As many of you know, the BMX cruiser class had its orgins with the classic beach cruiser.
In fact, up until Craig Kundig (of RRS bikes) put one of his racers on a 24″, race cruisers were generally 26″ bikes.
Yet with the many changes and improvements made to 24″ race bikes over the ensuing decades, the “cruiser” moniker stuck.
BMX legend Eric Rupe was around for those early days (and has continued racing through to the present day) seems to think that the “cruiser” name should be changed.
In the recent PULL magazine “Cruiser Edition”, Rupe was quoted as saying the following:
An interesting take…yet granted, something I have also pondered.
It reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago at Interbike.
I was talking to a vendor that produced beach cruiser-related accessories.
She saw that my tag read “Cruiser Revolution” and asked about it. I explained that my site covered “BMX cruisers” not the “beach cruisers” that she made parts for.
She got upset with me and said “those aren’t ‘cruisers’! You need to change your name.”
I laughed it off but she seemed a little too hung up on it so I moved along to another booth.
To me, while there definitely has been a revolution in the design and quality of modern-day BMX cruisers (see what I did there?) I think maintaining the “cruiser” name is a good thing…it reminds us of the how this type of bike came about but it also lets us redefine what it means as the years go on.
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