Watch the new commercial for bike messenger championships

By Steven Vance On March 12, 2012 · 1 Comment

Thanks to Brandon Gobel for tipping us to this commercial about Chicagoan Christina Peck prepping for the Cycle Messenger World Championships which will go down at Soldier Field on August 4-5, 2012.

Watch it on YouTube.

A scene from the race in Tokyo, Japan, in 2009. Photo by pistbiker.

Tagged with: Bike messengers • Christina Peck • CMWC • upcoming event • video

http://twitter.com/wobbles88 Brian
Awesome. Should be fun to watch

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