Emer Swift 13.75 chainstay cruiser

Jul 01, 2010

Written by Bart de Jong

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When cycling my 12 mile cycle path route to work on my BMX overtaken by mountain bike's, racers and folding bikes. I dreamed of owning an old school Hutch pro racer cruiser with skinny wheels and hard set gearing. The opportunity never arose, but I did end up getting a Freeagent cruiser set-up with skinnys and good gearing it was a gorgeous fast, bike. But after trying a mix of old and new cruisers. Every cruiser I rode felt wrong, the top tubes too short, the chainstays too long, the bikes felt stodgy, with thick

unnecessarily clumpy dirt tyres, but worst of all, they were difficult to manual or slow. So I started making notes of all the things I wanted from a frame, and this turned into a design.

The Swift rides with modern BMX geometry. So your body retains the same agile body position, to the floor, to your bars, to your rear axle as a modern BMX. With the added benefits of larger faster sleeker wheels.

The toptube length rides equivalent to a 21.25 on a twenty inch BMX, Most importantly, is the 13.75 chainstay length - the optimum manual friendly chainstay length.

Spec:

-13.75" chainstay length
-11.5" bottom bracket height
-21.25" (effective) toptube length
-74.5 headtube
-73 seat tube
-TT28.6mm, DT 31.8mm, SS&CS 16mm
-Internal headset, euro BB
-4130 chromoly, butted tubing

Frame weight: 4.6lb

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