Valerie Topete is a dedicated individual who is known for always looking ahead to the future. She is very career oriented, which is a trait that prompted her to start her career by moving to New York City, New York. She originally moved to the area in order to pursue her love for singing and photography, but she later found out that she needed a more lucrative plan in order to support herself and her family in the city. Now, she is a bike courier for one of the top bike messaging companies in the city, Mercury Rises. https://www.crunchbase.com/person/valerie-topete#/entity

The company is dedicated to serving clients, large businesses, and small businesses by delivering important messages quickly. Due to the vastness of New York, especially the constant traffic, getting around by bicycle is actually the fast means of transportation. Not only do they not have to sit in the constant traffic jams with all the other cars, but they are not bound by the same laws that motorized vehicles have to operate by. This leaves room for taking back roads, side streets, alleyways, and even one-way streets as they see fit.

Having an intimate knowledge of the city and your surroundings is essential to your success as a bike courier. Valerie Topete makes sure that she has frequent delivery locations mapped away in her head so that she doesn’t even need to rely on her GPS to get there. Once you start to deliver more and more, understanding your surroundings will become like second nature, but until then, GPS is essential.

In addition to knowing where you are, you need the right bike in order to be fast. For example, a mountain bike would be absolutely terrible for a bike messenger riding on the paved streets and sidewalks of New York. You need at least a road bike, or a fixed gear bike in order to deliver messages on time. Valerie used to have a road bike, but now she rides a fixed gear since she has become as comfortable on the seat of a bike as she is on her own two feet.

Valerie Topete hopes to use her ongoing success to start her own bike courier company in the industry in the near future.

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