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Submitted by
George
a Racer
from Dallas
Date Reviewed: October 30, 2007 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Purchased At: | TARGET | | Strengths: | Whats a strength? | | Weaknesses: | Oh where to start
18 speed? My road bike's 20 and has only two front chain rings.
Only fake suspension
Tires pop off rim shifters slip
break levers bend, then break | | Similar Products Used: | Yeti AS-R SL Carbon with juicy carbon, XT/XTR, XT cranks Monkeylight XC bar, Maxxis rubber, Fox F100RLC, Chris King headset, Mavic crossride, and some other high end stuff | | Bike Setup: | Plastic Crap
YAY | | Bottom Line: | You get what you pay for | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jake
a Weekend Warrior
from Sarcoxie
Date Reviewed: June 16, 2005 | | Favorite Trail: | Devil's Den | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | Wally World in 1996 | | Strengths: | Tough frame
Somewhat light for an all steel bike | | Weaknesses: | No suspension
Bad shifters
Weak cranks
Stem angle
Cheap Tires | | Similar Products Used: | Trek 6000 (Really no comparison, but it is another mtn. bike) | | Bike Setup: | Stock, except for my sudden urge to update the bike a little! I just put a new UNO stem and new Tectro V-brakes on it. Not too long after I bought it way back when I had to put new rims on it due to the beating I put on the stock junky ones. I have also put on my Trek's old Botrager tires, which improve the traction a ton. | | Bottom Line: | I just read another review in honor of a Huffy Scout, so I thought I would do the same. I still ride mine every now and then, and it has been about the toughest Wal-Mart bike I have ever seen. Hats off to Huffy on this one. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Alex franzese
a Cross Country Rider
from camano is washington U.S.A
Date Reviewed: August 5, 2003 | | Favorite Trail: | death valley | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$110.00 | | Purchased At: | kmart | | Strengths: | nothing. peice of dung | | Weaknesses: | everything.i was riding down the hill and the brakes went out. that was my first day riding it!!!!!!! | | Similar Products Used: | nothing compares to this peicer | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | peice of crap! peice of crap! peice of crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.s parents,unless you want your kids dead dont buy any department store bike!!!!!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ron
a
from austin
Date Reviewed: February 24, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | Walmart | | Strengths: | Longevity, shimano components | | Weaknesses: | stock freewheel, stock seatpost, crank | | Similar Products Used: | Raleigh, Diamondback | | Bike Setup: | have no idea, its gone | | Bottom Line: | Well, I finally had to let the Huffy go. It had been enlisted for campus duty, but couldnt pass the test. The 17in. frame couldnt cut it for a 6'1" guy, plus some of the parts started dying. The front hub wouldnt stay tight and the squared holes in the crank started rounding out making the crank arm jiggle. After I replaced the stock seatpost and freewheel to quality parts and before the crank went to crap it was a great beater for campus. Hopefully someone at the pawn shop will find it to be a good bike. It has now been replaced by a Raleigh trail bike and I havent looked back until tonight. This review is dedicated to my 1996 Huffy Scout for its 6.5 years of riding enjoyment. Here's to crappy walmart bikes. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mike
a Downhiller
from Brookline,MA
Date Reviewed: March 6, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$120.00 | | Purchased At: | Ames | | Strengths: | Cheap,good value,full susp,headset. | | Weaknesses: | Forks,shock,frame,chainset. | | Similar Products Used: | Giant,PEUGEOT,GT. | | Bike Setup: | All stock | | Bottom Line: | A good bike for everything except downhill and drops.Forks and shock clunked the second day.If you are a commuter,buy a hardail.This bike is good for anything but extreme riding.
This product is not worth upgrading.
