Show off your Huffy Thread - Screw the Haters
06-19-14, 08:45 AM
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Oh I know the feeling...... hah. Months back on the Clunker 100 challenge thread, I mentioned of a 1960ish Huffy Sportsman. Clean original w/SA igh 3 speed, straight fenders, chrome, gen. & lamps for $35. Still on the market. Sneering and coming out of the ether, but admit almost purchased it.other:
kick me now, I can take it. This one is in the fleet:
(edit: If you look closely at image 5 of the bottom bracket, the factory paint is just dusted and barely covers the metal. Hard to believe it hasn't rusted.)
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06-19-14, 10:24 AM
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I'm not sure if pretty is the right word :loll:
A bat symbol that throws out the image of a boat anchor?
This is the little known limited edition Huffy Alfred - it was a special promotion for MAD magazine fans who mailed in 10,000 fold ins.
06-19-14, 10:36 AM
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My first bike was a blue huffy with white tires and a coaster brake. Wish I could find it again...
06-19-14, 10:42 AM
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Would a Huffy be a Huffy by any other name? 
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06-19-14, 10:50 AM
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Nobody have a Huffy branded Moulton?
06-19-14, 10:54 AM
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Only had personal experience with one Huffy that I inherited from my sister. A 26" wheeled 10 speed horror. It was unmaintainable. If a component moved, it bound up, if it was a screw it unscrewed. Bartape would unravel on it's own and tangle in the spokes, usually when I managed to get it up to speed. The brakes dragged and didn't clamp the rim. Have no idea what happened to it after I threw it (literally) into the back of the garage. If it was the only bike I'd ridden I would have never ridden another bike.
If I could get my hands on it today, the derailluers would be trashed. Make it a single speed. Bolt up a decent set of brakes, swap out the weirdly shaped drop bars and stamped stem and it might be a good beater. It sold for about $30 in the late 70s; that was too cheap to make a functional multispeed bike.
Ridng a Huffy meant you were a social pariah. Deserved a beating.
If I could get my hands on it today, the derailluers would be trashed. Make it a single speed. Bolt up a decent set of brakes, swap out the weirdly shaped drop bars and stamped stem and it might be a good beater. It sold for about $30 in the late 70s; that was too cheap to make a functional multispeed bike.
Ridng a Huffy meant you were a social pariah. Deserved a beating.
06-19-14, 11:23 AM
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06-19-14, 03:42 PM
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06-19-14, 05:19 PM
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I have to admit, this bike gets as many miles as all the nice Raleighs, though it's recently been replaced by a Schwinn Twinn 5 speed:
06-19-14, 07:46 PM
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This is the brand new Huffy I bought my wife, but she only rode it twice. It is heavier than my old Huffy and does not have Shimano indexing. It has Kolo front suspension forks and a springy seat post? Everything works good on it, the pearl white paint is beautiful, and we got it at a closing Kmart store for like $90 and the orginal sticker said $149 so not a bad deal...........
I actually ride this bike a few times a week to give my dog a ride since we put a basket on it. I was hoping she would get to like riding with me, but oh well.................
I actually ride this bike a few times a week to give my dog a ride since we put a basket on it. I was hoping she would get to like riding with me, but oh well.................
06-19-14, 08:13 PM
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As little interest as I have in department store mountain bikes at this point in my life, I can't overstate how important they were to me in my younger years. I had a pair of Murrays (24" and later 26") that were my first geared bikes. Looking at them as an adult, I can't help but notice the one piece cranks and the painted steel rims, but as a kid, they were amazing machines of limitless potential. I doubt I've been as enthusiastic about any bike as I was about those.
06-20-14, 10:53 AM
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The only problem with the wife's Huffy is the large front gear has a slight bend.
06-20-14, 11:48 AM
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Mine is fake. The HUFFY in the snow has the seat tube painted incorrect is it a fake also.
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10-14-14, 06:42 PM
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Huffy Love, I know people that know people that ride Huffy bikes.
I think of this song when I think all things "Huffy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCk3bnvO5Y
I think of this song when I think all things "Huffy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgCk3bnvO5Y
10-14-14, 06:49 PM
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Can't wait until I get some time to go through this old Huffy, she will make a great MUP cruiser with kids in tow next summer:
10-14-14, 07:11 PM
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10-14-14, 07:38 PM
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Huffy Constellation, early sixties, Carlton Built.
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10-14-14, 07:43 PM
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Huffy Constellation, early sixties, Carlton Built.
That's a nice old one. Early 60's? Sturmey? Raleigh made, I presume?
10-14-14, 07:58 PM
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The red one is a Huffy I cleaned up for the wife. The handle bars were bent so I put these on out of the spare parts pile. She has a ball cruising around on this , but has moved on to a nicer road bike.
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10-14-14, 08:59 PM
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Outstanding thread. Wheels is wheels. If they get you were you are going, and and you enjoy riding a bike, who cares what it says on the side?