Nice, we'red you get that ? Nice looking.

Fooled me, I was about to go shopping for one :roflmao2:

Huffy owners unite! You have nothing too loose but your chains.

When I was a kid in the mid 60s, you could buy 51-54 Chevrolets for about $15 each and they were worth every penny. For the price of a new Huffy, you could buy three cars.

Actually, the $15 ones in running condition were not that common, but you could buy them in pretty good working order for $50 all day long. Problem was affording the liability insurance.

Any huffy owners active?
 

Looking Seriously into getting a huffy cranbrook.

I want to replace the handlebars with BMX style bars.

Any one know if the mouth on the bracket/clamp will open up enough to slide the bars in or will I need to get a bmx mount?

Pictures look like it might pry open far enough.

I am so ready to replace this mongoose status 2.2

Thank you
Jim

I used BMX stem to mount dirt bike motorcycle bars on a Cranbrook.............

Thanks Johnny,
That's what I did as well back in the early 80's.

What works best these days in the cranbrook?

Also......the bike looks Amazing!!
Thanks again
Jim

I think it's a standard 22.2 MM BMX stem ad it worked perfect. Will work for BMX bars too........

Thank you again and thanks for the new picture as well.

now now, don't try to introduce reality to the BF preferred narrative. the wannabees here have all been riding custom made Italian super bikes since they were two days old and happily spend the family grocery money on useless crap that they can claim is"vintage but I bought it brand new 35 years ago"

I meant to ask you how the cranbrook gearing is?
I mean is it really hard to pedal like starting out in 5th gear or what?

Have a few slow tapering hills in my area and don't want
To have to over work myself.
I don't remember having any issues with my last normal type bike but that was 30 years ago.....

Wrestling between single and 7 speed but I don't like messing with derailleurs. .. Ugggg

Thanks for all your help.
Jim

I have a 44 tooth BMX ring on black/blue bike which is better than the larger stock 48 tooth, but the chrome Huffy has a 38 tooth gear which makes for easy pedaling and hills are no problem. Only downfall of the small ring is top speed is limited to like 12 mph, but it's a cruiser and I am fine with that.

Time for a Revival;

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USA made Huffy Tulsa. I added the aluminum wheels to make it less heavy, not light. Smooth riding bike that I sold to a delivery guy

Another nice US made bike. Named after the town next to the Bronx in New York. This one stayed in Brooklyn.

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Beautiful Dash by Huffy. Replaced the drop bars and threw some nos tires on it. New caretaker is a hipster gal from Williamsburg. Made in USA
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Not sure if this was a US bike or Chinese.I threw a suspension fork from my pile o parts on it and gave it to a refugee kid from Ukraine when the war had started.

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I really like how this one came out. Aluminum wheels, comfy seat and Schwalb Marathon tires make a great NYC bike

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Huffy Canyon made in USA with some improvements to make it a nice commuter bike.
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This one I'm keeping!. USA made huffy Panasport 441. I got this when a bike store closed and this was unused in the basement. new old stock. I also go the nos 26x1-3/8 tires there. Never been sat upon.
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Another American original Huffy Scout with original seat. Upgraded the brakes and put a euro style city bike handlebar on it.

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Yet another Blue US made Savannah with some upgrades for NYC life

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This is a Huffy Main Street Euro style City Bike. Made in China but pretty nice. It is now helping a recent immigrant earn a living with Uber eats
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Various Chinese Huffys that have passed through my hands in the last 2 years that i have been playing this game.
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I'm always on the lookout for one of those yellow & brown 10-speed Huffy Scouts from the 70s. Barely different than the K-mart-branded Huffy I had back then, but you could tell that whoever assembled them for store display took more pride in the job.

This is a thread from 2014 that has been dormant since 2017. Please don't create zombies.