Detroit. The motor city that has been running on empty since the 70s provided one hell of a good time for us!
Besides being able to explore the vast wasteland and NOT get arrested for trespassing we also got to ride with the best critical mass crew we had seen in many a moon. Srsly, they took care to make pertinent announcements stating their intentions, giving some degree as to the history, and also pimping the fun times that were about following the ride!
Moreoever we had excellent fucking hosts who decided that we should be adorned with a huge fucking awesome warehouse party, complete with stripping fire dancers. A well stocked boozatorim with a heavy pouring bartender, and a smattering of slick art from local bike lovers. BTW did you know that Detroit had bike lovers? I know! crazy!!
Here is a fantastic video made during critical mass. Thankfully the place filled up pretty nice by the time the show started...
And what a show! We were able to get local nut job/ writer/ self-deprecating gentleman Jimmy Doom to step to the mic for some inspired rantings including a bike porn inspired bit about his momma writing a note to his pastor decrying his bikesexuality. Hilarious and on topic? STUNNING!
The audience was in pretty good mood, from the glorious weather that baked out hot bodies to the discounted entry for those riding bikes or the even more discounted price to those not wearing pants! How better to encourage watching dirty films but to remove those annoying leg garments!
By the end of the movies and our live performances the audience was... well pretty excited. And why shouldn't they be. Having a team of sexy bikers singing and stripping and cavorting is about the best way to make a room full of mature adults primed for more explicit action. Of course we are only setting the stage for such activities. Anything done by sex hungry bike sluts following a screening of Cycle Bound is purely on the shoulders (and booties) of the consenting adults.
Still we are happy to encourage folks to express themselves so, you could also say that while we don't explicitly encourage any specific behavior we also don't forbid many things either.
We are truly blessed and if we can do it next year we are gonna go with our hosts idea to combine the screening with a weekend of building chariots for a massive rolling party of destruction. Sure Portland* has for several years hosted Chariot Wars, but only in a small space of limited post apocalyptic insanity. Consider the differences when you have your choice of warehouses that are completely vacant, and have been for over a decade. Hell not just a few buildings, we are talking about entire blocks.
Get your battle armor ready but leave the foam behind. This is Detroit. Find a piece of scrap metal.
*We promised to not compare Portland to other cities. But this is not a comparison, right? But just to swell your concerns about our fascination with our hometown we will try to not even make a reference to PDX for 72 hours.
In the meantime, please enjoy these fine pictures from our friend, Thomas L. Kula and our own Courtney Rodgers.
Thanks so much to our great hosts in Providence and Boston! Who knew that fun loving bikers would be so much fun, even in historically puritanical, witch-burning MA? Alas, the harsh mistress that is the Backlash Tour has us enjoying but one more day in New England.
Like delicate fingers tracing a finely crafted handmade frame, so to are we creeping up the Atlantic coast, tickling the virtual base of America's headtube in Vermont and we are straddling the border to New Humpshire! (possibly fingering the lugs!) Soon we will be cresting around the big east coast Canadian biking cities of Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto... But first WHITE RIVER JUNCTION!
$5 18+ byo delicious refreshments - share with other sexy bikers!
Then in Canada we hope that our hosts will provide unto us, a bike ride, polo (maybe a few times), more riding and lots of great people visiting from all over to make magic happen!
Want more live, hot biker action? Try this Pre-Porn3 Ride! Meet at Copley Square: 7pm Connect with the sexy Bike Polo then over to the Brattle for the screening. Heavy rain cancels ride. http://www.truthserum.org for details/changes. Inspired Attire Encouraged!
These guys have been so primed there will probably be some pre-ejaculate in the line outside the theater, so consider your footwear carefully, then get ready for the big show!
It was an awesome fun time. Riding bikes, playing games, dancing in the streets! Thanks NYC Polo and Times Up!
Its a steaming pile of bike love in the city that might want to sleep... soon... but not yet... , whack-off, dance-off, maybe with your pants... Off?
6pm Bike Polo ... in the PIT! (uh Chrystie and Broome Streets in the Sara D. Roosevelt Park.)
What you dont have a polo bike or mallet? Well if you come though we bet someone will let you borrow one... or if you have never played before check out the low-key polo scene in Brooklyn every Tuesday.
What you dont know how to dance with a bike? Well this 1st hint is free... practice smooth dismounts! then just dance NEXT to your bike. Dancing with a top tube between your legs limits your groove.
AND THEN Tomorrow WHAT YOU'RE NOT IN New York? What gives? Why you reading this bullshit anyway?
Thanks to Tom Meek for bringing the politics of sex and cycling to the masses. Here is a interesting sample:
If there’s been any knock on the tour, it’s the lack of gender representation. “Where is the dick?” a fan posted on Bike Porn’s Web site. To which they responded, “To be clear, we love all our bold women, but it would be great to see more men inspired to create and share.” But then again, according to them, many women have come up and confessed their bike-triggered orgasms, “and it’s usually when the saddle is really uncomfortable.”
