Search and Destroy: Bike Punk

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After crusing toronto on a yellow peugot all summer i found my self digging deep into my love for Red Monkey and Submission Hold. However I find alot of bike punk to be boring straight up punk rock.

Who's search? -i say the afore mentioned Red monkey and submission hold
who's destroy? bands like rambo (of u lock justice fame)

― ddd, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

seek-godheadsilo! bmx punk!

― dead dead bird, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Danger Boy and the Road Vultures

made up mostly of members of Minneapolis' Hard Times Bike CLub. (tuff and durty)

garagey punk rock w/ keyboards

they're soo danceable

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

There's always Bicycle who get extra cred for riding from show to show while on tour towing their equipment in trailers. But I think their music is pretty granola jam band related stuff.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

What is bike punk? I've actually seen both of those bands. The only think I can think of that they have in common is that both probably sell patches that go well on canvas messenger bags. Is that what bike punk is? Submission Hold was really awful -- they kept ranting about Canadian politics! (which obviously nobody cares about).

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 3 October 2002 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I bet they're all rabidly anti-car.

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 3 October 2002 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Red Monkey was definitely traveling around in a van when I saw them. Anyway, they were an awesome band.

― Kris (aqueduct), Thursday, 3 October 2002 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a so called sub genre of punk that references bikes and is political. Red Monkey has a record called 'difficult is easy' which is all about riding bikes. i guess it's more of a life style, kinda like more mature, less straight edge, straight edgers (all though lots of 'post-hardcore' straight edge kids are bike punks)

― ddd, Thursday, 3 October 2002 01:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete Scholtes to thread!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 3 October 2002 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Search:
-Palatka (incredible Floridian band from the mid-nineties. Members went on to True North and one of the members also writes Scenery 'zine)
-Anton Bordman (crazy bass n' drums duo from Providence who had plans to do a tour on bikes, though I'm not sure if it ever saw actuality)

Destroy:
-Any boring crusty band (Global Chaos, anyone?)

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 4 October 2002 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I even forgot the most obvious--the wonderful This Bike Is A Pipebomb. Add some folky elements (acoustic guitars, harmonica) and are very poppy, but great political and social lyrics and catchy, dancy melodies.

― Ian Johnson, Friday, 4 October 2002 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i never knew palatka was bike punk. they are so wicked fast though. props to the 98 assuck tour! (i think they were on that but i can't remember)

― ddd, Friday, 4 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Palatka and Asshole Parade actually made Florida seem like the place to be at some point in history, which I find quite an acheivement. Asshole Parade is one of the most amazing bands I've ever seen -- they looked like a bunch of typical Florida Abercrombie boys (the singer was wearing a red backwards cap!) and were playing with some of the most expensive equipment known to emoviolence but they were just so ferocious and incredible.

― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 4 October 2002 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Palatka explicitly mentioned bikes in their songs, but I'd consider them part of the same scene. Mike from that band has written lots of stuff about bikes in his 'zine, Scenery.

And yes, Asshole Parade are so goddamn intense--hardcore the way it should be. (Their split with Palatka, coincidentally, is amazing.)

― Ian Johnson, Saturday, 5 October 2002 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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