On 8/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ======= > Huh, frank, how is that a messenger tradition? When/where/why? > > Definitely unusual. :-) >
Oh, sorry, Marnie. I guess you may not have been around when I was posting shots from my trip to NYC for CMWC (Cycle Messenger World Championships). The Boston messengers have a tradition of riding naked for at least one lap of each race they enter. Of course, the ones that do that aren't in contention, and they always do it near the end. I have no idea how it started, but AFIAK, it was already going on when they held the first CMWC 11 years ago in Berlin. It's done not only for CMWC, but for NACs (North American Championships) and Euro as well, and I guess every major courier race they make it to. As to "why", well, I don't know for sure, but ilicit substance(s) and alcohol may be involved. <g> They are couriers after all... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
