THE BARBERING BIKER

Spotting a trailer-equipped, strange-looking Indian Vintage with a horse’s saddle as a back seat in the NSW outback town of Lightning Ridge was pretty bizarre… and realising it was being ridden by a grandmother only made the situation more unusual.

But that’s part of the Barbering Biker show.

“I wanted a steampunk equestrian vibe… design wise it was the only Indian I could get to match the idea in my head,” Chris Keeble, aka The Barbering. “I’ve had it wrapped, it’s not a paint job. I wanted it to look like it had been stuck in a shed for the last 100 years when I found it. Rusty, vintage, looks old… I don’t have to clean it, the rusty look is deliberate. I keep adding to it, more shit. I love going to junk yards and vintage shops… you’ve heard of American Pickers, well I’m the Aussie scab! I always walk out with some little horse bit, bit of crazy leather work. There’s a full-blown horse saddle on the back which has been properly docked; I can use it.”