ECMC
The European Cycle Messenger Championships (ECMC) is an annual competition for European bicycle messengers. The first ECMC was held in Hamburg in 1996. This was originally planned as the 2nd German Cycle Messenger Championships (GCMC/DMFK), but was turned into a European championship due to large participation of Dutch and Danish messengers. After 2010, in 2023, european bicycle couriers visited Budapest for the second time to test their skills and have fun. The participants tested their abilities on different tasks, there were simple speed races, like the uphill race and sprint competition, and street races, so called alleycats, that make more use of the participants' organizational skills. The main competition took place on a closed course, the competitors had to complete a full "working day" based on a manifesto.