Recent content by ThriftyBusiness

Hey everyone just found this thread! Here's my Electra Cruiser 7D (W.I.P):

Ok, thanks man. You've been a big help.

You know something, I forgot to mention that I want to put it on the top tube, would that make a difference?

Oh, ok I thought you were saying that I have to make sure the 5-spd Shifter had something that would work with 7-spd. Don't I feel stupid. Well I guess that would work, but I would need the every gear to change. hows your shifting?

Hmmm... ok, but how do I know if it's got a 7 speed cluster?

So I'm trying to modify my Black Electra 7D Cruiser. I'm trying to go for, what Dr. Tankenstein put it as, The 'Big boy Sting-Ray' vibe. Now that I'm looking around I see a lot of the old Schwinns had Stick shifters, so I you know where I'm going with this. Does anyone know if I can get one? I...

So what do you guys think?

Here you go. It's a work in progress...

I have just bought myself a new Electra Cruiser 7D. I have mounted a banana seat w/standard sissy bar on it. I wanted to put on regular ape hangers but the **** salesman that sold me the part, who said they would fit, lied. But I'm really enjoying the look of the cruisers' original bars so I...

This is the kind of comment that makes me want to get this bike back into shape! My dad works at a bike shop, I told him to get me stuff when he goes into work tomorrow.

Thanks dude! I can't wait to get it fixed up and riding!

So do you know if it's a good bike?

You all have BLOWN MY MIND! Wow! Had no idea about any of this! But as for the serial number it's 81287H0FFY K6627 Now this isn't a picture of my bike I found this one on the internet but it is the same bike minus the kick stand part minus the nice condition: Can any of you guys tell me what...

Huffy. A company that started off making sewing machines became a bike manufacture in 1970. Now-a-days when you think Huffy, you think about those cheep Wal-Mart bikes you get for your 13 year old son. Three years after becoming a corporation Huffy came up with the Scout. It was a kind of...

Hi everybody, I joined up because I have just become a proud owner of a Huffy Scout "II". Now I put the roman numerals in quotation marks because I'm not sure if that's a good thing. I have done as much research as the internet will give me and I know that the Huffy Scout came out in 1973 only...