Meet the Godfather of the Lowrider Bicycle

[@royalrod_]

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.

[@SpyderRocket]

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.

[@sixshootercustoms4095]

Haha I'm the complete opposite. I turned 42, started longboardring, used to skate board when I was a kid then I bought a schwinn meridian of fb marketplace, and immediately started building a lowrider. Lol I have a family so I can't just dump every dollar I have in it right away. But the next day I bought a little girls schwinn bike for next to nothing, and snatched the handle bars and banana seat and sissy bar, it didn't have the cage foe the back, like I said marketplace, it was all kind fd up. But I tore it down rebuilt it have been riding it everyday since I've had it. When it starts to get cold I'm gonna tear it down, hopefully have a few bucks for a springer front end and some new rims. I'm obsessed lol

[@rcppop3090]

I traded a Haro bmx bike for an old Schwinn Stingray when I was a teenage in the early 90’s. I was probably 15. I didn’t have access to a welder nor did I know how to weld so I bondoed cardboard to the rear on the chain stay area and made it into a heart point then I rattle canned it in a metallic green flake. Bought a springer front fork and I was the coolest little dude in my neighborhood hahaha it was a terrible job but from 30’ away it was cherry 🍒 hahaha I have no idea what happened to that bike but it was a fun memory.

[@authorjohnnyjay8778]

I bought my first reflectors and white wall tires at Manny's in 1980

[@terrible6072]

Let's face it that's all Mexican culture all east LA is full of Mexican culture and its really nice

[@mayam7912]

Bo Lep america is the whole continent and the us is part of the north of méxico

[@sendnudes9104]

Bo Lep Its called Chicano life style not America the true Name of this continent it is called cemanahuac

[@terrible6072]

Bo Lep dude have you ever been to Mexico? Like I said all that came here because of the Mexican people you should see the original culture it's awsome.

[@primo831]

Bo Lep It's Mexican American because the Americans who made this are of Mexican heritage. We're Mexican American. You can't take away our Mexican roots

[@nationalcitysycho]

TERRIBLE 》 CHICANO CULTURE..ONCE YOU WERE BORN HERE U A CHICANO

[@darcandelaria]

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

[@wikidking8904]

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.

[@fatfender48]

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. Check my channel to see it.

[@joedoeboe3342]

fatfender48 that's a nice bike

[@justingriffith8486]

How can got a. Lowrider bike

[@mattschenden7742]

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!

[@felonyforlifevideos2139]

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...

[@pxlronin]

True that. There were lowrider bikes way before the early 80s. My cousins and I built lowrider bikes in LA in the late 70s.

[@Everythingforsalepro]

Rollo #FelonyForLife he brought them over in the early 80's means 70's you dummy

[@felonyforlifevideos2139]

maybe you should watch it again, it says IT ALL STARTED HERE, it also says HE brought them over here from Mexico in the early 80s.... that would mean they weren't here in the 70s, but as I said, I built MY first one in 77, & they were around LONG before that...I moved from Compton to Oxnard in 72, & they already existed there, in Compton, so if he built them in Mexico in the 70s, & brought them to California in the early 80s, HOW THE HELL did they already exist IN COMPTON & IN OXNARD in the early SEVENTIES... Do the math BEFORE you start talkin shit For the record, I'm not trying to disrespect the dude at all, he does some great work, I'm just saying the bikes existed in Cali LONG before he said he started it

[@mikev4114]

lowrider bikes were already here you correct...even the narrator said lowrider bikes came from Mexico..lowrider blues were already in California...

[@laytonsri150]

+paul bika vido Early 80s would be from 1980 to 1985, nothing to do with the 70s, lol

[@herbdean5296]

Mexican pride !

[@canogaparque818]

Christomascota Ufo fuck yea9

[@oldskoolmariotopps8471]

Chad Gatter nothing wrong whit that. Mexican American Pride

[@Tec-fv2xb]

Vatooooooo

[@JoseValdez-gf8sb]

Herb Dean "Especial"

[@LC-xn4dp]

Do Bo you can have pride as long as ur not a supremacist

[@SoydelosFabian]

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.

[@Jordan-wd8jo]

chuchiro213 u got jokes chicanito

[@zulfikaregzikutor5561]

LA was part of Mexico if somebody ask you.

[@openworld6337]

California was part of Mexico but technically you both right XD

[@soyrick13]

I'm 46 year old and I remember building my own low rider bike but remember real good that you couldn't buy anything to build one. You made from what ever you got your hands on. I remember going to pep boys buying regular parts and custom changing them. buying a banana seat and ripping them up and redoing it lowrider style. also buying bando and doing it our self. I'm not saying this guy is bullshiting but I don't remember hearing about this guy. I grew up in South Central Los Angeles and don't remember seeing this types of bikes in Mexico when I use to go with my parents.

