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Hello,
my name is Jon, i am 31 yrs old, from youngstown, OH - and I have been staring at all the beautiful bike pron on this forum since my wife bought me a cruiser for my birthday about a month ago. It was a Huffy millenial (29er with the flat grey finish) I really liked the looks of this bike, but the quality left a lot to be desired. At least it got me back into riding. We ended up replacing it with a Schwinn Drifter, which was supposed to look like this:
Notice the cool bowtie pedals, the pointy handgrips, and the full length fenders!
But what was shipped to me looks like this:
Notice the different handgrips with moulded finger spacers that feel like they were designed for a basketball player, the low quality square pedals, and the short front fender that only has one brace....
Overall I really like the bike, I replaced the stock handlebars with 10.5 Hi-rise Wald 869 handlebars, and added lock-on leather handgrips.
I ordered a layback seatpost, which should allow me to move the seat back about two inches, and I think this will be a perfect fit.
I have a really cool large chrome headlight that looks like this:
but it is a vintage light made in italy with a larger lens diameter. It originally had a tungsten bulb, but I replaced with an LED and it worked great mounted to the stem on my crankbrook, but I can't mount it on the schwinn because the springer fork gets in the way. I would like to mount a torpedo style light, or a DIY LED light retrofitted into a flush-mount phantom style fender light housing. If I do this, I'm going to need a full length front fender with two braces like the WALD 962, but I need to find a fender that has the proper indentations to clear my springer fork. Does anyone have any recommendations on a fender that will meet these requirements?
Thanks in advance for your help. I am really excited to begin participating in this great community!
my name is Jon, i am 31 yrs old, from youngstown, OH - and I have been staring at all the beautiful bike pron on this forum since my wife bought me a cruiser for my birthday about a month ago. It was a Huffy millenial (29er with the flat grey finish) I really liked the looks of this bike, but the quality left a lot to be desired. At least it got me back into riding. We ended up replacing it with a Schwinn Drifter, which was supposed to look like this:
Notice the cool bowtie pedals, the pointy handgrips, and the full length fenders!
But what was shipped to me looks like this:
Notice the different handgrips with moulded finger spacers that feel like they were designed for a basketball player, the low quality square pedals, and the short front fender that only has one brace....
Overall I really like the bike, I replaced the stock handlebars with 10.5 Hi-rise Wald 869 handlebars, and added lock-on leather handgrips.
I ordered a layback seatpost, which should allow me to move the seat back about two inches, and I think this will be a perfect fit.
I have a really cool large chrome headlight that looks like this:
but it is a vintage light made in italy with a larger lens diameter. It originally had a tungsten bulb, but I replaced with an LED and it worked great mounted to the stem on my crankbrook, but I can't mount it on the schwinn because the springer fork gets in the way. I would like to mount a torpedo style light, or a DIY LED light retrofitted into a flush-mount phantom style fender light housing. If I do this, I'm going to need a full length front fender with two braces like the WALD 962, but I need to find a fender that has the proper indentations to clear my springer fork. Does anyone have any recommendations on a fender that will meet these requirements?
Thanks in advance for your help. I am really excited to begin participating in this great community!
