Team Murray 330
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I broke one of those bikes in half at the head tube back in 1982! That wasn't fun. After that was when I got my Mongoose!
Mine got welded back together and broken again twice more. I got bloody each time. I hated that bike. I got it new in 1978. I was always envious of my buddy's new Mongoose. I wanted the Webco with Webco mags that was at the local bike shop for I think $400 but that might as well have been a million to me at the time.
We drove my friend's '68 Chevy Longhorn C-20 (396/TH400) over that Team Murray in 1982 just to finish it off and make sure it didn't hurt anyone again.
We drove my friend's '68 Chevy Longhorn C-20 (396/TH400) over that Team Murray in 1982 just to finish it off and make sure it didn't hurt anyone again.
Schwinn was the Dodge Aspen or AMC Pacer.
Face it, the big three bike companies all weighed a ton in the 80s and had become a laughing stock; a shell of their former selves.
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I would still like to build a Sting. Or a Mag Scrambler Competition. Cromo tubing, shimano drops, nice brazing. Still heavy as heck, but pretty cool.
But the Mag Scramblers, Even the Predators were not track bikes.
The DeCoster was pretty sick though. That's because they were made by BMX Products to be sold exclusively through Schwinn.
I had a 1976 DeCoster (double gusset, nickel). I'll dig up some photos tomorrow and post them.
When Huffy later put out the Stu Thomsen model, that was brutal. I'm sure if Stu left the ground on one of those it would have exploded into a million pieces upon touchdown. He did get $ for every one sold. Can't begrudge a legend making some dough.
Sorry for the thread hijack.
But the Mag Scramblers, Even the Predators were not track bikes.
The DeCoster was pretty sick though. That's because they were made by BMX Products to be sold exclusively through Schwinn.
I had a 1976 DeCoster (double gusset, nickel). I'll dig up some photos tomorrow and post them.
When Huffy later put out the Stu Thomsen model, that was brutal. I'm sure if Stu left the ground on one of those it would have exploded into a million pieces upon touchdown. He did get $ for every one sold. Can't begrudge a legend making some dough.
Sorry for the thread hijack.
I'm a big guy, I only buy 26" bikes, maybe a 24" muscle bike now and then. But I don't buy any Huffman built bike after the late 60s. They started undercutting their dealers even then poor quality trim, chrome, welds, and inferior cranks. Schwinn and Huffman were, at one time, the American standards. It was like Ford versus Chevy.
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Even in the late '70s when the bike was new I took the stickers off it because I was embarrassed it was a "Team Murray". The only reason I didn't get teased much was because I was faster than my friends. Their Mongooses and Redlines were just as heavy, with Motomags they were even heavier. I mean, sure, they never broke in half...
