Does anyone still make a high quality cruiser?

[oldcars]

So, Besides Worksman, do any current businesses still build a good quality vintage styled balloon tire-ed cruiser bike? I see the walmart level stuff, and I know the used market it usually flooded with 10-30 year old bikes from back when Electra, Felt, Schwinn, Columbia, etc. were building neat reproductions and hot rod cruisers as fast as they could, but how about now? Electra bikes all look like rentals ever since they got bought out. Anything cool?

 

[Greg Kozak]

Santa Barbara Cruisers.

 

[Schwinn Sales West]

Johnny True Torch (Santa Ana, CA.) makes really nice BMX style cruisers.

John

 

[Caj Remtiw]

Johnny True Torch (Santa Ana, CA.) makes really nice BMX style cruisers.

Yeah, to bad he does not have the design skills to come up with his own interpretation of a high class cruiser and has to "knock off" (aka: counterfeit) others!

 

[Freqman1]

Yeah, to bad he does not have the design skills to come up with his own interpretation of a high class cruiser and has to "knock off" (aka: counterfeit) others!

You mean like CBR copying a Schwinn Straightbar design?

 

[cyclingday]

Yeah, I kind of felt the same way, when I heard that he was going to make a run of the Cook Bros. three bar cruisers, but the guys at Cook Bros, copied the 1935 Schwinn Cycleplane, so no big ting brahda!

Besides, I made a trade for this one, and I’ve been cruising the beach on it every since.
My guess is, that when I get through with it, I will have racked up more miles on it, than anyone who’s coveting their original, and too afraid to ride it much.
Although, we do have a pretty dedicated crew out here that do ride their originals regularly.
Go Strand Cruisers!

 

[Caj Remtiw]

You mean like CBR copying a Schwinn Straightbar design?

Nope! There are at least a dozen differences in the design... Not at all "deceptively similar" ( in intellectual attorney speak)!

Gosh Fregamn, you sure "have it out for me" don't you?

Hey lets level the playing field, by you posting something that you/ your company designed and built... then got "bagged" by some lowlife that has no qualms of ripping you off so that he can get more cash in his greedily little hands...

Then I can have my turn to act like the female canine?

 

[Frank and Pam Skid Kings]

 

[Freqman1]

Nope! There are at least a dozen differences in the design... Not at all "deceptively similar" ( in intellectual attorney speak)!

Gosh Fregamn, you sure "have it out for me" don't you?

Hey lets level the playing field, by you posting something that you/ your company designed and built... then got "bagged" by some lowlife that has no qualms of ripping you off so that he can get more cash in his greedily little hands...

Then I can have my turn to act like the female canine?

Hey ****** it’s not even your company anymore so why all the hate’n. How about we just enjoy the bikes? There might be some design differences but there is no denying that Schwinn’s design was leveraged heavily to wit

1935 Schwinn

CBR

 

[Caj Remtiw]

It is still my company... I just had the trade mark bagged from me, 1st reason was because the "my" trademark attorneys neglected to inform me that the trademark was close to expiring, then congress pass a law that said the USPTO were no longer obligated to inform trademark holders that their trademark term was soon to expire. I admit I got caught with "my pants down"! I spent about $2k fighting it and won the first round. I was then handed off to another attorney down on Century City Boulevard in LA and was told that I had a "VERY GOOD case"... and to get going, I just had to wire $15K into their account!

Honestly, I have no desire to get back into to bicycle business ( even though I have all the CBR original fixtures, drawings, & machines) ! I just didn't want Cook Bros. Racing (my legacy in American bicycle history) to be "trashed" by counterfeiters and scammers pawning off Chinese junk.

Silly me, but I thought that the American bicycle culture would be like Europe or in the UK and... Just let an old company die ( like Jack Taylor, Hetchins, and hands full of others)! Though I have to laugh at the irony of it all, getting the trademark bagged has only made original CBR stuff more valuable!

So now it's your turn Fregman... How do "they" say at the bar in the old western movies? "Belly up" or... SHUT UP!😄