huffy

i am obsessed with huffy bikes.

First off.  Huffy= so much cooler a name for a bike than so many bike manufacturer's names who try to sound cool/tough.  Specailized?  Lame.  That's a description, not a name.  Trek?  Lame.  I still  think spock when i think trek.  Cannondale?  Ok, cannondale gets a pass because of the train on the fron and the use of "cannon" in the name.  Still Huffy for the win.

Second off.  Ever watch a movie that is so bad that it is awesome a la evil dead or strange brew.  That's how i feel about huffy bikes.  It amazes me that you can buy a full mountain bike with more gear combo's than my road bike for a mere 99 dollars.  First words outta your mouth are prolly gonna be something like "but the quality dude..."  Shut your suck hole.  It still blows my mind that that grouping of like, nuts, bolts, cables, levers, a freewheeling mechanism, and steel is under 100 dollars and it can be fixed to ride enough to get you around town (i know, i preform that miracle on the regular).  

Third, like it or not, i feel like huffy has a more solid history than even Schwinn bikes in my opinion.  Sure, schwinn had its heyday, a paramount with nuovo record and mavic seups still gives me a raging semi, however, schwinn sold the eff out, so they are turncoat bastards and can get bent.  Huffy has always been shot.  Lessin you count this pic of bob roll on a huffy in paris roubaix.

That's anther thing, i dont give a rats ass how many of his bikes ben serotta put a huffy headbadge on, them shits was a huffy.  Davis Phinney rode a huffy, Bob Roll rode a huffy.  

Also, today, one of my favorite passtimes went down at the bike shop.  Huffy tossing.  Eddie chucked the piss out of this huffy that somebody was donating (good luck finding replacement parts for that mother...).  It was awesome, but more for the hangtime than the distance.  But it was still awesome.  There needs to me more of this.  ALso some of you out there in blogger land might be like, "oh steve thats effed, you say you love huffys but you chuck em and break em and crap"  Put a sock in it.  Thats the best part about a huffy.  After all is said and done, its still some bike that science cant figure out why it runs for a total distibuting cost of 12 bucks.  NO matter how abused, how used, how thrashed, how annihilated a huffy is, its like a roach.  At the dawn of the Nuclear apocolypse, there will be 2 things left.  Huffys and the zombies who ride them.  

Im seriously considering getting a huffy tattoo.