Merch

all pre-ordered shirts and posters are being mailed today if you haven't already recieved them. sorry for the delay, we were swamped getting the show ready. thank you for all the support!!

TOMORROW!!!!!!!!

Dice Party tonight at Matchless, our bike show starts tomorrow at 3!

map here:
73 West St. Between Milton and Noble

Alex Lerner

Alex Lerner is originally from Kharkov, Ukraine when it was still part of the Soviet Union, and has lived in New York since 1991. He has been a mechanic at both Harley Davidson of NYC and New Rochelle. He formerly was a partner of Queens County Cycles for 3 years, where he created his own designs and hand fabricated components for clients.

As much as he likes a clean, streamlined, simple, industrial machine, Alex believes a motorcyle must absolutely be mechanically sound and rideable, as well as look good. He rides his own custom built motorcycles all the time.

Alex is again building custom bikes and hand fabricating for his customers at his new venture SLNYC in Glendale, Queens.

Bill Dodge

Bill Dodge opened Bling’s Cycles in November of 2005 after eight years of working as shop foreman at a reputable shop in Long Beach, CA where he built $50k to $100k+ bikes for a wide spectrum of clients. Bill has been building cars and bikes since he was sixteen, and now he’s doing it for himself, the way he likes.

Bill’s style is HIS style. The bikes he’s built for himself have always gotten the most attention and interest. Now that he’s got his own shop, Bill builds bikes as if they were his personal bikes: fast, functional, simple and bitchin’. He takes pride in building solid, clean motorcycles; never compromising the performance of the bike.

In an industry saturated with $80k bikes, Bill keeps the cost of his bikes as low as possible. He’s not in it to get rich, he’s in it because he loves to make motorcycles and wants to make them accessible to the “working man”.

Bill’s aim is to keep it simple.

Limited Edition posters are ready!!

Hand Printed by Rob and Andy at American Icon. These things rule! 16 x 20" limited numbered edition of 50. And they're only 20$!!! Help us raise money to pay for putting on this show, most of it is coming out of our pockets. Thanks!

Krazy Kevin

"I come from a very artistic family and started drawing tattoos and choppers when I was very young, around 12 years old. I would work for the neighbors cutting grass, shoveling snow and bought my first 3 wheeler when I was 14. At 16 I purchased my 1941 Flathead which I still own today. As far as bike building and art, I've learned how to airbrush-paint-pinstripe-weld-metal fab & sculpture, as well as tattooing and so much more. I even earned a degree in Commercial Art! Building one off machines is a true art form and I love building bikes from the sixties when I got my start!"
K.K.

Kevin Orangers

As a late invite to the Brooklyn Invitational, I wanna give props and much love and respect to the fellas from White Knights. If anyone knows me well - my quirks, nuances, hang-ups, narrow-vision, and stubbornness – its these dudes. Sharing shop space with these guys for quite a few years, they have seen this bike in its varied states of disrepair and assembly as it reflected my mood and the little jing in my pockets in which to get it together. Through the years though, I had the pleasure to turn wrenches, tell stories and share ideas for what choppers were, are, and will continue to be. I’m grateful for that.

A bike builder I’m not, as my day job keeps me pretty busy. Thus the reason this bike took nearly 10 years to re-build – assembling parts, machining small bits, and tinkering. I was never in any real rush to finish…and probably never will be. My bikes and what I build will always be inspired by the subtlety of detail of 60s era customs and choppers. For me, what those guys built back then set the standards for us all.

I wanna tip my hat to other guys in this Invitational and the killer rides they built. Additionally, I wanna thank my motorpsycle therapists of all things on two wheels – Big Don of M.C. and Dick Menke – for the tips, tricks, and parts that keep me wrenchin’ and riding.



-KO

we have t-shirts for sale!!

click the store icon to the right to get your 1st annual brooklyn invitational tees.
posters are almost finished and look for them at the store soon.

Andy Camay

Andy Camay
- 34
- Got into bikes shortly after high school as what I guess would
replace the time I spent skating and snowboarding
- Years go by and I end up going in and out of the snowboarding
industry and other miscellaneous jobs and I started a screen printing
business
- Tore out our storage space below our apartment and and started my
first build
- Started buying parts when I had some spare cash
- Like many others out there, I really just gave it a go and somehow
it happened
- I have a shop now with some better tools to help get the job done
and onto my next which is a generator shovel in a hardtailed 76 frame
- I have no ambitions of ever doing it professionally, but rather to
just for fun and sanity
- Thanks