Hello, This might be my first post, because I have been watching for months, but I dont think I have said hello, yet, so if I did'nt , Hello!
My first build was last august and I bought a Huffy Nel-Lusso because I liked the vintage look, but I also had problems after two weeks of completion, the frame cracked just under the rear rack, and it seems like I have read other posts that people said thirs broke in the same place. It is like they took the natural flex out of the back-bone of the bike by welding the rack to the frame instead of a bolt on application. After reading, more I found out they use a hard steel like chromemoly steel to make the frames light weight, and strong, the problem is that when you weld chromeoly steel, it needs to cool, very slow, other wise it gets brittle just outside of the weld and that seems like where they all break, not on the weld, but just outside the weld. Anyway's I cut my back rack off, and made new back bones, with mild steel from tractor sales (TSC) and it now loogs great, and rides smooth. I then modified the same rack and remounted it with a bolt on application and it works great.
I live in St. Helen Michigan, only two blocks from Michigans largest motor sports area, so we have lots of dirt, as well as blacktop and on Oct. 31 this year I had my bike passing my friend at 45mph, and I have had it thru whoops a foot off the ground, and the frame is fine now. I dont know how as my "Nelly" weigh's in a a clean 75 pounds and I weigh 230! I guess she likes the ad-ons! LOL and my love for speed.
If I can figure out how to add a pic, I post a pic, you guy's will like her.
Between my neighbor and I we have built 7 bikes since last august, and we hav a ball with them.
If your not affraid to weld , dont give up on the Huffy's so quick, they have been around since the late 1800's and although they are a chins bike now, they are still worth building.
My first build was last august and I bought a Huffy Nel-Lusso because I liked the vintage look, but I also had problems after two weeks of completion, the frame cracked just under the rear rack, and it seems like I have read other posts that people said thirs broke in the same place. It is like they took the natural flex out of the back-bone of the bike by welding the rack to the frame instead of a bolt on application. After reading, more I found out they use a hard steel like chromemoly steel to make the frames light weight, and strong, the problem is that when you weld chromeoly steel, it needs to cool, very slow, other wise it gets brittle just outside of the weld and that seems like where they all break, not on the weld, but just outside the weld. Anyway's I cut my back rack off, and made new back bones, with mild steel from tractor sales (TSC) and it now loogs great, and rides smooth. I then modified the same rack and remounted it with a bolt on application and it works great.
I live in St. Helen Michigan, only two blocks from Michigans largest motor sports area, so we have lots of dirt, as well as blacktop and on Oct. 31 this year I had my bike passing my friend at 45mph, and I have had it thru whoops a foot off the ground, and the frame is fine now. I dont know how as my "Nelly" weigh's in a a clean 75 pounds and I weigh 230! I guess she likes the ad-ons! LOL and my love for speed.
If I can figure out how to add a pic, I post a pic, you guy's will like her.
Between my neighbor and I we have built 7 bikes since last august, and we hav a ball with them.
If your not affraid to weld , dont give up on the Huffy's so quick, they have been around since the late 1800's and although they are a chins bike now, they are still worth building.
