If you've ever wondered what it's like to ride with the wind in your hair and bugs up your nose, just jump on one of the new ; it's a wild ride that's going to get wilder, so let us crank up the pedal power by installing a front wheel disc brake system at the world famous bike shop of Dennison Cyclery in East Los Angeles, California. Shop boss Bill Blake lives and works right in the heart of the lowrider mecca and (with a big cheese-eating grin) he agreed to offer up one of the last remaining unmodified choppers that he had been displaying on the sidewalk outside the 64-year-old business!

A few issues ago in LRB (Summer '03 to be exact), we featured a scruffy guy named "Fat Mark" (his legal last name is Mark Kaake, Jr.) and his surf buddy/business partner Josh Knight. These two life's-a-beach kinda guys set out to build fiberglass fenders for 26-inch beach cruisin' bikes, which caught our attention. This time, they took the sand out of their ears and busted out with super simple fiberglass fenders for 20-inch lowrider bike.

We here at LRB have recently been receiving letters asking us how to do Bondo body filler modifications to customize bike frames. So we paid a visit to Joseph Garcia at the Drag-N-Shop in Santa Fe Springs, California, to see if he would give us a crash course in Bondo Basics 101. Joseph happily agreed to share a little bit of his expertise with our readers.

Meet Mark Kaake and Josh Knight, two young business entrepreneurs who collaborated on a cool idea that we thought you readers might want to know about. Mark is an urban marketing and graphics guy at 77 Records, while Josh has plenty of experience as a fiberglass fabricator and also attends business school among other things. These two brains from Long Beach, California, concocted simplistic bolt-on tanks and fenders for 26-inch beach cruiser bicycles.

As part of our never-ending quest to take our readers to greater heights and new limits with our tech pieces, we hooked up with Pedalers West in San Fernando, California, to show how to lift a bike or trike. Co-owner George Mirzoian was just the guy to show us how to hop a three-wheeler the right way. You may have seen George's record-setting hopping trike in recent issues of Lowrider and Lowrider Bicycle Magazines.