Black Label Bike Club New York
Since its creation in 1992, this informal network organizes unclassifiable events whose protagonists are "mutant" bicycles and their visionary riders that challenge each other in tournaments that are sometimes violent, but always politically incorrect.
In this contemporary, antiauthoritarian version of medieval jousts or the Hell's Angels choppers of the 60s and 70s, we can see an autonomous subcultural form within the contaminated modern metropolis.
The chapters that make up the club across North America, from Minneapolis to New York, Texas to New Orleans, with their customized bike-battles where there is no simple "audience", only participants, have become unmissable events for the members of this big family.
Why: because we should own the streets sometime instead of being nearly run over by cars & motos, because mutant bikes are LIVING art, because BCN needs more subtle hooliganism.
Calling all enthusiasts of bicycles, tinkering, and high strangeness.
Bring your tools and make new bikes along with members of the Black Label bike gang. You'll be able to keep what you make in the workshop, it'll be yours to ride, lose, or huck in front of a passing 4x4.
After we finish we'll mount our hybrid bikes and launch into the streets to conquer the city, until we arrive at the final combat.
If you've got a useless bike, or parts thereof (wheels, brakes, frames, etc...) please donate it to us so we can transform it into something you will never recognize. Drop it at the CCCB on thursday 28 January between 6-8pm.
Calling all enthusiasts of bicycles, tinkering, and high strangeness.
Bring your tools and make new bikes along with members of the Black Label bike gang. You'll be able to keep what you make in the workshop, it'll be yours to ride, lose, or huck in front of a passing 4x4.
After we finish we'll mount our hybrid bikes and launch into the streets to conquer the city, until we arrive at the final combat.
If you've got a useless bike, or parts thereof (wheels, brakes, frames, etc...) please donate it to us so we can transform it into something you will never recognize. Drop it at the CCCB on thursday 28 January between 6-8pm.
