How To Start A Rebellion With a Very Tall Bike.

So. I had this friend back in my college days, a guy from a family of eleven children, all of them but one - the second youngest - boys, and all of them home schooled. He was a little odd, but in a good way. The family is tight the way families are supposed to be and perhaps because there were just so many of them packed into their house they tended to either build their entertainment themselves or otherwise just generally find it outdoors, most commonly on skate ramps or home made bmx trails. In more recent days two of them founded a group called The Winking Circle dedicated to "eccentrifying" the world, mostly by building very strange custom bicycles and riding them in public just to confuse the hell out of people.

I tell you that to tell you this. My first reaction to watching the trailer of Jacob Septimus and Anthony Howard's documentary B.I.K.E. was, "My god! There are more of these people!" The documentary revolves around another community of bicycle manipulators, this one being New York's Black Label Bike Club, but where the Circle lads temper their DIY punk aesthetic with a good dose of hippy love the Black Label folk take their punk desperation a little more straight up. It's odd, compelling stuff. And the trailer's not work safe.

B.I.K.E. website (trailer lurks within)