Originally Posted by tjspiel

Those olympic bikes were badged as Huffys but they weren't made by Huffy.

I will say that the Huffys of the 70s were better than the Huffys of today, but they were still considered a notch below a low end bike that you'd get from a bike shop. Maybe that was just snobbery too.

I also don't think many bike buyers are too concerned about whether a bike is going to last 30 years or not but to me it's telling that in cases were my family spent the extra money to get a bike from a shop, the bikes have lasted quite a awhile and are still around.

I thought my Sante Fe was great and that it looked really cool when I first got it but I knew it didn't compare to my brother's Peugeot or my other brother's Fuji. Nevertheless it did what I asked of it and I don't recall having a lot of trouble with it. I took care of my stuff. My younger brother on the other hand went through a few Huffy 10 speeds in a pretty short period of time.