Bike messengers play an essential role in the efficient delivery of business documents, packages, and other goods. They often operate under tight schedules, pressured to deliver to the customer as ...

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 ...

Angelenos may rely on cell phones and BlackBerrys to conduct business amid the traffic and sprawl, but some unlikely throwbacks to an earlier time hang on: Bike messengers. A hardy bunch of about 100, ...

OPINION:DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The Downtown Los Angeles bike messengers are an oft-noticed part of the community. Notable for their ability to weave in and out of traffic and their pedal pushing up ...

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In this age of e-mail and the Internet, when documents can be transmitted with the push of a button, the bicycle messengers of Los Angeles may seem like an anachronism. While the workload is ...

There was a time when it felt like you couldn't drive downtown without almost mowing down a bike messenger, or take a courthouse elevator without squeezing next to one or two or five of them. Or open ...

After three hours riding in the sludge, Ken Moody was giving up on his bicycle for the day. “This is too much,” he said yesterday. “I’m going to get hurt.” As a bike messenger, Mr. Moody, a ...

Matt Sanchez got the call to deliver a cake to a hospital to celebrate the birth of a baby. When he arrived at the bakery, it was clear the bakers had no idea that the elaborate cake they’d put so ...

The Associated Press reports that the Internet is causing the bike messengerto go the way of the dinosaur. The popularity and ubiquity of high-speed ‘Net access has allowed many companies who ...