I'm looking for one, preferrably a cruiser.

Very sweet bike.....

Good luck...thats a tough find.

CLICK HERE FOR INSPIRATION!

Saw one last Sunday. James Mertens races his RRS cruiser and Sting 20. Still fast on the cruiser!

Ken

I'm waiting for that inspiration to show up on my door step soon...

Very cool bikes - ahead of their time.

Did one-time BMX Plus! test rider Joe Cleveau ride for RRS at one point?

Ever heard of Mevin McNeal ?



JB

Or his better known brother Kevin...as pictured above.

He's riding a JMC.

Yeah , that downtube does look very eliptical + the euro BB dosen't help much either , forks might be even be Redline , but , if I had run into Kevin bitd ~1980 & he said that his bike was an RRS , I wouldn't have argued the point with him face to face , he could have said his CBR seat post clamp was an RRS & I would have nodded yes if I was within earshot of him.

No point in humilating a big tough "bad boy" like that in public , as they would & could stomp on you. I'd remove the schrauder valves from their car tires while they were racing instead.

JB

I ride my RRS 20" around the block once in a while and all I can think of is big, giant Kevin racing one. It flexes like a noodle and it's so short! Kevin was awesome and always cool to annoying kid with a million stupid questions (that would have been me).

Funny thing...................
Kevin McNeal rode a JMC when he was on GT back in late 1978

Mr. McNeal - what really happened to him?

You go from being the number 1 Pro running 200mm Profiles to eventually spitting the dummy with a bunch of different sponsors in a short time and dropping out...

Even more interesting on Kevins JMC (besides that its not an RRS) is that it has a coaster brake rear hub. He later passed the bike on to "lightning" Leo Green who continued to run it with a coaster brake.

I've heard of RRS, but never heard of "Mevin" McNeal. Anyone on here ride with him? ;-)

RRS stands for Riverside Redlands Schwinn, the bike shop that had the frames and forks built. I think Craig Kundig owned that shop? Any help on that anyone?

[ August 18, 2007, 10:52 AM: Message edited by: Richard Vogt - bmxmountainbiker ]

Thats right.
Redlands Riverside Schwinn.

They started a shop team and put am. rider Joe Cleveau on a modified 24" Schwinn and put him up against the 26" cruiser of the day. This was in 1980.

By the end of the season he was #1 in the cruiser class.
RRS pretty much invented the 24" cruiser. Seeing how fast the 24 was during the season they started building prototypes.

It took them a while to finally go into production because of the all the trick features that had to be fine tuned. by the time they were in stores all the other companies had already developed and put out their own 24" cruisers.

The frames were made by Trackmaster. The early frames had road bike headtubes, pierced top tubes, breezer style front dropouts, canti brakes, eccentric BB, and vertical rear dropouts. They're amazing frames.

RRS didnt make anything else except f/f.

I have 2 RRS cruisers and I like them way more than my JMC 24 believe it or not!