Brooklyn Industries.........is not real brooklyn culture at all..........THE PEOPLE THAT WERE BORN IN Brooklyn know what im talking about. Brooklyn industries is trash. YOU WILL NEVER SEE A REAL BROOKLYNITE wearing the BS !!!

Both sides of this debate are LAME: Brooklyn Industries, for being Brooklyn Industries, and "bike culture", for attempting to come off as some sort of intimidating legendary mafioso gang, which is fairly laughable. You ride a fucking bike, you're not tough and you're not some united "culture". Get a motorcycle and/or an actual life and come back to me.

Just came across this page and this article.....

Boo-hoo-hoooooooooo.......

Why the fuck should anyone be concerned with these fake-ass, wannabe Brooklynites?

All this talk about tallbikes and individualism.....shut the fuck up already.

To those whiny, mealymouthed, trust-funders who continue to flock to NYC in droves to further eviscerate mom-and-pop neighborhoods......FUCK YOU!!

Your gravy-train is gonna stop sometime and the funds are gonna eventually stop flowing so, wise the fuck up and use that degree Mommy and Daddy paid for when you went to your nice little sanitized private educational institution instead of mingling among real New Yorkers who know what it's like to actually EARN a fucking dollar in this city.

You assholes think you're the stuff of the earth, the food of the gods, but you know what? You're human like anyone else, which goes to show you, one day, someday----you piss off the wroooong guy (hell, maybe even a NATIVE, whom you baselessly hate) and you WILL get your ASS kicked. It's all matter of time and not IF---but WHEN.

But all you idiotic '70's/'80's walking fashion faux-pas disasters won't realize that until you're scraping your pasty, melanin-deprived asses off the cold concrete until it's too late.

What goes around, comes around........BITCHES.

Karma's a motherfucker, ain't it?

So fucking what if I'm off-topic? You elitist motherfuckers need a shot of reality, and a swift, forceful kick in the teeth, to boot.

Better hope you don't "pretend you didn't see me" if you're blocking my path out there while I'm trying to wade through the streets past your rat-pack friends, fuckers.....

While the bike folks might be a little touchy, so what? FUCK Brooklyn Industries chain store bullshit and their phony "art" & "community" rhetoric.

1) Why do they have so many stores? As if Brooklyn, NYC aren't under threat from chain stores & heavy suburbanification already? Get thee to a MALL, leave the rest of us alone.

2) Arguments that this is "capitalism" don't wash, at least until BI cops to who the $$$ behind 'em is. You don't expand that much, that quickly w/o serious capital, even more than the ** STYLELESS ** corporate hipster pricks who buy their crap.

Rhetorical Q: what was wrong w/having a store in W'burgh & maybe another Manhattan? then-- whoa-- they become unique (if you like 'em) destinations, an characterful addition to 'hood x & y.

Now that they're in fact the GAP for self-deluded douchebags in ascendancy, it's well past time to call these creeps out. A TRULY benevolent company would have shown MUCH more modest, respect for a community's economic & ethnic heritage.

May BI, American Apparel and up & coming jackoffs Something Else all collapse under the weight of their own inanity.

I wish someone would have thrown c.h.u.n.k. 666 through brooklyn industries windows.

I would have supported this marketing scheme.

It can be hip, cutting edge in your face.

I will purchase and proudly wear B.I. if this happens.

Support Brooklyn Industries!!!!

THROW C.H.U.N.K. THROUGH A WINDOW.

SUPPORT BIKE CULTURE!!!!

I wish someone would have thrown c.h.u.n.k. 666 through brooklyn industries windows.

I would have supported this marketing scheme.

It can be hip, cutting edge in your face.

I will purchase and proudly wear B.I. if this happens.

Support Brooklyn Industries!!!!

i hate hipster marketing.

use whatever you want BI, but be prepared for people to see through to your corporate image, and be angry that you arent really into the bikes.. but into the people who will come in and ask questions so you can sell them a bag and donate a measly 2$ to.. what does 2$ do anyways?

Brooklyn industries is no victim.

Tall bikes have always been free to those with the ambition to make them. This is how it has been and by force of my will so shall it be. What stock do any of you have in brooklyn industries?

You people are pathetic. A bar code shall be your epitaph.

Whoever did this are cowards. Grow up already! Why couldn't they just write an intellectual essay in one of the local papers about what they thought about Brooklyn Industries instead of doing this? Here's a little memo: bike culture is for sale, almost everything is for sale these days. Stop living in an idealized dream world. By the way whoever did this the bikes you're riding were made in Asia where the workers are exploited for low wages. That makes you for sale.

I am the true owner of bike culture not them

You're right, No, let's get those stores that use SHOES in their window to sell a product. Shame on them!

Love that last comment. Nice, no.

Im gunna go etch

"walking culture not 4 sale"

in any storefront that has shoes in the window

Bike culture is absolutely for sale. All you have to do is, uh, buy a bike.

I actually like BI. I mean they have a lifetime warrenty on their bags (and will repair them for free). But, the bike people. Gah! I went to school with people like that.

This was probably a frame-up by the NYPD (BI were obviously in cahoots) to paint the bike culture in a negative light and give the cops the right to use more force, probably to organize a city-wide crackdown in the coming days on what they see as an underground menace. Tallbike owners and creators will be watching their backs and listening carefully for any strange clicks when they pick up their phones as The Man can spring at any moment. Let's look through the looking glass here, people.

Um, where do you think Brooklyn Industries got the bikes from in the first place?! Some tall bike owners/creators had to have given (or lent, or maybe even sold for money!) the bikes to the stores. *The Bike Culteratti* were in on it from the beginning. For the charity. Get a grip, people.

NYPD is not anti-bike, they are anti-morons who break the law on their Uncredible Ass rides.

There is way too much hating going on. Vandalism isn't going to get people to think positively about bikes, and especially the people that ride them. Aren't we, infact, trying to get people to park their cars and ride? As a bike rider, I'd hate to be corralled in with whoever decided defacing a Brooklyn business would prove their point.

Actions like these help the NYC cops in their antibikeism ways, and it reflects poorly on the people that just love to ride.

Etching was a cop out. They should have used bricks. Or better- absconded them crappy faux tall bikes.