MADE IN QUEENS

WHY DON’T ALL BIKES COME RIGGED TO THE TEETH FOR BASS?

Kellog’s Frosties once gave away brightly coloured beads which you could add to your bike spokes to make other kids turn green with envy. To an eager to impress ten year-old like me, it seemed like a pretty painless improvement to make to my BMX. But there are people who put glow in the dark beads on their bikes, and then there’s this bunch from Queens.

It’s a short film about a group of young people originally from Trinidad and Tobago and now living in New York who - with a large dollop of imagination - spice up their otherwise mundane urban existence by strapping speaker stacks to their rides and pedalling round town. The spec for one bike says it all: “Two 12” bass speakers and two 10” mid-bass speakers mounted on rear cabinet. Custom-welded support brackets. Four 6×9” mids speakers up front. 2000 and 1500 watt bass amps and 1000 watt mids amp. DVD player and equalizer on handlebars.” Why not?

Directed by Nicholas Randall and Joe Stevens under the guise of Randall Stevens (don’t know where they got that from!), Made In Queens is out now in selected cinemas. Check the clip below.