As if cyclists didn’t face enough of a challenge being accepted on the roads, some people like to take it to a whole new level and add in anti-social behaviour as well.
Apparently the streets of Gritty East London have been brightened up recently by rainbow coloured bands, liberally applied to any vertical surface in the area. Speculation has abounded, but Hookedblog has the answer as to how they may have been achieved. The blog has published pictures of a bike with spray-paint cans mounted over the back wheel to allow several to be sprayed at once and to achieve the on-going straight lines. The paint is controlled by a modified brake cable setup to allow for easy drive-by painting.
Is it art, brightening up a dreary bit of the city, or vandalism? I’ll let you decide.
The pictures were shot by Viktor Vauthier in amongst a collection of very East London hipster fashion and style images, which predictably include several fixed-gear and retro bikes as these are, it seems, essential to East-London Culture.
Talking of culture, which I was, there is news of a film to pay tribute to BMX legend Matt Hoffman. “The Birth of Big Air” debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival last weekend and was made by part of the team behind Jackass. The New York Times has an interview with some of the key people, and gives something of a taste of a guy who has been at the forefront of going bigger and higher on a BMX for years and years.
Having mentioned the Dalby Moutain Bike Cross Country World Cup round also over the weekend, it seemed like a good idea to also highlight the surprisingly good report on the BBC website, with some footage which shows that Cross Country Mountain Biking demands a pretty serious level of bike skill as well as pure speed and endurance.
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