BLACK LABEL Tall Bikers on the Williamsburg Bridge

James Kalm, a confirmed bike enthusiast, documents a new manifestation of "bad-assed" biker culture with the "BLACK LABEL, Tall Bikers". While taking his usual Sunday afternoon cruse, Kalm spies this group of bike riders heading from Manhattan's Lower East Side to Downtown Williamsburg. Tagging along, Kalm chats with members of BLACK LABEL, a Tall Bike club. Social misfits, or harbingers of a new, "up-yours" biking attitude, this video shows a new and "higher" level of NYC's get-down Downtown Bohemian bike scene.

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• Tall
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• Williamsburg
• Bridge
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[jameskalm]

Yes, admittedly I can be a bit annoying, but I thought this would make a good summer "Report". The tandem bike was like watching a rolling death-wish, I admire the guts it takes to ride.

Although I've been called just about every nasty name in the book this is the first time anyone called me a Baudelaireian "flaneur". I'm moving up in the world.

[ranchwagon500]

Talk about irony; uncool people on cool bikes!

[PATYPUS3]

I'm 6'10 and I'm going to start my own bike club called the Manute Bol Bikers. You have to be at least 6'9 and you have to ride a small childs bicycle with training wheels. We're gonna kick some Black Label arse.

[jojotv212]

they have nice bikes but they suck as ppl. if any 1 wants to make a better video on the bridge hit me up,, i can wheelie the entire bridge!

[christofffrazier]

we had this in san francisco 10 years ago, it was stupid then and it is still lame.

[ltrainismyname]

@ltrainismyname Hey guys, how do you get up there?

[ltrainismyname]

Why is it "uncool", "bad behavior" to shoo away some random creep that keeps coming up to you with a camera rolling, asking questions? They're just riding their bikes trying to mind their own business.

It gets a little old answering the same questions every time you have to go somewhere when reasons for riding it do not include being attention whores.

Ask yourself how you would react before you call them "jerks".

[omahgarsh]

I hope that people can look past the attitudes/ behaviour of these people and discover the wonder that is a tallbike. They are great for family fun (excellent kid/parent project ! )as are many other freakbike designs.They are really about fun and literally looking at things from a different perspective. They make a simple ride to the store much more interesting !!

[omahgarsh]

I build,ride and sell tallbikes,people assume that I am like these guys,that pisses me off. I don't care for the attention they attract either but I try to be civil anyway.It's not that big of a chore to be nice to others is it ? These jerks don't own the idea of tallbikes,once an idea is out it's for everyone,that's what freedom is. I can D.Y.I. with the best of 'em,but some people just can't or don't want to do that.Why shouldn't they still be able to join in the fun?

[omahgarsh]

Tallbikes are fun,shitty attitudes aren't.You can't expect to control other peoples reaction to what you do,that's delusional. Clubs like this are everywhere now,they think they have some right to dictate to other people what they can and can't do with their tallbikes.To these folks selling a tallbike is some sort of sin.They don't seem to realize that they are as bad or worse than the imagined "enemy" they're rebelling against.

[DfektRiskProductions]

Bike club ? you guys ride fucking bicycles

[avalanchesoul]

lame asses. to make those things, ride them around, and when someone is genuinely impressed and interested, to act all uppity. do they really not expect people to whip out camera phones when they roll around like that? funny, these people try to be an alternative to society, but here they're displaying the worst aspects of humans.

you see those tall bikes all over seattle and as much as i see them around, it never fails to be annoying.

fixie mafia bike punks fo'life, nickas. fuck burners.