Huffy Mens Good Vibrations Bike, Maroon, 26-Inch Review

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(More customer reviews)I love the look of this bicycle. Received in good condition. Fairly Easy assembly. Seems to have solid construction. The seat doesn't seem to tighten as much as I would like but that could be an issue with the user instead of the actual bicycle construction. Rides smooth. This bike has wide handlebars which I couldn't tell by just looking at the picture. Overall, a good bike for the price. This bike is definitely worth the price.

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Since its establishment in 1892, Huffy has been known for its tradition of producing innovative and high quality bicycle products. Since that time millions of people around the globe have enjoyed the quality and value of a Huffy bicycle and Huffy has become one of America's most recognized bicycle brands.

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Schwinn Windwood Men's Cruiser Bike (26-Inch Wheels) Review

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(More customer reviews)I wanted a cruiser type bike for riding comfort and for exercise. I liked this bike for its looks, it matches my wife's bike and it looks a lot like the first bike I had many years ago and I wanted a bike without gears or hand brakes. This bike meets those requirements.
Like the other reviews stated, I was disappointed in the condition of the bike when it arrived. The front fender had a large dent, the luggage rack was bent, the paint had several chips and scratches. I found the front fender poorly designed and lacking the necessary hardware to attach it. It either scrubs on the tire or hits the frame when turning the wheel.
I like riding it but would not buy it again because of the issues with the front fender not fitting properly.

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Schwinn Women's Miramar Bicycle (Purple) Review

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(More customer reviews)I never considered buying a bike mail-order before, but a special promotion for Amazon credit card holders made it too good of a deal not to try. I am glad I did! The bike arrived in a fairly beat up box but the components were in good condition without any damage. The bike comes 80% assembled. All you have to do is install the handle bars, front wheel, pedals, and seat. The brakes, derailleur, chain, etc. are all pre-assembled. It comes with a owner's manual that has a reasonably good set of assembly instructions (it could use a few more illustrations, in my opinion) with one exception: it does not tell you how to open up the front brakes so that you can install the wheel. I ended up disassembling the brake, which you do not need to do. Search the internet for "linear brake assembly" or similar and you will find instructions (and pictures!) that show you how to open up the brake. It's very simple and should have been in the Schwinn directions. You can probably put the bike together in 10-15 minutes if you know what you are doing. It took me considerably longer than that because of the issues I had with the front brake.
The bike is at the low end of the Schwinn line, and might even be the cheapest bike they make, but it seems to be well constructed and well suited for my purpose: riding around town on paved roads. It has a steel frame, which makes the bike heavier than aluminum or composite framed bikes, so that might be a factor to consider if you plan on frequently hoisting the bike up onto a roof rack (not a factor for me). It has a shock absorber on the front that does a nice job of soaking up minor bumps. The tires have a good thickness to them which also helps make the ride comfortable. The gears shift smoothly and easily, though are not perfectly aligned with the numbers on the dial (I'm sure that can be adjusted). The brakes have a nice pull to them and stop the bike smoothly, quickly, and quietly. The seat is comfortable and the tires have good grip on pavement.
Overall I am quite happy with the bike and recommend it if you are looking for a relatively inexpensive bike for casual riding on paved surfaces.

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Schwinn Miramar Women's Comfort Bike (26-Inch Wheels) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a super bike and a super good price!!Rode it and it was super smooth.It was not only for people over 72" as the previous writer states. It said for people over 62".

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Huffy Women's Mojave Gulch Bike, WhitePurple, 26-Inch Review

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(More customer reviews)The Mojave Gulch Bike is an attractive, sleek, streamline, yet sturdy bike that gets the job done. Since I dont have a car,I get around mostly everywhere on this bike. I have had more compliments on the appearance of the bike. it is a dazzling white with purple features. The look of the bike stands out in a crowd. It is sturdy, yet lightweight. I am thoroughly pleased with the bike, only wish the seat was a bit bigger...

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Stylish and versatile, the Huffy Mojave Gulch women's 26-inch bike is ideal for trail riding or moderate commutes. The Mojave Gulch is equipped with a supportive suspension frame and ASR suspension fork, helping the bike absorb bumps and shocks from rough terrain. The bike also includes XPS bar ends that help you position your hands comfortably as you ride. Other features include front and rear linear pull brakes, 19-speed Enzo twist shifters, a padded quick-release seat with a Huffy logo, and a steel three-piece crank.

