Did you have a Huffy?

I'm not sure that I ever had a Huffy.

I had a couple of cheap bikes. One BMX bike that I pretty much upgraded everything but the frame and had a nice bike, but I don't remember what the frame or parts were.

I've got a Cannondale mountain bike now.
 
I started out on a Sears "BMX" bike but it probably weight 70 lbs. Then in 1980 Santy Claus brough me and my bro each a shiney sparkling Mongoose BMX bike complete with mag wheels. Probably the greatest christmas gift ever (well the Atari2600 was pretty rad too). Anyway Huffy's were for losers. I did briefly buy one myself (a Huffy "mt" bike back in 1990 but it was a p.os. then a couple years later i advanced to a real (old school) mt. bike with a Schwinn

*edit* I just found a pic of me with my Mongoose, this was probably 1981 (i was probably 11 here) because i got rid of the Mags and put some araya rims on it. I guess i was already practicing to be a mechanic because as you can see i was working on my 'machine" *spits* :embarrassed:
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I had a $25 garage sale special. My folks had the money to buy me a new one, but their thinking was why bother when this will work. My dad painted it so it looked new. I rode the wheels off that.

I did the same thing for my daughter but let her paint it. We taped it up so it has a custom finish.
 
DdBob said:
I started out on a Sears "BMX" bike but it probably weight 70 lbs. Then in 1980 Santy Claus brough me and my bro each a shiney sparkling Mongoose BMX bike complete with mag wheels. Probably the greatest christmas gift ever (well the Atari2600 was pretty rad too). Anyway Huffy's were for losers. I did briefly buy one myself (a Huffy "mt" bike back in 1990 but it was a p.os. then a couple years later i advanced to a real (old school) mt. bike with a Schwinn

*edit* I just found a pic of me with my Mongoose, this was probably 1981 (i was probably 11 here) because i got rid of the Mags and put some araya rims on it. I guess i was already practicing to be a mechanic because as you can see i was working on my 'machine" *spits* :embarrassed:View attachment 29672
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Spoiled brat. :mad:
 
I don't think I did.

My grandson just bought himself one though. He got the fat tire model.
You can't buy tubes for that anywhere.

Fortunately, Huffy is great with warranty claims - even when they aren't claims.
I sent an email asking where I could buy the tubes. They just asked for my shipping address and sent them.
 
VoidTerraFirma said:
Very close to this.
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Holy crap! My friend had something very similar to that. I think it said panther on the cross bar? I was really little and sat on that bike one day and it rolled down a small hill. Scared the crap out of me but I started pedaling and that's how I leaned how to ride a bike.

I did have a huffy but we used to take our bikes apart and rebuild them so often that we all rode hodge podge pieces of shit.
 
I had a Sears copy of a Schwinn StingRay. Later I got the real thing...a beat-to-hell Schwinn that I stripped, re-painted and converted to a bmx bike. This was in the 70s, and me and all my friends basically did the same thing. Mount some moto-cross handle bars in the goose neck and replace the banana seat with a solo. Came out something like this. (No, this wasn't mine)

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We were a Scwinn family. My first bike was a Stingray 5 speed... yellow.

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But, I wanted this ONE particular Huffy so bad I could taste it, I eventually got it, and it was a raging piece of shit. ...

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Totally craptastic.

After the Huffy honeymoon period quickly ended, that old Stingray got a complete makeover and was transitioned into an MX bike. Single speed, coaster brake, MX seat, Redline Forks and handlebars with Oakley grips... awe yeah dawg! Sure, it weighed a million pounds, but it was a beast that could take all the abuse you through at it.
 
DdBob said:
Hey I did my own work bro other than build my rims :embarrassed:

The heiarchy was REDLINE....(nothing was more cool than redlines)
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diamondback/mongoose

at least that's how i remember it but anyone of those and you were badass but if you had a Redline (usually only one or two kids in school had a redline) then you were KING!

like this http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/redline/13985
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Heirarchy was:

Redline, GT, Webco, Diamonback then Mongoose. I ran/rode with a number of pro BMX'ers and they all used the first three. To them Diamondback and Mongoose were throw-away's to be used by some other poor soul.

This is my first bike:

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Huffy Dill Pickle. Purchased at the Treasury in Buena Park, Ca. (Kinda like a Costco), for my eighth birthday. I HAD to have it.

I broke the frame in a week, my brothers and I did not like to baby our bikes, and my dad was pissed. He took it to the family biz (steel fabrication) and had it welded. I broke the weld in a week.

Last new bike I had until I bought my own about ten years later. Growing up my brothers and I got one new bike, one used bike and then it was: "You broke it, you fix it."

We got to the point where we had about ten different frames, uncounted wheels and tires and enough odds and ends to build one bike each. We would build a bike, ride it for a while (or until we broke it) and then go back to the pile to build another. We could tear down and bike to the frame only and rebuild in about 45 minutes.

Last junkyard bike I had was a Mongoose. I broke it in about two weeks.
 
2112 said:
We got to the point where we had about ten different frames, uncounted wheels and tires and enough odds and ends to build one bike each. We would build a bike, ride it for a while (or until we broke it) and then go back to the pile to build another. We could tear down and bike to the frame only and rebuild in about 45 minutes.
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Sounds like we had similar childhoods.
 
Yep, I had a Huffy in the early 60's. I remember it being red, so it would have looked something like this:

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My first bike was a Huffy. My Dad got it at Pep Boys (at one time they did sell bikes). I tricked it out with the banana seat and the high handle bars. When it was time to upgrade to a 10 speed, I ended up with a Schwinn.
 
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