{"id":57077,"date":"2021-05-26T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/?p=57077"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:15:07","slug":"bikes-in-the-city-part-two-bolt-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/bikes-in-the-city-part-two-bolt-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Bikes in the City Part Two: Bolt London &#8211; Biker History in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltlondon.com\/\">Bolt London<\/a> is a colourful, textured Aladdin&#8217;s cave of all things bike and all things good. We spent some time with a paragon of London\u2019s creative bike scene.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bolt London is nestled in an atmospheric stable yard just off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Bolt+Motorcycles+London\/@51.5625218,-0.0812848,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761c647ec25555:0xeb7724849c95eb35!8m2!3d51.5625283!4d-0.0790641\">Stoke Newington High Street<\/a>. It is a temple of creative bike culture. From the cultural references on the shelves to the cobbles of its floors and its bricks and layered mortar &#8211; there\u2019s a tangible sense of London bike history about the place. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can pick up an original edition of Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s seminal work of new journalism <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/hells-angels\/hunter-s-thompson\/9780141187457\">Hell&#8217;s Angels<\/a>; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you can peruse one of the finest collections of custom lids this side of the A13. And as well as picking up some of the finest rugged clobber you\u2019ll find anywhere, you are sure to find a like mind. Because for Bolt proprietor Andrew Almond, Stokie\u2019s favourite greaser hangout is all about creativity and community.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bolt_10-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Almond faces the camera\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption>Andrew Almond is an archivist of London bike culture. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Influx: Tell us about this yard: it feels as if it\u2019s got motorbikes in its very texture!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andrew Almond: It sure has. The yard was built around the 1860s as a stables. There would have been a blacksmith here, and that would have all been the stables themselves. In around 1920 it became a car garage. You can see the remains of where a petrol pump would have been here. In the 1940s, a guy lived upstairs and would rent it for motorcycle parking. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a group called the Ally Pally Ton-Up Boys, all 16 or 17 years of age at the time &#8211; that used to hang out here. They had some amazing bikes and they would all come and hang out on a Saturday morning, tinker with the bikes and drink coffee. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of them still comes down. He is 85 now and still riding. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says the yard still feels exactly the same as when he was a kid, hanging around with bikes and drinking coffee. And nothing has changed, it is still the same paint on the walls for 50 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I love that linear history in London, where everything is so transitional. I like to think we have been annoying our neighbours here for over 100 years now!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image1.jpeg\" alt=\"An old photo of a Ton-Up Boy\" width=\"828\" height=\"615\" \/><figcaption>The ghosts of the Ally Pally Ton-Up Boys are everywhere. Picture suppled by Andrew Almond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the thing with you and motorbikes? Where did that begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My first bike culture experience was when I went to Israel when I was 18. I was working in a Kibbutz and I used to ride bikes there. Then a couple of years later I worked in Mozambique doing development work and I had a little Honda 50. I was right in the middle of the bush, and there are no roads out there or tarmac, so it was the only way to get around. So mobility and practically was kind of why I started using it.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t use a motorbike without enjoying it. There is a natural kind of pleasure in it. So when I came back to London, I decided that I didn\u2019t want to go on public transport, so I bought a Vespa. I have always been into the design of motorbikes. It wasn\u2019t because I wanted to be a Mod or was into Scooter culture, it is just because it is a beautiful design. And then gradually it grew from there.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bolt102-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The front cover of Hunter S. Thompson's iconic Hell's Angels book\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption>Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s rebel enquiry sets the tone perfectly. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>So the city and bikes were synonymous for you straight away?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, I have always liked riding in London, whereas most people hate it. There is an aggressive attitude on the road and you learn to go with it. I like the fast city, cutting through traffic. There\u2019s a unique kind of buzz about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me about Bolt&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I started Bolt back in 2013 because there was a new revival of motorbike culture in a different way than in the past. No one was really representing it at the time. Motorcycling is so much about community and being sociable. So it was all about creating a hub where people can meet, and it grew from there. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The clothing, the record and the coffee all make sense because the people that tend to come down tend to be interested in where all these things meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-15.08.37.png\" alt=\"Cool artwork in the Bolt London toilet\" width=\"834\" height=\"932\" \/><figcaption>Rule no.1: judge every institution by the quality of the lavatorial artwork. