Comments on: The year was 1994

By: moke

moke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:52:14 +0000

first put on new tires tubes and chain……..maybe a new seat but hey, it’s not my butt.
then go ride a good 20 or so mile trail (some up, some down, lottsa mud), rinse and repeat. maybe try to find an old batman lunch box to carry with you. i guarantee you will feel like a kid again.

By: ?MyStIfIeD?

?MyStIfIeD? — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:13:00 +0000

You should keep it When i’m an old fogie (*Ahem* i mean an adult) i would want to keep it

I was born in 1994! Yippee 4 me!

By: Sam Snyder

Sam Snyder — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:50:54 +0000

I discovered the freedom of Sunday afternoons at age 13 on a 1960’s era Schwinn 3 speed (Cant remember the make) After ripping off the tractor seat and fenders, ditching the noodley handle bars and replacing with a riser bar, it was just fast enough to keep ahead of high-schoolers throwing oranges my direction. Went places that it shouldn’t have long enough for me to buy a nearly new Specialized Street Stomper represented a quantum leap up the cycling ladder.

By: Le Grand Monsieur

Le Grand Monsieur — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:26:25 +0000

I go way back. Schwinn Typhoon, Schwinn Varsity (yep, offroad…I was doing cyclocross without knowing), Peugeot U08, on which I won my French club’s Tour de France in ‘73.

And I had a Huffy kind of like yours sometime in the 90s. Didn’t fit me at all, but it’s what you got for $89.

By: Michelle K.

Michelle K. — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:59:37 +0000

Whoops…here;s the entry about my own old Huffy.

http://ornery-chick.livejournal.com/146067.html

In my case, the year was 1991.

By: Michelle K.

Michelle K. — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:55:02 +0000

Holy crap! I wrote darn near exactly the same entry in my own journal a few weeks ago, when I resurrected my old junior-high Huffy. Many6, many hours of babysitting the bratty next-door neigbor kids are represented in that old $109 bicycle.

I still ride it upon occasion. For as craptacular is it technically is, it’s an amazingly sweet ride.

By: Steve B

Steve B — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:30:04 +0000

I really wanted a mountain bike but I didnt have the money for one. I delivered papers on my used Cooks Brother Racing BMX…it was a decent bike as long as you didnt mind using your shoe (Adidas Samba) for a brake. (it wasnt cool to have brakes on your bike in my town…who knows how that trend started, no doubt by a shoe company. I had a raleigh technium after that. I thought it was all that and a bag of chips. Now I realize the geometry on that thing was down right scary. I cant believe I would bomb hills on that. At least it was aluminum.
Nice stroll down memory lane.

By: zyoose

zyoose — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:07:25 +0000

I rode a Silver Fox single speed with motorcycle style spring shocks both front and back, should of kept it.

By: mongoose

mongoose — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:16:15 +0000

Man… Your ride was SWEET compared to mine!

I grew up in Russia and I all the bikes I rode as a kid were heavyweight single speeds. Most were adult bikes; too big for me, but I rode them anyway. Life was so much more fun in the good old days. :-)))

By: jymbo

jymbo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:31:32 +0000

I started out with a Huffy Reno, 350 lbs, riding the backwoods of Alabama. Whoo, the rednecks had a good laugh or three.
I’m over that now