I see a lot of sweet cruisers around the forum and I figured it would be cool if we had a thread for bikes with some heightened off road capability (If anyone besides me has built one). I love riding on canal roads and in the desert with my bike and wanted to see what some of you guys have built.
I'll start with mine,
My friend and I built this one, it's a 1984 Schwinn Impact (chromoly steel frame) which was a mountain bike back in the day. This was back when Schwinn had just stopped making bikes in the US. Anyways, I installed a 50cc I bought off amazon that with regular maintenance, has served me well so far. Since then, I have installed some modifications to make it better suited for trail riding, including a kind of expansion chamber, 50 tooth rear sprocket, CNS Carburetor, headlight, and then a fork swap. The fork is actually pretty sick, the original bike came with a rigid chromoly steel fork and I figured that if I wanted to go off road I'd better get some suspension. I wanted it to be period appropriate, so I bought a 1994 Rock Shox Mag 21. With 46mm of travel (and I think mine might have the Long Travel conversion so 63mm?) it was a top of the line air sprung fork back in the 90s. I had to the cut the head tub on the frame a little but other than that the fork fit perfectly and in my option it looks insane, especially with the knobby tires and the mud fender.
All in all, its a pretty sweet little trail bike and it rips off road (as long as there isn't any hills haha).
Here are photos...
I'll start with mine,
My friend and I built this one, it's a 1984 Schwinn Impact (chromoly steel frame) which was a mountain bike back in the day. This was back when Schwinn had just stopped making bikes in the US. Anyways, I installed a 50cc I bought off amazon that with regular maintenance, has served me well so far. Since then, I have installed some modifications to make it better suited for trail riding, including a kind of expansion chamber, 50 tooth rear sprocket, CNS Carburetor, headlight, and then a fork swap. The fork is actually pretty sick, the original bike came with a rigid chromoly steel fork and I figured that if I wanted to go off road I'd better get some suspension. I wanted it to be period appropriate, so I bought a 1994 Rock Shox Mag 21. With 46mm of travel (and I think mine might have the Long Travel conversion so 63mm?) it was a top of the line air sprung fork back in the 90s. I had to the cut the head tub on the frame a little but other than that the fork fit perfectly and in my option it looks insane, especially with the knobby tires and the mud fender.
All in all, its a pretty sweet little trail bike and it rips off road (as long as there isn't any hills haha).
Here are photos...
