this is the huffy panama jack bike .. little ron bought it a few months back (over the summer) when he was clamming and making money. he saved for a good bit and finally had enough cash to make his purchase.. the over all look of the bike is good, i mean there was some good attention to details and we had to laugh that on the front wheel thingy (sorry im not good at technical terms but the thing that hold the front wheel on) is in fact a bottle opener. the pouch in the front we though would be great for him carrying his various fishing stuff (extra hooks and what not) when he wasnt hauling the whole tackle box and the cup holder another added bonus ..
unfortunately thats where the good kinda leaves this bike .. within the first 2 days of owning it, there was no way we could keep the chain on the stupid thing. it got more and more irritating as the days went on and so on day 3 we (mother and i) loaded it into the back of her durango and carried the stupid thing back to walmart and (stupidly now as i look back on it) exchanged it for a new but same as bike.. funny how days later we saw his original bike up for sale at a not so greatly reduced price..
well if only we had known because i would have returned the stupid bike and gotten his money back that first time but noo i thought *woohoo bike fixed were all good* bike number 2 however had some serious issues with the back wheel, theres this little metal piece that you need to keep the wheel on that unfortunately dont stay on. by now were outta our walmart return time and into huffy territory. so i contacted huffy and the man was great on the phone manged to figure out what i needed when i couldnt speak bike talk very well .. for that i was impressed.. however telling me that the new rear wheel (minus tube) would be out in a few days .. was a complete lie.. a month later i was back on the phone with huffy wanting to know when i would receive the piece i was told i was getting, i mean did they deliver it to the wrong house? thats when i was told that the part would be to me as soon as they got it from their over seas manufacture .. um okay, so now we have had this stupid bike sitting here looking like a lawn ornament vs actual time spent riding the stupid thing..
finally 2 weeks aprox. after that phone call the part shows up.. woohoo my youngin can start using this over priced bike that he bought with his hard earned money..
until.. can you guess? 2 days later the same exact problem we had before starts happening again, that stupid part is falling out, the chain wont stay on at all.. and my youngin is just flipping fed up!
so as all good moms do, i phoned huffy again and explained what all we had been threw with the dumb bike and could i please just get a refund, they could gladly have the POS back.. but nope i was informed that they only send out parts, they will not refund money *great* and to call where i bought it at..
so i get on the phone with walmart (place of purchase) and talk to a lady there who tells me *sorry its huffys problem, if its over X amount of days than we dont do refunds.. great! so now i have this lovely POS bike just rusting away (btw thats another thing they might want to fix because this less than 6 month old bike has so much rust on it, it looks like weve owned it for about 5 years) in the back yard under a cover.
so my advice, dont waste you money, dont let your kids waste their money and surely dont think that huffy stands behind their products.
back to mongoose we go and where we will stay, we learned our lesson very well on this purchase and i hope that someone learns from what we went threw.
as always i didnt receive anything from huffy for doing this review nor do i expect to however a refund would be nice but im not holding my breath on that one ever, maybe i should email them a link to my blog review of their bike *haha* yeah right, they dont even have an email to contact them at.. this is simply my buyer beware review ~
