Members of Cyclecide attended the Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert in 2006. Many of them were working there and getting paid. There were quite a few friends from other bike clubs also working and attending the event.
Rat Patrol Bike Club http://www.rat-patrol.org/Infestations/RatPatrolBikeClub.html. they do good deeds and build multi purpose bikes!
Johnny Payphone rides with the Rat Patrol . Rats were also seen in the commisary, and around Black Rock City.
his bike has a speedometer. don't go too fast Johnny!
Fraser . That is not just his playa name. He wears that mullet year round.
This guy lies to get high! really high! Jirish from BLBC Reno.
Cyclecide member and one of the two Los Banos bass players Big Daddy helps Jirish get high again!. With a heister!
Black Label Bike Club Reno did a great job in collecting the abandoned bikes after the event and delivering them to various charitable causes. They also organized a yellow bike project for Black rock city. the bikes were green and dissapeared quickly. Shame on you Black Rock city bike robbers...
Speaking of shame.. somebody we know in a drug fueled frenzy wound up with a bike that wasn't really hers. The trip had something to do with a bike that was stolen the year before at the event. well whats a person to do with a sweet stolen cruiser at Burning Man? Previous experience showed that In a temporary city of 30,000 plus people there was no effective way to get this bike back to it's owner. She felt very sorry for her actions and wanted to make things right, but really loved that bike.
.Luckily the Subersive Choppers Urban League a.k.a SCUL bike club from Boston http://www.scul.org had set up a chop shop on the playa! YAY SCUL! In one afternoon the shame of the stolen bike changed to pride and glory of a new chopper. .
The chop shop was a bustling model of efficency and injenuity. Everyone was working on something.
They brought some sweet rides too....
There were instructions
They brought many extensions with holes provied for quick welds.
This SCUL lady was super helpful and awesome.
But we were too busy building the bike to take alot of pictures. And we don,t have any pictures of the bike to share, Too bad. it is a beautiful ride.
We saw lots of bicycles built for two. It's always fun to roll with a buddy!:
Read about recycle camps bicycle built for two here:
http://afterburn.burningman.com/04/community/recycle.html
We didn't get to see the can crusher in action. Too bad.
we also didn't get to see this amazing drum and percussion bike while it was rolling. Too bad.
The theme of the event was " Hope and Fear...The Future" Both hope and fear are based on imaginary scenarios about what will happen. they are nebulous concepts based more on emotion than fact. But as far as the future is concerned..BIKES ARE THE FUTURE! That is a fact. Laird and the hair baby told me so.
What with the declining supply of fossil fuels and slowly collapsing economy you'd have to be pretty stupid not to figure that one out. Hopefully you'll be ready with a sweet ride.