Most bicycles are dull and boring – they come out of a cookie cutter and they all look the same. Not so the lowrider bike. Once their owners get their hands on them, their lowrider becomes a personalized piece of art.
Custom upholstery, rims, special whitewall tires, and sound systems are common on this mode of transport.
Think I’m talking about a car? No, I’m talking about customized lowrider bicycles – the latest craze sweeping the urban areas of the country.
A lowrider bike is not about biking, although they do get ridden up and down neighborhood streets, or perhaps on the beach, to show off the “pimped up” ride, but mostly they are about viewing.
People have put steering wheels on their bikes, neon, handpainted murals, and even hydraulics. What are “hydraulics”? You might be asking yourself. That’s a fancy name for brakes powered by liquid. (Hydro means water in Greek.) The imagination is the limit when it comes to designing a lowrider bike.
You can get a plain old lowrider bike of course – simply a bike with a low, comfortable seat, usually a banana seat, the pedals set further...