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...There Was a Bicycle Messenger

Here is an extraordinary article about a few messengers in Salt Lake, one spry (my good friend Kevin) and two others; now veterans of the diocese roads. Thanks Esther! Keep on mashing!



Charmed from cyclingutah.com – March 2011 Issue
Once Upon A Time There Was a Bicycle MessengerBy Esther Meroño

Trapped behind a frantic sea of cubicle walls, fluorescent light relevancy down on our hearts like a treacherous wave as the flickering computer boob tube reaches for our soul with its monstrous tentacles, most of us weekend warriors dish out our nine-to-fives daydreaming of land.

Not the bicycle messenger.

While we drown at our desks, these pirates of the workforce hole through the tempest, blowing past the foreboding herds of sea monsters into a indistinct breeze and streaming sunlight, returning as heroes to ports full of busty women and fire-water. Well, that’s how I’ve always imagined the life of a bicycle messenger versus a desk jockey. It turns out that realistically, the adventure requires a infinitesimal more brains and brawn than expected (and no booze or broads).
Jason Copier, holder of Legal Messengers, Inc., started as a bike messenger back in ’97, hired by the one-time owner and founder of LMI, Pete Caffal, a bike messenger himself from Seattle. The romanticism behind the appointment is one of the factors that led Copier to pursue the job: “Dialect mayhap it was ‘cause I saw ‘Quicksilver’ as a kid, I don’t identify…I was a bike geek, and it was a way to dork out on bikes, industry on my bike, ride it around all day, deliver packages. Why not? It’s rad.” Copier took over the intermediation around 2000 and started dispatching, buying the circle from Caffal in order to keep it local. LMI specializes in same-day deliveries, peculiarly useful for the speedy and safe shipment of court documents that lack signatures and cannot be sent over email (in case you were wondering how akin...

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