Gentrification is out for my buddy! (Never spoke more than 5 minutes buddy in my mind lol)

[tenphases]

Gentrification sucks, famous Brooklyn dude that cooks on Eastern Parkway leaves his bike chained and covered all winter and comes out in the spring/summer to cook, absolute legend. Looks like the sanitation dept got complaints about it, uncovered it, snapped pics, and are getting ready to scrap it!! Anyone know what type of smoker this is? It can't be that heavy can it? Or a bike couldn't support it right? I'm about to get this guy a new smoker if they take his, this sucks! ( I will not go rescue it Eastern Parkway is gentrifying but it's still Brooklyn and if the wrong nephew sees me stealing Unc's smoker I may have some explaining to do 🤣)

[Carolyn]

Looks like a Char-griller offset.

[Huskee]

I'm not familiar with that firebox shape. It's not common, unless it's really old. It could be an old model of a small New Braunfels or Brinkmann, but I still don't remember that shape. It could also be homemade by someone with pretty good skills. Are you able to get close enough to see if there's a tag anywhere on it, maybe the back, that could indicate if it's commercial?

[Carolyn]

I was looking at the pit, but yeah, the fire box doesn't match the Char-griller. 🤷♀️

[Finster]

It sucks when people can't just mind their own damn business..

[tenphases]

Couldn't agree with the two of you more!

[JCBBQ]

What a legend! That bike-smoker is incredible. You still in JC?

[tenphases]

Yes! Still in JC - thanks for putting me onto to that new butcher shop! Smoker bike might be my new life goal 🤣

[JCBBQ]

Lol

[Spinaker]

My brother lives in Brooklyn, maybe I’ll have him run over there!

[tenphases]

Nice! I don't live in Brooklyn anymore but I have a house out there that keeps me in Brooklyn pretty frequently

[ItsAllGoneToTheDogs]

The picture isn't that clear but the rear end of the trike looks modified, if so it could easily support over 500lbs. But if I had to guess, that smoker is somewhere between 80 and 120lbs with most of the weight being the main grill body and legs otherwise it would be doing a wheelie without a rider. The spokes however, are doing an impressive job. It's unlikely they were meant to support more than 300lbs.

[tenphases]

Oh! That mean I can get this guy an ok joe off marketplace and it would be an upgrade!!

[JHB]

Good idea to get him a new one. I'll chip in. Would other people in your neighborhood also want to?

[tenphases]

Very cool of you, thank you so much for the offer. I can definitely get the neighborhood to chip in. The place is great, you have a lot of Jamaicans who are big into bbq, they all run barrel smokers and Jerk is religion. Most of the new people are actually really cool to, it just takes a few people to create a problem but ..... Just saying, I might have to make a giant smoker tricycle for myself too 🤣

[Lynn Dollar]

IDK, sounds like a NYC problem to me.

[JHB]

OK, let me know when you start the collection.

[Carolyn]

If you give him another one, won't that one get scrapped too?

[JHB]

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. If the problem is that his cooker is rusty, a new one will be fix things. But if they don’t like the setup with the bike, there’s not much we can do.