Jay is a San Francisco metalworker who designs and builds art bikes for his own pleasure, and for Cyclecide, a San Francisco bike rodeo and performance group with a penchant for Black Sabbath, Bike Jousting, and other "Don't Try This At Home" antics.
Here are a few of our favorite examples:
Above: The Golden Gate Bridge bike, using Ice Blue Down Low Glow to give the impression of water under the bridge. Jay painted the bike with genuine Golden Gate Bridge paint. Rumor has it he traded a Bridge worker for a six pack.
The Schwinn Broom. "This is my phantom restoration of an extremely rare
Schwinn Broom. Only 10 were built for the cast of the Wizard of Oz. This one was owned by Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow. I updated the flame unit from coal to propane for modern emissions regulations. " (From Jay's whimsical writeup for Bike Rod 'n Kustom)
A closer look at Jay Broemmel's Dragon Bike
Submitted by fossilfool on Sun, 12/30/2007 - 15:34.
Jay's Dragon Bike was a big hit at last night's Bike Culture Night and will be on tonight's New Year's Cruise. Unfortunately Jay was out of town at a race last night, but was cool enough to let me borrow the Dragon. On the way to the event, walking down Valencia with the Dragon, all the eyes were following us from various restaurants and cafes. It made it easy to hand out flyers for the event.
On our way to return the Dragon Bike to Jay's garage after the event, Mafi and I headed down Lexington St., where this time of year, they have beautiful lights and decorations. We stopped under the disco ball to show off some of the sweet details of Jay's new Dragon Bike .
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Jay Broemmel takes director's seat for bike culture remake of Road Warrior.
Submitted by fossilfool on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 18:59.In Choad Warrior, post-apocalyptic leather clad warriors ride bicycles and fight for their precious fuel, beer.
I was an extra in the movie, and the main character even uses the microphone of the Choprical Fish in one scene. Here are some of the better shots from the day I participated.
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Jay Broemmel stuns art bike world with the Dragon Bike
Submitted by fossilfool on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 10:45.
Jay's only been riding the new dragon bike for a few days now, and I had the pleasure of cruising with him last night as we dropped off some homemade apple pie (a la mode, of course) from our pot luck dinner to a friend who was tending bar at the Lone Palm on the other side of the Mission.
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Bike Culture up on WIRED (online) again
Two of Rock The Bike customer Jay Broemmel's rad creations, as well as Fossil Fool's new Soul Cycle, were among the art bikes and bike hacks selected for a cool article in WIRED entitled "Bike Hackers Get Whimsical With Two-Wheelers".
