Meet the Godfather of the Lowrider Bicycle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2016
- You know those custom bicycles that Snoop Dogg and other rappers rode with swagger in countless music videos? The ones that ooze that West Coast style? They all came from one place: Manny's Bike Shop in Compton, Calif. Joe Manny Silva is the godfather of lowrider bicycles.
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No disrespect intended, but I built my first lowrider bike in 1977, in Oxnard, Ca... & there had already been lowrider bikes in Oxnard for many years before that. He said he invented them in the early 80s, I also grew up in Compton, Ca. when I was younger, 60s & 70s, in the 70s, in & around Compton, there were all kinds of lowrider bikes...
Dudes like these are the dudes I'm gonna miss. They are living legends that will forever go down in the origins of street culture like low rider bikes. After he's gone, man he's just gonna be a memory people will carry on to the next.
I still remember my first date in 6th grade in 1996 southern California. My boyfriend or more like just a good friend Cesar came to pick me up in a lowrider 😂 he come all creased down in his Ben Davis and Cortez's, fresh shaved head and clean shiny lowrider 😁 I rode on the handle bars in a dress and managed to cover up no problem 😁 now that's gangster! 😂 puppy love was the best! We danced to oldies in his backyard house party lol
Mexican pride !
Let's face it that's all Mexican culture all east LA is full of Mexican culture and its really nice
I made my first lowrider bike in 1978 took it to a car show took a second place then A local bike club from Coachella asked me if I wanted to join there club cause the president of that bike club was the one who took first place at the car show shortly after that I came out in lowrider magazine I’m 56 years old and I am building a bike for my grandson
Brought the lowrider bike to LA in the 80s BUUUUUULLLLSHITTTTTT my friends and my self were building our bikes in the late 60s and early 70s. And if you know what a schwuffy is then you know what its like to be from a working class neighborhood. What's a schwuffy you ask its a huffy with a schwinn springer front end because our parents couldn't afford to buy us a Schwinn.
I got a lowrider bike for free from some Asians next door. Now I'm taking the time to bring it back to life. nothing is better than restoring something you took the time clean and take care of.
When you don't have enough money to buy an actual lowrider car
I bought my first reflectors and white wall tires at Manny's in 1980
In the 90’s I always wanted a lowrider bike as a kid. Use to look at them in lowrider magazine. When I got one as an adult it wasn’t the same feeling I had when I was a kid. I don’t have one now, but I still admire them.
just got one a few weeks ago, and getting mine back after 11 years. i have always loved these bikes since I was a kid growing up in the Lowrider culture.
I made my lowrider bike in 1979. I picked up my first Low Rider magazine and saw pictures of the killer bikes being made in Los Angeles, and I had to have one. I was too young to drive, so a bike was the next best thing.
You are a star. I had a Schwinn Sting-Ray as a child.I still have it .... But I made it a lowrider.Nothing like your bikes .But still a lot of fun. You The Man!
That's awesome..as a kid I always tried to get one...as the age now..I'd still like one
My brother had a lowrider in the 70's in Nor Cal.
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Everything about this video is dope af
This is the second time I heard these type of bikes started in Mex especially the wheels, but it was here in LA where all the chrome and custom paint was first used.
I actually live by this place, use to go there a lot to fix my bike. Loved the place.