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and organizing the annual Chunkathlon festival. The bicycles are home-made using salvaged bicycle parts and a variety of methods, including welding; they are described as "bikes that have 9-foot (2.7 m)-long forks and are built to come apart after 3½ miles, or are 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, or
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They launched "Aquachopper Expeditions" from 2004 through 2012, which involved constructing amphibious human powered vehicles, riding them to and across the Willamette River, and camping overnight on Ross Island in Portland, Oregon.
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C.H.U.N.K. 666 held Chunkathlons, public tournaments featuring competitions for modified bicycle riders, from 2002 through 2006. Events included tall bike
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C.H.U.N.K. 666 holds workshops on how to make tall bikes, such as at Bike Summer 2002 and hosts bike-building workshops for children.
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The activities of C.H.U.N.K. 666 include building tall bikes, riding said bikes at events like
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lean back so far that it doesn't look sane - let alone safe - to ride".
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This article about a cycling-related organization is a
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tall bike
chopper bicycle
Portland, Oregon
Brooklyn, New York
Critical Mass
zines
jousting
"Two-Wheel Tango"
"Hell on Wheels"
The Portland Mercury
Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
AK Press
208
ISBN
1-902593-59-6
"Mutant Bike Gangs of New York"
"The 2002 Chunkathlon"
"Chunkathalon 2003!"
"The 2003 Brooklyn Chunkathlon"
"Chunkathalon: Creativity, Carnage, Chaos"
"The Chunkathalon"
"Aquachopper Expeditions"
"Aquachoppers of C.H.U.N.K. 666"
"Tonight at the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club - Karl Anderson of C.H.U.N.K. 666"
Article about C.H.U.N.K. in the Portland Mercury
Homepage
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