P.S.Any serious downhillers in Boston area?If so,please let me know. | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Aaron
a Weekend Warrior
from Austin
Date Reviewed: February 6, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$200.00 | | Purchased At: | Wally World | | Strengths: | Frame, rims, paint, styling. | | Weaknesses: | Rear gear cassette broke a while back which I left broken longer than I needed to due to the fact that I inherited a nice used Diamondback Apex. I guess thats more of a strength in that it allowed me to get a real bike. Also, there is a popping sound which comes from the crank. | | Similar Products Used: | Walmart or Toy R Us junk bikes, DB Apex, 2001 Raleigh M60 | | Bike Setup: | Stock other than a new rear cassette and aztec brake pads which work really good in the wet. | | Bottom Line: | Its a cheap bike that has needed some work, but its 6 years old. I bought it in 1996 when my previous junker broke in half while I was doin a wheelie, so it has served me well for a while. Its overall a solid bike which is perfect for riding on the street. It is now being passed down to mom since she "thinks its purtee." If you arent going to be jumping a bike off of curbs and riding it hard, a cheapo walmart bike is fine. You get what you pay for and thats why I rate this high because its a good bike for the money. I would probably still be riding it had I not been given my uncle's Diamondback Apex. This introduced me to the world of quality bicycles and I cant go back. Ive outgrown it so I moved on to a nice midgrade bike. As soon as I get some miles on the tires I can rate it so we'll see how that one goes. Bottom line: Huffy makes a damn good piece of crap. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Bill Malora
a
from Springfield NH
Date Reviewed: August 19, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | any one | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | Walmart | | Strengths: | Wow plastic bashguard really works, I never knew a rockring should be weaker than what it protecs (chainrings. At fifty pounds it is good at hitting things, though the tinfoil frame isn't very strong. Great Huffy Parts Dont brake (as long as you don't ride it) Handle bars slip up and down for on the trail adustments. The fake suspension is really ridgid. Plus many other great things about this bike. | | Weaknesses: | the "NOT TO BE USE OFF ROAD" sticker on the back of the bike sums it all up. | | Similar Products Used: | Gt I-drive team, Gary Fisher Sugar1, K2 Razorback, Trek Fuel 100, uhhhh well no,I guess nothing compairs to the Huffy | | Bike Setup: | various plastic parts
| | Bottom Line: | What eles can be said! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
T.J.
a Cross Country Rider
from MANCHESTER IA USA
Date Reviewed: July 6, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | AROUND TOWN | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | BLAIN'S FARM AND FLEET | | Strengths: | VERY DURABLE DOESNT BRAKE
TIRES DONT BEND/POP
PAINT AND DECALS
EASY TO MAINTAIN CONTROL | | Weaknesses: | BRAKES
WEIGHT
SIZE OF FRAME | | Similar Products Used: | NONE | | Bike Setup: | 20 INCH
FREE STYLE
X-GAMES
| | Bottom Line: | THIS BIKE IS FUN TO RIDE MORE THAN IT IS TOO RAMP OR DO STUNTS BECAUSE OF ITS WEIGHT SO IF YOU WANT TO RAMP AND DO STUNTS THIS ISNT THE BIKE FOR YOU BUT IF IT IS JUST TO RIDE THEN GO AHEAD AND BUY IT... I HAVE HAD ONE FOR ALMOST A YEAR AND I HAVE HAD A LOT OF GOOD COMPLIMENTS | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Dana
a Cross Country Rider
from Chicago, IL
Date Reviewed: May 3, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Giant City and Little Grand Canyon | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$89.00 | | Purchased At: | Walmart | | Strengths: | Sturdy construction for the price. Dual shocks, solid bike. | | Weaknesses: | Brakes suck. A bit heavy. | | Similar Products Used: | Trek, Murray, Kent | | Bike Setup: | Huffy Sentinel. | | Bottom Line: | This bike is great for the budget concoius biker. I'm at school in southern illiois-and have taken it out up north (Starved Rock area) and down here. Handles well for the price, and is pretty indestuctable, which is a great thing for a college student to have. If you're looking for a cheap, solid bike that will be a challenge to ride, grab a Huffy. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Brian
a Downhiller
from Easthampton MA USA
Date Reviewed: April 18, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | my backyard | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$50.00 | | Purchased At: | KB Toys | | Strengths: | None(looking at it optimisticly) | | Weaknesses: | to many to count but ill just list a couple rust easily, plastic sprocket, one piece crank, 10 speeds (but only 2 work), harly bars, and the list goes on | | Similar Products Used: | none can compare to its greatness | | Bike Setup: | high quality Huffy parts | | Bottom Line: | Dont buy it. It was the biggest mistake of my life!!!!!!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
SJ
a Weekend Warrior
from Upstate NY
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$220.00 | | Purchased At: | Pulver's(Stay away from this shop!Stocks nothing but junk and the owner is a jackass) | | Strengths: | This review is for a Zephyr Silvertip(a rebadged Huffy)
Ummm....it's cheap?It was assembled right(Thank God). | | Weaknesses: | -HEAVY!!(35+ pounds)Can't climb or handle for sh$t!
