Lowrider bycicle

A lowrider bicycle is a highly customized bike with a long wheelbase and stylings inspired by lowrider cars. are common accessories to these custom bicycles. These bikes often feature a long, curved banana seat with a sissy bar and very tall upward-swept ape hanger handlebars. A lot of chrome, velvet, and overspoked wheels
Sheldon brown wrote of lowriders "they are built purely as an exercise in styling, with no real concern for riding qualities. Some of them, in fact, are not rideable, because the cranks are so close to the ground that the pedals cannot turn around.

History

Lowrider bikes first appeared in the 1960s in America. Kids would copy the work on lowrider cars on their bikes, usually starting with common muscle bike. This allowed those who were too young to drive a car to have a custom vehicle. Schwinn was the first company to launch a muscle bike in the form of the Sting-Ray.
Eddie munster's custom bicycle, created by George Barris and Skip Barrett of Barris Kustom Industries, is sometimes credited with spreading the popularity of lowriders, but the bike was not made public until the 1990s.


Source: Wikipedia.org