Taking a Walmart Huffy on a downhill trail

Well that was certainly entertaining.
...so, I can pick up that sweet ride at anywhere? Nice!

 

You guys should see the other video where "seth bike hacks" fills both tubes with water to make it heavy and start doing jumps...he got a mongoose from walmart.

 

I seen a lot of these on trails and it scares me everytime. Then I get to fix them.

 

Come by the shop and see me. I'll throw in a free fitting and first tune.

 

Yup! It pays to knowz people! Ha hah!

 

It's easy to work on most high-end bikes. It takes skills to make a POS work. Skills and hammer!

 

It really does take skill to fix them. You have irregular parts and it usually costs more to fix them than it was new. A big 10 lb sledge always helps.

 

Remember the old Mountain Bike Action bike shoot outs they used to have?
A former staffer told me they tried to do one with department store bikes. They called it off after several bikes broke and one of the test riders separated his shoulder.

 

Okay, now the dude needs to have some more fun and try to return it to Wal Mart telling them he only used it once and it totally fell apart!

 

"I had no choice but to commit to the jumps. I even started clearing a few."

I've never been that great at jumping but I think I'll remove my brakes before my next Snow Summit trip.

 

That fork ...

 

Haha good stuff. One of my nephews had a walmart one and bent the BB axle in about a week doing little jumps. I put an old XTR square taper BB and cranks on it (they fit, but the chainline was a little out of whack, but it dropped a couple pounds off the bike). I told him if he ever throws that bike in the trash to let me pull the cranks off because they're worth more than the rest of the bike.

 

That guy had a very unusual accent - and big, gigantic brass balls. I can't imagine flying on a bike with loose handlebars and no brakes. People have died when the front of their bike failed. I am not exaggerating.

 

trail rated!

 

A few days late:

http://www.imtbtrails.com/forum/threads/taking-a-walmart-huffy-on-a-downhill-trail.4689/#post-56918

 

Threads Merged.....

 

Yeah what trail...

 

God I love Phil Metz. I almost crapped myself hearing those brakes!

 

55 lbs. WTF? You'd need a forklift to load it onto your rack.