-18 SPEEDS?!WHAT THE HELL!
-CRAPPY BRAKES!!
-CRAPPY WELDS!!
-CRAPPY PAINT!!
-CRAPPY PARTS!!(lopsided handlebar,weak rims,horrible and noisy cantilever brakes,piss-poor and fragile shifters+deraillers)
-FRAME SIZE IS TOO DAMN BIG!! | | Similar Products Used: | Dep. store crap | | Bike Setup: | POS | | Bottom Line: | If it handles,shifts,stops,climbs,and weighs as much as a Huffy,then guess what you have...
A HUFFY!!
My mom bought this poor excuse of a rig for me(because she wouldn't know what a good bike is if it bit her in the ass).I liked it at first...until stuff started breaking and falling out of adjustment on every ride,the brakes developed a shrill squeal that nothing could fix,and the goddamn tires wouldn't grip for ANYTHING!Can we say "SH$TBOX?"
I got my Rockhopper last summer,and there is a REAL BIKE.This bike is embarrassing!I don't care what bootleg brand it is--it is very obviously a Huffy and the shop I bought it from must take leftover Huffys and repaint+resticker them.When my shifter broke,it took him THREE FU#KING WEEKS to repair it,and gave me a lot of attitude because the part broke!Some service!!I will never buy anything there again.
What a crappy ride...1 chilie! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Mr. Mt. Bike Rider
a Racer
from WA, WA, USA
Date Reviewed: March 5, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Pete's Dragon, Sun Mt, Methow valley | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$3500.00 | | Purchased At: | Walmart | | Strengths: | Sweet paint job. Love the wheelsets and bb, cassette could be better, but who cares. | | Weaknesses: | Ive noticed the geometry can seem a bit sluggish while cornering sometimes. Thats the problem sometimes with these high end bikes, though. | | Similar Products Used: | Klein Adept Pro, Klein Mantra, Gary Fisher Sugar 2, Sugar 1, Team issue, Intense DH, GT DHI team, Rocky Mt DH bike. | | Bike Setup: | XTR f/r der, SRAM rocket half pipe shifters, Bontrager Race Lite wheelsets, Race face cranks/headset/bb/seatpost/stem, xtr cassette, WTB Ti saddle, Rock Shox SID SL 100mm air w/ climb-it control, cane creek ad-12 rear shock, Time ATAC pedals, Avid SD MAG brakes, Cat-eye Enduro-2 computer | | Bottom Line: | Beautiful bike, and you can't beat that price-per-performance. This thing is a wailer on the fast DH/x-country trails, and rips up the competition as far as cross country riding and tight single track goes.
I HAVE noticed a small lag in the turning around fast, tight corners, but by the overall length this is to be expected. Overall Great bike!! The paint job says it all! GO HUFFY!!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jim
a Weekend Warrior
from Cooper, AL
Date Reviewed: February 4, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | some hardware store in Portales NM | | Strengths: | Cool speckled blue/black paint that's held up perfectly over the last 6 or 7 years, cheap enough that I won't cry if I crack up, nothing has broken yet though I've had to replace the front derailleur cable once. | | Weaknesses: | crappy brakes, and some of the welds aren't the greatest, but that's more aesthetic than structural so far as I can tell. | | Similar Products Used: | Murray, Trek, Schwinn | | Bike Setup: | stock Huffy 18 speed Reno, plus a gel saddle cover, gel grips and a cargo rack | | Bottom Line: | I wouldn't thrash this bike on a zicky downhill, but it's taken quite a lot of abuse without much complaint, except for a kinked cable and that was entirely my fault. I'm considering installing some good brakes and maybe some other odds and ends (remember, even on a cheap bike, you can still save the good parts for another bike)
I get compliments, though not nearly as much attention as my Schwinn Cruiser Deluxe.
