Electra Townie Review

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2. I've had a Townie for a couple weeks, and I love it! Great, smooth ride, solid, shifts perfectly, super comfortable. I upgraded to a better, Schwinn cruiser seat, as I found the stock seat too hard and uncomfortable. I also found I was leaning forward more than I wanted, (I'm 5'10" with pretty long arms, so I guess others would find this as well) so my bike tech added an adjustable stem, brought the handlebars up and back a few inches so I could sit fully upright. The bike is perfect now, and I love taking long, slow rides around the neighborhood at night. Can even take some moderate hills (maybe 40 degrees or so) without too much trouble, if you're not in a hurry. Great for dirt roads, grass, roads, trails, etc. Awesome, kick back, comfort bike.
3. Awesome review - thanks! I live in London, UK, and stumbled across this review while looking for a review of the 2016 Electra Loft 3i (or 7D). While I love the style of the Townie, I don't think the Townie would be appropriate for London riding.
4. Hey Bubbba, this was a cool video! I've been riding my Townie for about a year now and I know it can be a bit uncomfortable uphill.
   
   What I do is set the seat a little tall (around my waist when standing next to the bike) and that way it's absolutely possible to stand up, the only problem is that the handlebars feel a tiny bit low when you're standing up, if they were an inch higher it would be perfect. If you lift them a little bit (or more like rotate them forward to place them higher), they feel too far when you're sitting, so basically I had to find the middle point. I don't do many hills so I'm comfortable so far. It is a great bike!
   
   Cheers from New York.
5. I just got a townie 7d, so excited! Thanks for your videos. I hope you're still enjoying your bikes.
6. helmet is good for one thing... make you visible to the satellites. i rode for 60 years, fell hundreds of times, only once did i EVER HIT MY HEAD. you hit your hands, elbows, and hyperextend wrists. so the thinking man, interested in safety, would protect the parts that actually HIT the ground. only a severely retarded rider wouldn't extend his arms to protect his head, bingo hands and elbows, think.
7. Thanks for the review. I've been riding a Townie Sport (bigger frame, smaller saddle, 16 speed road bike gears, 700 wheels. Electra don't make them any more) for about four years. It's a lovely bike. I agree about the hills, but have found you need a different technique with this frame geometry. The Townie could be described as a semi recumbent bike and the crank is a long way forward of the saddle, so this means on a hill, you have to kind of pull back on the handlebars and use your stomach muscles a lot more than you would on a normal framed bike on which you could stand up, which, as you say, is almost impossible on a Townie.I use this technique for quick acceleration, too. Happy riding!
8. Do you feel you now may prefer having the extra gears in the 21D version of the Townie?
9. Thank you sir for a good down to earth review.
10. I just picked up the Townie 21D, boy do I love this thing. Functional and comfortable 
11. I love my matte black Townie 21d.  I got the back rack with a big trunk bag, foldout panniers, Shimano studded pedals, matte black fenders, dual ion 600 lights, a chrome motorcycle light for show up front, Garmin Edge 1000 GPS so I can find my way home, a great $$ Gel seat, and a helmet with a Cateye 700 light mounted on top since I love cruisin at night.  Love the videos man and you are spot on, even with the 21 gears it's a bitch to get up hills despite altering the handlebars and some other stuff you just can't stand and pedal. But hey I'm just a fat guy who loves to cruise and clear my mind. The Townie is a great bike imo and I do get a few jerks saying hey your not a real cyclist and I say why because I don't hunch over with a skinny seat jammed up my ass on rubber band thin tires and have a 6k carbon frame, please go do your 100 mile bike ride, I'm cruisin baby.  I have carried so much stuff on my bike and I got a loud truck like air horn so I call it the Townie Rig.  When I want to go fast I take my hitch mount bike carrier and drive up the biggest hill and tell my wife to meet me when the road starts rising up.  I've gotten up to 41mph (GPS) on the Townie and was freewheeling the pedals in the top gear it was so fast.  I say if you pedal you're a real cyclist.  Thanks for all the vids.  Electra is now owned by Trek and they share a ton of components so you get a great bike for the money. Tig Welded 6061 aluminum baby.
12. $100 is chump change to you?...WOW! must be nice! Happy that your that secure with your financial means. Cheers!!
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14. Good review on the bikes. Have a good'n
15. love the bike wish Ron and I could ride with you both ........... would be a blast