My first bike...letter "G"...There is a letter "H" for sale on Craigslist right now for $100.00...would love to have it!
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- Jul 31, 2016 at 14:10Jul 31, 2016
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Deep in the heart of..., Texas, United States
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A kid on my block in the 70s got one of those Huffy bikes with the shock and let me try it to hit a wooden sidewalk ramp, hit the ramp just right and the shock bucked me into a superman but I some how landed it, Ill never forget those days,I had a stingray I pulled out of someones trash and fixed it up and accessorized it with AMF BMX handlebars and pad and other bits I bought at K-Mart. There was a dirt hill behind K-Mart that was just a huge pile of dirt left over from the construction of the store, a small network of dirt trails and jumps and stuff came about and it was called K-Mart Hill, Thats where it all started for me.
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sanantonio.craigslist.org/bik/5702136359.html
Remember those grips? hahahahaha
I bet you find some cool BMX bikes there...the Aussies had awesome BMX bikes...
Remember those grips? hahahahaha
I bet you find some cool BMX bikes there...the Aussies had awesome BMX bikes...
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@samjam:
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/quicksilver/31356
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/bennett/26362
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/suparoo/79300
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/suparoo/35491
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/quicksilver/31356
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/bennett/26362
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/suparoo/79300
bmxmuseum.com/bikes/suparoo/35491
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@FIVE8FIVE: they were cheap but super good. They are a very popular brand here. Also had shelby but only the shelby family and team had them
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@samjam: ahhh...never heard of Shelby...that's probably why! You would like the bikes on BMX museum! I have a few on there, five8five on that site, too...
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@FIVE8FIVE: cool . I'm sort of into the old Kona stuff lately in MTB . Thinking of buying one haha. I love the old PK rippers . Big tubes and in camo is Devine . Remember the torker frame with that split top tube
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@samjam: Oh yeah! I loved them Torkers! What Konas you lookin' at? I like the cruiser stuff...A'Ha or Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. I have a 2002 Stinky that someday I'll finish. nikoniko sent me the shock reducers, so I gotta finish it now! I have so many projects! Got a 1987 Schwinn Predator Freeform EX that I'm gonna tackle this winter, and I'm planning a Klunker style bike if I can get it next weekend...
not in my life jesus ha- 1 0
@FIVE8FIVE: Oh really wow - nothing like those bicycle were in the uk? but only Raleigh of nottingham 
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I still remember getting it...I musta been 6 or 7...first bike I wheelied or jumped...my buddy had the 1976 stars and stripes one. I begged him to let me ride it, and 5 seconds after he agreed, I got a flat on it. boy was he pissed, gruntin' obscenities as he pushed it 2 blocks home! Sorry, Todd! 
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@FIVE8FIVE: mine came stock with a really wide, totally flat (with square edge) tire...
our goal was to get going as fast as we could, slam on the brakes and lay the longest skid we could, and if you did it right, i made a huge noise like an 18-wheeler skidding.
we did it so much, we bent the cranks and constantly busted that little clamp do-hicky thing that held the "L" brake-bar in place on the non-drive side. we often had to double or triple wrap that thing with a hose clamp just so it would last longer.
any silly thing we did --- we packed the rear hub with plain ol' Vaseline instead of grease.. That stuff had no heat value... we had a really steep hill near our house --- we'd coast that hill, riding the brake the whole time --- the hub would be smokin' by time we got to the bottom of the hill.
our goal was to get going as fast as we could, slam on the brakes and lay the longest skid we could, and if you did it right, i made a huge noise like an 18-wheeler skidding.
we did it so much, we bent the cranks and constantly busted that little clamp do-hicky thing that held the "L" brake-bar in place on the non-drive side. we often had to double or triple wrap that thing with a hose clamp just so it would last longer.
any silly thing we did --- we packed the rear hub with plain ol' Vaseline instead of grease.. That stuff had no heat value... we had a really steep hill near our house --- we'd coast that hill, riding the brake the whole time --- the hub would be smokin' by time we got to the bottom of the hill.
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@PedalShopLLC: hahahaha great memories! We too did the longest skid contests! Great times bein' a kid on a bike...
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@FIVE8FIVE: the best was our make-shift ramps we made from whatever we could find..... wait, no... the best of all time was our dumb ass idea that using an old bed mattress we went dumpster diving for as a landing zone .... we made some crazy huge ramps and we'd try to land on the mattress (WTF were we thinking) If we actually hit it square, we'd TWWWWWANG!!!! off that thing like something you'd see in the Road Runner- Coyote cartoons.
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Go for it, H looks awesome, does the rear shock actually work?
I also had a Huffy BMX that was my shredder bike for many years!