One thing: the most noticeable quality problem I've seen with any dept. store bikes is in the assembly. I've seen kickstands fall off while wheeling a brand new bike out of the store. I'd definitely check the bike over for that sort of thing, and anyone who doesn't have a load of cash should consider Huffy. After all, if you can't afford a Cannondale, would you rather just sit around and mope?
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Submitted by
Cleeve Lorder
a Downhiller
from backwater,ga
Date Reviewed: January 23, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | downhill ones without horse manure | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$99.00 | | Purchased At: | walmart | | Strengths: | Has a good heft to it. Safer than other bikes cause it weighs more. I know that in a crash the other guy may get hurt real bad but I'll be safe, that's the important thing. | | Weaknesses: | Not enuff chrome, not enough room for me to put my 'peeing calvin' decal. Brakes caught fire first day. | | Similar Products Used: | Free spirit, Columbia, Pennys, x-games, pacific, Fisher, Trek, homade wood, homade iron. some penny/farthings. | | Bike Setup: | Stock except for wheel powered generator headllight/tailight system. And cable operated spedometer/odo. | | Bottom Line: | I'm sick of gettin ripped off by sissy boys in tight girlie pants trying to sell me them bikes that cost more than my truck. One of them boys showed me a cannondale piece of crap with one of the sides of the fork missing! Plus you were supposed to put batteries in it!.. That cannondell didn't weigh no more than the seat on this here huffy. Plus tight pantie boy tole me I gotta buy a helemunt that cost over thenty bucks and didnt even have a face mask. Excuse me, college boy, that's why you save yore high school football helmunt, for ridin motorbikes and mountaine bikes..
There's a reason guns are made of steel and beer cans that you throw away are made of alumimum. Cause aluminum is cheap crap for suckers. You ever hear of sombody that be done thowed away a gun? not unless they was a dern fool..or he just used it wrong.
That's why I bought me this bike at walmart. You can tell from the weight that it's good, solid steel, must weigh half as much as me, i had to build me a ramp to get it into my truck. I was tickled cause it'l like gittin a motorbike for a hundred bucks, that's bran new and all it aint got is the motor. If you was to take the motor out of a Yamaha YZ 125, it'd weigh about the same!
Plus siince it was from wallmart, you are garonteed that it's made in america by americans..not some communists that eat babies and aren't babtist. Wallmart wouldn't sell nuthin that aint american made.
It was steel for sure cause it had some rust startin on the chrome and the ellen head bolts that hold the shock on. I hit'em with some steel wool and WD40 and it shines now. I put one of those generator lites on it so I don't have to buy batteries, cause the store out here charges an eye-tooth for batteries. Plus the chrome lite opens up and I can stash my chaw up in there.
Only thing tho, is I cinda get winded pusing it up the hills , but now that my boots are broke in, it aint so bad. Sure is fun goin down them hills tho. Nice and stable at speed goin down the hills, just goes right through ruts and vines and trees and bikes and strollers and joggers and stuff. Need to get me a horn I guess..what with no brakes and all... just been draggin my feet to stop, that works fine.. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tyler rascoe
a Racer
from sahuarita az
Date Reviewed: December 18, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | road to circle K | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$150.00 | | Purchased At: | Wal-Mart | | Strengths: | Cheap, When the bike breaks I just throw it away and buy a new one. Heavy, more momentum on the down hills. reliable cro-mo rear end with light weight front end. ultra-stiff triple clamp froks with all the bumb-eating travel you can get with 2". American made. | | Weaknesses: | None. this is the best bike out their. | | Similar Products Used: | Diamonback Team Issue, Diamondback XR8, Diamondback V-link 3.0, Diamondback islander | | Bike Setup: | mostly stock, but had to change out the stock kick stand for a Greenfeild, and wider more stable white wall ballon tires. | | Bottom Line: | the bottom line is this is the bike to buy simply because of the price. I love my american made Huffy. this is the only bike you can buy for under a 1000 dollars that is made in the states and not in some wharehouse overseas. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Glenn Paterson
a Racer
from Australia
Date Reviewed: December 17, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | kmart | | Strengths: | VALUE for MONEY
Is not a poseur bike, does what it's bought for - nothing more, nothing less.
