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Article #219: Lowrider Bikes: Art On Wheels

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






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