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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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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Huffy 26-Inch Men's ATB Granite Bike (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)very nice bicycle, although in the description it says it's a five speed,
actually its a 15 speed. not to hard to assemble, pretty much assembled out of the box
just attach front wheel, pedals, seat, and handlebar, your good to go. The tires
are even fully inflated.

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Huffy Granite 26 inch bike is Cool silver metallic with precision crafted steel hard tail frame, RSS fork. Tires are 26" x 1.95" knobby. Extras include quick release seat binder, Kraton grips, and Kolo front load stem.

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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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