The New York City Bike Messenger Association

Hey everyone, this is Coco. As you may know, NYCBMA has operated mostly between myself and Ando over the last three plus years. Ando managed to successfully host this past weekend’s fun event, in support for CMWC Milan, amongst many fundraisers and supportive efforts we’ve recently curated. Now, it’s time we take care of Ando. Ando is advised to stay home and recover from a torn calf muscle, for the next 6-8 weeks, and he’s gonna need all the help we can get. Modest and stubborn as he may be, he cannot take time off from work. I ask that we (family and friends, colleagues and acquaintances), please make a collective effort to support my fellow BMA partner, my friend, and messbrother, with his rent and finances; to assure he will not have to be forced to work thru that duration, wishing him to be relieved of stress by any means, and to commit to a speedy recovery. The link to Ando’s GoFundMe is within our bio. Please share! In addition to this GoFundMe, new BMA recruits, Gabby, Lee, myself and friends will be doing all what we can to raise funds for Ando, so stay tuned for updates. Want to help? Message us or comment ideas to contribute! #awab #alwaysworkingalwaysbroke

🗣️ new website launched!!! Since 2022, the NYCBMA has relied on instagram and our followers to establish ourselves. After much work, we have something to show for it. We proudly present: NYCBMA.org On our website, you’ll be able to get resourceful information such as a calendar of upcoming events, our partners and affiliates, bike shops and cafes we suggest, a webstore featuring our merch, products from local vendors, services and workshops to signup for soon to come, and an archives page of our past events including podium results, photos and videos. NYCBMA.org will continue to expand over time, and with your feedback and constructive criticism, can be more refined! Check it out. Let us know what you think. Hit us up for suggestions, or if you wish to see your footage or content on here. The link is within our bio!

The homie @jets12435 kicked things off for our Seoul x NYC Sister City pairing. We could’ve gone with garment bags Milan high fashion scramble, but the game for this one was pizza delivery race! At the start, racers had to choose which direction to hit to do their pick ups before completing their deliveries. Racers got a text 20 mins in, with a RUSH pizza order from I. C. Weiner (extra 🍍…totally not a prank) from the 3 floor food court in K-Town. OPEN 🥇 @paremongputi 🥈 @billa_bong_thornton 🥉 @mattsezer WTF 🥇 @shannaharrrrrh 🥈 @tinypang 🥉 @maria_berdia Dane pulled up in first place, keeping it completely professional. During registration, Shannah stopped by the island in full kit after a road ride with no bag, no lock and STILL signed up to do the damn thing! She completely crushed it and got the job done. She pulled out 2 pizza deliveries straight out the back of her jersey and managed to heat the pizzas back up because SHE WAS ON FIRE! After the race we hosted the raffle for the @baileyworksne bag to officially close out the “Urban Bike Culture” show put together by @messenger841 . @littiemctittie was the lucky winner and managed to take that beautiful bag home! Thank you so much to our volunteers, racers and to those of you who bought raffle tickets. Grazie @namazu.jpg for busting out 30 pizzas that we used to deliver and to devour at the finish! Thank you again to @jets12435 for putting your race together and for sending prizes for our winners from @fixedgearseoul @______sw_official @punchblues Racers also got to take home custom NYCBMA hoodies and pizza hot bags. Thank you to everyone for helping us raise some money for our Italian messfam hosting @cmwc2026 ! Thank you as always for the photos @b_in_it

