Also in 1949, Huffy started selling push and riding mowers. During the 1930s, Huffman participated in the revival of the American cycling industry, during which Horace Huffman commented on a “change of attitude”. Although Huffman dabbled in the high-end of the market, they never overcame their entry-level reputation. Drive belt for newer year model versions of the Buzz® electric scooters. Drive belt for older year model versions of the Buzz® electric scooters. In 1964 Huffman expanded its Outdoor Power Equipment division with the acquisition of Diele & McGuire Manufacturing.
In 1997, sold Gerry Baby Products Co., gaining $73 million from the divestiture, and purchased Royce Union Bicycle Co., a Hauppauge, New York-based maker of high-end bikes. The company also acquired bankrupt Sure Shot International, a manufacturer and distributor of basketball goods, organizing the $1.5 million purchase into its Huffy Sports Co. subsidiary. As these transactions were being completed, the company entered a new segment in the bike market, introducing the first Huffy bike motocross, or BMX, model in 1997.
Depending on what your needs or desires are, there might be a place for a in your future if you know what you are looking for. I would not buy a new one, but rather scout out a used one at garage sales; Craigslist or the Bike Project and you just may have the perfect campus bike. Of course, it is good to have a place like the Bike Project to help keep these bikes tuned up, as many of them did not come off the store shelves properly tuned. Tour de France winner Greg Lemond even rode a Huffy-branded bicycle for awhile in the early 1980’s. Several different American bike builders made bikes for serious competition that carried the Huffy label. Mike Melton built the 1984 Olympic bikes, and Serotta built the 7-11 professional cycling team bikes.
A Schwinn subsidiary produces mountain and BMX bikes in Santa Ana and makes frames at various U.S. locations. Brunswick Bicycles makes mountain and BMX bikes at a plant in Olney, Ill. Bicycles account for about 45% of schwinn bicycles’s sales, which totaled $708 million last year. The company will close its two U.S. bicycle plants–in Farmington, Mo., and Southhaven, Miss.–by the end of the year, eliminating about 600 jobs. The news was tantamount to Ford Motor Company being bought by Yugo the oldest and noblest company selling out to the cheapest. In July, Schwinn/GT Corp. announced that its Cycling Division was in the process of being sold to the Huffy Corporation.
Huffy itself shuttered its largest production plant, in Celina, Ohio, last year. Would have gladly retired from there had they not closed plant. I did buffing,grinding,punch presses, fork and rim fabrication, assembly,labeling, quality. That shiny bike will stay in the town of 10,000 residents, a reminder of what they lost Friday. The Huffy Corp. ended production at the 44-year-old plant, leaving 650 workers without jobs and a town without part of its soul. We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the highest level of customer service.
Earlier, Brunswick had shuttered its 350-employee Roadmaster plant in Delavan, Wis. Another unit of the company, Royce-Union, sells about 250,000 higher-end bikes under the RU and Royce brand names. That unit always has outsourced production, to the same plants in China, Taiwan and Mexico that will be making Huffy bikes. U.S. bikemaking jobs began moving across the Pacific Ocean more than a decade ago as economics and demographics forced the industry to rethink strategy.