These images chronicle the Brooklyn chapter of the Black Label Bike Club, a renegade bicycle collective with roots in Minneapolis that has since spread to Reno, New Orleans, and beyond. Photographed since 2006, the club is defined by its signature tall bikes — frames welded one atop another — and by the tight-knit world built around them. Members live together, work together, ride together, and celebrate together, forging a community that turns scrap and stubbornness into something that looks a lot like freedom. Their lifestyle is a utopia assembled from dystopia — an intentional existence lived deliberately outside the norm. Many of these images are drawn from Bike Kill, the club's annual street festival and a testament to DIY culture at its most unruly.
