Thursday, February 25, 2010

This Is Not Your Grandpa's Cruiser


This is a bike built up by a guy who needed some ergonomics due to a spinal injury. Our boy, MiniBruce, is solving the problem with this creature. He calls it "The Buffalope". It's a bold, beefy, engineered, overkill on a Schwinn Seirra GS path bike. Thats because all the bikes in the market right now that cater to this geometry have a low end spec sheet to keep a low end price tag and thus are selling low end bikes. In order to tap into a much higher quality functions, not to mention strength in the form of DH steroids, he chose the Schwinn built frame and a thorough grouppo mix of Deore/LX/XT/Saint drive train and brakes and a Touring XC fork by Marzocchi. Somebody should make a quality Columbus or Reynolds frame with this sort of build quality in mind. M-B has been rocking this too and from work in the snow and all and is sold on the simple idea of excellent built relaxed and capable bikes. You can check out a full list of specs and see more photos of its inception here. http://ibikedb.net/bikes/36501-schwinn-sierra-gs Ride-On MiniBruce

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