Bike Smut may be done touring in the US but lucky for German bike fuckers Miss Poppy Cox is on hand to deliver the goods in Berlin, Tonight!
We are delighted to have Science Friction be part of the Berlin Porn Film Festival! (but with a name like that how could they refuse?) Come revel in the splendor of the future of bikesexuality!
We are on the verge of getting sentimental, because we have done so much writing and engaging more than 1000 posts and 700k views over the past decade. But the numbers, which are interesting are nothing compared to the qualitative sense of value from our interactions with people over the years.
We have had some great opportunities to challenge strongly held views about sex and mobility. The dominate culture rarely makes room for anything other than the tightly prescribed notions about how you can move and how you can fuck. But these ideas are limiting the vast possibilities for bikesexual expression. "You are unfulfilled! You must desire this expensive car, and desire this unrealistic body..." So many of us just watch whatever free porn is good enough, even tho its painfully formulaic, so formulaic that its like eating formula intended for an infant. By only consuming the porn equivalent baby food we are denying ourselves the complexity and diverse flavors our mature palettes deserve!
Milwaukee (or as they like to abbreviate it, MKE) is the home of macro beers but they also got plenty of people appreciating the finer things. So while most overlook our plucky independent film fest we've seen a growing appreciation for the crazy fun happening in the rather eclectic neighborhood of Riverwest and specifically the happy (if not slightly wobbly) patrons who frequent the Riverwest Public House, Bike Smut's home in MKE for the past 4 years.
And now it would seem the rather attentive but prudish censors of FB have decided to ban RevPhil yet again, so combined with the difficulty finding a venue in Madison and a strong case of homesickness the following screenings in Madison and Minneapolis are cancelled/postponed indefinitely.
The final screening of Bike Smut 9: Science Friction
on this fucking long ass tour that is almost over!
Saturday, October 15
Riverwest Public House
815 E Locust St
8PM, $5
ADULTS ONLY
LIVE PERFORMANCES
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
So this really is it. Milwaukee, i hope you are ready because you are getting the entire truck load of porn coming your way and this is your last change to get it!
Chicago, the 3rd city of these United States and the 1st place to inspire a riot during Bike Smut.
Its not everyday that the audience, due to vast intoxication, could belligerently necessitate stopping the screening. In fact its only happened a few times, but never with as much gusto as it was that cold March night at the historic Music Box in 2008. Screenings since then have come in all manners of flavor. We had our second show further west at a now defunct venue called Reversible Eye Gallery A two-person birthday party resulted in a back-to-back knocktapus (that's a four pairs of boobs slapping your in the face while your hands are behind your back... in case you didn't know) The stressful last min changes to the screen and projector at the Viaduct Theater at part of the Backlash Tour resulted in a enthralled audience. A return to the Music Box in 2011 was moderately successful with lots of sponsors but the massive venue was deemed just too large for our niche audience.
Finally after a few years of trying we were able to make a screening happen at Co-prosperity Sphere, and it was grand! We came back to do it again last year in conjunction with the WNBR and lots of local artists but while it seemed promising the record breaking rainfall was less than accommodating. Plus there was a shooting around the corner. Its a big city, these things happen.
Now we return for our final Chicago show, bringing thoughtful repose and levity to the people with performance and porn. Sunday October 9th Township 2200 N. California 7:30 pm doors 8:15 pm show$9 no one turned away for lack of funds FB event
Once considered the city of the future, Detroit has been on a decline almost as long as Buffalo. Now its famous for its decay and rebirth. But what kind of phoenix will rise from the ashes of Motor City? We have seen what extensive highways diving roads does to neighborhoods, what the legacy of Robert Moses means for childhood asthma, what abandoned buildings mean to bikers obsessed with post-apocalypse-themed pornography!
It means doing the hard work of organizing within and between communities. It means going outside your comfort zone today to improve your opportunities tomorrow. It means seeing our vulnerabilities as an opportunity for growth. It means making space for others to grow. It means the future is in our hands.
