Johnny

Johnny has been working billboards in Cardiff for over 20 years. In the early days, Johnny used to dress up as a teenager and rode his BMX around the city early in the morning, pretending to be a paperboy. “I never got caught” he says, “not like the guys that went around in vans. The police knew their registration plates and used to pull them over before the even got started”. So for Johnny, the bicycle has always been his way of working under the radar of the establishment. But today, Johnny’s traded in his BMX for a wonderful Danish Christiania transport bike and he posts legally all over the city for clients like progressive Jack Arts creative agency. Johnny is unique and a model for a sustainable transport future. As he notes “I think there’s only two people in the World doing what I do on these bikes, and the other guy’s unsurprisingly in Copenhagen”.

One day let’s hope there’s more people like Johnny making an honest living from the crate or box of their cargo bike, and, yeah, let’s hope that day comes soon…