By Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com

Published: 21:18 EDT, 5 April 2018 | Updated: 06:25 EDT, 6 April 2018

The crowd is cheering, beer cans are flying, and the floor is packed with mud. 

Two people on bikes are staring each other down, long PVC plumbing pipes gripped tight in their hands, before they start to pedal with everything they can... until they collide. 

This is Bike Kill, an annual jousting competition organized by The Black Label Bike Club in the Bedstuy neighborhood of Brooklyn. 

And it was all captured by photographer Julie Glassberg, who spent three years with the BLBC for her self-published book, a trade edition of which will come out this summer. 

This is Bike Kill, an annual jousting competition organized by The Black Label Bike Club in the Bedstuy neighborhood of Brooklyn and captured by photographer Julie Glassberg

Glassberg spent three years with the BLBC, documenting their jousting competitions, costumes, and performances 

Many BLBC members ride tall bikes which they modify themselves, teetering on the frames while holding long PVC pipes for the competition

Glassberg told DailyMail.com that she had been struggling to document another subculture in New York when someone told her about the BLBC. 

She decided to do some research, watching videos of the notorious jousting events and a movie that followed the early years of the club in the 1990s.

'I thought those kids were crazy (in a completely good way), out of the norm, rebels disobeying social pressure to follow a certain life path and constructing their own freedom,' she said. 'I was attracted by all that.' 

The Black Label Bike Club is an offshoot of an 'outlaw' bicycle club that was started in Minneapolis in the early 1990s, according to Collector Daily.   

The Black Label Bike Club is an offshoot of an 'outlaw' bicycle club that was started in Minneapolis in the early 1990s

Glassberg told DailyMail.com she had been struggling to document another subculture in New York when someone told her about the BLBC and she immediately became hooked 

'I thought those kids were crazy (in a completely good way), out of the norm, rebels disobeying social pressure to follow a certain life path and constructing their own freedom,' she said. 'I was attracted by all that'

'Its members revel in the improvisational DIY hacking of bicycles, particularly in the creation of tall bikes that totter along on frames two or three times as high as a normal two-wheeler,' the site explains. 

'It is a culture of pared down modification and extension, of welded steel and over-sized tires, of bikes that include surfboards, painted shark teeth, and other carnival clown-like features.' 

This all culminates in an annual event that includes jousting competitions, races, and performances. 

The BLBC's annual event is Bike Kill, which takes place in the parking lot of a supermarket just behind the club's headquarters, called the Chicken Hut.

Glassberg revealed that the event begins early in the afternoon, when people from the neighborhood - especially children - come to check out and try the new bikes that have been built by the club members and their friends.

Bike Kill happens in the parking lot of a supermarket behind the Chicken Hut, the BLBC's headquarter in Bedstudy 

People dress up in costumes and enjoy plenty of beer as they await for the jousting competitions to begin 

Glassberg said the girls aren't intimidated at Bike Kill, and are always joining in on the fun and debauchery of the events

'Late in the evening starts the jousting,' she said. 'And girls aren't intimidated.' 

'Bike Kill is a big apocalypse. Various unidentified objects are projected through the air. Bikes are flying and colliding. No one can escape.' 

'If you come to Bike Kill, you're all in it. Spiritually and physically. It's a big nonsense where everybody expresses their freedom, however they want to.' 

While many of Glassberg's photos capture the incredible activity of Bike Kill in all its chaos, her collection also includes many of the quieter moments among the club. 

While many of Glassberg's photos capture the incredible activity of Bike Kill in all its chaos, her collection also includes many of the quieter moments among the club

Many nights were simply spent sitting around a table playing dices with some beer and dollar bills at the Chicken Hut 

Glassberg also captured many moments of the members stealing a few moments of sleep on a sofa at the busy headquarters

It was these moments that Glassberg was able to really get to know the club, and saw that there was more to them than jousting and tattoos

There are the stolen hours of sleep on a sofa or kitchen table in the Chicken Hut, and the nights sitting around a table playing dices with some beer and dollar bills. 

'After a long night at the hut, friends are welcome to spend the night over,' Glassberg explained. 'Sometimes they plan big party events at the Hut, with activities and concerts.' 

'But this one time, nothing was planned, and like most of the times people started showing up during the night, hanging out in the kitchen, by the turtle tank.' 

'Tequila is flowing, they start playing dices, put some nice music on, and the night is on...until the early morning.' 

It was during these moments that Glassberg was able to really get to know the club, and saw that there was more to them than jousting and tattoos. 

'I quite liked the contrast between how they look and who they are,' she said. 'There is this tough outside image with the clothes, colors, jousting, tattoos, and anarchy events. But some of those folks are the greatest I've met' 

Glassberg said that in her three years with the club she found that the members had 'big heart, culture, and intelligence'

Pictured are stacks of bikes at the Chicken Hut. Before the annual Bike Kill, children from the neighborhood come to get a chance to ride these DIY bikes 

'I quite liked the contrast between how they look and who they are,' she said. 'There is this tough outside image with the clothes, colors, jousting, tattoos, and anarchy events.' 

'But some of those folks are the greatest I've met, with a big heart, culture, and intelligence.' 

'They may seem like the careless youth, yet they are more aware than most young people about what's going on in the world and are very united.' 

'It seems to me they have real values of human relationships that we seem to be losing today with technology.'  

Glassberg said that while the club 'may seem like the careless youth...they are more aware than most young people about what's going on in the world and are very united'

"You are about to enter another dimension."

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