Meet the Godfather of the Lowrider Bicycle

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You know those custom bicycles that Snoop Dogg and other rappers rode with swagger in countless music videos? The ones that ooze that West Coast style? They all came from one place: Manny's Bike Shop in Compton, Calif. Joe Manny Silva is the godfather of lowrider bicycles.
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@royalrod_ 6 лет назад

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.

@authorjohnnyjay8778 7 лет назад

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

@SpyderRocket 4 года назад

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 Год назад

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

@darcandelaria 5 лет назад

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 7 лет назад

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.

@terrible6072 7 лет назад

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

@mayam7912 6 лет назад

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

@sendnudes9104 6 лет назад

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

@terrible6072 6 лет назад

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 6 лет назад

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 6 лет назад

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

@fatfender48 7 лет назад

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 6 лет назад

fatfender48 that's a nice bike

@justingriffith8486 6 лет назад

How can got a. Lowrider bike

@mattschenden7742 6 лет назад

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!

@folksbell5817 6 лет назад

Everything about this video is dope af

@Pauleazy420 7 лет назад

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

@felonyforlifevideos2139 7 лет назад

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 7 лет назад

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 7 лет назад

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

@felonyforlifevideos2139 7 лет назад

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 7 лет назад

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

@laytonsri150 7 лет назад

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

@JohnnyMartinez-ep2ft 6 лет назад

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

@CultureCycles100 8 лет назад

Love this

@neilbillybob3065 7 лет назад

Beautiful bikes

@raymondmoya4716 5 лет назад

Cool love it ! 👍👊😎

@slickdreams9325 7 лет назад

this is beauty 😍🔥💯

@jai9952 6 лет назад

So dope!

@SoydelosFabian 8 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

chuchiro213 u got jokes chicanito

@zulfikaregzikutor5561 4 года назад

LA was part of Mexico if somebody ask you.

@openworld6337 2 года назад

California was part of Mexico but technically you both right XD

@bfitz567 7 лет назад

VERY cool!!..

@392bape 7 лет назад

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

@kokiktm2672 7 лет назад

las bike de show👍👍👍 Saludos desde Puerto Rico

@hunnylionloves1415 6 лет назад

Love it god bless you all peace and love always prayers

@Leeloo.says.Multipass 6 лет назад

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

@jamess8477 7 лет назад

Very cool.

@herbdean5296 8 лет назад

Mexican pride !

@canogaparque818 7 лет назад

Christomascota Ufo fuck yea9

@oldskoolmariotopps8471 7 лет назад

Chad Gatter nothing wrong whit that. Mexican American Pride

@Tec-fv2xb 7 лет назад

Vatooooooo

@JoseValdez-gf8sb 7 лет назад

Herb Dean "Especial"

@LC-xn4dp 7 лет назад

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

@darthpotassiums1fan20 6 лет назад

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

@guardian6975 3 года назад

What?

@poetgarcia8207 7 лет назад

Love it

@anabelsolis234 5 лет назад

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

@DumbassPlumber 7 лет назад

Issa Art

@Art_Travel_and_Hobbys 6 лет назад

Nice...👍🙏

@vwlover4677 7 лет назад

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

@erniegarza9330 5 лет назад

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

@bertharomandia7397 Год назад

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.❤👍👌😆

@dvnychvz9757 7 лет назад

Damn... I want one now

@elmoreohly1486 Год назад

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

@jcporosity4764 7 лет назад

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

@KillJoy_Since2017 6 лет назад

Awesome

@simon1211 7 лет назад

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

@vico4358 6 лет назад

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

@eliseo-cheyo8225 7 лет назад

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

@soyerickmx1360 6 лет назад

Ingenio MEXICANO!!

@JimmySandoval-vf4vt 6 месяцев назад

I need one of those

@rubenlopez7334 7 лет назад

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

@eleannissouto3887 7 лет назад

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

@thedude7726 7 лет назад

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

@raiderfrankdatank 6 лет назад

Wish it was longer

@papatutti59 4 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@Anthony-to7cp 10 месяцев назад

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

@chrisg3283 7 лет назад

Pure talent

@deeznuttsinyermoutholdscho2919 6 лет назад

cool bikes

@theactualdarthvader 6 лет назад

this dude a real OG

@Ericec4126 7 лет назад

They need to make these videos longer

@iamdjsluggo 4 года назад

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 3 года назад

He takes credit for everything lowrider bike related. Hes joke

@hunnylionloves1415 6 лет назад

God bless you all

@jackjohnson7396 7 лет назад

Creative

@soyrick13 8 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

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 10 месяцев назад

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

@soyrick13 10 месяцев назад

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

@MarchPlaymate 6 лет назад

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

@edwardbeebejr.6720 3 года назад

I have got to get me a fleet of these bikes

@barbarahernandez6264 8 лет назад

Some body should post a video inside the bike shop

@yt_kianxr2236 6 лет назад

no your super dum bitch

@dirtyasianmafia2310 6 лет назад

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

@dirtyasianmafia2310 6 лет назад

Dodger Blue lol

@clevelandmaker7044 8 лет назад

I would love to take a picture of my bike in front of his shop!!!

@hunnylionloves1415 6 лет назад

God bless you all peace

@bondoon 6 лет назад

I Need These Badass Bikes Now

@TikkycaanTFM 6 лет назад

Straight outta Compton

@eddieleecasonjr4984 7 лет назад

real talk

@acealvarez6540 6 лет назад

Wow.....Damn I always wanted one

@Unclejunior1231 2 года назад

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

@f_u_c_k5974 7 лет назад

BRO THATS MY FORMER BIKE SHOP BACK WHEN I WAS RIDING FIXIES I WOULD ALWAYS GO BACK TO MANNY TO GET A NEW TIRE WTF HE GOING BIG TIME! MEXICAN PRIDE

@jaelpikner9872 6 лет назад

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

@patrickgilvillaruel9182 6 лет назад

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

@midwestmafia6284 7 лет назад

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.

@timmitzlaff8960 7 лет назад

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

@SHan-qn1yz 6 лет назад

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

@joshturner9759 6 лет назад

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

@j.dizzle3333 7 лет назад

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

@terrandroid 7 лет назад

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

@bluemountaindrivepae 6 лет назад

The Greasy Strangler Aztlan bikes

@thefuckeduppunknextdoor8745 4 года назад

can somebody tell me what music videos were in this video

@MrRatdice 7 лет назад

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 6 лет назад

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

@hevertpacheco7870 6 лет назад

That last bike was crazy,

@kinghiggins5021 3 года назад

Cool

@raymartmarciano9829 7 лет назад

what is the title of background music?

@Sputz3 3 года назад

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

@JCee13 3 года назад

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

@bobbg9041 6 лет назад

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.