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Custom Bike Projects:

Atom Bomb Chopper and Hydrogen Bomb Chopper: Designer Kyle Watson takes the art bike to the next level. Handcrafted stretch choppers with innovative joints and details.

Bryan Fuller Customs : When you have some money to spend and you want a handcrafted chopper with attitude.

Atomic Zombie: Brad Graham tweaks bikes with a passion and perseverence. Inspirational creations. Go Zombie!

Rockz Custom Frameworks -- Along with The Chopperdome, our distributor in Amsterdam, Rockz is creating a cruiser/chopper scene in the Netherlands. Beautiful, offbeat frame designs. Check it out.

John's Chopper: Cool documentation of a ground-up chopper creation.

CopperStar: Custom copper chopper with lush fenders.

SCUL: Premier chopper gang from Boston. Lots of gangly chopper creations that look difficult to ride, and a few real works of art mixed in. Check out the BRC Water in the fleet section. These guys and girls have a lot of fun together. Street party culture!

Bike Rod N Kustom . com. The web's premier spot for bragging rights to sweet choppers.

Felix Street Coronets. Three funny guys from Santa Cruz who pass the time by fixing up and riding old cruisers.

Jeremy Faludi's answer to the Segway: A new look at an old problem, the last mile.

Surf Bike . For when you can't get enough at the beach.

Coolest Bike Shops in the World (our dealers):

Arizona:

Build A Bike. Phoenix, AZ. (623) 937-5222. Ask for Nancy.

Sun Cyclery, Phoenix, AZ. (602)279-1905.

California:

Adventure's Edge , Arcata CA. (707)822-4673. Ask for Chris.

Revolution Bicycles, Arcata CA. (707)822-2562. Ask for Justin.

Baja California Cycle, Chula Vista, CA. (619)427-3627. Vic is a Lowrider expert who supplies bikes for the movies.

Dennison Schwinn, East Los Angles, CA. (323)721-8316. Ask for Bill.

Mill Valley Cycleworks, Mill Valley, CA. (415)388-6774. Ask for Ed.

Let It Roll Bike Shop, Newport Beach, CA. (949)675-3136. Ask for Doug or Jason. Let It Roll is located a couple blocks from the Newport Beach boardwalk, probably one of the finest spots for cruising on the planet.

Manana Tomorrow Scooters, Oxnard, CA. (805)797-6732. Ask for Tony.

The Rest Stop, Sacramento, CA. (916)453-1870. Ask for Greg.

Bernie's Bicycle Shop, San Diego, CA. (619)224-7084. Ask for Roger.

Lo Fi Customs San Francisco, CA. (415)861-0500. Ask for Mike. They have a really interesting mixture of bikes, clothing, and art. The owners are also professional screen printers with great deals on custom T-Shirts.

Pedal Revolution, San Francisco, CA. (415)641-1264. Ask for Libby or Andrew. San Francisco, nonprofit community bike shop specializing in high-quality used bikes.

Commuter Bicycles, Santa Barbara, CA. (805)569-5381. Ask for Eric. This shop specializes in parts and accessories for the hardcore bike commuter. They donate 25% of profits to local advocacy groups.

Hawaii:

Eki Cyclery, Honolulu, HI. (808)847-2005. Ask for Jayne. A family bike shop with a great selection of cruisers and lowriders.

Illinois

Urban Bikes, Chicago, IL. (773)728-5212. Ask for Brendan.

Mission Bay MultiSport, Chicago, IL. (312)466-9111. Ask for Troy.

Indiana:

Circle City Bicycles and Fitness. Indianapolis, IN. (317)786-9244.

Matthew's Bicycles, Indianapolis, IN. (317)841-0502. Ask for John S.

Michigan:

Challenge Bike Shop, Temperance, MI. (734)850-2412. Ask for Bill.

New York, New Jersey:

Tread Bike Shop, NY, NY, and Edgewater, NJ. (201)886-1600. Ask for Robert.

Point Pleasant Bicycle, Point Pleasant, NJ. (732)899-9755. Ask for Brian.

Serious Toys, Johnson City, NY. (607)231-7266. Ask for Dominick.

Pennsylvania:

ABC Bikes, Bristol, PA. (215)785-2779. Ask for Jim.

