'People see us two ways. Either 'Oh, wow, these talented guys wheelie-ing!' Or 'Fuck these guys … Come on, asshole, get out of the way!'' UnhappyFem reports
Emmanuel De La Rosa and friends crossing the Williamsburg Bridge on March 6. Photo: Brian Finke On the first Sunday in March, Emmanuel De La Rosa was speeding across the Williamsburg Bridge. It was the first leg of a 20-mile “ride out” — from a skate park on the Lower East Side into Brooklyn, up to Queens and then back across the Manhattan Bridge — with 300 or so others.
Organized over Instagram and by knowing who’s who on the scene, the rides have been happening in the city on various scales for years now. These two-wheeled herds used to stress out the cops, who would chase and harass them, he says. But in the last year, the police and the bikers met up and worked out a truce: “Now they help us. They help us with the traffic. The cars respect us more because they see the cops with us.” Group biking was a pandemic-friendly stress reliever, too.
De La Rosa was a plumber by trade when he got into the scene back in 2018, buying his friend’s used baby-blue “Big Ripper” from SE Bikes. “I started riding on my days off and fell in love with it. Then I requested a year off from work just to simply ride,” he says. He never went back. Now he’s something of a biker influencer, with sponsorships. Still, despite a semi-official thumbs up from the city, De La Rosa says drivers and pedestrians still have a “love-hate relationship” with the bikers.
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