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Date: 0/0/2011
Place: USA, Chicago
The Cycle Messenger World Championships (CMWC) is the ultimate urban cycling competition. The strongest, smartest and fastest bike messengers from across the planet converge once a year to determine who is the best in a variety of events that test riders’ physical and mental limits. It is a fully insured competition on a closed course that is sanctioned by the International Federation of Bike Messengers Associations (IFBMA). While most competitors are bike messengers, events are open to everyone, and many non-messengers enjoy the challenge of the competition.
CMWC is a world championship sporting event, but it is also a world festival celebrating messenger culture and its broad influence on modern urban culture, as well as an international conference where messengers can share their diverse experiences and work towards improving working conditions in every city. CMWC hosts a variety of related galas, shows, parties and a vendor market where spectators mingle with messengers to get a jump on the latest bike trends and urban utilitarian fashion. The side events showcase the artistic, photographic, musical and literary talents of the world’s hardest working professional athletes.
THE CHICAGO BID
After the success of the 2008 North American Cycle Courier Championship in Chicago some of the organizers of that event sat down and had a serious talk about making a bid for hosting the CMWC in 2011. We are going to go to Tokyo. We want this bid. Here's who we are.
Augie Montes - Rider/Owner at 4 Star Courier. Hosted more races than you've been in. Very good at attracting sponsors.
Vern Schleyer - Handsome. Builds things. Good mustache.
Drew Blayley - Freshly returned from Milwaukee, lives with Dumptruck. Excellent Course Scout.
Chris Dilts - Designer. Photographer. Web Impresario. Destroyer of Restaurants.
Mike Morrell - Lays out the toughest courses you'll ever ride.
POTENTIAL LOCATIONS FOR 2011
While organizing and executing the 2008 Chicago NACCC we worked closely with local government, law enforcement, community groups, churches and neighborhood organizations to ensure that the event would be public, safe and at home in the community. In planning for the 2011 CMWC we have been meeting with the Chicago Mayors office, local aldermen and police officials working in concert to determine the best location for the event.
Naturally a certain flexibility must be involved in the planning or execution of an event more than two years in the future, which is why we have assembled a shortlist of locations and are negotiating with the various components of the city government to determine which will work best for such a high profile and prestigious event.
LOCATION ONE | FINANCIAL DISTRICT - It's been a dream of ours for some time to actually host a sanctioned event on the cities streets, enjoying the same public space use that other events, like the Chicago Marathon, have. Chicago's financial district, set in the heart of the loop, is an ideal location with minimal weekend business, the ability to re-route traffic as to not disrupt the core of the city, recently paved streets providing an excellent racing surface and, best of all, the ability to more accurately recreate a working messenger day for the participants.
LOCATION TWO | MILTON LEE OLIVE PARK - During the NACCC we developed an excellent relationship with the Chicago Parks District and we've scouted Milton Lee Olive Park, on Chicago's North East lakefront, as a potential candidate for 2011. The park itself has an amazing path system which would lend itself naturally to racing. Set right on Lake Michigan the park offers both a spectacular view of the water and Chicago's skyline.
LOCATION THREE | GOOSE ISLAND - A quiet island on the weekend, Goose Island is surrounded by water and industrial warehouses, a uniquely Chicago experience, as this forgotten zone is surrounded by some of the cities' most expensive neighborhoods.
LOCATION FOUR | NORTHERLY ISLAND - Northerly Island is a 91- acre peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan at the heart of the Museum Campus- just south of the Adler Planetarium, east of Soldier Field, and not too far from McCormick Place, the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum of Stuff and Things. While possibly the least urban of the potential sites, it is a stunning venue, as it is surrounded by Lake Michigan, Chicago's own terrifying inland sea, with Chicago's high-rise skyline directly to the west.
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