[@darcandelaria]

It depends on what part of Mexico my dad had one in the 80's in Mexico so they were around probably even before that. I guess it depends in what part of Mexico.

[@Anthony-to7cp]

You never heard of him? Are you from Compton? Pregunta?

[@soyrick13]

@@Anthony-to7cp no born and raised in SCLA but I had family and friends from Compton

[@iamdjsluggo]

Hu? Mid 80’s?...I was ridding a low rider bike in NorCal in the mid 70’s! Long goose neck, hella lights, “knee action”, welded and bondo and bumping 6x9s

[@JCee13]

He takes credit for everything lowrider bike related. Hes joke

[@erniegarza9330]

hey didn't they have lowrider bike 60' & 70's be for the 80's I know it was because I seen it in the low riders magazine because my uncle has magazine from way back in the days

[@jbirdperez6003]

Biker builder .. yes ! God Father NO ! He's one of many many bike builder . and he's pretty goOd at what he does. hats off !! But This been goin on in southern California way before the 80's and if you research and look around at some of the old skool you will find some rare films and photograph from the 60's on the street of southern california and on you tube videos, with their koolest custom , lowriders, choppers,trikes, with tall handlebars, twisted sissy bars, whitewalls, bananan seats, flake gold leave paint jobs, handmade in garage, backyards , and so on .. that was the best way of life and for goOd reasons haha ! . . . Much enjoyed video.. thanks Chicano Power ! !

[@DavidSilva-nx2cc]

jbird Perez if you no anything about lowrider bikes .which I doubt.You would know that a lowrider bike is built from mind .And not bought at Walmart like u do.

[@jbirdperez6003]

Born and raised in East Los my brother . .. . The home of LowRiDeRs Where it all began ha ! that's my life Vato .. Vintage , Restore, and customize .. bombs, harleys, Lowriders cars / bikes If you had your life to live over again, Try East Los in the 70's The best place in the planet .. hOmE oF tHe Boulavard LoW RiDrs and so on .. Hopefully we can run into each other at a Car show .. or event and chop it up .. get my numbr big boy i'll build you a custom low rider bike that sits ten just for you .

[@fatman_88]

G. T. If you feel that way why the fuck you here on the comments dumbass or even on the page of the video

[@nationalcitysycho]

jbird Perez YUP..CHICANO POWER.....& YOU ARE RIGHT HE IS NO GODFATHER...WE HAVE PICTURES OF MY BROTHERS LOWRIDER BIKE IN 1977 & HE WAS 13 ..SO NO HE IS NOT THE GODFATHER & HE DIDNT BRING THEM FROM MEX...LIAR!

[@rcjr1371]

jbird Perez Stop being a hater bro

[@barbarahernandez6264]

Some body should post a video inside the bike shop

[@yt_kianxr2236]

no your super dum bitch

[@dirtyasianmafia2310]

Kian Appleyard Its *you're and *dumb Stupid dumb bitch

[@dirtyasianmafia2310]

Dodger Blue lol

[@elmoreohly1486]

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

[@darthpotassiums1fan20]

3:43 “weld something we need a shot” “ok I’ll weld on this random price of metal in a vice.

[@guardian6975]

What?

[@Pauleazy420]

My brother had a lowrider in the 70's in Nor Cal.

[@SHan-qn1yz]

I love Cali. I love G-Funk. I love Lowrider

[@anabelsolis234]

Been living in the big CPT with my husband for a long ...long time been here a few times 2 fix my sons bike ...there pretty cool & nice people

[@JohnnyMartinez-ep2ft]

That's awesome..as a kid I always tried to get one...as the age now..I'd still like one

[@bobbg9041]

We were making chopper bikes in the 60's as kids in Dayton, Not as fancy as a lowrider and not welded. But we would take the forks cut off a different bike 2-3 sets of them and put a tiny frt wheel on the last set of forks, use chopper style handelbars and banna seats with sissy bars. The take a few playing cards and a closepin and when the spokes hit the card it sounded like a chopper, or motor cycle. The first time I seen low rider bikes i thought of living in Dayton as a kid and the stuff we did to our bikes. Yes this is an American tradition any kid would love.

[@j.dizzle3333]

I call B.S. We were riding this shit in mid 70's no coast az.

[@papatutti59]

Manny has many beautiful bike creations but in the mid-70's, we were building low rider bikes from schwinn bikes. In your face Manny!

[@JCee13]

Yup he likes to take credit for everything. Hes a fraudster

[@Anthony-to7cp]

Nothing new! Schwinn has always been the original lowrider bike frame!!

[@Sputz3]

People in Northern Cali was riding on lowrider 3 wheelers way before Manny. He seems like a cool guy though.

[@JCee13]

Manny will take credit for anything lowrider bike related. He used to be okay now his age is making him not humble.