UPDATE: pre-orders closed. Get these from us this summer for $18 a pair! Available July ————— To match our new jerseys in production, we’re launching pre-orders for summer cycling socks from @defeet ! These socks are available to purchase, in two different colored options, for a limited time, at $15 USD a pair! OR buy three (3) for $40, no matter the color combo - messenger or not; these choices don’t discriminate. Once in stock, we’ll offer in-person pickup from any of our upcoming events, local delivery, domestic/national or international shipping at an additional charge. Payment choices include Venmo, PayPal, cashapp, and Wise. All proceeds from socks sold go towards NYCBMA for future events, and the emergency fund. Pre-orders will wrap up one week from today, 5/5, approximately 11:59 PM EST. After that, we’ll submit our collective request for Defeet to promptly begin production, and expect 6-8 weeks before we receive shipment for our distribution (likely late June/early July). From then on, we hope to have these socks to distribute throughout the world. To buy at our vendor tables, winning in small competitions, sport for events, and/or to humbly represent in style. Whether rookie or veteran, commuter or racer, may these be for you 🫵 😎☕️ These socks will be a limited one-time run I.E. “while supplies last”. Once we run out, we run out.

We finally announce our winter series winners from each category of Borolympics! In open category, we have NY’s favorite @paremongputi of Staten Island & in femme category, @eeeennwwwwbwbwbwbrrr of @phillybma - both going to @cmwc2026 Our series concluded a month ago with Bridge Blitz - twenty two (22) racers crossing six (6) various bridges between Queens, Manhattan, and BK, ending at @carreauclub who blessed us with a roof over our heads, supplying drinks, food, and pétanque to play with one another. Stealing the win, albeit with permission given by series leader Skitchmaster Dane, Noah came thru by surprise to everyone including himself. It was the first time we had two first place podium winners from outta town. Way to wreck it, Philly!! (NYC, what happened??) @piparaicing_02 & @jecrup made a comeback appearance not to race, but to volunteer to checkpoint. Thanks to each of our volunteers that came thru to support! And to @b_in_it & @aq_jerry for not just working checkpoint, but taking portraits of our racers to validate! We celebrated our winners providing prizes from our series sponsors: @merbagsusa with series bags reflecting jerseys of Tour de France, @concrete_revolt , @knog , @bikethomson giving $125 in value to redeem, @mpbags , @ortlieb_waterproof and @saloooch for producing hand made trophies for each event! 🌉🏆 Bridge Blitz podium: 🥇 (open) @indegoat & (femme) Orchid 🥈 (o) Dane & (f) @emma.rides.bikes 🥉 (o) Andrew & (f) @avinyay ❄️🏆 Series winners! (open) 🥇Dane w/ 81 points - takes home polkadot Mer and the new NYCBMA messenger jersey 🥈 @andrew_andrew_bikes w/ 38 points takes home the white MER bag 🥉 @all_cars_are_bad w/ 36 - takes home the @assholesliveforever quilt (Femme) 🥇Orchid w/ 47 takes home the yellow MER bag, and qualifies for the black messenger NYCBMA jersey 🥈 @cyclingabby w/ 39 points takes home the green MER bag 🥉 @_k3llzz__ w/ 22 points takes home the assholesliveforever duffle bag, and Concrete Revolt beanie How was the winter series for you? What was your favorite one? Still have photos or footage to submit? Send our way for us to make compilations for future events, providing you credit! More on our website!

[SIGNUP LINK IN BIO] Catch us with new and used components, tools, BMA merch/product, about this time next month at @nybikejumble ! You know our routine by now; if you’re a messenger trying to sell or trade, hit us up to reserve space at no charge (first come, first serve - we’ve run out of space in the past). We’re your vendor table for the community by the community - at your service. In addition to our personal stash of parts and gear, NYCBMA has new merchandise we’re selling, and art from past events, while supplies last. If we run out, we’ll have a list to pre-order autumn/winter merchandise when September bike jumble comes. See us from early morning til mid afternoon, rain or shine

We salute all of you whether it’s 10 months juggling apps, serve, pharmacy or the 10+ year vets still in the game. NYC teaches us that the hustle can never stop, if it does…then you’re assed out. Mess life isn’t easy and it takes its toll but everyday is a blessing when you know how fast it can change. This community builds a special type of person and we see each one of you that move on to chase their passion. As someone who put in the work on these streets and started a journey to perfect his craft, @andrecherryy is offering a deal to the mess fam to get yall looking right: First cut FREE for everyone. Second cut 50% off. Messengers get 25% off every cut after that. Get yourself looking right for the spring, tap in with @cherryycrafted and book ASAP

