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The Humble Vintage: Melbourne for Visitors and Casual Cyclists, issue #1
As of today we face a world in which people will tool about the place with flat screen TVs in their pockets. A grand and terrible future whence the ability to draw devil eyebrows on Vladimir Putin and scrunch the TV Guide up in a fit of rage will be relinquished for multiple touch screen Tetris.
One man is swimming against this ghastly tide, and that man is Matt Hurst of The Humble Vintage Bike Hire Co.
FAT and The Humble Vintage present free bikes for BFF!
What:
FAT and The Humble Vintage present free bikes for BFF!
Where:
In and around the city
When:
Until Nov 29
How much:
Free! Unless booked out! Email hire@thehumblevintage.com
Description:
The ancient Aztecs (AD 1200-1521) believed that sunset was actually the death of the sun, and the only way the fiery orb could be ‘resurrected' the following day was by means of human sacrifice. 15,000 men were ritually slaughtered each year to the sun god Huitzilopochtli, and the victims, more often than not, were prisoners taken in wars.
Event: Escape
Stimulus: beach air
Sweet Ride, the BFF art show
I'm sure the gym has its benefits, what with the treadmills and the headbands and the towels, but it's always been puzzling to me why you'd fork out to go to such a place when there are these wonderful inventions called bicycles which keep you fit and get you places, all the while forcing you to interact with the rest of the world and have crazy adventures.
David Byrne, 'The Bicycle Diaries'
In 2008 I walked alongside David Byrne as he rode his bike, and interviewed him for a feature in Wooooo Magazine. As we moved down the street I noted that he was a less than skilled cyclist. In fact, he had the frenzied look of someone who knows he might lose his centre of gravity and eat shit at any second.
Yuento Music Balloon
Imagine if headphones were a cruel scam and that every time you put them on, everyone else on your train carriage could listen in and raucously dissect your simplistically pretentious taste in music. Imagine! Wouldn't that be just awful? Wouldn't it? No it goddamn wouldn't. Why? Because your taste in music is freaking awesome and any peon that snickers otherwise can eat your shorts in hell.
Bike Swap
What:
Bike Swap
Where:
Shifter Bikes, 25 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Sun Aug 16, 9am for sellers, 10am for buyers
How much:
Free for buyers, $5 for sellers
Description:
If you venture down to Shifter Bikes this weekend, where one speed suits all, you will be greeted by a brain-washed corporate whore called Dan and guess what? The tattooed bastard is having a swap meet that all bike fans should be seen at. Except if you want your bike "blinged out" with "shiny clean chains".
Event: Fair
Stimulus: Cheap Treasure
The Humble Vintage
Got legs? Got $25? Got a drink driving conviction? Got a date with a hippie? Got a lunch meeting with David Byrne? Got a fat bum? Got a heist planned in a loading zone?
Then call The Humble Vintage. They'll rent you a bike, AND it won't be ugly. Local bon vivant Matt Hurst has been sourcing vintage bikes from around the traps for months now - restoring them, naming them, hand-weaving baskets for them, singing them to sleep, wishing he could nail riding a bike with one hand while holding another bike with the other.
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