A three-day race brought together over a hundred couriers who raced, partied, and crashed their way through a revived ...

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 ...

While DC’s once-ubiquitous couriers have been pushed to the brink of extinction, their culture and camaraderie endure—as does their impact on the city’s streets. Sitting in the Wawa at 19th and L, his ...

Even in the heyday of the bike messenger business in the late 1980s — when an estimated 1,500 couriers zoomed around the streets of the Loop — there were fears the fax machine could end the need for ...