[@rubenlopez7334]

my dad had lowrider bikes since there the early 70s they use to bend the forks them self and he's Mexican but didn't come from mecico

[@392bape]

I actually live by this place, use to go there a lot to fix my bike. Loved the place.

[@eleannissouto3887]

en Venezuela tenemos mucho material pero no hay quien los trabaje me gustaría aprender

[@eliseo-cheyo8225]

best lowrider bike in town i life to streets away from the shop i been know the guy since i was little his the best

[@Boots_And_Slicks14]

The first person with the idea to customize a Schwinn Sting-Ray was George Barris, he, along with Skip Barret and Von Dutch, help build a chain frame replica of a Sting-Ray for Eddie Munster of the Munsters show. By some that bike is considered the first "Lowrider" bike.

[@Boots_And_Slicks14]

Lol, very "intelligents" huh? Thanks for the laugh!

[@oweyougrams]

Indeed to me it is

[@rosaatomica9976]

maya m cmon man im mexican and youre making us look bad wtf

[@leonbednarski6409]

Or a custom….but no filled in tanks or graphics. Barris is a Kustom icon, but to consider him to be a pioneer in lowrider bicycles? Naaah mate.

[@vatoloco4090]

thank you Mexican vatos for bringing and inventing lowrider cars and bikes

[@simon1211]

my name Simon i been making lowrider frames and bikes since late 80's and the first time i seen a lowlow bike was in one of the first editions of lowrider mag

[@folksbell5817]

Everything about this video is dope af

[@bertharomandia7397]

It's amazing how they have stood the test of time and to teach our children that they too have a rich history to learn about different cultures that makes history fun ☺️ and interesting and the many lebgens that made it possible.❤👍👌😆

[@ramonmalacara4434]

VIVA LA RAZA CHICANA .....FROM LEON GTO MEXICO TO OUR BROTHERS IN THE USA

[@vwlover4677]

Awesome to see his dream take off like that. Hood for him!! I mean good. lol

[@Leeloo.says.Multipass]

Funny, I never knew that bike shop on the side of the bridge on Rosecrans is this shop! Hell yeah

[@jcporosity4764]

My great grandfather use to build bikes back in early 60s for fun.

[@1xrxaxrxex174]

R.I.P.

[@1ivannthegreat]

I miss my Lowrider bike 😔

[@beng.8726]

Me too !!!

[@aaronvaughn9616]

Ya me to

[@aaronvaughn9616]

Wait I still have mine sorry but good news I am selling it for a really cheap price

[@Z3r0-Ski11z]

I have never liked lowriders, but this is just lit 🔥

[@dimefever1006]

Lowrider bikes have been around since the 70's if not before...I have a copy of the first lowrider magazine from the 70's and they were in there. Of course he is probably the first to really customize them to show quality...

[@chrismcanally7886]

I got one of these bikes and I am white and I am from Georgia so thank you for bringing the sport

[@RockabillyRambler]

Welding, painting, plating, polishing, engineering....this is why mexicans take all the jobs. Dont like it? learn a skill and be competitive.

[@raiderfrankdatank]

Wish it was longer

[@endurotruckererniedesjardins]

Mike Metzger is the god father of freestyle mx. But he wasn't the first dude to hit a ramp or do tricks. Maybe it's the idea of being the first to promote it hard. Like really try to create the culture and a following. His bikes are truly beautiful. I had a dyno deuce . I wish I never sold it.

[@CryptidHunter_official]

I grew up in this neighbourhood and knew this dude when I was a kid. This dude would buy stolen bikes from the neighbourhood.

[@fieldboy674VGN]

I always owned a lowrider bike since I was a kid still got my trike and I have a old bondoed swinn frame that I want to build one for my son

[@theactualdarthvader]

this dude a real OG

[@dvnychvz9757]

Damn... I want one now

[@midwestmafia6284]

fuckn bad ass! i put chrome 16's and white walls on a 20" schwinn in the early 90's. half 20 fenders,apes,crushed red velvet long seat.had to put 160mm cranks on it. and the pedals still scrape. i still cruz it today.

[@joshturner9759]

I'm from Alabama nothing like that here but I love it about how much would any of y'all say this would go for on a custom scale 1-10 me wanting 1 customized around maybe 4 or 5

[@onlyNtimE]

I miss these days

[@thedude7726]

I like how hes randomly welding a piece of plate steel looking confused

[@Ericec4126]

They need to make these videos longer

[@vico4358]

I live down the street from Mannys shop 😎 and I just barely realized it was a big deal

[@elpasopicking5425]

Early 80's???? My cousin was already riding his Lowrider bike in 1979 here in El Paso, Tx

[@neilbillybob3065]

Beautiful bikes

[@kartoonolivar8781]

How can he said he ship all over the world but yet I asked and he don't even ship anything i have asked before :(

[@chuckmalmsteen]

Kartoon Olivar maybe he won't ship anything to your broke ass

[@svvageog870]

Kartoon Olivar he said customers all over the world

[@BigRed2]

chuck malmsteen Broke ass? only poor bitches buy these bikes lol, you act like these cost a lot of money, sounds like ur dirt poor 😂

[@DavidSilva-nx2cc]

Kartoon Olivar u broke ass hell.i send u at the swap meet looking for Gucci..