Don't let your idle hands be the devil's plaything! Unless that is what you are into, but don't expect any pleasureful rubbing in return. Get in there and get your hands dirty in a good way!
This weekend Detroit hosts Bike! Bike! the annual gathering of bike collectives. Folks interested in learning and sharing host workshops and events. Including but not limited to the LAST EVER screening of Bike Smut in Detroit.
Come for the smut, stay for the radical civic betterment.
Bike Smut 9: Science Friction
Saturday, October 1st
Trumbullplex
4210 Trumbull
7:40 pm
$9 donation
Adults Only
What's this? So much porn that even we epic bloggers of 10 years cannot keep up? With over a thousand posts, many of them with salient information it was bound to happen sometime. We had a show in Buffalo and we didn't even make a post for it! Wasupwiththat?!?
We had a full house in Buffalo! Sorry if you didn't hear about it. Thanks to Hot Mommas for hosting us and all these fab performers. It was a wild night. So much excitement, and also confusion and also delight.
So we have officially started our final tour of the land of steel. This part of the country has seen better days but we love a touch of grey, or in this case, patina, in our rides. So we are delighted to be in the midst of our Rim Job Across The Rust Belt mini tour. Its already started hitting us fast. Saturday night was an epic blur, which probably means it was a success because other than the people who were ejected for yelling racist shit (no doubt, doing their part to Make American Porn Great Again) everyone was beaming massive smiles.
We hope to post some videos soon but for now these glam pics will have to suffice. So exciting to have our our Jetson's-themed Rosie the Sex Robot!
Tuesday we return to Columbus OH, where we have not had a show since early 2008! So we have 8 years of inspiring porn to choose from. What will it be?
consensual non-consent / forced haircuts from
Chicago?
golden showers and swampy dendrophilia from Gainesville?
greasy
cock -and-ball torture from Berlin?
spaghetti-western anarchists from
Montreal?
gender queer Mario Brothers from Geneva?
hardfem,
bicycle-mounted, cavalry-archers hunting to feed their sexual appetites
in Phoenix?
a hardcore, ginger-on-ginger bisexual, bikesexual
educational film?
Either way, it will be a night to remember, and remember it is for ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Tuesday, Sept 27 Columbus, OH
FB Event Bike Smut: Smut Pedalers Ride 6:30 PM
at Goodale Park Shelter House Ride starts at 7 to get you all geared
up for the show Adult activities along the way
Bike Smut 9: Science Friction 8:30 PM, NoWhere House 1217 N 4th St. 9pm Show begins! Suggested donation $5 Adult Beverages and snacks available Screen
printing of your items available on site for small donations as well.
Bring something sexy! Cum with the group or on your own. Provocative short films and titillating performances.
We are fresh out of Harvest Festival, the electro-dance filled forest 300 km north of Toronto. We partied, we made silly, we worked with our local host to fabricate a pedal-powered disco... and we showed some classic bicycle pornography to some hippies in the woods. Now its time to get deep into Canada's most popular city for our last ever screening here!
The first show we ever did was at Cine Cycle and, honest to mercy, it included some locally made, live-action tentacle porn.
this is not from that show but gawd we love Huebucket's work
The following year we were treated to some bicycle bondage as our hosts proceeded to tie up and suspend $15,000 worth of bikes that made as art, never to be ridden. Plus a dance party that raged past dawn. Stunning.
Our 5th year was half consumed by our first European tour, the other half we were driving back along the southern border on The Orgasm Trail (because the south didn't get the 4th year)
We returned to Cine Cycle for Bike Smut 6: Turning Trixxx, which included our first collaboration from the amazing sex-positive store, Good For Her. On top of providing excellent body-positive support to those exploring sexuality they also organize the Feminist Porn Awards, which are on sabbatical at the moment, likely for similar reasons that Bike Smut is retiring... when you hold yourself to such high standards its difficult to maintain a pristine track record, and as they say, no good deed goes unpunished.
