There was a memorial ride last night for Terry Tuck, a bike courier who died last week after being hit by a van, also a courier. This was the first death of a bike courier while on the job in Calgary. It seems like most of the bike couriers in Calgary showed up for this, myself included, which was nice as its pretty hard to get couriers to come together for anything. There was a wreath laid, somebody made a speech [ Terry was a courier for only a short time, but he was one of us], we had a moment of silence in his memory and then we lit sparklers and went on our ride. We kept to one lane of traffic going down 4 Street, turning on 5 Avenue and back up 1 Street to the Castle pub. Most drivers were cool about it, some courier drivers honked their horns to show their support and some non-courier bikers joined the ride.

At the Castle, I decided to go in for one beer, but I ended up staying for a few hours. West Direct bought us all a beer so we could have a toast to Terry. We watched the news item A-channel did on the ride, with Domenique hogging all the air time. LOL Then they had stationary bike races, which I didn't enter, but the people who did sure torqued out racing each other! Crazy bastards, after riding a bike all day, they go to a bar to do this... Saw Mike [hi! sleepingeagle], Roy, and a bunch of other couriers I haven't seen in awhile, which was cool. Then I bailed and rode home.