People are always commenting on it!? | | Weaknesses: | only 1 worth mentioning -> No braze-on bidon position | | Bike Setup: | Hard | | Bottom Line: | A dual suspension bike for $100? - I couldn't buy a spare set of wheels & tyres for my old bike for that much! LOL
I could have spent USD500to1000 more on a catchy trademark and nice paint-job, but i spent it on more tangible things.
This bike delivers what it promises, and has returned its value many times in enjoyment. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
brendan
a Cross Country Rider
from silver spring
Date Reviewed: November 11, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | my basement into my backyard | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$100.00 | | Purchased At: | kmart | | Strengths: | strong frame, 18 speed, not bad. | | Weaknesses: | brakes, well ok, who needs them, heavy, well, only weiners worry about weight, just kidding, ugly | | Similar Products Used: | well, nothing similar, I've gone GT | | Bike Setup: | stocko, except for some nice profile bar ends and new pedals. Oh yeah, It's a Huffy Backwater | | Bottom Line: | Ok, huffy ain't great, we know that, but this bike lasted me for two years of riding rail road tracks, so it's built all right. the brakes suck, but who needs brakes, it's ugly, and weighs a lot. But still, my first mountain bike! I have since improved my skills (in 4 years, haha, i'm good), and have been sponsered twice. I ride GTs and it's nothing to a GT, but still, it's what got me hooked on mountain biking. I crashed that thing so many times, but it was fixed for real cheap because the parts are nice a cheap.
BOTTOM BOTTOM LINE, it rolls smooth, goes kinda fast, is wrekable, is cheap, and funny, hahaha | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Robert
a Cross Country Rider
from Altadena, CA, USA
Date Reviewed: September 11, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Lowe Rd. to Mt. Wilson | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$99.00 | | Purchased At: | K-Mart | | Strengths: | It is so smooth on dirt and other bumps. It is balanced very well. It is very dependable at handling surprises in on the road/trail. | | Weaknesses: | In cold/wet weather, I had some trouble turning the grip shifts. | | Similar Products Used: | Road bike | | Bike Setup: | It was pre-built at the store | | Bottom Line: | You could own a fleet of my bike-(in which I love) for the price of a Cannondale at $5500. I think that if you are starting out in Mountain Biking.. it is really the way to go. It is a fantastic bike. In the last 6 months, I've ridden up to Mt. Wilson 10 times. I've ridden up to other other mountain areas in the Angeles forest and taken it on many other trips. It is really the funnest and greatest bike I've ever had. I lock it when I leave it and honestly, even though I love it, I know I could easily replace it if stolen for its low price. It is just perfect to check out the mountains with-to lock it and leave it. It is solid, dependable and a load of fun. I thought that if I ever had company who wanted to cycle, it'd be a good bike for the guest to purchase.. ride it, then ship it home. It is comfortable, easy to ride.. I could just go on and on. It really has gotten a bad rap.. although if you care to find the real truth.. it is a great a bike for the price-for any price-honest. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
penastar
a Cross Country Rider
from Santa Rosa, California
Date Reviewed: June 24, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | Great price and very reliable. In the past two years the only problem I had was a gear cable that snapped. | | Weaknesses: | Heavy Weight and somewhat rough shifting even after the gears were adjusted. | | Similar Products Used: | Marin, Raleigh and Schwinn. | | Bike Setup: | Stock Superia | | Bottom Line: | If you are just the occasional rider and dont plan to race professionally, save your money and buy this bike. Dollar for Dollar there isnt a better deal around. I am not sure why there is such negativity in the bike world about Huffy. The only thing I can figure out is that bike dealers don't like it because they cant make a ton of money selling it to you. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
haywood jablomi
a Downhiller
from mother russia
Date Reviewed: June 6, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | trail to zacks | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | everything | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | a crapper on wheels | | Bike Setup: | stock | | Bottom Line: | this bike is great................y buy a $900 bike if you can by this.....all we do is ride down the crazy trail to zacks house and around the padanara hills
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Submitted by
JohnnyT
a Racer
from Vancouver, BC
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Anywhere in BC | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Cool looks, solid feel, light plastic pedals, one piece crankset (easy to replace. . .inexpensive too), reliable thumb shifters .one on each, heavey duty chain. Passes BC rider's toughest technical skills requirtements! | | Weaknesses: | For some reason there is a negative stigma associated with this bike in the USA. Unreliable kickstand. | | Similar Products Used: | Intense Tracer, Titus RacerX, Jamis Daiblo Pro. | | Bike Setup: | Stock Huffy changed to Schwinn kickstand. | | Bottom Line: | Cruised Northern Edge of Vancouver screaming by poser on tricked out Rocky Mountain element. Quite surprised the lad.
