For your average kid, building a lowrider is a dream come true. In the case of Pablo Gonzales Jr. from Eagle Pass, Texas, this young man always wanted a lowrider bike to be able to cruise around his ...
They say that idle time is the devil's playground. Often, kids with too much time on their hands end up watching TV, playing video games, or getting into trouble. Interest in positive and creative ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is celebrating a milestone with the help of a local lowrider bicycle club. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the agency unveiled a ...
COMPTON, California - Mexican-born Manny Silva is known as the "godfather of lowriders" thanks to the custom-made bicycles he makes in the shop he set up in Compton in 1973. His lowriders, with frames ...
You’d think even custom bikes have to ensure a comfortable riding position and some degree of safety, both for the rider and its rider. But custom bike building pretty much has no limits when it comes ...
Feb. 16—Serenity Barela, 12, missed out on a school dance Friday night, but she wasn't too worried about it. "I'd rather come to this," she said. Inside the adobe walls of the Museum of Spanish ...
A pilot program officially launched on Saturday in National City at Bobby's Muffler & Tire Shop on Highland Avenue. For the next six weeks, a group of six local kids of all ages will learn how to make ...
Joseph Ibarra, 17, scuffed the frame of his custom lowrider bicycle in preparation for the painting process Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, during a meeting of the Olathe North Hispanic Leadership Council’s ...
What looks like an old, rundown building on the outside... is secretly awesome on the inside! Hidden in plain sight on the corner of a frontage road in Compton, you'll find Manny's Bike Shop, along ...
A Smithsonian traveling exhibition maps the family ties and ingenuity behind lowriders—from post-World War II Chicano pride ...