Black Label Bike Club

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Black Label Bike Club is an international freak/mutant bicycle organization specializing in tall bikes and choppers. Started in 1992 by Jacob Houle and Per Hanson as Hard Times Bike Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the club has grown to include a chapter in New York; Reno, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Stockholm, Sweden; and a nomad chapter loosely based out of New Orleans known as Nowhere. The Black Label Bike Club is credited with being the first "outlaw bicycle club", the originators of tall bike jousting, and one of the main contributors to the rise of the tall bike culture.^[1]

Black Label Bike Club is explored in the movie "B.I.K.E." by two filmmakers who underground bicycle club .[1]

Driven by anti-materialism and a belief that the impending apocalypse will render cars useless and leave bicycles in power, Black Label Bike Club (BLBC) battles mainstream consumer culture and rival gangs for its vision of a better tomorrow. The movie pulls threads from Critical Mass and the wider bike counterculture, B.I.K.E. explores such themes as radical politics, personal artistic vision, global responsibility, relationships, group formation, and perhaps most prominently, pain and love.

“Heads break, necks crack, drugs are consumed in mass quantities, and the inherent contradictions of radical individualists attempting to maintain a group identity implode in an absolutely fascinating tour of a modern netherworld.” — Ray Greene (Box Office Magazine) [2]