Came up on on poser riding an Uzzi at the Reaper and blew by him on a 10 foot drop and laughed as I watched him endo in surprise.
Passed a group of yanks walking their rides down a simple 12 foot drop on Cypress Mountain and impressed them as my Huffy landed solid.
Never experienced such exhiliration on a bike before. Like the reviews below me THIS RIDE IS IT!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David
a Weekend Warrior
from bobsville
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | North Shore stuff | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Unbelievable handling and strength. Cool name. Massive weight makes you a stronger rider! If you have a breakage, you just buy a whole new one! Unique - you'll be the only one riding one! | | Weaknesses: | Zilch | | Similar Products Used: | Ibis Bow-Ti, Santa Cruz Superlight. | | Bike Setup: | Stock Huffy XK 1000. | | Bottom Line: | You should see the looks on other riders faces up on the North Shore as I come storming through on my Huffy! They can't believe their eyes! All those posers on their Intense, GT's, Norco's and all other assortment of overpriced bikes look pretty foolish as I clean sections of trail on a 40 lb Huffy! Just to show 'em their overpriced so-called mountain bikes suck!
If yu really want to learn how to ride, get a Huffy and challenge yourself! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Paul
a Racer
from Moab
Date Reviewed: May 2, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Utah's best | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Stunning design, solid frame, large welds, durable suspension, great price & feature filled bike. Great wheel set, can't mistake unique reliable headset, crankset. Love the suspension setup. | | Weaknesses: | Not used by enough racers. | | Similar Products Used: | Santa Cruz, Kona, K2 | | Bike Setup: | Stock with mixed mountain. | | Bottom Line: | After I took a rocky 12 foot drop on my stock Huffy in Moab, and came out clean, I was sold on the solid performance of this bike. Very good blasting through rocks/cactus to cut new singletrack. Handles like a freight train on singletrack (stays on the rails). Thinking about entering a dual slalom race in June. Amazing sturdy stock wheelset, may trade in my backup Crossmax wheelset.
Can't say enough about this ride! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Damien Valli
a
from Chicago IL
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Cool looking hot green and black splash paint job. Spot welded dropouts, and your favorite and mine, the one piece steel crank. | | Weaknesses: | I doesnt shift over the 5 gears in the back very well | | Similar Products Used: | Pacific, Trek, Murray, Kent | | Bike Setup: | Wedgebolt stem, Steel one piece Crank, plastic pedals, 5 speed cog in the back, thumb shifters. | | Bottom Line: | This thing is awsome off of big drops. I rellay feel confident with the Wedge-bolt stem and the Ridged fork when hucking 10 footers. Tight singltrack is a breez with the thumb shifters. The 5 speed cog gives me a huge range and precise shifthing.
