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A Bike Kill Grows (Drunk) in Brooklyn

The sixth annual Bike Kill (aka Bike Kill 666) took place in Brooklyn yesterday, with bicycle clubs--or gangs, if you will--getting together for various events, including tall bike jousting and six-pack drinking contests. Jim Kiernan was on the scene, and noted the apocalyptic names of the clubs, like Black Label Bike Club, Cutthroats Bike Club, Skidmarxxx, Rogue Bike Club, Rat Patrol: "Lots of facial/head/neck & hand tattoos, fistfights, LOTS of public drinking and a fair amount of fireworks and illicit chemicals thrown in for good measure."

Bed-Stuy Banana assessed, "Despite the gale force winds and misty rains, there was the usual large turn out of freaks, geeks, kids, punks, drunks, and bicycle fanatics. The wide selection of wheel chairs were mostly unused, which means either people hadn't drank enough beer or they'd been incredibly lucky."

Just a few of Jim's photos are above--see more in his Flickr set. And last year, the NY Times covered the event ("a carnivalesque assortment of voodoo top hats, orange jumpsuits, bunny ears, Mexican wrestling masks and a Pee-wee Herman doppelgänger waving from his Schwinn cruiser.").

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  • mostpeoplesuck

    not just the ghetto trash we have to watch out for??

    who the fuck is "we"? you boring confused uptight nobody. why are you in this city? what do you contribute? I am watching out for people like "you".

    ...Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

    But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

    Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.

    It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

    You shall not fold your wings that you may pass through doors, nor bend your heads that they strike not against a ceiling, nor fear to breathe lest walls should crack and fall down.

    You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living....

    -Kahlil Gibran

    So while people are out living their lives and having fun, with nothing to do with you, please by all means call the cops on them from the gross comfort of your little tomb.

  • Huffy6241

    They look like "Shitsters"

  • g0thamg1rl

    Wow, what an uncivilized diabolical bunch of inbreeds. No, not Obama supports (the antithesis actually) and definitely NOT hipsters.

  • steve stevens

    burning man is the fucking worst. what a stupid yippie fest.

  • NannyState

    It's Burning Man...without the ethos.

  • crassest

    actually a lot are not obama supporters.

  • Shinobi Shaw

    #36 you really are grasping at straws aren't you? A little *desperate* aren't we?

  • HUGO_MEGO

    Nice photos of Obama supporters.

  • La Leone

    All look same.

  • steve stevens

    hipster has jumped over the bridge and doesn't apply to anyone doing anything "cool" or "sweet" or "underground" anymore. its a buzz word, marketing. its the new "punk" that everyone downtown wants to be. you know, everyone in sneakers (neon frutswagz or adult varieties alike) and tight jeans into the fashion to appear like they stand for something. hipster now means late to the party - WAY late to the party.

  • Jack Crank

    And yes, they cleaned up the dead end, which is NEXT TO BUT NOT, the school. Just like they do every year.

  • Jack Crank

    Dear whiny computer pansies,

    If homeless face tatted drifters and lunatics from all over the US are the new hipsters count me in. Next year, please stay on gothamist and continue to ignore bike kill because that shit is way more fun withoutcha.

    Love,

    Jack

  • chubbyemu

    Hipster bashing just seems too 2006 these days. Although, will we ever stop?

  • TheEarlierThanLaterShow

    #19, "nobody really cares about people tearing up a dead end street in Bed Stuy."???



    IT'S A SCHOOL! It's not "just" a dead end street.

    Jen, did they clean that shit up?

    That's what I want to know. If so, who cares. If not...that's disgusting.

  • crassest

    lots of jealousy for people who spend their Saturdays being ironic and catatonic

  • zodak

    more hipster nonsense.

  • SP

    these aint your average marc jacobs punk rockers...

  • NannyState

    The Trinitarios are invited for next year's Bike Kill and I urge them to bring plenty of machetes.

  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    gross and they are not hipsters.

  • nicccooo

    why are you all arguing whether or not this was a hipster convention?

    sure, there may have been plenty of fake keffiyehs and fake Ray Bans, but how could you not notice the swasticas, sieg heils, and Hasidic Jewish costumes??? it was, at least in part, a goddamn Skinhead rally!

    [who knew New York had a cross-burning Alabama pig-fucking scene......]

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