Talk:Cruiser bicycle

message: Expansion requested:
* Frame, wheel, other technical characteristics
* Stylistic characteristics
* Photo
* More history
--Christopherlin 06:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

message: If I remember rightly, the Stingray and Krate bicycles were what used to be called "wheelie bikes" in the late 1960s/early 70s.  These bikes typically had high "monkey bar" handlebars, long "banana seats" that rode over the back wheel, equipped with a U-shaped "sissy bar", and their rear wheel was much larger than the front wheel.  Kids used them in stunt riding, trying to "pop a wheelie" by riding on the back wheel alone, with the steering front wheel in the air.  The rearward weight distribution made this easier.  
By my understanding, a "cruiser bicycle" is a utility bicycle.  They do have higher handlebars, but not monkey bars, and are built to be ridden upright.  The wheels are of equal size.  They typically have either a single gear and coaster brakes, or a few gears that are geared internally in the hub rather than an external derailer system, and large seats instead of the anal probe you get on a racing bike, but not a banana seat.  
Am I totally misremembering this? Smerdis of Tlön 19:58, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the description of the "cruiser" bicycle sounds alot like a utility bicycle.--Chicbicyclist 20:15, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: I'd like to merge Beach cruiser into this article as they don't refer to different types of bicycles, a Beach cruiser is just a specific application of a cruiser.  The merge would be easy as most of the information is redundant.Keithonearth (talk) 06:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I restored the Schwinn cruiser bike image that has been at the top of this article since at least 2006.  It was replaced by an image of a Villy Custom during a recent apparent effort to promote the Villy brand.  Please discuss any proposed replacement of article images here first, and get a consensus for the change.  --CliffC (talk) 03:36, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: For this article, I suggest a vocabulary discipline that uses the terms Type, Class, Style, Size, and perhaps Grade.  The proposed hierarchy, would define the cruiser - as it is bought and sold today, and as the term cruiser is somewhat retroactively applied to old motor-less motobikes (e.g., horn-tank bikes).  
Type for example, might start with all road bikes; cruisers are used on roads, (and they are not 'sidewalk bicycles' as defined by US CPSC).  Beach cruisers are still road bikes, although they might be infrequently used on hard-packed or wet sand, but they are generally referred to as beach cruisers because of the flat roads and boardwalks in those beach communities.  A bicycle similar to a cruiser that is used off-road is the mountain bike, but regardless how the MTB was developed, they are a different type.  
Class.  A class (use) of road bikes might include road-racing bikes (lightweight), another class (use) might include non-racing (non-lightweight) - such as cruisers, commuters, klunkers, etc.  Cruisers go at cruising speed, not racing speed.  
Style.  A third breakdown could be mere style, a term used to denote differences in design or appearance.  In this area, the article should be disciplined, in order to be inclusive of all cruisers.  For example, middleweight cruisers, which might have middleweight tires, instead of balloon tires.  Various double, twin, triple, quad-bar frame styles, which are not of the cantilevered frame style.  And, of course the ladies/girls model should not be excluded by overly restrictive definitions.  
Size.  The manufacturers sell/sold almost identical cruiser models with wheels sizes of 26" for adult, 24" for teens (adolescents), and 20" for youths.  
Grade refers to quality versus quantity.  This varied from the 1930's up to the 1990's when US companies were finally shuttered and production moved far east.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 00:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
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