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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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I bet all women there were not very interested in the gentlemen at all. who would be interested in this cuasi-men?
Can Gothamist add a Hipster tag and then allow people to mark whether or not they want to see stories that contain certain tags? Seriously, Digg does it and I'm really sick of seeing hipster crap. How about maybe showing some photos of cleaning up that mess?
Oh wait, there probably aren't any because they probably were too drunk on PBR.
For bike enthusiasts these people don't look especially healthy.
Jen Carlson was hungover so Jen Chung had to reluctantly write this up.
kill it with fire
Those don't really look like hipsters.... but whatever, if you need to bash, you need to bash. Stay cool haters!
And what the hell are quasi-men?
must be nice not to worry about a job or money or where to sleep next month.
If they could mobilize like this for something important maybe these grubby hipsters wouldn't be such a laughing stock.
Oh what to do when the trust fund runs out?
pfft, you guys are trippin. bike kill is badass. it's just a good time.
i didn't know gothamists were so conservative!
as much as i love bike culture this thing looks really gross. So much bacteria. I bet most of these people had sinus infections the day after.
The people whining about hipsters in the comments sound shrill and boring almost to the point of self-parody. It's this kind of crazy event full of total freaks that makes the city interesting. I kind of wish I'd gone to witness it firsthand.
all of these kids are dropping 60k a year on art school. sorry if it seems a little disingenious to me.
hmmm... those must be like the most anti-hipster people I have ever seen. Maybe it's a new trend: Trailer park hipster.
Wtf, can some people around here stop the over the top 'hipster' hating? Sometimes you just sound jealous or that you were probably rejected from the clan. Like in this post, that has nothing to do with any sort of hipster activity I've come to know. Yet, you bring it up. Chill the fuck up.
In other related rant, can we get a "slightly disgusting" tag for these kind of posts? Also, thanks so much to whoever picked that first picture...
#11: it kicks ass, highly recommended if you don't mind a little pain and smelling like shit for the rest of the day
These crowd are plain trash punks freegans: this people most likely are against basic hygiene and even clothing. That are not hipster values: hipsters are into looking cool, this does not look cool AT ALL, it looks sticky smelly and cheap.
Whats up with that guy with the dislocated leg?
Why isn't he screamining in agony?
Maybe he took enough pills before the wreck?
Looks like a Vomit fest.... Heh Whatever makes you happy just clean up your mess pigs
meh, just another Klan rally.
Where was the NYPD? Did someone pay them off? I'm just glad naked guy wasn't hanging about my neighborhood.
Bike Kill keeps the shenanigans pretty self contained. The cops roll by but don't bother us because the event stays confined to the dead end and nobody really cares about people tearing up a dead end street in Bed Stuy.
Hipster prissy crap wouldn't fly at Bike Kill so I don't know why anyone thinks this is a hipster event.
BTW, I'm the guy riding the Flamethrower bike.
WTF? This looks like Woodstock on PCP! Good times.
Seriously - that dude's tibia looks seriously Fubar'd. Did he take the Morphine before he broke it? You know, just in case?
Aren't Hipsters supposed to be materialistic and faux-cool?
These people here look dirty, these are the trailer park filthy traasssh!!
I would have loved to be in the area and call the police so they could turn the HOSE on them all! Hahahaha! Where are the K-9s and the tasers when you need them?
The trailer park filth has infected this city, now it's not just the ghetto trash we must watch out for, but the utter filthy vile trash from the midwest/south.
These aren't your mother's hipsters, this another breed of the neo-bohemian freegan trash!
Instead of fighting constitutional rights and the loss of freedoms (they don't have the guts for that) the trailer park trash is more adept at doing this frivolity.
Yeah, because facial tats are the latest hipster craze.
You have no idea if you've never been to this. Believe me if you called any one of these dudes a hipster to his face you'd be in bad shape fast. You sound really tough hiding behind your computer. Come out next year and say hi and don't forget you smart ass comments.
These guys are lifers - the new outlaws.
Drinking beer, riding bikes and making some mischief with your friends...How is that 'hipster'? I prefer Bike Kill to the World Series everyone is watching right now.
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......]
gross and they are not hipsters.
The Trinitarios are invited for next year's Bike Kill and I urge them to bring plenty of machetes.
these aint your average marc jacobs punk rockers...
more hipster nonsense.
lots of jealousy for people who spend their Saturdays being ironic and catatonic
#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.
Hipster bashing just seems too 2006 these days. Although, will we ever stop?
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
And yes, they cleaned up the dead end, which is NEXT TO BUT NOT, the school. Just like they do every year.
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.
All look same.
Nice photos of Obama supporters.
#36 you really are grasping at straws aren't you? A little *desperate* aren't we?
actually a lot are not obama supporters.
It's Burning Man...without the ethos.
burning man is the fucking worst. what a stupid yippie fest.
Wow, what an uncivilized diabolical bunch of inbreeds. No, not Obama supports (the antithesis actually) and definitely NOT hipsters.
They look like "Shitsters"
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.