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Photos: Mutant Bikers Battle For Glory At Bike Kill 2016
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Published Oct 31, 2016
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A few hundred bike punks riding mutant welded art-cycles and throwing weird shit at each other in an endless counter-clockwise beer gyre while onlookers partied to the searing riffs of live metal bands made for a perfect Bike Kill Saturday. The 13th installment of the annual party was the first to be held indoors, but if anything the Bushwick warehouse site only amplified the dystopian joy.
In between rides, multiple revelers said the Saturday gathering was one of the biggest in Bike Kill history, and yet apart from the usual dislocated shoulder, sprained knee, and bloody scrape, no serious injuries were recorded. Also, no cops! Bottle rockets, beer cans, gnarly bikes, jousting poles, human bowling and a crowd that tries to watch out for one another—what more could you possibly want?
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Scott Heins
Scott Heins is a freelance photo and video journalist based in New York City, and a frequent contributor to Gothamist + WNYC. His work often centers around labor rights, housing, and policing. In 2018-2019 he traveled to four states while covering a wave of public school teachers strikes, with work featured in The New York Times, The Intercept, Getty Images, Splinter, and Bloomberg Photos. Scott is a dues-paying member of the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project.
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