UPDATE – DAY SEVEN
Cruisers U.S. Cruiser Bicycle Project on Kickstarter - Day Seven: Featured Component – Internal Eight Speed Drivetrain!
For those of you following our project on Kickstarter, today we are checking out a very unique feature that is often not found on a cruiser bicycle – multiple gears! Historically cruiser bicycles were built for leisurely riding on boardwalks that were predominantly flat and the initial thought was a single speed was sufficient. But if you were to encounter any incline whatsoever, your leisurely ride quickly became a strenuous workout. Not a bad thing, but not what most cruiser riders expected. And if you wanted to ride any distance or over any more severe terrain a cruiser was not necessarily a great fit. Also in the past, most multi-gear bicycles used a multi-cog freewheel and a derailleur, which had a habit of going in and out of adjustment easily and was a pain to maintain, especially if it got bumped or dropped. But today’s better solution is a multi-gear internal hub in which all the shifting takes place inside the hub – no multiple cogs and no derailleur for switching gears. The Cruisers U.S. Suspension cruiser has been engineered to accept and comes standard with a high quality, Shimano Nexus internal 8 speed hub and twist shifter. So this way you can ride in comfort with eight speeds to suit any terrain or situation you encounter.
We invite you to check out our entire project at…
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/553612698/next-generation-cruiser-bicycle-fits-tall-large-ri
and if you are excited by this new bike, please help us advance our cause. By participating you can get lots of cool rewards, and even one of the initial frames or bicycles we will be producing!
We will continue to email this group regularly to update everyone on our progress and present something new about the bicycle. So we invite you to follow along. And please…forward this to your friends who might be interested as well.
Thanks for your continued support in helping us make this happen!
Happy Cruising!
Alan
Cycles U.S./Cruisers U.S./Choppers U.S.