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A bicycle messenger falls in love with a fellow-messenger who has become involved with a drug-dealer.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-DEC-2004
Media Type: DVD

A hotshot stockbroker bets it all--and loses it all--in one day, effectively ruining all his customers while ending his career. So, naturally, he turns to that old stockbroker standby: he becomes a bicycle messenger. Kevin Bacon may have made this film simply to extend the strands of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game; it's hard to imagine any other reason. Otherwise, this mid-'80s film stands as yet another example of a movie influenced by MTV without understanding what MTV does. Eventually, Bacon leads the exploited masses of messengers in an uprising against unfair labor practices by the evil bosses. There's an original concept. Notable as yet another film to give a role to the dazzlingly untalented Jami Gertz. --Marshall Fine

I don't put cards in my spokes. I follow traffic laws. I don't do tricks. I've even started wearing a helmet for the first time in my life.

A few years back I was fixing a messed up deraileur and decided I didn't like having things that brake easily on my bike. I turned my bike into a single speed. I liked it a lot but I still wasn't satisfied.

I saw a messenger riding by and noticed he didn't even have brakes. I loved how his bike looked and the idea of having even less on my bike. I didn't even know it was called fixed gear. When I went home I got online and searched the internet until I found Sheldon Brown's guide to fixed gear bicycles. That was around 2002 I think.

I soon fixed my bike and loved it. At the time, when I was stopped at traffic lights people in cars would lean out their window and ask me about my bike.
"You're bike looks sweet, but you've got no brakes. How do you stop?" Ordering this one, the UPS driver said "You're one of those fixie guys, huh? I keep trying to get my son to put a brake on his." Don't suppose I'll have to explain it anymore.

I didn't have brakes until I came back from Korea and my dad told me someone on a fixed gear got a ticket for not having one. From Korea I never even realized how popular (and hated) fixed gear had gotten.

I have two now.

I really think it's great that so many people love fixed gear bikes, as long as they aren't being total asses. Riding a bike isn't like your favorite underground band - it's better for you, as a cyclists, to have as many other people enjoy cycling as possible. I saw someone compair fixed bikes to SUVs the other day- actually fixed bicycles are the opposite of SUVs. More bikes = less pollution/less traffic/more aware drivers.

Longbownsnyper took my photo with my camera. I had to have a camera around my neck, so I used his Pentax Spotmatic as a prop. We were touring the Indiana Dunes from Michigan City to Portage, IN on our fixed gear bikes. Here, we are at Portage Lake Front Park. The Chicago Skyline is in the distance and the wonderfully designed park pavilion in the midground. We each had totally manual 35mm cameras with 50 mm lenses and no light meters. The combination of fixed gear bikes and manual film cameras made for a fine Vintage day.

Photographed on Kodak Tri-X 400 film using a Nikon F with a Yellow Wratten 8 filter and polarizer on a Nikkor 50mm f/2 lens. Exposure was by Sunny 16 -2 stops to account for the filters. The camera was at f/5.6 for this shot for better depth of field control.

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