Last year we upped-the-punx with a collaboration with Soy Bomb housing
coop and the Welcome to Toronto art collective. Fabulous art was made
and distributed and the party was a massive success.
This year we return to our Toronto roots. Back with the crazy old British bike mechanic who loves independent film and dirty jokes. Come on down and wish us farewell as we dance the night away!
Thursday September 22 CineCycle129 Spadina Avenue (in the Coach house in the Alley) 7:30 pm doors 8:15 pm show 9:30 pm afterparty private FB event LIVE ENTERTAINMENT! with Mineta and 3 DJs! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!! ADULT DRINKS! ADULT TALKS! ADULT FILMS! ADULTS DANCING!
Pour la dernière fois, Bike Smut, le festival cyclo-érotique, est de retour à Montréal
Bike
Smut, un festival international itinérant qui célèbre le vélo et une
culture du sexe positive, s’arrête à Montréal pour la cinquième et
dernière fois ce samedi à 20:00 au Café L’Artère. Sous le thème de la
“Science Friction” cette année, le festival présente à chaque édition
une nouvelle programmation de films sur le vélo et le sexe, faits par
des cyclistes, des cinéastes et queers du monde entier.
“Faites-vous
partie de ceux qui pensent que de meilleurs moyens de transport et
qu'une vie sexuelle épanouie sont la clef d'une meilleure qualité de vie
? Ou pensez-vous simplement que faire du vélo est sexy ? Ou alors
pédaler vous fait juste du bien ?” demande Rev Phil Sano, un des
organisateurs du festival.
Faire
un film, c'est facile ! Le diffuser peut être plus compliqué. Au cours
des 10 dernières années, le festival a voyagé un peu partout pour
montrer et partager ces contenus des plus excitants. Les vidéos
présentés ne sont pas offerts en DVD ni diffusés sur le net. La seule
façon de voir ces films, c'est de se déplacer aux séances (18 ans et
plus) toutes remplies d'adultes consentants ! Libre à tous d'exprimer
vos idées sur le vélo et le sexe sans risquer que son boss, grand-mère
ou ex-vélo ne le découvre !
Il
y aura des performances, des jeux, des choses à gagner et 90 minutes de
films érotiques radicaux qui célèbrent le vélo - centrés sur la femme,
centré sur l'hommes, trans, queer, gay et “bikesexuels”. Et c'est votre
seule chance de les voir.
samedi sept 10 CaféL'Artère 7000 Avenue du Parc présentations 20h films 21h party 23h $5-10 donation Adults Only
Montreal, we are ending this Francophilic relationship!
Well, more like we hope all you french-friendly folk will come visit us for a change as this Saturday is the LAST EVER screening in Montreal.
Lets take a moment to think back to some of the highlights of the past several episodes in Quebec.
Fleshback to the first time Bike Smut played in MTL we opened for a play party we a variety of sexual acts happening all over. Dubious that Interstice still exists but it was in Griffintown and it was amazing. Naturally there are not many photos but they did send us this a few days later.
We came back to Montreal to bring Bike Smut 4:PLAY to a place called Death Church in Verdun a year later. It really was an old church that had been refurbished to produce a more METAL experience. Go figure, the capital city of North America has more churches than it knows what to do with. It was a good screening from the crusty punks who had a variety of sex toys made from bike parts. That was our first experience with DIY Montreal poutine: buy a big bag of curds direct from a farm, then get your fries and gravy sourced from the local corner store.
The talented performers of Solar Year set the mood before our show started:
Miss Poppy Cox was speaking immensely adorable (and pretty accurate) French to the crowd:
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Then the following year our fabulous hosts brought us to a historic strip club, Cafe Cleopatra. The debauchery was on and the dancing was good. This marked the north-easternmost corner of the Porny Express bike tour. Reverend Phil rode through the encroaching winter with the addition of bike tube gaskets, a cheap and easy way to keep the muck out of your bearings. Whew! With as dirty as we get it was a welcome addition.
