Eric Adams has promised to crack down on dirt bikes, but riders say they aren’t going anywhere
Photo: Dom Flicksz The feral roar of dirt-bike engines intermingles with small talk as a dozen or so riders clad in Carhartt windbreakers and denim jackets linger in front of a juice bar on St. Nicholas Avenue. It’s a chilly Wednesday afternoon in Harlem, and the wheelie guys are out. Their eyes are fixed on the four-lane street, on which a biker known as Ty crouches over a behemoth cherry-red four-wheeler.
As the bikers, Black men from all over the city, arrive on St. Nicholas Avenue, they swap anecdotes. At the tail end of a story about evading the police, Ty tenses his broad-shouldered body, reproducing the low, vibrating hum of a motor revving. He pulls up a video on his Instagram, where he has amassed 11,000 followers, of himself tearing down a city highway, hot-pink ATV nearly upright as it blows past the cars.
Despite often riding in packs, bikers each have distinct philosophies regarding the target on their backs. Twin, a stout man with eye-contact-heavy directness, tells me he prides himself on his strict obedience of traffic laws. As he spoke, Cracker Jack, a small beetle-browed biker with a wide smile and darting eyes, shook his head. “It’s all about confidence,” he says, “because it’s when you stop at a light that they get you.
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