Huffy 26"/27.5" Mountain Bikes for Men, Multiple Speeds, Fits Riders 60"+

I have been looking at fat tire bikes for a while now and finally ended up choosing the Huffy over 4 other top bikes, and I feel like I made a great choice. It arrived 80% assembled and was simple to complete once out of the box. This is a lot of bike for the money and a great deal. Fat tire is an understatement. The wheels/tires are bigger than what’s on my motorcycle and make for a nice shock absorbing ride for a hardtail bike. The gears and brakes are low end, but they get the job done for the purpose this bike is built for. After riding for the first time, I found the overall ride to be good, but 4 of the parts I had to upgrade for comfort. The seat that comes with it is a road bike seat. Way to skinny to be cruising around in any sort of comfort on. Then I swapped the flat handlebars for some risers bars and ditched the very uncomfortable grips that came standard. Lastly, the pedals just didn’t feel right under my feet, so I put some larger bmx style pedals on. Also added a rechargeable light for night riding. Overall, this bike looks super cool and rides great. I’m 6ft tall and it fits me perfectly. It’s a bit of a beast weight wise, but that will be an advantage for cruising on the trails. Highly recommend if your looking for something different in a cruising bike.

This review is for the Huffy Hardtail Mountain Trail Bike - 26 inch wheels/20 inch frame, Gloss Nickel. I was not much of a biker and have not rode a bike in ten years. When looking for a "bike", was not sure what to get or what to look for when purchasing online (i.e. can't try it out before purchasing). I picked this model mainly because of the low cost ($275.00) and good reviews. Next, I was not even sure how to pick the frame size or wheel size. After some internet reading, the 20-inch frame size was the best option for my 5'10 height and chose the 26-inch wheel size (seemed proportional to the 20-inch frame). My main objective was "joy" riding and not really doing any biking on mountains or off-road biking. The bike came in new - very little assembly. Only had to install the front tire and the handle bar assembly. The packaging include a multi-purpose tool (wrench) and hex wrenches to assembly the bike. Once the bike was assembled, I had two issues: 1. The rubber brake pads were slightly rubbing against the rim. I had to play around with it a bit to adjust the brakes. Was able to adjust them where they were perfect. 2. Now, the hard part. The front derailleur was not working correctly. I could not shift into some of the gears and could also hear slight clicking/tapping when peddling. Very long story short, I had to watch many videos on YouTube on how to adjust the derailleur (i.e. low/high limits, cable tension..etc). Also, without a bike stand to hold up the bike, this becomes a tedious effort. For those of you who have had to do this, you know the pain. So, after many many hours of adjusting the limits and cable tension, got it to where it is 99% better when using the gear shifters (from and back). The bike size fits me perfect. No issues with comfort in riding. I can easily adjust the seat height and handle bars for a better fit. Overall, this is a decent mountain bike for what I need it for. Not looking for anything special. I do enjoy riding it and happy with the purchase. If you are looking for a bike for cruising or joy riding, then a mountain bike is not for you. (mainly because of the treads on the wheels). Couple items to know about: 1. Change out the bike seat ASAP. Too hard and causes pain/rash within 15min of riding. 2. If you remove the front derailleur tension cable, make sure you put it back on the correct way or else the gear lever will not work. It will feel tight and you will not be able to shift any gear. I learned this the hard way after I spent about three hours trying to figure out why I could not shift the gear lever. Finally, I realized my very simple mistake. When you wrap the tension cable around the locking nut, you need to loop it in a clockwise motion, not counter clockwise. - lesson learned. (see attached picture).