True that, in fact a nice lady at a Brooklyn bar after a friendly game of polo was very forthcoming about her bike saddle.
"I never tell anyone this, but who are you gonna tell, but my old bike rubs me just so and good... and damn it just... it becomes too much. After an hour or so of riding im just too sore!"
Well now! That was strangely graphic for someone we just met... but its very comforting to see that the ideas of sexual expression can flow when you are thinking of the freedom of riding under ones own power. One of our favorite bike pornographers, Nicky Robo has been very forthcoming about how saddles create a mystical trips to the store...
Your opportunity to check out the shows in New England is coming up next week, 3 big shows!
SUNDAY 4/18/2010 New Haven Neverending Books 810 State St 8pm $5 adults Group ride to show meets at the flagpole on the green at 7:00
MONDAY 4/19/2010 Providence 17 mules [CALL FOR LOCATION 503.913.9468] 8pm $5 donation adults only Bike ride from Kennedy Plaza meets at 6pm
WEDNESDAY 4/21/2010 Boston Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Harvard Sq, Cambridge 930pm $10 18 Presented by Truth Serum.org
Soft pretzels, cheezesteak, massive mosaics, cracked bells, historical documents, horsey rides, naked bike rides... well its everything SOME people want, but you are gonna want to check out Philadelphia's only screening of this sexy bike on bike action.
Bike Porn 3: Cycle Bound
Sunday, April 11th
Le Philly Creme
5034 spruce st
8pm, $5 donation, Adults only
POWERFULLY HOT TIMES TO COME!
Photo credit to Courtney Rodgers. Expect more RVA Cycle Slaughterama pictures soon.
This just in, the nation's capitol DOES love porn! We have been struggling for some time but now it is on! Be there early to get a seat, or if you are in Baltimore just buy one in advance.
"What? There are showing it in Baltimore and not in DC?!?"
Yup, even though we started trying to find a place months and months ago and had various connected people pulling for us to make it happen, but apparently either the burlesque places said it was too risque, or the art houses said they weren't "into" bikes, or friggin porn theaters didn't even get back to us! Yeesh!
Anyway as it stands there are only 30 people who will get to watch bike porn in Baltimore or DC cause we are playing at a totally rad, but fairly small space.
Get your tickets now!
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/106246
or show up in person and have your fingers and fruit crossed that Sugar we are not sold out
Here are some pictures and random memories from our final stop in Florida: There was bikes and sexual perversion... IT WAS GREAT!
Behold, our hosts and performers who are probably both mostly hetero in their sexual persuasion totally giving it up for each other following an epic transformation of the Zombie Bikes new space into a micro theater and venue for rad music.
awesome.
This was probably the most well received screening since we left Salt Lake!
It was a strange screening in many ways. The audio was just quiet enough that people had to listen intently, but just loud enough that people could hear the great commentary from the crowd.
"RIDE THAT SHIT!"
"More jizz!"
Put it in her bottom bracket!"
It was a pretty spectacular night, with outstanding hosts (even though most all of our hosts have been outstanding, which technically speaking does not seem possible).
We had a polo court that was built that day and had lights and scaffolding from a volunteer who drove over an hour just to play a few games.
There was low to no cost beer, which flowed with sustained fortitude for most of the evening.
Of course that particular social lubricant doesn't hurt when you are talking about making friends and strangers watch erotic movies in public together.
But even without this alcohol we think that the Jacsonville crew would have been absoultly stoked about what they saw.
The evening capped with a pair of live bands who totally made the people rock out as they striped and sang and dance until they lost their collective zombie minds.
what can we say, rocking with one of the worlds craziest tall bike freaks has worn us out something fierce. Thank much to our generous host, Michael Fucking Mooney.
Speaking of absurd mutations, expect about a thousand of the krunkest bike punks to descend on Richmond, VA for what could be the east coast's longest continually running annual festival of crazy bicycle shit.
Cycleslaughterama is this weekend, Bike Porn Friday night at the Byrd.
Well now, apparently it already is making our dick bigger AND ALSO our pussy wet, which is great news to us! So get ready for massive dripping sexual organs all over your keyboard as you behold this, our final answer to the "why does everyone hate bike porn" quandary.
Yalls ready to watch us diddle the South's bottom bracket?
here are the next few shows: Thursday in Savanna the jock bottom bracket 1408 Barnard St, 31401 10:30, $3-9, 18 and up w sweet dance party AND/OR hot bike polo before after
Friday in Atlanta 8pm stripcat race at Little 5 Points Square
9pm movies Studio Nine Hundred 900 DeKalb Ave.
