models may have worked the runways during New York Fashion Week, but couriers did the legwork. The bike messengers dashing around NYC, delivering designer duds to star-studded shows and photo shoots, ...

Bike messengers in Farragut Square have been a topic of discussion on DCWatch’s discussion newsletter themail. The exchange began when a subscriber wrote in the Aug. 11 edition that he had watched ...

Bike messengers have long been the misunderstood miscreants of the city, earning the ire of many a NYC pedestrian, cabbie, and New York Post columnist—until now. The Travel Channel aims to shed ...

Being a bike messenger in Seattle is hellish, but we had it kind of cush. We had to work our butts off, but at least we got paid by the hour. The company always let us wear shorts, but since we had to ...