Oregon:

River City Bicycle, Portland OR. (503)233-5973. Ask for Mark. This is probably the classiest bike shop I've ever visited. An indoor test track, coffee bar, and loads of wooden bike racks and custom carpentry.

Texas:

Streets on Beat Records, Dayton TX. (936)334-6784. Ask for Polo.

Washington:

Aaron's Bike Repair, Seattle, WA. (206)938-9795. Ask for Aaron.

 

Canada:

Anna's Lowriders, Calgary, Alberta. (403)410-6420. Anna hosts great Cruiser rides in the summer months. Look up her shop!

Europe:

USED, Essen / Oldenberg Germany. 49 - 5434-9238883. The USED crew make luxury recumbent bicycles and trikes. They also distribute a bunch of cool new bicycle products such as the Down Low Glow and the Carry Freedom bicycle trailer. Their website is available in English and German.

If you are based in Germany or continental Europe, ordering the Down Low Glow through USED will be lower cost than purchasing directly from us.

 

Online Dealers:

Aztlan Bicycle -- Specializing in Lowriders, based in Southern California

Bicycle Designer.com -- Also home of LovelyLowrider.com.

Cool Neon -- Offering numerous light toys, worth a look!

Street Lowrider -- Offering lowriders, cruisers, choppers.

Xtracycle -- Home of the Sport Utility Bicycle.

 

Bike Companies of Note:

Xtracycle Sport Utility Bicycles. Carry your friends, audio equipment, refreshments, whatever. This cool bike extension is fast and easy to ride but carries almost anything you can think of. As much as it's possible for a piece of steel and a bunch of fabric to change your life, the Xtracycle FreeRadical is life-changing. You'll take your bike addiction past the point of no return.

Retrotec Bicycles Trail-worthy bikes built with the lines of Classic Schwinn cruisers. Made with Cromoly tubing for strong, light, race-ready performance. Designer / welder Curtis Inglis regularly 'podiums' at major races, and does it in style.

Level Components. An East Coast company obsessed with building the strongest, smoothest rolling, easiest-to-maintain hubs and wheels for single-speed bikes. If you've got a fixie and you want to get tricky, build up a wheel around a Level hub. Level's 'product testers' include many NYC, Philly, and D.C. bike messengers, putting their wheels to the test every day.

I.E. Cycles. Beautiful bicycles that look like motorcycles, complete with gas tanks.

Street Party Culture:

what is what.com: The street dance of Bill Shannon, a crutch-slinging breakdancer who uses his 'disability' to create beauty and amaze unexpecting passersby. A stunning web site, well worth your distraction.

Bike Blender.com: What good is a street party without frosty blended beverages? And how are you going to plug in your Oster in the middle of the sidewalk? The BikeBlender.com site features the most compact, mobile, durable, powerful, coolest bicycle powered blender in the world.

Fogo Na Roupa (Translation: Clothes on Fire) Enormous samba band in SF, representing Brazilian street party culture up in the Yay Area.

San Francisco Street Musician's Guild Can you imagine walking through the tourist district of a world-class city like San Francisco and not hearing the smooth sounds of a street-performing saxophonist, or the rhythm of a street-performing drummer playing on paint buckets with an old refrigerator tray as his crash cymbal? Street performing musicians add the element of magic and inspiration to our everyday lives. Yet in San Francisco the local government doesn't even allow them to sell their own CD's , a vital part of the street performer's income! Keep in touch with the SFSMC as they take their struggle to the people.

Bike Art:

Mona Caron . Muralist from San Francisco. Check out the Bikeway Mural.

BMX Flatland Pro Pete Brandt practices flatland at the Embarcadero MUNI stop in the afternoons. He places at international competitions and is beginning to host his own. Anyone who doesn't call this "Bike Art" needs to have their vision checked. Go straight for the videos on his site.

Chopper Gangs:

Chopaderos. Chopper gang from Southern California. They get together, ride bikes, have fun. Sounds simple, right? Join a group in your neighborhood, or start one yourself.

University of Toronto Chopper club. Check out Chopper II in the Bikes section for a nice how-to process.

CRUD : San Francisco based Chopper club, specializing in the matte-black chopped 20"-ers. "Chopper Riding Urban Dwellers."