Originally Posted by
uncle uncle
Billnuke1?s 1960s Huffy Super 60 | Old Ten Speed Gallery
I would buy one of these in a heartbeat if I could find one in good enough shape (I'm told that they were shopped out of the Raleigh company)... I did pick up a Huffy lugged frame once from a vendor and was going to use it as wall art (but was talked out of it); it was too small for me anyways.
As long as they're safe to ride, I have nothing against them... they fill a niche. A niche that doesn't overlap the C&V arena much, in my opinion. Even the Huffy in the link above will leave most C&V types grumbling, "Meh".
If I had the chance to ask the executives at the Huffy Corp. in the seventies a question, I would quiz them as to why they didn't bring a higher level product to the market.
That is a nice bike. The components are good.
I had, an Omni I rode, Huffy Omni that just came my way. Sure, it wasn't great but when I rode it some years per my bike renaissance, I'd take it to the park and it did okay for a long time as a beach bike. One crazy thing is at one point, it started shedding spokes and you'd hear them dropping, "cling, cling".
Andrew H?s 1984 Huffy Omni 10 | Old Ten Speed Gallery
Old Ten Speed gallery has one of them.