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“I was in an elevator in Sydney and this guy got in,” Brian says, recounting an interaction he had after weeks sleeping in hostels and living like a hermit, a shy country kid whose accent and tendency to murmur made him hard to understand. “He was wearing a helmet and a backpack. I don’t normally speak to strangers, but I just started chatting to him. He told me he was a bike messenger. That was the first time I’d ever heard of it.” Here Brian looks away from the camera, sheepish and red faced, and allows the rare smile to creep crookedly across his face. “I was like, ‘You just ride around delivering stuff?’ Then I asked him, ‘How do you get that job?’”
Two weeks later, his mother had shipped him his old mountain bike and he had a new occupation. Sue was concerned, of course. She thought of the injuries and the financial hurdles her son would surely face. But she’d also taught her kids that passion was important in life.
Brian worked as a bike messenger for the next 16 years, sometimes delivering as many as 90 packages in a day. It would take him all over the world, from Sydney to Melbourne to Perth, and then on to London and Glasgow before he crossed the Atlantic for New York and later headed down to Mexico City. He liked the challenge of mastering the routes of each new locale, as well as the camaraderie and competition among the messengers.
“To me it was the coolest job ever,” Brian says, again breaking into that rare smile. “There were so many interesting, talented people. It was almost like a bunch of artists who decided that this was the best way to make a living, and they all loved bikes.”
The job and accompanying lifestyle consumed him. Brian lived with messengers. Partied with messengers. Raced with messengers. He frequently attended the annual Cycle Messenger World Championships, racing in places as far-flung as Chicago and Guatemala and Switzerland, and sometimes got disqualified when his appetite for speed meant he missed a checkpoint or had his manifest stamped incorrectly. He fared better in the alley cat races at Messenger Worlds, which prioritize speed and skill over paperwork, twice reaching the podium (a win and a second place).
Beyond the races, however, it was the community he craved. Call it a family of cyclists, and it’s a feeling Brian’s been after ever since.
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