Sealed bearings keep out water, and Kenda puncture-resistant tires are hardly fazed by broken glass and clamshells. On boardwalks and level city roads, you’ll likely spend most of your time in the hardest gear, but you’ll be thankful for easier pedaling when the street takes a slight upturn. With that said, the other thing with Sixthreezero is we really focus on seats and comfort.
Now, Schwinn’s obviously been making beach cruisers for a long time, they have a great selection. Schwinn beach cruisers are kind of known as the original beach cruiser. So I wanna talk to you about how does Sixthreezero compare to Schwinn.
Honestly, I can’t remember my first bike, but I can at least remember my second and third bike. Aside from the one I rode around my neighborhood (which I’ll talk about in a future post), I did ride one other bike as a kid. Explore the ideal new ride in our range of kids’ bikes, electric bikes, ride-ons, and more! Whether you’re shopping for the schwinn ebike family princess or the local superhero, we’ve got you covered with Disney and Marvel bikes.
If you will only ever be riding flat terrain, a single speed certainly has its benefits. But for most riders, adding the ability to change gears based on elevation and your desired speed is a huge benefit. All of the bikes on our list are highly adjustable to make a comfortable fit for almost any rider within the indicated sizing range.
Schwinn introduced their 10 speeds in the early 60s starting first with the Continental, a name they resurrected, and later the Varsity. The Varsity was offered between 1960 and 1962 as an 8 speed and as a 10 speed between 1963 and 1982. Featuring a wide, dual-spring padded cruiser seat is soft and supportive, while the handlebar’s upright stem provides comfortable riding position that’s easier on you low back.
Finally, manufacturers have also introduced the “comfort bike” category, to combine the soft ride and upright posture of cruisers with a more conventionally styled bike. Comfort bikes have such features as fenders, suspension seatposts and forks, and large padded saddles with giant springs. All of these features are copied from cruisers, but redesigned to look more like regular road or hybrid bikes.
Like gears, handbrakes require more maintenance, but also added flexibility. Reminiscing back to your childhood, beach cruisers were almost always single-speed. Only one gear keeps the bike super simple and easy to maintain. With flat handlebars, instead of swept back bars, the Priority Turi isn’t a cruiser bike in its most traditional sense. That said, it’s a super comfortable and mostly upright ride that is an exceptional option for cruising. The Linus Dutchi 7i pairs the same comfy, upright body position and casual pedaling style of a beach cruiser with a slightly different frame design.
This bike has everything needed for summer days at the beach or riding around town or the campground. The E-Coast’s aluminum frame and fork won’t rust like steel ones, and the Gates belt drive never needs chain lube. The 26-inch-diameter x 3-inch-wide tires help the bike float over sand and soak up cracked pavement. The 500W rear hub motor gets the E-Coast up to a 28 mph, and hydraulic disc brakes ensure stopping power.
Beach cruiser bikes epitomize the saying that the journey is the destination. “A cruiser bike is for when comfort, not speed, is the goal,” says Jeff Shyman, founder and owner of Confederacy of Cruisers, a New Orleans bike tour company. A rack for use with a child bike seat must have a high weight capacity – enough to safely hold the combined weight of the seat and your child. We use an Axiom Transit rack with our child bike seat on our Priority bikes. Every bike on this list has mounts for a rack, but… a HUGE BUT… just because a bike comes with a rack doesn’t mean that the rack is safe to use with a child bike seat. It also doesn’t mean that the bike’s frame shape will work with a child bike seat.