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FEATURE
WILDOUT WHEELIE DAY
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YES, IT'S DANGEROUS.
YES, IT'S ILLEGAL. BUT
THESE BALTIMORE BIKERS
DON'T GIVE A S#*T.
BY MARTIN PASHLEY
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES CHEADLE
F
or most of us Sunday is a day of rest, a day
of relaxed contemplation… a day to try and
not physically assault relatives who have
come to visit. But for at least a few hundred people in inner city Baltimore, Sunday is the day you
retrieve your illegal-to-ride dirt bike from a secret
location, race through the streets in groups up to
100 strong, dodge the cops and the traffic - all
the while trying to pull the most outrageous stunts
possible. For Sunday in the city, whose endemic
drug culture and urban collapse was mercilessly
depicted in the TV show "The Wire," is Wildout
Wheelie Day.
No one can pinpoint exactly when dirt bikes
became such a phenomena in the city, but it
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