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Hi all, Just bought one of the Nirve 9v twin-LED vintage headlights for my wife's Electra cruiser for her B-day. The Hi-Lo selector switch on this thing is a piece of crap, which I knew from reading, but I at least expected it to work for a while. Looking at the way it's designed, no wonder it...

After seeing Gamebent's LED conversion of a Puch moped headlight here (a little down the page): http://www.ratrodbikes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=51150&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=45 I decided to give it a try. I thought I would post here as a DIY project instead of in the Gallery. I bought a...

Since my wife and I no longer mountain bike like we used to 10-12 years ago, and we are enjoying our new Electra cruisers so much, we decided we would try converting our mountain bikes to something a lot more fun for us. I've seen some threads here on RRB that shows the results of such...

I currently have my water bottle cage on my handle bars of my Electra Straight 8 and don't like it there. I went to my LBS to see if they had a solution for mounting the cage to the 1.75" down tube, but all they could suggest is going to a hardware store and buying something ugly. I really...

Just picked up my first cruiser, a Straight 8. I never thought about rear rack/panier compatibility before I bought. I didn't realize that the extended tube over the rear wheel mounting bracket would interfere with Electra's cruiser rack. This isn't a big issue as I can live without it, but...

Hi folks, Just wanted to introduce myself as a new member. I've spent a few hours looking at a lot of threads and there is a lot of great info here. My wife and I just discovered cruisers and bought our first one, an Electra 3i Daisy for the wife. She absolutely loves it. I'm next with a...