Originally Posted by
Chicago Al
What kind of Magna is it?
It's not a Magna, I'm not that bad off just yet.
Originally Posted by
Bam42685
Mr. Green... in the dining room... on the NEXT?
Prof. Plum in the conservatory with the Ross, it was the heaviest thing he could find.
Originally Posted by
DavidW56
Actually, this is a seriously lame aspect of C&V. "Everybody knows" that Huffy, Columbia, et. al. made crappy bikes, and Schwinn Varsinentals are boat anchors, and anything from China or x-mart will fall apart before you roll it down the driveway, by definition. This attitude has caused a rather contrarian reaction in me; I'm planning to restore just such an unworthy bike, then ride it in the company of much higher-class bikes, just to prove it works well enough.
There are two threads on this forum from last year that helped adjust my opinion on the importance of a brand name or technological superiority of a bike: this one, at
http://mjgradziel.com/thelmajones/lu...eopenroad.html, which is the story of two young women who rode their bikes across the US in 1944; and the other is a more recent feature on the Mexican immigrants in LA who depend upon cheap bikes like Magna and Next as their main transportation to get to work daily ( I don't have that link handy).
Well, my old Huffy Mt. Storm is still in pieces till I can find an ashtabula crank that's long enough and I have an old Shimano FFS I'm thinking of dropping on it just for the freak factor, but that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm just biding my time till I can manage to somehow afford what I like to think of as a "real" bike.