What can you tell me about Electra Cruisers?

[volksboy57]

When I was living in San Diego, I had a coworker that was really into Electras. He invited me to an Electra beach ride. There had to have been 40 people all riding Electras, except for me on the schwinn stingray. Nice community.

 

[Tour De Luxe]

The same bike can be bought new in Australia for around usd$160. It should be even less in the USA.

These bikes are $400 at the Trek store.

 

[Tour De Luxe]

The Electra is a decent beach cruiser. My sister has one in Charleston that is too small for me, but my wife and daughter ride it. It’s heavy like an old Schwin, but pedals nice. If you live at the beach or in the prairie (no hills), then is a good bike. $100 is probably a fair price for a bike that sells retail for $400. The bottom bracket in front of the seat post is to allow the rider to be able to put his feet down while still sitting on the seat, and then have his legs stretched out to pedal.

 

[ozzie]

These bikes are $400 at the Trek store.

$259 in Aussie dollars on the Aussie website which equates to around USD $160. I don’t have access to the website in your country. They are obviously not selling over here hence the lower price. That’s probably the first time I have found an American brand of anything cheaper here.

 

[piercer_99]

comfy handlebars as well as good wheel sets.

great wheels and tires.

 

[razinhellcustomz]

I had a Coaster 3 for a bit - looked essentially like the OP's bike in question. You can get out of the saddle if you grip the bars closer to the stem. There's plenty of bar there ahead of the grips, so it wasn't a problem for me. Or better yet, swap bars to something with less pullback. A set of 5" tall riser bars like some of the BMX strandie builds have were a nice addition which smacked some of the wannabe paperboy look off the thing. Got mine cheap in black from Sunlite.

In the end, the Electra wasn't old, it wasn't light (OK, it was lighter than my Silver King, but that's not saying much), it had fat tubes (not my taste). It was also too closely related to Trek, so there's that big box stigma. I think mine was the last year or two before Trek acquired Electra, but most think of them all as a Trek product. I got it because I was curious about the foot forward geometry, and it was cheap since it wasn't engaging first gear (just needed an adjustment to the Nexus cable tension). I rode it over a winter, and sold it when I downsized my fleet. Once I got it shifting right, it gave me zero trouble. Ride it, if you like it, what's $100?

A "C" note. Nice bike for the Money. I have a Flying Machine Special that rides great, pedals easy and is a all around great daily rider. RideOn. Mark.

 

[Tour De Luxe]

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$259 in Aussie dollars on the Aussie website which equates to around USD $160. I don’t have access to the website in your country. They are obviously not selling over here hence the lower price. That’s probably the first time I have found an American brand of anything cheaper here.

Amazing. I guess Australia is closer to China than we are in the States

 

[ozzie]

Amazing. I guess Australia is closer to China than we are in the States



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I believe they just are not selling here so Trek is discounting them. Retail in general is slow in Australia and the distributors are overstocked. We are also just going into spring.