Originally Posted by
kirby999
I did a little research and found the head tube on an Electra Cruiser is around 1/8” longer than most springer forks .
Also read that some folks didn’t care for the springer fork on a “ regular” cruiser bike . Read they can mess up the steering and handling of a bike .
I could always do like we did when we were growing up . Just take a hacksaw to a donor fork , cutting the arms off and hammer them onto the forks , flipped of course to give that chopper look . Just don’t do any wheelies , the fork ends might come off . 😱
Interesting! I keep going back to this picture from jmpierce in his post....
he is showing a pic of a fairly basic springer that fits an Electra....I am going to tryu and search for this one and see what comes up. Clearly the main bike fork and springer fork need to be almost the exact same length - and the step-down arm from the hub to the springer can be used to accommodate the difference here. Really interesting stuff.