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Awesome ... those should be fun projects .. those are classics

I grew up in Canada so we didn't have much Huffy unless someone got one in the states and brought it back .

I still have love for cheap department store bikes , I grew up riding old store brand bikes from the local dump , all pieced together .

Lots of fond memories of those bikes .. some of the frames were really decent too if you just put good parts on them

I'll never forget my old neighbor's Murray bmx bike that he had back in the 80's. There was a warning label on it that said something like....

"Caution: This bicycle is not intended for motocross or stunt riding."

He was lucky enough to eventually get a Dyno Compe for his birthday.

I got no love for the old Huffy's. But I am stoked to have gotten this frame:


1997 Huffy MJ-12; Jimmy LeVan frame.
-Bill

Wish I had a photo of my first real bike - Huffy Thunder 56.  It started the whole neighborhood on bmx.  We used to jump that thing double BITD over oil cans from the gas station dumpster.  that's when the cans were paper with metal tops and bottoms.  They crushed nice.

man if i could find my two bikes i had when i was a kid i would pay millions... and old western flyer with banna seat .. even had the flag mount on the bottom.. and then i gota really nice murry that was allsilver with purple and black strips.and matching pads.. so cool.... lol

I learned to ride a bike on a Huffy - Thunder Road, I think... and I had another a few years later - I remember it looked like the Stu Thomsen, but for some reason I can't recall it actually being a Stu. I remember it being white, and I think black forks and headtube, track certified sticker, but what bike in 1983 or so didn't say track certified, fake CW pro bars... And I owned a 1984 Olympics edition Huffy ten speed. After that I got my first (and until recently only) Diamond Back and never went back to Huffy. Although I did totally ride a Kent frame with the stickers removed for awhile, which is kind of in the same class with Huffy.

While my friends had Centurions,Schwinn Scramblers and Mongoose Motomag bikes, I was stuck with a used Huffy Pro Thunder lll like Haro-83 has posted.My dad would BS me by saying that there would kids who would be grateful to have this bike or that spending more than $100.00 on a bike was a waste of money.When I broke parts on the Huffy,and that was quite often,my dad would yell at me for being too damn hard on my bike.I would respond by saying that the kids who would be grateful to own this piece of crap live in third world  countries,or I would call him a cheapskate a$$hole who would rather buy himself a 12,000 BMW in 1977 or custom made suits from Hong Kong while I was supposed to be thankful to barely have a weeks worth of clothes for school.I think he was trying to bring me up the same way he was,in other words like it was in the Depression.

Love the Murrays and the Huffys!! I will have one!!

There is no denying it Huffy has plaid a roll in almost every old schoolers life. One way or another, either you owed one, borrowed one, or watch one go flying by as a kid. If you did not get a chance to witness Huffy or Murray as a kid. Then there is something incomplete in your BMX journey that this thread can fill. All you have to do is just sit back an watch the comments come in.

Huffy love? Im tryin to sell some of my old huffy's

Here is my Huffy


Here is my Murray


We all started on one of these.

midschooler wrote:

i like that murray

Thanks