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Pacific Exploit Front Suspension Girl's/Women's Bike Review

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(More customer reviews)The price is good; but, and these are big BUTS!
Let me preface this by saying, I have ridden for many years with a bike club. I have also been a bike mechanic and have worked on all sorts of bikes from high end carbon fiber road bikes, to aluminum frame, chrome-moly, and good old fashion steel bikes.
I have put together many off the rack production bikes. This one by far is the worst.
DESIGN FLAW:
The geometry of the bike is such that the crank arms and pedals place are only 3 inches from the front tire. This 3 inches is WITHOUT your feet in position. For a normal 12 year old child, and I measured this, their shoe front is JUST 1/2 INCH AWAY FROM THE FRONT TIRE!!! This has disaster written all over it. I mean what child can ride in perfect foot position. The only fix for this is toe clip cage. Most 12 year old children can't ride with toe clip cages, or will not use them.
CRAFTSMANSHIP:
Each of the rims for the tires were wavy. The deviation was slight greater 1/4 from center. Steel rims are difficult to true. Even on a truing stand, you can't remove the blip. The problem is from the manufacturer. Also the decals were ripped and applied with bubbles and wiped off with a dirty greasy rag. The paint job had many dings and scratches from either manufacturing, packaging or shipping. I would think the two aforementioned.
The brakes on this bike are a joke. Linear pull brakes are cheap form of braking. Shimano has a version called the V brake. The problem lies in this: Cheap or poorly-specified linear pull brakes can suffer sudden catastrophic failure when the noodle end pulls through the metal stirrup. This will leave you with NO braking whatsoever!
Compared to side caliper brakes, these are very poor in function and design.
The components are poorly made. They are not not quality known manufacturers like Shimano, Campy, or SRAM.
CONCLUSION:
I am going to see what the company is willing to do. The problem this is a present for my child. She is in love with it. I can fix almost everything on this but the design flaw. I can only place the toe clip cages on there for her if in insists on keeping it.
Thus far, Pacific has not impressed me...nor other reviewers in this category. Looking at other models from them in this genre, 24" girl's bikes, they just don't seem to understand the market.
If I can't get satisfaction, I am probably going to look at HUFFY. For the most part, their off the rack bikes are okay.

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Huffy 26-Inch Ladies DS-3 Dual Suspension Bike (Amethyst) Review

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(More customer reviews)I don't normally provide reviews for items, but had such a disappointing experience with this product and Amazon that I just had to write about it. My wife and I were looking for an inexpensive mountain bike as a birthday present for our oldest granddaughter (she just turned 14). We found the Huffy 26-Inch Ladies DS-3 Dual Suspension bike and it looked like it fit the bill. We ordered it from Amazon with 5-7 business day shipping on the 26th of May. It arrived on June 6th, the day after our daughter's birthday party (I would chosen faster shipping, but the cost was exorbitant, and given that Amazon HQ's is in Seattle, I didn't expect it to be shipped from the East Coast!). At any rate, it was dumped on our driveway, so that my wife when she arrived home, had to lift the heavy box and move it out of the way. The box was torn, and had parts sticking out of the box, although not too much. When I had time a couple of days later to put the bicycle together, I was able to open the box and take out the components (there were various subassemblies that had already been put together), and it appearred that there was no significant damage, although there were small scratches on various components, and the parts were all very dusty. With all the sub-assemblies out, I started to look them over and was looking for the assembly instructions. There were none! I checked the box and packaging thoroughly. Still no instructions or owner manual. I contacted Amazon by phone. The person on the other end of the line told me that I could return the item. The box was apart, the present was already late, this was not the answer I wanted, and I was not willing to wait for another 2 weeks to receive an item that shouldn't have arrived the way it did. Moreover, all I wanted was instruction on how to put the bicycle together. I was eventually able to slowly figure out how the components went together with a largely unhelpful instruction guide that I managed to find on the Huffy website. I did take the bicycle over to my daughters house and my granddaughter is supposedly riding it, but I have no idea how well it will hold up.
All in all this was this was not a very pleasant experience either with Amazon, or Huffy. While my granddaughter is riding the bike, I wouldn't not recommend purchasing a bike from Huffy or through Amazon, based on my experience.

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Huffy DS-3 26 inch bike is Amethyst in color with hi-ten steel frame, Kolo suspension fork and linear pull brakes. Tires are 26" x 1.95" knobby. Extras are quick seat release and krayton grips.

