So I bought this lowrider bike off some dude off craigslists about 2 month ago. Its an all chrome bike with a lot of twist and the dude got it off lovely lowrider.com. So it was pretty basic with some added parts, but I love riding it so much that now I wanna take some time a design my own so I can take a little more pride in it cause I got tones of ideas. I spent all last night searching past posts, but I still gotta hella questions.
1. The gayest thing about lowrider bikes bar non is the fact that they don't commercially produce vogue tires. That is so gay to me. It seems so essential. The bike design I have my head 100% requires them to complete the design so I'm going to have to make some so I'm going to need advice on that and pictures cause the past posts had a lot of dead links. It's fucked up cause you gotta not only mix the paint, but to really match a vogue tires you have to paint the black tread part. I would prefer it be ridable, but if not I'll live.
2. the second question is in reguards to lowering the bike. I actually bought a 2nd "scrapper" bike in decent shape off craigslist for $40 cause I wanted to use some of the parts on it. It already had an ext crown/90 degree ring on it and I wanted to use it, but it lowers the bike way too much. I want to be about a half inch off the ground on the down peddle. Will a small spring from masterlowrider.com accomplish this for me?
3. Where can I go to get a frame painted? If I went to a shop that paint cars would they do my frame? Can I spray paint it myself and get a quality result? I was thinking about decal/logo type shit (like raiders logo...) not quite sure though, whats the best way to do something like that without custom painting?
Yea, those were my top 3 thanks.
1. The gayest thing about lowrider bikes bar non is the fact that they don't commercially produce vogue tires. That is so gay to me. It seems so essential. The bike design I have my head 100% requires them to complete the design so I'm going to have to make some so I'm going to need advice on that and pictures cause the past posts had a lot of dead links. It's fucked up cause you gotta not only mix the paint, but to really match a vogue tires you have to paint the black tread part. I would prefer it be ridable, but if not I'll live.
2. the second question is in reguards to lowering the bike. I actually bought a 2nd "scrapper" bike in decent shape off craigslist for $40 cause I wanted to use some of the parts on it. It already had an ext crown/90 degree ring on it and I wanted to use it, but it lowers the bike way too much. I want to be about a half inch off the ground on the down peddle. Will a small spring from masterlowrider.com accomplish this for me?
3. Where can I go to get a frame painted? If I went to a shop that paint cars would they do my frame? Can I spray paint it myself and get a quality result? I was thinking about decal/logo type shit (like raiders logo...) not quite sure though, whats the best way to do something like that without custom painting?
Yea, those were my top 3 thanks.