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>You have got some amazing artifacts and beautiful pieces, how do you get your inspiration and where do you get your stuff from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I try to get everything exclusive to me. So we find small brands around Europe, people who aren\u2019t stocked here before. And we really look at the fabrics and the quality. I don&#8217;t see the point in selling or producing garments just for sake of it, they have got it be different to what is out there. And then as we have gone on, we have just been making more and more of our own stuff. We have struggled to find stuff out there that we want to sell, so we have just learnt to make it and go on like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bolt101-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Bolt's branding proudly adorns a classy motorbike.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption>Bolt has a beautiful eye for branding. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A lot of the stuff you have got reminds me of the clothing in Mooneyes. It is that level of quality you have got?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love Yokohama and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mooneyes.co.jp\/en\/\">Mooneyes<\/a>. Japan has always been an inspiration, because they get the details. The fact that you might have gone around the world and back to get a button, but that button is just so, exactly correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have gone to such lengths to get what we want. We have had buttons re-made in Italy, all these details. And Japan really understands that level of detail in things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/PHOTO-2021-05-24-13-13-03-3.jpg\" alt=\"An old photo of the London bike scene\" width=\"828\" height=\"612\" \/><figcaption>North London ne\u2019er-do-wells are a layer over Bolt\u2019s aesthetic. Picture suppled by Andrew Almond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The bike culture you are talking about is an alternative bike culture. What is the character of that at the moment and what part do you play in it?<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scenes come and go. But motorbikes always stay constant. Whether it is custom or classic, I just like the culture of bikes. The motorbike is one of the most iconic references of subculture and counterculture out there. It is the outsiders who are drawn to them who are the interesting people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interesting people gather around these things.\u00a0 So really I like exploring the subcultures around the motorcycles and that aspect of it, and then the machines themselves. I like everything from scooters to Harley-Davidsons. I think it is as much about the design as the ride itself. There are lots of elements to each of them.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-26-at-15.31.52.png\" alt=\"Leathers on a hanger\" width=\"943\" height=\"878\" \/><figcaption>Textures: you can (almost) smell the leather and the sweat; with grease. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Yeah, and I guess the people are drawn together by their interest in it, and then a lot of fun things happen.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is why we have got the record shop in here as well. We attract those outsider-types who are really passionate about music and record collecting as well as motorbikes. So many bikers are simply commuters or weekenders &#8211; but that\u2019s not the community we cater for. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m interested in Bolt preserving the past but being relevant to now. We want to take the best from the history of bike culture and bring something to the present. That ingrained interest in things is where we are at really.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>That is funny, because there is nothing more practical than that Lambretta for getting around town. There are ways to be a stylish commuter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can beat anyone on that scooter in town. It is 50 years old now, but it has never run better. We have tuned the engine. It\u2019s super quick.\u00a0 For getting around London, it is the fastest thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/https___d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net_production_e7341a6a-dfd7-46eb-87ae-9816d08f775a.jpg\" alt=\"A Lambretta GT 186\" width=\"700\" height=\"461\" \/><figcaption>Inked by Ornamental Conifer: Andrew\u2019s Lambretta GT 186. Picture: John M Drake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>It must have been a difficult time these last 12 months?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the lockdowns we focused on making new stuff. We really want to present motorcycle clothing in a different way than ever before. We did a collection, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/boltxedie\/?hl=en\">Bolt X Edie<\/a>, which was presented at Paris Fashion Week. With the Bolt clothes, we just want to keep picking out the best fabrics, putting new designs together, and focusing on that side. That is where we feel our skill is &#8211; producing good quality clothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think a place like this could have existed outside of a city like London?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is one guy called Jack who has got a shop in Leicestershire, in the middle of nowhere. But people ride there. He has really built a community and made it a thing. I think, sometimes, being in a city is not the best place for riding bikes, so not the best place for bike shops. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is difficult to find the perfect space really, we chose this because of the yard, because we are a social place first and foremost. We like to bring people together, and bring all our elements, from music to fashion to film or whatever, into the yard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the future for Bolt?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year we are going to be launching our first major collection for Bolt. We have made a lot of things we haven&#8217;t done before, like boots and footwear. So this year we are going to see our first collection go big, hopefully. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have started picking up retailers in Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan and so on. So we want to keep building up our retailers. I haven\u2019t shown at Mooneyes, but I would love to show there one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bolt701-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A Bolt helmet\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption>A Bolt helmet. 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