Gothamist: A Bike Kill Grows (Drunk) in Brooklyn

mostpeoplesuck

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:43:25 -0500

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

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:29:24 -0500

They look like "Shitsters"

g0thamg1rl

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:06:58 -0500

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

steve stevens

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:21:51 -0500

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

NannyState

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:14:53 -0500

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

crassest

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:42:36 -0500

actually a lot are not obama supporters.

Shinobi Shaw

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:48:33 -0500

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

HUGO_MEGO

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:08:56 -0500

Nice photos of Obama supporters.

La Leone

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:23:08 -0500

All look same.

steve stevens

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:20:33 -0500

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

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:54:36 -0500

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

Jack Crank

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:52:44 -0500

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

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:33:17 -0500

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

TheEarlierThanLaterShow

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:08:59 -0500

#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

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:47:42 -0500

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

zodak

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:13:18 -0500

more hipster nonsense.

SP

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:53:57 -0500

these aint your average marc jacobs punk rockers...

NannyState

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:44:44 -0500

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

felixthecat

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:16:25 -0500

gross and they are not hipsters.

nicccooo

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:42:02 -0500

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......]

emilydickinson

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:29:13 -0500

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.

SuburbanAntiChrist

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:12:54 -0500

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.

Shinobi Shaw

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:48:51 -0500

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.

LilEnosBurdette

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:04:10 -0500

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?

trenchcoatjedi

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:20:04 -0500

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.

wiseguynyc

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:39:16 -0500

Where was the NYPD? Did someone pay them off? I'm just glad naked guy wasn't hanging about my neighborhood.

hitlerbaby

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:32:13 -0500

meh, just another Klan rally.

Fritzdecat

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:07:02 -0500

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

Amanda Harlech

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:22:37 -0500

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.

99centmenu

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:17:37 -0500

#11: it kicks ass, highly recommended if you don't mind a little pain and smelling like shit for the rest of the day

supernova

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:17:40 -0500

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...

matty

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:38:30 -0500

all of these kids are dropping 60k a year on art school. sorry if it seems a little disingenious to me.

Roquentin

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:29:02 -0500

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.

babyhitler

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:20:03 -0500

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.

MrCow

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:14:38 -0500

pfft, you guys are trippin. bike kill is badass. it's just a good time. i didn't know gothamists were so conservative!

Billiamsburg

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:13:09 -0500

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?

JacqueMehoff

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:08:47 -0500

must be nice not to worry about a job or money or where to sleep next month.

MonkSalve

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:55 -0500

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?

fakenewyorker

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:54:26 -0500

kill it with fire

matty

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:53:17 -0500

Jen Carlson was hungover so Jen Chung had to reluctantly write this up.

Clarice City

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:46:08 -0500

For bike enthusiasts these people don't look especially healthy.

natis

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:43:07 -0500

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.

Amanda Harlech

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:35:43 -0500

eeeeeek! I bet all women there were not very interested in the gentlemen at all. who would be interested in this cuasi-men?