Keeping an eye on overtaking vehicles, Wellington cycle courier Tom Finlay heads back to base after a delivery in 1990. Cycle couriers are often the fastest means of mail and document delivery in inner-city areas. Their daring and even dangerous riding style has given them the nickname ‘suicide jockeys’.
Listen to Alistair McAlpine talking in 1995 to one of Wellington’s 'suicide jockeys'.
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Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685), EP/1990/1778A/32, by Ross Giblin
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