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In 1992, the Beastie Boys mentioned Lowrider bicycles in their song "Professor Booty", on the album "Check Your Head". In 1994, the AirWalk shoe company made a commercial featuring lowrider bikes. [28] In 1996, Marianne Dissard and Robert Kramer made the documentary film Low y Cool with the South Tucson, Arizona, lowrider bicycle club Los ...
This page lists notable bicycle brands and manufacturing companies past and present. For bicycle parts, see List of bicycle part manufacturing companies.. Many bicycle brands do not manufacture their own product, but rather import and re-brand bikes manufactured by others (e.g., Nishiki), sometimes designing the bike, specifying the equipment, and providing quality control.
Lowrider bicycles are highly customized bikes with a long wheelbase and styling inspired by lowrider cars. Scraper bikes are ordinary bicycles that have been modified by their owners, typically with decorated spokes with candy-colored pinwheels and matching body and wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint.
Alps Bicycle Industrial Co., Ltd., associated with Uchikanda Bicycle Shop in Tokyo from 1918 until its closure in 2007; specialized in made-to-order touring bicycles and equipment [7] Araya, a manufacturer of bicycle rims and of the Focus bicycle brand [8] Bridgestone (variously marketed as Anchor, C.Itoh, Kabuki)
Roadmaster Mt Fury Roadmaster Cape Cod on New York street. Roadmaster Bicycles were first introduced by the Cleveland Welding Company in 1936. In 1950, after purchasing the Roadmaster line of children's and youth bicycles from the Cleveland Welding Company, AMF entered the bicycle manufacturing business with its newly formed AMF Wheeled Goods Division.
In Southern California, a distinct growl of car engines are heard on the boulevards, led not by stereotypically macho characters often portrayed in street-racing films like Fast and Furious, but ...
A lowrider or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among African American & Mexican American youth in the 1940s. [3] Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs , which remain a part of African American Hip Hop culture & Chicano culture and have since expanded ...
This article lists bicycle part manufacturers and brands past and present. For a list of bicycle manufacturers, see list of bicycle manufacturers . Contents: