While out yard sale shopping I came across this 1968 Huffy Dragster three leaning against a fence. the owner told me the back story of how it was his since a child and so I just had to have it, lets bring it into the shop and bring it back to life while telling some stories of my own.
I had a Shwin Stingray then a Murray Wildfire and then the best ever. A Rampar R-Nine it was a chromoly BMX with mag wheels.
Cool old bike. I’m 60 and would have killed for a bike with a shifter back in the day. I remember back in middle school on my birthday my dad took me to the Wheeler Dealer at Town East Mall and bought me a Rampar BMX bike. EXTREMELY expensive back in the day. I was on cloud nine.
Cards worked good, but I had some show me how to use the log balloons for making balloon animals for the sound
Used electric tape many times to protect a tube from spoke nipples!
Cone wrenches are a life saver for bicycle wheels
I hate the internal geared hubs
Spoke straws are the devil 🤣
Hi that was a fun video I lived in the city and we had to license our bikes that could be what that sticker is on the bike
It's been a year now so I doubt you still have it, but the little black cap you popped off of thr shifter to reveal the screw beneath, you didn't put it back on and it's urking me!! 😂
If you ever decide to sell it, I'd love to take it off your hands.
Columbia. The Cadillac of bicycles and it felt like it weighed just as much.
I had a 10 speed just like that when I grew up probably around the 70s
Hello, been watching for yrs.i was born in 64 my 1st store bought bike was the later one like that but single speed metal flake burgundy with chrome fenders the tall sissy bar eventually I cut forks off other bikes an stacked them 3 long for a chopper lol.this video brought back great memories.thanks from sw. Virginia.keep up the great videos,I've always worked on my own stuff ,the redneck shade tree machanic lol.have a great Christmas.
I got a Huffy "The Wheel" .. has a steering wheel and a drag brake..I got it when I was 5..I'm 61 now…gonna give it to my grandson..only one I've seen in years
Ahh the old Look At Me Huffy or a bike you could ride farther than 1/4 mile…wasn't hard to choose living way out in the country.
Nostalgic you bring back the past.
That gear shift lever just made a liar out of u friend
It's not a dog
Chrome plated
U probably just destroyed that bike
There not worth putting back on mustie 1
Spokey Dokeys!
I used to put bikes together from random parts, save up money to buy handle bars then new grips a week or two later. Buy the mags off of a buddy’s bike when he got a new fancy Hutch or Redline….Diamondback, whatever. But when I still had spoke wheels, I think I was tearing the coaster brakes out if my bike and decided I needed to tighten up sone spokes. I had no idea how drastically it affects the wheel at the time. Man I had that thing so screwed up and was in the garage with tears in my eyes when my pops got home from work. …that was one of those nights that sone therapist wants you to talk about decades later. Lol!
I was fortunate to get the only new bicycle the four of us kids got. I was about 10, (1966), it was a 24" columbia, red with white trim. That was my transportation till I was about 18, and I got my license, then I got my first car, a 1970 AMC Hornet. I paid $425 for it. The most unfriendly thing about it was it had a vacuum type of windshield wiper. So if you were, say trying to get on the Akron death way, oh I mean express way, excellerating, the wipers would stop, when you needed to see, you let off the accelerator and you would get a nice swipe swipe, then back to the accelerator. You did that till you got up to speed. Now, that columbia bike took me everywhere, and I did love that thing. I got off that thing when I was a little over 18 years old. I wore two sets of tires out and I laid the old girl to rest in 1974. I still not interested in bicycles, I had enough of them.
My sister had a green one like that in the early 70's. I think they are worth some money if they are cleaned up.
I had one of those. Dug it out of a dump pile in the woods in the mid 70's my dad fixed it. It was my first bike.
I had that bike but red. Mine had a sissy bar. The 3 speed was shifted by a rod that went through the hub. Noy a chain changing sprocketsd. Was Christmas 1969 I was 11 years old. Was like having a red corvette to my young self. BTW, I took my rear hub apart and never could fix it back then. Was stuck in 3rd.
Reminds me of the Columbia Silver Fox I had as a kid in the late 80's. I think the bike was from the early 70's. I'm not even sure where it came from, I think we found it at a thrift store or a dumpster or something like that.
I got one of those in red for Christmas 1974. I loved it.
Actually the reflector was only part of it. The idea was for the leather to rub on the gear housing and therefore to keep rust off it. I'm old too.
That lug on the front spokes is what was used to advance the trip- meter that was strapped to the left leg of the front fork. The trip-meter had a small lever sticking out of it and every time the wheel rotated that lug would hit the trip-meter lever and would advance it one tick.ðŸ‘
the gold seat was right by the red and black radio look at 1.52.56 it in the box with looks like a hand mix