There is a lot of different ways to buy a bike, and a lot of different ideas of what the perfect bike looks like. A classic road bike? A ultra-modern downhill bike? The tradition of a custom, hand-made metal bike? A truly weird mishmash of a gravel bike? We all have our own preferences, and different vision of the perfect bike here at Canadian Cycling Magazine. Then there’s the rolling party Benny Benassi rode at the Five Boro Bike Tour in New York City. Just like that, one bike that gave us all a little satisfaction.
Benassi showed up at the Five Boro Bike Tour on this rolling DJ booth to promote his new album, Feel The Bass. While the details aren’t as important as the vibe, the base of this particular Feel The Bass promo vehicle is a heavily modified Canyon Spectral:ON CF 8 electric mountain bike. The RockShox Lyric fork remains, but it is modified to support two front wheels and, you know, a giant speaker and AlphaTheta decks.
The rig was also outfitted with smoother rolling city tires instead of the usual mountain bike tread. Don’t want that needle skipping, right? Add some sweet spoke discs to keep the promo tour vibes high and a very nice rear rack to hold his laptop, and this is as functional as it is fashionable.
While we’re never fans of blasting bluetooth speakers on the climb trail or on the commuter paths, we would 100 per cent set this system up to bring the party to our morning commute every day of the week. Just maybe without the extra, out-front camera and video mount. No one wants to see what anyone at our office looks like before coffee (though Benassi did rock a sweet, She’s Gotta Have It-era, location appropriate Brooklyn cycling cap for his morning ride, which we’re glad he had cameras out to capture).
Benassi also drove a modified mini school bus / DJ booth to Times Square the day before to complete the alternative forms of transit theme to his album drop weekend.
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