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We returned to Cleopatra for "Come Again" when we showed the full version of Brazen Saddles, one of the most ambitious films produced for Bike Smut. Bringing together the entire community. With lots of exploration and tension, a biker gang being chased by a bike cop laid a trap then they decided to really Fuck the Police... consensually! This was extra meaningful because our event took place over May Day so the revolutionaries were out in the streets.
You can just see the gas canisters being shot at the crowd from the Police in the distance
after the police added gas there was a lot of chaos
which resulted in 1000s of people scattered across the streets
Those amazing handmade vests that were featured in Brazen Saddles (learn more about this fab film here) were created within the Montreal Biker community. We got to see some behind the scenes creations of Oxyd Creations. If you know a badass biker you want to get one of these handmade vests; if you want more pegging start with a harness that looks good and feels good! We wrote about their fresh bikesexual wear last year and we are excited to have them vending with Bike Smut again this year!
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Now we go back to Café L'Artère and have a lot of exciting times planned. Stay tuned for more details on presentations, performers, DJs, discounts for entry, and extra fun we are working to having with you!
At the junction of the Connecticut River, the Mascoma River and the White River is town called White River Junction. That is the next stop for Bike Smut!
Our last visit to WRJ was 7 years ago! Since we make an original 90-min program each year that's a lot of porn to choose from. What rare gems will we unearth for the unsuspecting denizens of this sleepy berg?
or the immensely popular, Derailed, where professional porn star, Sebastian Keys shows Johnny Utah the importance of proper tension in your bike repairs!
Plus we get to make a special performance! We have so many! What a delightful choice to have available!!
Its a great problem to have and as many of you know, we are all about having better problems!
This ride is clothing optional, which means express yourself however
you like. Be creative! We are protected in our rights both
constitutionally and within city & state codes to bike in as much
(optional) nudity as we want since this ride falls under artistic,
political, and educational expression.
Bare As You Dare Bike Ride!
Troy Bike Rescue
3280 6th ave
FREE
4pm
We will meet at Troy Bike Rescue (TBR) to conduct bike safety checks,
decorate, and get comfy before the ride. Any kind of non-motorized
transportation is welcome. Helmets are encouraged. Most of all, it is a fun and lively
event that allows us to make bicycling super visible and celebrate our
liberation on many fronts! Then great ready for the last ever Troy screening of Bike Smut!
Although it may not appear on the top 10 lists of any swanky magazines, Troy, New York has been keep their underground festive and lively, building their culture on their own. That kind of entrepreneurial spirit lends itself to appreciating other DIY kinda activities. So it is really exciting when we have talented hosts who want to actually take advantage of our presence and ACTUALLY *ADD* to the overall event!
It's like my excellent hosts in Milan once said, "Ya know, we a-love the Bike Schmoot, its great but the best part is not the films, its the pretext for our community to make our own bikesexual art"
Whew. When my people get it... they get it!
In the first year Bike Smut came to Troy was only two programs ago for The Porny Express. Reverend Phil was bike touring across North America and had to do some creating routing to grom from Montreal to Burlington back to the Capital District, then back to Boston, but they totally made it worth it and hosted a fun quick show... and The Troy Bike Rescue gave Rev.Phil one of the best, most confusing t-shirts ever!
srsly, there's a heart riding a bike, with a hypodermic needle as an eyeball... and some exposed rib cage, perhaps?
The following year we had the right people lined up and sure enough they made sure to make it more involved with more people and more fun! Extra events and silly games were planned including a naked bike ride that was a series of Cop Cars following very slowly and creeping people out until we crossed the bridge out of their jurisdiction and all the drivers backed up behind them started passing us with great indifference to our well-being. The peril was no match for our optimism! As even as bikes were needing repair the team gathered and made it a fun time for all.
Now we have a community of sexy bike people, who are gonna make it a really exciting night!
