Schwinn Cruisers For Sale
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Russ Webb & Charlie Cruising
The Schwinn cruiser is a classic American icon. It's well known that Schwinn is responsible for many firsts in bicycle engineering and design. The cruiser is one example. Introduced in 1933, the wide profile balloon tires turned some heads as well as broke tradition with bicycle design at the time. However, the real breakthrough came with the introduction of the reputable Black Phantom cruiser in 1949. This was one of the finest models yet and a big time success. The cruiser went mainstream throughout the 50’s, and in fact remained popular with the beach crowds. As it turned out, this bike was the perfect workhorse for lugging around your beach gear, surfboards and taxiing the ladies around on the handlebars - my personal favorite. As a kid growing up in southern California, I was on the moon when I got my first cruiser. I could barely ride the thing. But I quickly grew into it and found myself cruising the beaches in the summertime, doing my paper route and basically lived with the thing. We called it a strand cruiser, named after the strand along the beach where you could see the strangest people running, walking, roller skating and cycling… think Venice Beach and you get the idea. A few genuine characteristics of the cruiser are its wide saddle seats, chain-guard, fenders, sturdy steel tube frame and those wide balloon tires. The cruiser is more suitable to flat terrain because it’s a pretty heavy bike. Historically, the cruiser made a renewed comeback in the mid 90’s with the release of a new Black Phantom edition. Yet, in my neighborhood this bike was always a hit! |
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US $172.95
