In Washington D.C., dirt bikes and ATVs occupy a contested space—illegal to ride on city streets, yet central to a subculture that claims public infrastructure as stage and territory. Riders navigate the Capitol's grid in large groups, performing wheelies and stunts that assert presence while evading police enforcement.

This work documents the culture from inside: the mechanics who keep bikes running, the riders who treat city streets as proving ground, the spectators who gather when they hear engines approaching. Shot over multiple sessions, the images trace how a community builds identity around mobility and risk, how young men in particular negotiate power in a city where they're simultaneously hypervisible and structurally marginalized.

Bike Life exists in tension—between illegality and tradition, between public spectacle and private defiance. These images ask what it means when the ride itself becomes the point, when movement through space is both performance and resistance.

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Digital, Film