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Looks like if you added an inch here and an inch there it'd be the same bike, just cheaper welds and components.
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Yep, a blade-type cruiser fork and a set of Schwinn (or Electra) truss rods, a set of fenders, some paint and voila!
if you make it a 'Relic' The crank,chainring, headset, bars and seat post are already black!
Now if the stupid stores in my area would carry it! Guess there's always .com, right?
if you make it a 'Relic' The crank,chainring, headset, bars and seat post are already black!
Now if the stupid stores in my area would carry it! Guess there's always .com, right?
That Mongoose is begging for the seat post to be painted white as well as a "debadging".
I think I'm going to do up my Grandfather's old Firestone like that Cachet. Only it'll have a five speed, old road bike wheels with gumwalls.
Dr. Tankenstein said:Which Electra did you buy? The OP looks so much like the frame on their 'Cruiser' that I wonder, ya know?
I got the Cruiser 1. Steel frame, red paint, nice all around bike.
They do look pretty similar, though...
We need close up in macros///
Her'e's the only bike worth looking at at my local Wal-Mart (actually a Tesco):
It's a licensed Raleigh made locally. The price tag was just short of 8,000 Baht, which is around USD270. Crazy heavy it feels like 5 bikes combined. Very expensive in my opinion. I think more than half the price is licensing fee. However, if the seatstays had been more like real classic Raleigh I would have been tempted to play with it.
There were 50-60 more bikes there at around fifty, sixty to a hundred bucks each, but a fraction of the quality from the Wal-Mart bikes I've seen in this thread.
Those cruisers you have up there are more expensive here used and rusty than they were department store new. :?
Her'e's the only bike worth looking at at my local Wal-Mart (actually a Tesco):
It's a licensed Raleigh made locally. The price tag was just short of 8,000 Baht, which is around USD270. Crazy heavy it feels like 5 bikes combined. Very expensive in my opinion. I think more than half the price is licensing fee. However, if the seatstays had been more like real classic Raleigh I would have been tempted to play with it.
There were 50-60 more bikes there at around fifty, sixty to a hundred bucks each, but a fraction of the quality from the Wal-Mart bikes I've seen in this thread.
Those cruisers you have up there are more expensive here used and rusty than they were department store new. :?
Bigcam59 said:
Ah, the magic of Paintshop... 8)
Added some taller apes and a red saddle
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Well i bought one the other night, got $10 off because the handlebars were scuffed. I have some apes on order along with a lay-back seat post. Im surprised at how good the quality is compared to the others that are in the $100 range. I'll be taking it apart this weekend to lube it up real good.
That's a real nice bike for Wal-Mart :shock: :shock: 270 seems like a fair price :wink: If it was at my Wally World I'd get it :mrgreen:anon said:We need close up in macros///
Her'e's the only bike worth looking at at my local Wal-Mart (actually a Tesco):
It's a licensed Raleigh made locally. The price tag was just short of 8,000 Baht, which is around USD270. Crazy heavy it feels like 5 bikes combined. Very expensive in my opinion. I think more than half the price is licensing fee. However, if the seatstays had been more like real classic Raleigh I would have been tempted to play with it.
There were 50-60 more bikes there at around fifty, sixty to a hundred bucks each, but a fraction of the quality from the Wal-Mart bikes I've seen in this thread.
Those cruisers you have up there are more expensive here used and rusty than they were department store new. :?
I posted another thread regarding Target bikes but nobody responded. My local Target has a 28" Schwinn Gateway that I really like....I want one bad.
They also have a Schwinn Legacy cruiser that is (at least to me) alot better looking than the Delmar that Walmart carries. The Legacy has cream colored rims, but like the Delmar they are very skinny looking. I prefer the look of the wide rims on the Huffy Cranbrook..speaking of they also have a Cranbrook with chrome rims instead of blue.
The Legacy is on sale and I'm tempted. It is $99 and the Gateway is $179.
They also have a Schwinn Legacy cruiser that is (at least to me) alot better looking than the Delmar that Walmart carries. The Legacy has cream colored rims, but like the Delmar they are very skinny looking. I prefer the look of the wide rims on the Huffy Cranbrook..speaking of they also have a Cranbrook with chrome rims instead of blue.
The Legacy is on sale and I'm tempted. It is $99 and the Gateway is $179.
They look like neat bikes. I have seen both of them too. Hey, Predfan I am assuming your are from Nashville? :wink: If so...I used to live there.
Target has a few nice looking bikes. The only thing I don't like is the decals look to be under the clear. I liked the brown bike above, but I didn't care for the decals.
SO who all has built off of the OP walmart cruiser.. I am thinking that I like that frame alot better than the Cranbrook frame.. has nicer swoopy lines.. I think that only one Wal mart in my area may have them still in stock...
