Finished the build off and also got a promotion at work, so figured I'd celebrate by buying another bike! LOL
Easier said than done when you're 5-8 but need about a 27" stand over height.
Most road bikes and a lot of cruisers are just too tall.
Found a lot of mountain-type bikes that were low in the back and tall in front. Street tires and different bars and you'd have a start of cool bobber or chopper. Maybe another time.
Comfort bikes with the pedals forward are interesting. My Huffy Parkside is like that, but not nearly as much as others. Electra Townie is one. Yeah, sure I got a promotion, but it wasn't big enough to pay for one of those!
So I found this Hyper SpinFit. It's called a hybrid. A cross between a road bike and mountain bike. Skinny 700c tires, tiny seat, and aluminum frame like a road bike, but short flat handlebars and lower gearing like a MTB. Supposed to be the best of both worlds. Best feature for me is the 17" seat tube! The square section top tube is cool too.
So I bought it. It fits me pretty well, even though I hated the bars and seat. I could fix that a lot easier than I could fix stand over height!
Since this is a new school type of bike, I decided that even if I used cruiser bars, I wanted to keep it in the 21st century, while still being comfortable for this mid 20th century little old fat man to ride.
New off the showroom floor...
After a few part swaps and additions...
Had to replace the grip shifters for thumbies. Not a big fan of the rev-o-shift concept. When I have a twist grip on the right side, I always want to pull back to go faster, like a motorcycle. The shift cables were sized for the short bars, so the the thumb shifters are down near the stem. Almost like stem shifters, but not quite. They work just fine there.
So now the bike is a hybrid that had been hybridized with a cruiser. A hybrid hybrid maybe? Or maybe it's just a mut. LOL
Easier said than done when you're 5-8 but need about a 27" stand over height.
Most road bikes and a lot of cruisers are just too tall.
Found a lot of mountain-type bikes that were low in the back and tall in front. Street tires and different bars and you'd have a start of cool bobber or chopper. Maybe another time.
Comfort bikes with the pedals forward are interesting. My Huffy Parkside is like that, but not nearly as much as others. Electra Townie is one. Yeah, sure I got a promotion, but it wasn't big enough to pay for one of those!
So I found this Hyper SpinFit. It's called a hybrid. A cross between a road bike and mountain bike. Skinny 700c tires, tiny seat, and aluminum frame like a road bike, but short flat handlebars and lower gearing like a MTB. Supposed to be the best of both worlds. Best feature for me is the 17" seat tube! The square section top tube is cool too.
So I bought it. It fits me pretty well, even though I hated the bars and seat. I could fix that a lot easier than I could fix stand over height!
Since this is a new school type of bike, I decided that even if I used cruiser bars, I wanted to keep it in the 21st century, while still being comfortable for this mid 20th century little old fat man to ride.
New off the showroom floor...
After a few part swaps and additions...
Had to replace the grip shifters for thumbies. Not a big fan of the rev-o-shift concept. When I have a twist grip on the right side, I always want to pull back to go faster, like a motorcycle. The shift cables were sized for the short bars, so the the thumb shifters are down near the stem. Almost like stem shifters, but not quite. They work just fine there.
So now the bike is a hybrid that had been hybridized with a cruiser. A hybrid hybrid maybe? Or maybe it's just a mut. LOL