[@DavidSilva-nx2cc]

I'm hungry

[@ChargedUp94]

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.

[@patrickgilvillaruel9182]

Damn Holmes can you do a downhill low rider bike??

[@ygk1994]

He must be the coolest kid on the block

[@agustinangulo883]

If you guys want to meet him, he goes to the church El Aposento Alto in Paramount, California.

[@anonym21860]

Does someone know the Name of the Song at 0:23?

[@MarchPlaymate]

Yooo whats location for the shop?? Need some parts for my bike

[@m.kasper7646]

Not The GodFather My homies older than Manny & I had lowrider bike built in our garages back in eary 70's. Mexico godfather maybe but not here in so cal. I have pix of them and the car show trophies too back in the 70's.

[@sirjoi1628]

OG's only ride with classic cars and bikes on the streets

[@miserum7932]

What poor pimps gotta ride

[@HarrisonJBounel]

Cuz true pimpin ain't easy!

[@phillyphil3860]

It can be a pimps hobby

[@jeffbryner5355]

I love lo Lo's but never got into these! Some of them seem way to heavy to actually ride. Especially when you put juice on it

[@soyerickmx1360]

Ingenio MEXICANO!!

[@kokiktm2672]

las bike de show👍👍👍 Saludos desde Puerto Rico

[@spankyx813]

Manny's Bike Shop looks like the first gym you go to in GTA San Andreas

[@hunnylionloves1415]

Love it god bless you all peace and love always prayers

[@GoodTimerCO]

Majestic Dream holding it down in the 719

[@bondoon]

I Need These Badass Bikes Now

[@raymartmarciano9829]

what is the title of background music?

[@CarmenGarcia-dd3be]

How can I find those lowrider carpets?

[@hevertpacheco7870]

That last bike was crazy,

[@MrDeleon9999]

Lowrider bikes are a American creation ... Far before the 1980s...

[@foolrecords2367]

MrDeleon9999 haha you comment is estupid homie haha

[@FIRST-x4h]

It is an American creation, not Mexico.

[@ICXC0]

Mexican-American or Chicano, not from white or black culture, for all you dumb fucks that like to steal our culture.

[@foolrecords2367]

But if I invent a Mexican

[@foolrecords2367]

You did not hear what they said

[@gfkdrew]

That bike shop is part of my childhood

[@alexenriquez1506]

Started from a twist frame bought for 150 started cutting lawns and then I was able to buy twist forks and twist everything as a kid and right now I'm 13 so I'm going to hand my bike down to my cousin

[@MrRatdice]

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.

[@geoffeves4722]

Hey good for you buddy you fuxkin rock big time thanks for letting everyone know. Haha

[@04dram04]

that customer says it all

[@terrandroid]

awesome bikes! where can you buy banana seats and long handle bars

[@bluemountaindrivepae]

The Greasy Strangler Aztlan bikes

[@raymondmoya4716]

Cool love it ! 👍👊😎

[@hunnylionloves1415]

God bless you all

[@hunnylionloves1415]

God bless you all peace

[@timmitzlaff8960]

Oh God I love your bikes man. I want a trike so bad. But what about the $$$ ?

[@slicktrilla3008]

My Cali REAL RIDER'S 😎 CLUB

[@FormigaFit]

Bikes are dope.

[@davidgotgames526]

I got my lowrider bike wen i was 6 and i started riding wen i was 9 my dad painted my lowrider bike all candy paint with the spokes and i love my bike.....MEXICANO PRIDE

[@nationalcitysycho]

David got games so you are born in Mexico then right because when you're born in the US we say Chicano Pride not Mexico

[@Unclejunior1231]

Got a question what is it called where the over the top half of the bike wheel but you just see the bottom half of the wheel? I see and beach cruiser with one on his bike and it is dope as fuck

[@loveforthegame3]

ill tell you what. Seeing as i have 2 motorcycles and a car i dont usually ride my bike anywhere. But pulling up to the bar on one of these🤩🤙

[@chrisg3283]

Pure talent

[@raymundolopez2811]

How can I get ahold of him

[@killuammm2203]

1:52 issa art

[@dwaseems]

tell me those song names please? anyone?

[@deeznuttsinyermoutholdscho2919]

cool bikes

[@erniegarza9330]

he copied from the Schwinn bike and they been around in the old days