I’m baffled by Huffy support. The bike arrived with the brake lever screws twisted under the shifter cable mounts. It’s possible this happened during shipment, but their ‘aftercare’ fell short. Huffy-recommended email support went unanswered. It took DAYS to get support on the phone. Tech support solution to my problem? Take it to a local bike shop and pay them to put things right. When I objected to paying to fix a new bike, the attendant said those were my options: Have a bike shop fix it or return the bicycle. Instead, I bought the appropriate Allen wrench. Being careful not to end up with a handful of parts (which could give ‘exploded diagram’ new meaning), I was able to loosen the shifters and rotate the brake levers into useful positions. This debacle could have been avoided by including a 50¢ 2.5mm Allen wrench. Alternatively, Huffy could have offered a voucher to cover the cost of a bike shop correcting the problem, but I'm sure cost is a factor. This is a company that needs to provide their people in phone support options. How is the bike? I haven’t had much time in the saddle, but thus far so good. It’s built like an Army tank with a thicker, heavier frame than I expected. It took a lot of muscle to anchor the seat. Overall, I like it… but I keep the 2.5mm wrench handy just in case.

Bought this bike and in 8 months the shifter broke. No fault of the rider. Just gave out. I rang Huffy customer service and they told me there is a 6 month warranty on this bike. I was two months out of warranty. There was nothing they would do for me other than quote me the price for a new shifter. This is a complete scam and a rip off. Stay away. A major part of a bike should not break in under a year and then not be covered. By the way, I had a professional bike shop put the bike together. So this is not an assembly issue. Just a very poor product. I should be getting a full refund for this!

Good value for the price. Super simple to put together. All you have to to is attached the front tire, handlebars, seat, and pedals. It’s less than an hour’s work unless you are the type who is not mechanically inclined. I’m baffled by som of the comments about assembly. They couldn’t make this any easier. The bike rides great, shifts and stops as it should. The brakes aren't as ‘grabby’ as I might like them to be, but they work fine. This is not a $5000 bicycle. Overall, I’m very satisfied. I’ll definitely add a more comfortable seat because my middle aged groin prefers comfort over efficiency. It’s very hard and not cushy at all. I may also change the grips to something thicker. Those that come with the bike are what I would describe as minimalist. I bought this bike because I need to add in 3-4 hours a week into my heath routine that is either riding or jogging - and I hate jogging. It rides great on pavement and also trails that are not too difficult. I like the extra fat tires when riding on loose ground.

First off it seems alot of ppl have NO mechanical inclination and thats a shame because the bike is fairly simple to assy & make fine tune adjustments for shifter and brakes(disc would be better imo),The Frame is Beautiful & STRONG,tires on my bike are 26×2.4in & look extra thicknfat (Love it) initial asmbly time was little over an hr w tools ready,,finer adjustments are required upon initial rides which where fairly ez,double checked all nuts,bolts,screws,triple chkd head/fork assy for proper adj&setup&grease,i had absolutely no trouble or problems getting bike road ready and it rides n looks wonderful, the seat IS the only dissapointment as it is too small for me &95% of folks over 50yrs,Oh well I'll get a more comfortable seat.The bike(teckton model) is well worth the 280-290$ i paid @ amazon and NO regrets, Great buy.The Tropic Blue color is nicer looking than expected.If you want a better bike you would have to spend ALOT more.

