Los Angeles' Lowrider Bike Club Is More Than Chrome and Rims

The Bike Nation series is brought to you in partnership with CLIF Bar. "There ain’t nothing like riding on a lowrider bike," says William Holloway, the almost 60-year-old president of the Real Rydaz, Los Angeles' only lowrider bike club. The bikes stand out from the average beach cruiser: what makes a bike a lowrider is how low the frame can go before the pedals touch the ground. Some lowrider ...

At Salon 94′s Frieze Booth, Liz Cohen’s Eastern Bloc Lowrider

At Salon 94′s booth at Frieze, the artist Liz Cohen is showing a work that would have fit in just as nicely at the New York International Auto Show. For the last 10 years, she’s been converting a Trabant–the most common car in the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War–into a Chevy El Camino, in Ms. Cohen’s words, “the all-American car.” Read More