I'm jumping in a little late on this thread, but what high end Huffy bikes were there, besides the ones made by Serotta during the mid '80s? Was there another high end Huffy? If anyone is interested, I can send pictures of one of the Serotta-built Murray bikes from '85; full first gen. C-Record/Cobalto. I picked it up for a great price(!), from a guy who claimed "no one wants to pay anything for an old Murray".... Cheers,
Duane Kennard
> That's kind of interesting since Huffy had the best bicycle R&D labratory
> in the world up until the early 80's. It's was closed for budget reasons,
> since Huffy gave up all hopes to make high end bikes. The even built
> many of the frames
> we're talking about there. I think it's Dave Schwalbe(sp?) who's on the
> iBOB and Framebuilders list that now has the jig. There were people at
> Huffy that knew bikes and were some of the best bicycle engineers
> around. In the late 80's one of the US cycling magazines did a story
> about the lab and its resources and history. Anyone have any more info
> since all mine is fromm reading about it and one person who had actually
> been there.
>
> Weren't there rebadged A-D's marked Sears Free Spirits?
> enjoy,
> Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
> in 72 sunny Santa Barbara, CA