ECMC 2009 Berlin

14. European Cycle Messenger Championships

Berlin: 28. May to 1. June 2009

In 1993 the first-ever Cycle Messenger World Championships were held in Berlin, Germany, and with it an international community and new sport emerged.

The Berlin Bike Messenger Association (BBM e.V.) is proud to continue the tradition by hosting the 14th-annual European Cycle Messenger Championships over Pentecost weekend here in Berlin.

The ECMC 2009 brought hundreds of professional bike messengers from Europe and beyond together for three days of races and social activities. We celebrated our unique profession and attendant lifestyles.

THANK YOU FOR COMING TO BERLIN, IT WAS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU HERE AS OUR GUESTS!

And the winners are:

Males

1. 708 – Stefan „Porno“ Fröhlich, Zürich
2. 448 – Martin Brunner, Zürich
3. 001 – Michael Brinkmann, Bremen

Females (Shared first place)

= 1. 326 – Johanna “JoJo” Reeder, Stockholm
= 1. 850 – Nadine Schloss, Frankfurt
3. 507 – Nathalie Wenger, Geneva

Full results can be found here.

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video: bike-syndikat-checkpoint

ECMC 2009 Berlin Checkpoint #6 in 2 Minutes from Ghetto Cologne on Vimeo.

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alleycat photos from riki, tokyo

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8 minutes of ecmc 2009

http://www.youtube.com

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more very nice photos

http://www.grigiomedio.net

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hobnox documentaries

Mainrace, Interview with Porno (german only)

Cargo Race, Interview with Harry (english)

Score: Lombego Surfers, OJO’s band from Basel

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Global Gutz 09

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hidden pages

we hid some pages because we wanted to keep the left side-bar “clean”.
the pages are still there:

http://www.ecmc2009.com/program
http://www.ecmc2009.com/program/the-racecourse
http://www.ecmc2009.com/program/disciplines
http://www.ecmc2009.com/downloads

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beautiful pics from kerstin

http://www.flickr.com/.

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alleycat friday night photos

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inspring event? obviously.

kamaal twitters from amsterdam:

“I think #ecmc media coverage was good and positive. I allready have 2 jobapplications this morning here in Amsterdam.”
funny.

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media-links no2

also mostly german, one french article.

http://www.faz.net Interview with Steve

https://www.berlinonline.de/

http://www.morgenpost.de/ big photo of the main-race-start

http://www.spiegel.de/ Video

http://www.besac.com/ en français

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volunteers needed to clean up with us

good morning.

we would like to ask everybody who is still in town to come to the racetcourse today: there will be free breakfast+drinks, and we could use a hand or two to clean up the mess with us. begins at around 12:00!

thank you!

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also…

please check this out. the boys were here in berlin all the time, good guys we’re all looking forward to their documentary.

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photos by nobot

http://www.flickr.com/

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over. almost…

the awards ceremony is still going on, the 14. ECMC are almost over. see you at edelweiss tonight for the farewell party, or next year somewhere. where? no one knows. who steps up?

big thanks to everyone who came out, over 80 cities were there, 17 languages spoken and still one big family.

over 120 people volunteered to make sure you have a great time in berlin, thank you, volunteers!

we, the organizers, had one of the best weekends in our lives!

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