As we wrap up a month packed with events and welcome the spring, we’d like to remind everyone of the closing ceremony for “Urban Bike Culture” this Tuesday at @enochs.nyc ! This is the last chance to come in and view the art on display. We’re kicking off the ceremony at 6, when we’ll have a small discussion with the artists that put this show together. We’re also looking for the winner who’ll be taking home the amazing custom sling @baileyworksne bag, still in the game and continuing to bump out beautifully hand made bags. Raffle tickets are $1, money raised will go towards the NYCBMA funds that help us keep putting on events for our racers and most importantly our mess fam. Find us on the days leading up to Saturday’s Sister City for raffle tickets, or pull up the day of and see if you’ll be the lucky winner! As always none of this would’ve been possible without our amazing hosts at Enoch’s, all the artists involved and especially the community that came out to support, we appreciate each and everyone of you. See yall Tuesday night!

Bridge Blitz 💥 Winter Borolympics Final Race 🥇 @indegoat 🥈 @paremongputi 🥉 @andrew_andrew_bikes POV’s - @indegoat | @paremongputi | @metro.sn | @cyclingabby

Saturday April 4 The Island 🏝️ Union Square Reg @ 3:20 Race @ 4:20 $10 Bring a bag/front rack + lock (🍕 delivery) For sister city this year we join 30+ cities all throwing on races to collectively raise money and help Milan fund @cmwc2026 We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with @jets12435 representing SEOUL! 🇰🇷 Make sure you bring a lock and a bag or front rack, treat these packages with love and you’ll keep the customer happy…you might even earn yourself a tip! Come out for a spicy race, posi vibes and help us raise some bread for the 🇮🇹 messfam. We got a little something from the amazing homie Rob of @merbagsusa for our winners and some @slowsquad_intl gear that seems to never end. #stillskidding 🔥 💨 Want to sponsor??? We’d love to collab and work something out hit us up! Shoutout to the artist for the dope flyer! @namazu.jpg

On one of the last NYCBMA meetings of 2025 we discussed how to get messengers to Milan for @cmwc2026 in May. The idea for a winter Borolympics was cooked up and we knew we had to move fast. For the months we’ve endured the harshest winter we’ve had in years in NYC. Each boro presented its own challenging weather conditions, streets and obstacles. Each host proudly represented the boro that molded them into the cyclists they are today and challenged racers to take on the streets and claim the title of champions of the boro. The Borolympic torch was passed between boros to carry on the tradition of finding our winners, ready to take on the cycle world messenger championship. With a few days to go until the Bridge Blitz Grand Finale there’s still an opportunity to collect points…or sabotage the current leader @paremongputi The WTF leaders are neck and neck! Who will take the W and the trip to Milan to rep their city, @eeeennwwwwbwbwbwbrrr of Philly reppin @phillybma or the hometown favorite @cyclingabby straight out of Queens? Place your bets, pull up to race, or cheer on the racers as we bid farewell to another winter and close out our first Winter Borolympics. Dane: 62 Andrew: 32 Orchid (WTF): 33 Josh: 31 Gabby (WTF): 29 Tracey (WTF): 20 Kelli (WTF): 18 Anna (WTF): 12 Matt: 12 Johnny: 11 KC: 10 Noah: 8 Amelia (WTF): 8 Dio: 7 Malcolm: 6 Henry: 6 Simon: 6 Sawyer: 6 Brian: 5 Karen (WTF): 4 Justin: 4 Frannco: 4 Ryan: 4 Liam: 3 Toni : 2 Cuauhtémoc: 2 Jimmy: 2 Joel : 2 Alex: 2 Nico: 2 Lewin: 1 Max: 1 Matt J: 1 Phoenix: 1 Lidia (WTF): 1 Henney: 1 Emmett: 1 Nadiv: 1 Manu (WTF): 1 Stuart: 1 Liam: 1 Carlos: 1 Cameron: 1