Every week, the Mercury scours the streets to bring you photos of a sexy bike and a mini-interview with its bound-to-be-a-baller rider. I caught Luke doing donuts in a basement art gallery and on his rusty vintage low-rider, Luke proves sexy is all about attitude.
This week: Scraper Bikes are Sexy
Rider: Luke Forsyth
Bike:: Vintage brick-red Westfield frame with black banana seat
Spotted at: The Pancake Clubhouse art collective
This bike is really rusty and the paint’s all scratched. Why are you so sure ladies are going to love this bicycle? Because scraper bikes are fly. I’d say they’re drawn to the lowness, it’s stylin’ to be low to the ground. Some kids are playing on Huffys and stuff, but I think it’s all about the old-school banana seats.
What’s the appeal of the low? Pretty much the ability to get down.
How is your life different when you ride this bicycle? I feel better about myself, I’m healthier. Chicks dig it.
Are you ever afraid it’s going to fall apart? Never, it’s trusty. It just sucks to bike really fast on it.
How does the world look different from a low rider? It’s a little bit slower. It’s harder to make turns. You have to anticipate them by putting your weight into the turns, if you’re going to do sweet big turns, you know?
What kind of people do you find ride scrapers? Gangstas. Exclusively gangstas. Hey, you have to write down that I wrote a song on the way home.
You did? Can you sing it?
It goes, “Scraper bikes are sexy, beers’ll get ’em chicks. Yeah. Scraper bikes are sexy, beers’ll get ’em chicks.”
(Nominate a sexy bike: Email Sarah Mirk.)
dumbest one yet…I would not hesitate to kick this man in the face if he tried to talk to me.
“an actually sexy adult with a cool bike.”
yes please!
Hubby took the seat off my mountain bike as an April Fool’s joke. And now I ride everywhere with a big smile on my face. Thanks, hubby!
this is totally unintentionally hilarious
Who the hell says “Fly” these days?!?
Oh, Sara Mirk. Don’t sully all your other high-quality Merc work with this cliche-worshipping, drivelicious feature. Stick to the hard news, cuz you’re darn good at it.
Potentially funny. Next!
After we’re done with Sexy Bike can we have Sexy Feet?
Because I walk and, well, I like my feet.
The cyclist himself looks rather sexy, in a callow, overgrown adolescent sort of way.
that guy is a caricature of himself.
Just another disguting “hipster” dirtbag that probably lives like a rat with 20 other disgusting “hipsters” in a rental in inner SE.
Ha! Amusing person on an amusing bike. I think this is a good one. It’s good when the person being profiled is not totally boring.
(although at the beginning I misinterpreted the “Luke proves…” sentence to imply that his outer ugliness is more than made up for by his attitude.)
And cool people say fly these days, freshmaker. duh.
Reading the comments on this site really drags me down.
fail.
more context on scraper bikes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE
this is uncontestably the most retarded blogtown post ever. i feel dumber.
That is not a scraper bike.
The bikenazi is going to have a field day with this post!
The bike is okay I guess, kinda small for an adult, but that hat is about the douchiest hat ever!
It’s a boy’s bike, not a ladies bike.
And it’s a rusty old bike at that. It looks like he found it in a garbage dumpster, I don’t see any custom work.