bone- shakermagazine issue #1 Boneshaker: Real Cycling Except this isn’t real, of course, it’s digital. To get your hands on a real Boneshaker, to feel it and smell it and hide it in your pannier, go here. We make other great bike stuff too, especially bicycle art prints. Check them out here. And to let your ears take your mind on a journey, there’s our new podcast series. boneshakermag.wordpress.com [email protected] © Adam Faraday © Adam Since helping to set up and run Bristol, UK – where there is a a community bike project here steady-growing, vibrant bicycle in Bristol, my eyes have been culture – to further afield and opened to the breadth of people around the globe. It is my hope and projects around the world that the following pages will doing great great things with both inspire and entertain, raise bicycles. And what impresses awareness and bring a smile to me most about the vast majority your face... and appeal to both of these is the humanity and bike-heads and to those who may desire to do things for the greater not yet even have experienced good that almost always seem to the true joy and freedom that can be an integral part of them. be found from our two-wheeled friends. Thanks for reading. Boneshaker is an attempt to bring together some of these people and projects, both on a local level James Lucas starting with my hometown of www.thebristolbikeproject.org Contents Contents Puncture Kit 4 My Beautiful Bike 8 Mini Bike Winter Olympics VII 10 Jake’s Bikes 12 Serai 20 Spoke‘n’chain 22 ‘Tunnel’ 30 Slowcoast Soundslides 32 Tour of Switzerland 1966 36 The Bicycle Quick Release: Let ‘em have it 38 Bicycology My Beautiful Bike. 41 My bicycle is a speckled white Raleigh Elan. I bought it from the Bristol Cycle Hub over a year ago and thanks to their great Theservicing beforeMagician my purchase, it has run smoothly ever since. 44 As time went on I embellished the Elan and treated it to some needle threaded leather grips and stripped the graphics from the frame to make space for a new theme. This theme is in the Crimanimalzform of two miniature bubble stickers. The first is Michael Jackson’s face positioned between the handlebars, and the 48 second his signature placed on the rear of the frame. With these sited my bike was complete. On the tragic day that Michael passed away I noticed that the bubble sticker that had faced me Thefor many Bristolmonths had become separatedBike from my Projectbicycle and Last Summer I packed a few things into lay on the floor of my bedroom. The previous days cycling in the 50 panniers and rode my bike around the coast rain could have loosened the glue, dislodging the sticker, but I of Britain. I wanted to learn a bit more about like to believe that there is a supernatural bond between my bicycle and Michael Jackson. the country where I have lived all my life and Riding Guatemala City The sticker has since been replaced with a different portrait of Michael 52 know so little about. I wanted to learn about in memory of the great entertainer. people too. So undertook to make some soundslide films about the people I met on the Illustration and words by Robert Hunter way. The amazing people who live and work www.rob-hunter.co.uk on our coast. In all I made about 80 little films. I sat up in my tent at night and edited them before finding an internet café the next day to upload onto my site. They have a rough edge but (I think) a nice instant quality about them. Here are extracts from two of the films. Nick Hand slowcoast.co.uk “When I took over mother said, you should put your name Ronnie up there. But I said, no, father’s name’s been there long enough so he can stay there, I’m quite happy at that. He’s contributors Bowie the one who started it all, so. RS Bowie It wasn’t so much as buying a bike. It was more buying john coe, nick hand, adam faraday, gavin wilshen, ali sparror, robert hunter, bits and pieces, batteries, whatever. But they would leave bike shop, their bikes here while they went down the town to do their shopping and such like. So they just came here, parked their bikes up. If it needed anything doing to it, the two Stranraer lads out the back would see to it before they came back jethro brice, maria baños-smith, sébastien bernaert, nick soucek, todd legler, for their bike. As I say, if it was five o’clock it would be at the top of the passage, if it was only an hour at the bottom end. And a beer or two probably. So some of them went home maybe not quite as straight as they’d come. bob coe, imogen, hal bergman, stine stensbak & jimmy ell Mother and father were well on when I took over. They used to open at eleven and close at maybe five or six. I’m very good I open at nine and close at four, sometimes now quarter to five (laughs). I’m going that way now, same as they did. Ach, it’s somewhere to hide, my wife took early retirement. Women can’t see you sitting doing a cross- word and a cup of coffee for an hour and a half. If I want to sit here with a cup of coffee and a crossword for an hour and a half, I can do it. It’s what I call my bolthole. If I backpats and handclaps want to go on holiday, I just put a notice up saying ‘gone on holiday, sorry for any inconvenience’ with wee letters underneath ‘don’t give a damn (laughs)’ But no, I quite enjoy it, enjoy the company that comes and goes.” yael ben-gigi, nick hand, taylor bros, the bristol bike project crew, howies, richie thomassen & chris carlsson copyrights & disclaimers Boneshaker is a quarterly publication. The articles published reflect the opinions of their respective authors and are not necessarily those of the publishers and editorial team. ©2010 Boneshaker. Printed with paper from sustainable sources by Taylor Brothers Bristol Ltd. 13-25 Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8PY / Tel 0117 924 5452 Conceived, compiled & edited by jimmy ell Designed and published by coecreative / www.coecreative.com Cover image by adam faraday / www.adamfaraday.com words jimmy ell colour photography alex pettman b&w photography luis bernardo cano The first time I saw Puncture Kit was a youtube clip of him street-busking earlier this year. In it, we see him cycling around London before setting up his drums on his upturned bicycle at a busy traffic intersection. A smartly-dressed gentleman stands to one side and taps his foot in appreciation, whilst an excitable man in a Scream mask and cape appears and begins spiraling around him crazily. A crowd congregates and as the incredible, percussive rhythms that he pulls from his drums come to an end, a hearty round of applause is heard. He packs up his drums into his panniers and cycles away into the night. Puncture Kit, aka David Osborne, is an Australian chap who conjures up a mix of energetic drum‘n’bass / jungle / breaks from his drum kit-cum-bicycle that he also uses daily to ride around on. It takes just 20 minutes to transform his bike into a drum kit with 5 cymbals, 3 snare drums and a foot pedal. He made his festival debut at Glastonbury Dance Village 2009 last year and can be seen day and night busking around the east-end of London. I spoke with him briefly and here’s what he had to say: 6 www.puncturekit.co.uk ffi: [email protected] Hello puncture kit! It says on your website that “...one day when I was looking ‘Puncture Kit was brought to life after sitting in London’s Green Park with my new bicycle not long at my bike I just thought it after arriving from Australia in June 2008… no was the perfect drum frame for car, no drums, and a need to create beats’. What some toy drums!” gave you the inspiration to combine two great bits of gear into one– the bike and the drum kit? How easy was it to adapt your bike to I love doing both and so it was just logical to accommodate the drums? Did it take long to get it me! I moved from Australia to the UK in the right and was there a lot of tweaking involved? summer of 2008 because I wanted to travel and pursue music further. I was playing and It wasn’t that easy to think it all out – it recording in some bands when I got here but took a lot of experimenting to get it right still needed a way to earn some money to get ergonomically and only last week I was by. I used to be inspired by street performers in back in the workshop again grinding bits the main mall of my home town, in Adelaide, off and re-welding better brackets on, etc. and used to watch them in my lunchtimes, but It also took quite a while to find and then never thought I’d eventually be doing it myself. modify drums that would be strong, yet small I was originally thinking of carrying around a enough and also sound good.