$5, for racing, $10 for race and movies, $10 for movies only DISCOUNT FOR COSTUMES OR LACK OF CLOTHES mature adults only
Saturday in Asheville The Mother Ship 594 Emma Road door at 9pm, show at 10pm +18 $7 if you drive, $5 if you bike
Our big thanks to the mighty hanging wang of Florida whose bikesexual population consisted of great hosts, great audiences, great getting it on and generally experiencing natural wonders from tip to scrotum, er panhandle.
Manhandling such a state with such an impressive electoral college might be intimidating for some, but our intrepid team would not be daunted by size or status. In fact we are developing a hypothesis about if we were prevented from playing Tallahassee due to their state capitol building's pronounced... uh excitement. It could be that bike porn would overwhelm the already incredibly erect and rigid Governor's office.
Perhaps the most beautiful thing about this leg of the tour was how the reputation of the shows preceded us to our next location with such fervor. Having a drooling audience before you even make the introductions is great for our ego so we hope the sexy bike folk of Jacksonville, Sarasota, Orlando, Gainesville, and Pensacola will continue to pressure their friends, family members and random strangers.
keep it flaccid, FL... on to Georgia! (which is tragically without any notable phallus shape)
Get ready for shows in Savannah, Atlanta, Asheville, and maybe Winston-Salem!
Did you catch that? Even thou Vimeo may destroy several years of hard work with a snap of its fingers and never reply to the dozen emails we have sent asking for ANY sort of response (building a community indeed) we rad porn peeps will persevere!
And so without any further hesitation we present, the full unfiltered, not safe for work and completely awesome
BIKE PORN III: CYCLE BOUND TRAILER
blammo
Let us know what you think in the comments. If this movie didn't work for you (due to some crazy problem that is def ALL YOUR FAULT) dont freak out... yet. Just try this low rez version
edited by nickey robo, gawd bless her heart, labia and bicycle.
We have hit our Southeastern most point of the Backlash Tour!
Now it is time to start heading north where we continue our mad rush into radical, sex-positive biker's pants.
We have a lot of great things going for us, but nothing as amazing as word of mouth. We have been getting some pretty outstanding opinions shared with us, the most recent just came in from Orlando:
I wanted to thank you guys for coming through, I honestly couldnt haave imagined the night turning out better. All the films are so beautiful and expose parts (pun intended) of human nature that is usually suppressed or avoided in public discussion. I love being naked and am very body positive and your videos are a reminder and an outlet to all of us body lovin' ladies and gents out there...
We are not SO EXCITED that we just confirmed a show this Wednesday night in Pensacola. AND we are stoked to play some hella tight bike fcukin polo.
Wednesday, March 17th University of Western Florida Campus Building 209, Court 3 2100 Campus Drive, Pensacola, FL 32513 Polo @ 430, Porno @ 7 pm
Then we are equally thrilled about our bringing it to the next show in Gainesville
Thursday March 18th The Kickstand 722 South Main Street 8pm, $5 donation, adults only
Friday March 19th Stardust Video and Coffee 1842 East Winter Park Road Orlando, 8pm, $5 donation, +18 underwear bike ride after + end at a sweet dance party!
Saturday, March 20th NEW College of Florida 5800 Bay Shore Rd, 34243 in a room called, "TA" 8pm, adults only
THEN WE MIGHT TAKE A BREAK... cause we will have done shows on TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY. Will we get a rest? Will we play this amazing show to every radical bike community in Florida? Well that is dependent on the folks in Miami where we think we will play Sunday night.
Then, what... more porn? Fine.
Tuesday March 23rd, Jacksonville Zombie Bikes 48 W 1ST ST 32206 8pm, $4 -7 sliding scale, 18 and up with freak bike fashion show! Come check out the goods!
We break out of Florida and it is on to Georgia. Oh and there is some crazy shit coming up in Georgia. Strip Cat bike race deets coming soon!
And what a show! We were able to get local nut job/ writer/ self-deprecating gentleman Jimmy Doom to step to the mic for some inspired rantings including a bike porn inspired bit about his momma writing a note to his pastor decrying his bikesexuality. Hilarious and on topic? STUNNING!
even more discounted price to those not wearing pants! How better to encourage watching dirty films but to remove those annoying leg garments!
We are truly blessed and if we can do it next year we are gonna go with our hosts idea to combine the screening with a weekend of building chariots for a massive rolling party of destruction. Sure Portland* has for several years hosted Chariot Wars, but only in a small space of limited post apocalyptic insanity. Consider the differences when you have your choice of warehouses that are completely vacant, and have been for over a decade. Hell not just a few buildings, we are talking about entire blocks.
Get your battle armor ready but leave the foam behind. This is Detroit. Find a piece of scrap metal.
UPDATE:
Here are some pictures and random memories from our final stop in Florida:
daunted by size or status. In fact we are developing a hypothesis about if we were prevented from playing Tallahassee due to their state capitol building's pronounced... uh excitement. It could be that bike porn would overwhelm the already incredibly erect and rigid Governor's office.
