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Article #477: Be Cool, Be a Lowrider

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Custom upholstery, rims, special is what all the "young studs" call it.)
whitewall tires, and sound systems are It's quite easy to get carried away, and
common on this mode of transport. more is not necessarily better, although
Think I'm talking about a car? No, I'm some lowrider artists seem to think so.
talking about customized lowrider Two mirrors on each side, two horns, a
bicycles - the latest craze sweeping the spare tire mounted on the rear..it can be
urban areas of the country. a bit much (although you can't tell them
A lowrider bike is not about biking, that!)
although they do get ridden up and down So before you start fitting out your
neighborhood streets, or perhaps on the lowrider, think for a while about what
beach, to show off the "pimped up" ride, you want it to look like. Are you a
but mostly they are about viewing. talented artist? Then purchase some paint
People have put steering wheels on their made specifically for bikes and give it a
bikes, neon, handpainted murals, and even unique mural. Match the rest of the
hydraulics. What are "hydraulics"? You accessories to the mural. If it's of a
might be asking yourself. That's a fancy series of volcanos, get red upholstery
name for brakes powered by liquid. (Hydro and red rims, for example. If you've got
means water in Greek.) The imagination is any mechanical talent at all you can
the limit when it comes to designing a "distress" various of the parts to give
lowrider bike. it a unique look.
You can get a plain old lowrider bike of Most of all, you've simply got to join a
course - simply a bike with a low, lowrider club in your area, because most
comfortable seat, usually a banana seat, of the fun in having these types of bikes
the pedals set further forward then is to show them off to your friends. Lots
normal so it's almost like you're of clubs have competitions and give
pedaling while sitting down, and high, prizes for the best-looking or most
swept up handlebars called apehangers. outrageous-looking bikes.
But what's the point of getting a Surf the web for online stores that offer
lowrider without accessorising it? (I lowrider accessories, so you'll know what
prefer the term accessorizing to all is out there. Then, let your
"pimping," personally, although "pimping" imagination run wild!






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