Originally Posted by
jefnvk
You pity mechanics at shops being given a cash contract to perform basic maintenance on bikes, giving that shop guaranteed business and keeping that mechanic employed?
Someone will pick up some of those Huffy warranty contracts and make a good bit of money. They'll be swapping parts, Huffy pays, customer happy, it would be a good gig for someone willing to do a large volume of work on those bikes.
But when we bought a Huffy as a shared "family" bike, I kind of hated it. I even commuted with it for a couple of weeks, when I was between bikes, and that gave me a lot of incentive to find a replacement. But what really bothered me about it, when it was just stored for a few months with no one using it, things went wrong. And looking for a replacement headset for example, just didn't seem worth the effort.