Or, as I think most likely, someone at some point has theft proofed the frame with Huffy written on the downtube. I've seen folks do this plenty of times. I've also seen quite a few few of the special project Huffy's and I think all had other identifiers that they were special project bikes, like another decal with Olympic rings that sort of thing. All the Serotta built ones had stickers identifying them as such too I believe. If the downtube is the only thing that said it was a Huffy I'd guess it wasn't.
Though in support of the Oregon connection, didn't Mark Dinucci build some Huffy special project bikes? best, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives Just completed another rear-end and fork build in Vancouver, B.C.
On Feb 11, 2007, at 1:20 PM, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> << ...really nice bike that was labeled HUFFY. Obviously not
> department store quality. I asked him who built it, and he didn't
> know the name- just that the builder was from Oregon. >>
>
> Hmmm.
> Many fancier (!) Huffys were made by Mike Melton in Ohio, plus a
> very few by Landshark/John Slawta in medford, OR, for Andy Hampsten
> and then some by Serotta in NY? Hard to believe this fellow would
> have one of Hampsten's bikes (Only having 2 or 3 total been made.)
> Maybe he has Hampsten's Giro winner & doesn't realize it!!!!?
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TODDCIRELLI@aol.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 3:02 PM
> Subject: [CR]Question on HUFFY builders
>
> Excuse the redundancy if this has been discussed- I was out on a
> frigid ride
> today and ran into a man on a really nice bike that was labeled
> HUFFY.
> Obviously not department store quality. I asked him who built it,
> and he
> didn't
> know the name- just that the builder was from Oregon. Any idea
> who built
> bikes for them over the years?
>
> Todd Cirelli
> Mechanicsburg, PA
>
>
>
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