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Schwinn Miramar Men's Comfort Bike (26-Inch Wheels) Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this because I'd seen another Amazon review saying the assembly was easy, and I was happy to find this is true for me too. Since there are no directions, I thought I'd do my part by giving other buyers a couple of tips. You will need a couple of hex wrenches -- I already owned one of those little Craftsman sets with all the sizes attached to the plastic grip handle. You will need the inch measurement ones, which is the set with the orange handle. This is the only tool required. You will need a pair of household scissors, too, and an air pump for the tires.
The bike will arrive with the handlebars detached and folded over by the cables and strapped to the bike frame with a plastic fastener strip. The front wheel and the seat post (with the seat already on) are also on the side of the frame. Cut the fastener strips off. To put the front wheel on, find the axle in the little cardboard box, put it through the wheel after uncrewing the axle cap so you can put it through the wheel. Now just put the axle through the front fork and flip the end lever on the axle to hold the front wheel on.
Put the seat post in, and then turn the lever on the band which adjusts the seat until you have the height and direction of the seat where you want it, and lock down the lever.
To put the handlebars on, first take the protective black cap off the end of the handlebar post. You do need to hold the handlebars just the right way because the cables are already attached, which is good in the long term. It took me about three minutes of trying several positions until I figured out how to slip the handlebar post in, but eventually the light bulb came on over my head and it was simple. Once they were in, it was a snap to put the handlebars where I wanted them. I took the protective little black cap off the adjustment nut at the top of the stem, and used the Craftsman allen wrench. Turning the nut makes the bottom of the handlebar stem 9down in the bike frame) expand and this holds the handlebars in position. After adjustment, put the protector cap back over the nut to keep the rain and dirt off the nut.
Now pump up both tires, and you are almost done. Now you just have to fasten the front brake cable. Use a smaller allen wrench from the Craftsman set to slightly loosen the nut which holds the cable, and thread the cable through the little holder bar on the left, and then put the cable back where it originally was, and tighten it. You can look at the back brakes to see how it goes.
The pedals are in the cardboard box with the axle for the front wheel, and they are labeled L and R so just match them to the L and R stickers on the crank arms, and screw in the pedals. You are done!
The whole thing did take me an hour, but that's because I had to figure it out. Now that you have the steps, you can do it all in half and hour, easy. Happy riding!

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Huffy 26-Inch Men's DS-3 Dual Suspension Bike (Blue) Review

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(More customer reviews)I did an alarmingly large amount of research before settling on this bicycle. It's rather amusing when you realize I am the first person to review this bicycle. What swayed me? What sways anyone? The price, that's what.
Well, that and every other bike sold on here seems to have half its reviews complain about all the problems people had with it, while the other half talk about how they put it together and took right off on it. To put it bluntly: Buying a bicycle . . . ANY bicycle . . . online is a complete and total crapshoot. The difference with this one is that it was a CHEAP crapshoot. I'm glad I went with it.
I have had Huffy bikes in the past. I like them because they don't try to be something they aren't. They're cheap bikes that get the job done. This one is no different. If anything, it's the best Huffy I've had yet.
This bike's kind of the best of both worlds. It's not a full-on mountain bike, nor a one-speed cruiser. You get a little of both, here. The suspension makes for a comfortable ride but can take some sizable jolts. The run-of-the-mill gears (3 on the left, 7 on the right) gives plenty of variety without being overwhelming. I will say that I almost never touch the left gears, leaving them in 2 pretty much permanently. One of the drawbacks of this bike (and any bike, really) is the stock seat. It feels like sitting on a pair of baseballs. I'm already well on my way to getting a comfier seat.
As far as shipping is concerned . . . Well, it wasn't too bad. There were a couple of scrapes on the right gear selector, but the bike was otherwise unscathed. Putting the bike together was Huffy-simple. Most of it is pre-assembled and remaining assembly was relatively simple with the instructions provided. HOWEVER . . .
A problem I noted time and again with other prospective bicycles was poor alignment and/or assembly of components out of the box. This seems true across the board, and this bike is no different. I think (general) we get used to going to a department store, picking out a bike, and having it pretty well fixed up when we roll it out to the parking lot. It seems like they don't come out of the box like that. Because of that, I will say here and now that if you (or a good friend) are not mechanically inclined, and/or willing to buy a couple extra tools, keep letting the department stores do it for you.
The rear brake was tight enough that it wouldn't spring back properly when the brake handle was released. The front brake was mostly UNassembled, and what little WAS assembled, was assembled WRONG. The derailleurs needed a fair amount of tweaking. Lastly, the front wheel was so far out of true that spinning it by hand, the wheel would stop when it reached the point furthest out of true. Any one of these issues could have easily left a beginner scratching his/her head.
Now that the bike's gremlins have been worked out, I'm left with a remarkably decent product. I've rode about a dozen care-free miles on it thus far. All initial problems aside, I am very happy with my purchase. With a price of just over $100 you really can't go wrong. Get it knowing you are going to have to do some tweaking before you go riding, but then enjoy the incredible deal this bike provides you.

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Huffy DS-3 26 inch bike is Midnight blue in color with hi-ten steel frame, Kolo suspension fork and linear pull brakes. Tires are 26" x 1.95" knobby. Extras are quick seat release and krayton grips.

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