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* Bicycles with high
handlebars, banana
seats are new trend
By Brian M. Kemp
For the Daily
During the last Beastie Boys show
in the Detroit area, Mike D rode
around the stage on a pimped-out,
low-riding bicycle (complete with
banana seat and super-high handle-
bars), as one of his cohorts rhymed, "I
ride around town on my low-rider

bicycle." But to
absolute style on
need not look to
hip-hop heroes.
Rather than turn-
ing to MTV, just
simply go to the
Diag and check
out the scene in
our town.
Although the
University (or
any college cam-
pus) may seem
like a Mecca for
very expensive,
very high-tech,

see a display of
two wheels, one
suburbia's biggest
It runs
cheap ant
get stolen
RC senior who
mountain-terrain

who rides one of Song's
"really old Schwinn" with
the handlebars, said, "1
cheap and it won't get sto
doesn't necessarily care
style aspect of her ride.
that her Schwinn is perfe
for the streets (seeing as
mountains in the downtow
in the sea of bikes par
Angell Hall, it's easy to f
Street riders Chris Low
Lukasik, who are riding
Arbor to train for BMX
in this theory, but add to i
the appropriate garb.
baggy clothes and special
"Iv
feel
the
for
d it won't Lu
Low
doe
the
- Carol Lewis, stat
rides a "really "co
old Schwinn" ska
ride
assembled and modified
machines. Lowell rides an
he obtained from a fi
Lukasik said, "The fran
sure" These two suggest g
and Country in Saline fo
parts.
Whether the Beastie B
idols, or you're rather fed
mundane bikes on ca
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bicycles, there is an underlying popu-
lation of students who have style, and
express it through their choice of
transportation modules.
Dug Song, an RC senior, may just
be the guru of this idea. He rides an
old Rally beach cruiser that he pieced
together himself. "I like to build old
bikes because new bikes suck!" Song
claimed. His beach cruiser has thick
tires, all black rims, a gray frame, and
a rusted out platform (which he talr
pride in). Plus, if his old bike gets
trashed, he said, "it will be no big
deal." But, he added to this by noting
that some decked out low-riders can
be quite costly.
Song believes that it can be easy
and inexpensive to create restore old
bikes. He gets most of the parts from
around campus. The city of Ann
Arbor marks bikes that have been
locked up for a year or more with yel-
low tags. These tags designate that
the bikes will be taken to the dump.
Song skillfully intercepts the bikes
before the city has a chance to pick
them up. He said that bike frames are
the hardest parts to obtain. For these,
he looks to the Kiwanis sale, where
he said, "It's fun to haggle with the
old guys."
Another RC senior, Carol Lewis,


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