The tldr of this review is, if you aren't deterred by the thought of learning how to completely tear down a bike and rebuild it, as well as buying bike specific tools that you'll eventually need(assuming you plan to do all your own maintenance), it might be worth the amount saved in the long run. I'm a prepper and this thing is also to be my get out of dodge transportation, if it gets that bad. So the full tear down and rebuild knowledge is valuable to me. If that sounds interesting to you, keep reading on the conundrums I dealt with. If not, you'd be better off to just start with a $600-700 bike. Starting my third summer with this bike. 95% of the miles I've put on this bike has been road miles. At this point, I've did about $350 in parts for repairs, not counting the cost of bike specific tools. I always replaced things with better quality. So I have about $600 in this bike, to bring it up to good quality, and break roughly even with just buying a $600 bike. One issue with this bike, is that it uses outdated standards. It has the heavy steel 25.4mm handle bars. The old quil stem setup. Classic solid axles. No mounting for disk brakes. The bottom bracket uses the older cup and cone style setup, and the bearing is not sealed. So water and moisture can get into it through the seat post and the fork mount. I had to replace mine in the middle of last year (approximately 500mi to 600mi). I also had to loctite the cups in to get them to stay tight. The crank arms fit the older and less common square taper spindles. The free wheel on the back is a rather uncommon Chinese KANGYUE brand. I was barely able to google up what tool I needed to remove it. To save everyone else the trouble, the Park Tool bbt-22 will fit. Right out of the box, I knew I wasn't riding this thing until I put a different seat on it. I noticed the kickstand on mine was rather inadequate. It needed to be longer. The bike was very unstable on even the carpet in my house, unless I had the handle bars turned a certain way. I really had to crank the handlebar screws down on the stem, to get the handle bar to keep from loosening up, but at least didn't have to loctite them. The screws for the crank arms are pretty tough, but even cranking them down with a half inch drive breaker bar, wouldn't keep them from gradually backing out, without blue loctite. This problem eventually caused my spindle holes in the crank arms to get messed up to the point that even red loctite and a breaker bar wasn't going to keep the screws from backing out. So I had to replace the crank arms. The whole double nut and keyed washer set up on the fork kept coming loose, until I used blue loctite on it. The rear derailleur is a Shimano at least. It did need adjusted out of the box, but it wasn't bad enough that it created a headache to ride it. It just wasn't as responsive as I'd like it to be. It does seem to be quite sensitive chain wear. It will start struggling on the shift, and throwing the chain as soon as you hit the .75% stretch that is recommended to replace at, or even a little before. Overall, its been the best functioning part on the bike, and is about the only thing left that hasn't been replaced or upgraded. And btw, the original chain only lasted me 3 months, vs a year and a half on the chain that replaced it. The front derailleur was a very basic looking SunRun. It didn't need adjusted initially, but after I replaced the crank arms, I could never get it to be quite right with the new gear rings that came with the crank arms, and ended up replacing it with a Shimano. While it was difficult to find the tool for that odd freewheel, in the first year and a half(approximately 900mi to 1100mi) that I used it, it wasn't showing any signs of failure, or premature wear on the teeth. It only got replaced because I had to replace the back rim after a couple spokes failed and busted free from the hub. The rim I found sounded decent, and had a good Shimano freewheel on it, that also fit the tool I bought for the Kangyue. So figured considering how everything else went on this bike so far, I might as well at least use the brand I know has a good reputation. As for that rim, I hadn't did any off road riding at that point, and it wasn't like I was ramping or jumping the street curb or anything rough. But for some reason two spokes busted, and left me limping back home about 6mph. So to sum it all up, I had to pretty much become a bike mechanic to keep this thing moving. In the end, after all the repairs, plus other upgrades not mentioned, its about on par with the quality of a $1100 bike, and a couple hundred short of spending that much. Not counting the cost of bike specific tools that I'd eventually need anyway. So if you are willing to put the work into it, and the learning experience is desirable, its maybe worth it. The Park Tool guys on youtube will quickly become your best friend too.

I'm 5'7" 210 lbs., this fits me well. I swapped the seat immediately, never tried the original, with a rectangular mens seat. I swapped the kickstand immediately with a smoother functioning one. I wish the handle bars could be adjusted a couple inches higher. I also wish it had disk brakes. I am usually not so critical on my reviews but those few things would make this the perfect bike for me. As you can see I have complaints, but the bike does deserve a 5 star rating. It is a great bike and with some fine tuning I was able to make it close to perfect for me without spending an arm and a leg. I would suggest checking out your local bike shops before buying this though. I YouTube'd the rise and fall of huffy, pretty crazy world out there...

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Both wheels are slightly bent. The bearing that holds the sprocket is wobbly as heck! The gears sometimes don't shift properly and gets stuck. Definitely get what you pay for!