Why I haven’t paid any attention to last CMWC in Tokyo. Even though I’ve always been very busy with what’s going on in messengers world. First of all, I had become a bit de-interested with the bikemessengersscene due to their mailinglist. Spamming the whole world that people should come to the soon to be organised Worldchampionships in (for instance) Amsterdam because they weren’t going to talk about how to get easy drugs.

ycle Messenger World Championships (以下”CMWC”)はサイクルメッセンジャーの世界大会です。1993年のベルリンに始まり、毎年、欧米を中心に世界の都市を巡って開催されてきたCMWCも、今年で17回目を迎えます。この歴史ある世界大会が、2009年、ついに東京で開催されます!
CMWCは“自転車で荷物を届ける”というスキルをメッセンジャーとしての仕事を模した競技で競う場です。その一方で、世界の様々な文化的・歴史的背景をもったメッセンジャーの表現の場でもあります。
参加者の多くはメッセンジャーですが、そこで行われる競技やイベントは誰にでも開かれており、一般の方も参加し、楽しむことができます。
Or their blog with a bit more english info.

The official Cycle Messenger World Championships will be held in the capitol of Japan. Before the Meiji Restoration, the city was known as Edo. In 1868, when the shogunate came to an end, the city was renamed “Tokyo” which means “Eastern Capital”.

It’s just a short message from Luk Keller: the Global Gutz alleycat race 2009 will take place all around the world on June 19th/20th.
Tickets to Tokyo CMWC for best male and female. more info will follow.

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