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- Sydney Lewis
- Username: slewis
- Location: Rochester, Massachusetts
- Joined PRX: Sep 06, 2003
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- "Cars, Scars and Handlebars"
- Summary: The Life of a Bike Messenger
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Review of Cars, Scars and Handlebars
Sydney Lewis
Posted on June 09, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Lively, engaging look at the world of bike messengers. Perfect for biking season. Interviews conducted at Chicago biker bars, messenger bars, that is, are entertaining, as are person-on-the-street chats. Complaining pedestrians are balanced against bikers who?ve been tossed, tumbled, and near killed by buses, cars, and po?ed people. Especially amusing are the 50 year-old bike messenger who philosophically points out, ?You could die doing this interview,? and a younger messenger, recounting his interaction with a bus driver. Though it zips along wildly, like a bike messenger, at nine minutes it felt a couple of minutes too long to me.