Brutal Cycles

I'm Brutus (or Jamie), or Jamie (or Brutus). I live in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and have some pretty special hands. This blog is mostly about my custom bicycles and the builds, repairs, and overhauls I do on other people's bicycles. Most of my posts aim to be informative and insightful to anyone who rides or works on bikes... some of them are just truck 'n such that I like.
I also play in a band with three of my brothers called TWENTY TO TWELVE. and tend bar at Dutch Kills.
You can also find me every weekend at Brooklyn Flea. selling, repairing, and building bikes with Shane Da Bike Jack.
Feel free to ask questions; I'll probably give you a better answer than Google.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

Today I had to take the subway that I might retrieve a Bilenky tandem from Dutch kills (more on that to come). I went underground holding metrocard with a balance of $1.30. The fare these days is $2.25, so I knew I had to put a dollar more on this card to enter the subway. When i did so, the machine SUBTRACTED one dollar from the value of my card and reduced the balance to $.30.
I’ve said it many times before and I will likely continue to say it as long as I love in New York…
Ahem,
FUCK THE MTA.
See you in hell mass transit,
Brutus

# mta

# fuck

First oxy-acetylene weld (Taken with instagram)

Anonymous asked

Hey Jamie I know this sounds crazy but back around 2000 I had a dream and in this dream I was in a tavern like building. I remember ordering a Maiden Lemonade. Since then I have been searching all over to see if a drink like that actually existed. I recently did another internet search and ended up finding Dutch Kills bar that serves this beverage. How did you come up with it?

Dutch Kills doesn’t actually serve anything called a Maiden Lemonade. My lady used to run a jam company called Maiden Preserves so I crafted cocktails around their product. They wanted to expand people’s ideas about what jam could be used for and booze was a perfect medium with which to do that.