The Bottom line is, if you have an extra $75 lying around than buy this bike. There should be a ToysRus or a K-mart around you. The mechanics there are great and can answer all your questions. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jock
a Racer
from Big Bear
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Hard Rock | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Great durability, solid on downhills, performance | | Weaknesses: | Price too cheap.Suggest major price increase. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized M4, C'Dale Super Raven, Gary fisher Sugar 1,
Schwinn Rocket 88, Klein Mantra, GT I-drive, Moots, Kona, Hecckler, Ellsworth, Intense, Uzzi, Rocky Mountain | | Bike Setup: | Stock Huffy Mountain Parts | | Bottom Line: | This is truly the best ride I've ever raced. This bike ROCKS. Handles like a dream, floats over the roughest terrain! The suspension is the plushest I've experienced( I'm replacing my Zoke Z1 X-fly)! I can't say enough about my Huffy race experience. Leave the competition in the dust!
Be good to yourself. . . . .ride a rockin' Huffy today!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris
a Downhiller
from mo
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Bottom Line: | this is a great type of bike..... to dock jump into the lake. Me in my friends would have the best time flyin down my huge hill, and dock jumping this crap box in the lake. one chilie for the value, five chilies for the hours of fun we had dock jumping it into the lake, until it died | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
steve
a Cross Country Rider
from no shore, MA
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | Real trails | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Bright Orange | | Weaknesses: | HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Heavy,cheap,pretend components,pretend bicycle | | Similar Products Used: | rocks | | Bottom Line: | I owned a huffy when I was 8 years old, until I was 11 and I broke the "wheels." I would recommend this bike to toddlers and posers and people who want to turn money into scrap metal. Why do I feel the need to say this stuff? Do I need to enlighten you people? Why do I waste time writing this? I'll tell you why: my Mavic 220's are busted and the new wheels are in the shop. I could pay to fix this or buy 2 huffies. These bikes are not good, even when they're painted bright chartreuse and have what passes for shoxx on the front!!!
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Gunner
a Weekend Warrior
from Springville
Date Reviewed: March 14, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Tested or demo'ed only | | Strengths: | Weighs as much as an M1 Abrams | | Weaknesses: | Components, service, weight, rideability. | | Similar Products Used: | Voodoo, Airborne, Bianchi | | Bottom Line: | Get away from Huffy and start finding out what good biking is. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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bob
a Downhiller
from bobville
Date Reviewed: March 13, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | umm | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Strengths: | This bike is the best bike in the world for ghost riding. I just love jumping it off 100ft cliffs and watching it smash at the bottom. Its also very good at driving into brick walls. | | Weaknesses: | The welds dont last long. | | Similar Products Used: | murry. | | Bike Setup: | nottin good. | | Bottom Line: | This bike is the best bike in the world to ride off cliffs or into brick walls. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Steve Davis
a Weekend Warrior
from Millville NJ USA
Date Reviewed: March 2, 2000 | | Favorite Trail: | BEVAN state park cumberland co. NJ | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | T-Bone Style 26" Frame,sealed 175mm prowheel crank,front suspension,18 speed,Triple chain ring great moutain and road gears,clean frame welds,Grip Shift,alloy brakes | | Weaknesses: | short seat post | | Bike Setup: | Good minor adjustments needed to fit bike to my preference | | Bottom Line: | The Huffy 26" Maxx Mountain model# K 6620 0 is a excellent choice of entry level mountain bikes on the market I have puchased a new mountain bike every two years since 1992 at prices from 200 to 499 dollars. When I seen this bike on a Kmart rack I didnt expect to like it, but a closer look at the componants and welds and I was sold. The bike is a pleasure to ride on roads and trails.
purchase price-$99.99 | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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Bob
a racer
from michigan
Date Reviewed: April 27, 1998 | | Bottom Line: |
I just picked up this beauty at my local K-mart and I must say this thing rocks. I looked at all those high end bikes going for $5oo or more and I dont know what all the hoopla is about. The sales maker at K-mart was very helpfull and asured me that this was just as good as any of those other bikes. The only thing is, is that it is a little heavier than those other bikes but I got it for under $2oo and it even has a front shock! I don't know how I ever lived with out shocks before, they really soak up the bumps, especially going downhill. The only thing that I was thinking of upgrading was to Pedal, I have heard alot of good stuff about them. If any one has any sugestions on Pedal please e-mail me. | | Overall Rating: |
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