Come celebrate liberation on wheels!
We will meet at Troy Bike Rescue (TBR) to conduct bike safety checks,
decorate, and get comfy before the ride. Any kind of non-motorized
transportation is welcome. Helmets are encouraged.
Bare As You Dare Bike Ride!
Troy Bike Rescue
3280 6th ave
FREE
4pm
This ride is clothing optional, which means express yourself however
you like. Be creative! We are protected in our rights both
constitutionally and within city & state codes to bike in as much
(optional) nudity as we want since this ride falls under artistic,
political, and educational expression.
Most of all, it is a fun and lively
event that allows us to make bicycling super visible and celebrate our
liberation on many fronts! Then great ready for the last ever Troy screening of Bike Smut!
Happy news day to us! Bike Smut has had a few excellent media moments, basking in the sunshine of GQ Italy, being on the front page of Malmo, Sweeden's daily paper, and an excellent article in a publication in Spain. But while all of these are great for their own reasons lightning has just struck twice for one talented writer who intrinsically "get it"
For the 2nd time Ms Jones has stepped up to the plate for Bike Smut and also the 2nd time she has knocked it out of the park. Her 1st article appeared in Bone Shakers Magazine in 2012, covering the fabled "Orgasm Trail" a choose-your-own-bikeporn-adventure. It has long since sold out (Bones Shakers is an excellent publication; you should definitely subscribe to it) but the archive PDF is free here (go to pages 34-39, then read the rest) so you can see the article and also some fantastic photographs from Bike Smut in Madrid, Spain; Graz, Austria; Tucson, Arizona; Lyon, France and Bucharest, Romania (whew! that was a good tour!)
Bike Smut takes bike culture and the fetishization of the bicycle deeper than
ever. Reverend Phil’s call for “better transportation and better sex”
is irresistible, as are the Bike Smut pillars: joyful exploration,
shameful flirtation, and radical honesty – after all, shouldn’t social
change be orgasmic? Follow the tour here.
This photoshoot is a recreation of original art drawn for our "Bikexploitation" Tour
Now Ms Jones is back! Due to her previous masterful handling of the topic we gave her more intimate access to our founder, Reverend Phil* for a more serious chat about the history of this plucky film and performance festival.
At first glance, Bike Smut could be easily dismissed as trite, and a mere distraction. We don't mind idea from individual viewers so much. There are a lot of ideas about sexuality and mobility (hello wheelchair porn!) presented during a show and viewers who want to think about them can. Those who want to just enjoy it as something silly and playful can do that too. Not every bit of artistic media has to have such complex flavors that challenge the mind. Sometimes you just wanna ride your bike and that's good enough.
We are not even that bothered by lazy media. We know how difficult writing can be and doing it under impossible deadlines can make for some slapdash work. No what we really bristle at is manipulation of ideas to fit a perceived audience. Our noble efforts can be easily twisted to appear as a freak show either by editors with an agenda (looking at you Vice!Mag). This is the kind of click bait that leaves readers feeling duped and wanting to avoid engagement altogether. Its an impossible scenario. Good journalism has been devalued in favor of high volumes of vapid stories and writers so often told that exposure will make up for the lack of actual compensation that doing good work has become a virtual impossibility.
Thankfully some writers care a little more, dig a little deeper and the results show. In this article Ms Jones shows some of the challenges to running an ethical porn film festival on no budget and why it sucks being Tazered and arrested and prosecuted days before a World Premiere is a rough way to start things. Many of our strongest political leanings are not explicitly commented on but simply made into the structure of Bike Smut. Bike Smut's form of distribution, our not distaste for abuse of power, or the drive to keep our footprint (or tire tread, if you will) as small as possible while still having a significant impact!
Bravo to Ms Jones! Please tweet at the fabulous writer of TWO of the best articles ever written about Bike Smut: @ratbabyjones
* whose stories can verge on the epic... either being unbelievably overwhelming or just too fucking long
