In the Village Voice this week, a story called: "Mutant Bike Gangs of New York: Tall bike clubs live free, ride high, and don’t want your stinking logos"
The headline caught my eye but I didn’t read the article. Then I found a link to it on A Brooklyn Life and found out that it is a Park Slope story AND a Brooklyn Industries story.
Seems that Brooklyn Industries was the target of some rather agressive graffiti. Check this story out at The Village Voice.
"Bike Culture Not for Sale," read the runny white lettering found
February 23 on the glass at the four Brooklyn Industries outlets in
Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The Park Slope store’s assistant manager, McKenzie Rollins,
first spotted trouble when she came into work the morning before and
found someone had messed with the gate locks overnight. "They looked
like someone had inserted something—maybe a screwdriver—to screw them
up," she says, folding a retro ’80s T-shirt with a cut-out neck. "We
had to buy new locks."
The next morning, McKenzie found the graffiti. "They knew it
wouldn’t come off," she says. "This was malicious. They could have left
a note. They could have gotten in touch with us about their concerns."
But who could be so enraged by using a bike to pitch hipster duds?
Another saleswoman suggested something curious, that it was local
members of something called "tall-bike culture."
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TALL-BIKE CULTURE IN BROOKLYN