Huffy Techtra

[br549]

One of my Scout Dads brought this over for the boys to rebuild. Not sure what vintage it is, but it's made in USA, nothing Chinese or Taiwan about it. Maybe mid-80's?

Will probably make it a 6 speed straight bar commuter.

 

[FaceOFFbikes]

I would like to see you make a commuter out of it..I see plenty on road bikes that are forgotten about.

 

[cody-james]

is that a huffy with aluminum rims? sweet i love 10 speeds i've flipped like 75 this year

 

[br549]

yeah, they're alumn rims with steel hubs, one broken spoke, too bad, single piece cranks, may use a bmx crank with removable sprocket, 26" alm rims, single speed with alm schwinn brake

 

[br549]

Robbed the chain ring off of a Schwinn pixie, nice number. If I make this a single gear, does that make it a Pixie Fixie?

 

[br549]

Got rid of the bull bars, and went with more of a comfort bar, painted it red to match, and used a white bmx brake lever with white brake cable, kinda throwback to the old Elsinore days of my youth...hahh.....

I think I'll at least keep it a six speed, and go with the Canadian Cyclo-Kross tires, eh?

 

[br549]

Got the tires on, wheels trued up, somewhat.
Rides ok, simplistic, single speed, 1 brake, probably not a keeper, but it was fun easy build...
another huffy saved from the crusher!

 

[Markm]

right on!

 

[FaceOFFbikes]

I like it. Did you consider taking off the rear cassette for a single one?

 

[roadmaster]

yeah, a single speed freewheel would really clean that up. gotta love those huffies.