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Video: Phil Kmetz takes a $179 Huffy Carnage down the DH trail

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This one’s making the rounds, but worth watching again even if you’ve already seen it if only for the mild mannered voice over commentary in the face of brake failing fear. Phil Kmetz takes a $179 Huffy Carnage purchased from Wal-Mart down a double black diamond Dh mountain bike trail and puts it through the ringer.

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postophetero
postophetero
7 years ago

Nice job Phil, that was a nice piece of infotainment. Cheers to Huffy!

Phil Kmetz
7 years ago
Reply to  postophetero

Infotainment… never used this word but it fits perfectly. Thanks for the kudos postophetero (interesting user name choice)

Dan N.
Dan N.
7 years ago

I would have shat myself when both brakes stopped working

bob 88
bob 88
7 years ago

Far better fun/fear ratio watching than riding

Carbonfodder
Carbonfodder
7 years ago

BIG brass. BIG BIG brass. kudos to a man with a far higher risk tolerance than I.

Phil Kmetz
7 years ago

Thanks for sharing the video bike rumor!

Haromania
Haromania
7 years ago

If somebody pays $179 for a Huffy, you have to figure Walmart paid about $110(ish) from Huffy to get it on the floor? Which means Huffy must have about $65(ish) dollars in this bike? Which means the bar/stem/seat post must cost about a dollar each for Huffy to buy from their supplier? Who in their right freaking mind would ride that bike? Surprised it held up at all on that run.

JBikes
JBikes
7 years ago
Reply to  Haromania

Alternatively, one has to wonder how much profit is built into something like a $80 Race Face aluminum handlebar…
I’m 100% positive the Race Face bar is lighter and better designed. But it makes you think.

JBikes
JBikes
7 years ago
Reply to  JBikes

And yeah, I wouldn’t have trusted those forks

Nick
Nick
7 years ago
Reply to  JBikes

Considering those bars would come stock on a $5000 dollar bike…

anonymous
anonymous
7 years ago
Reply to  Haromania

Are you really assuming walmart and huffy have the same margins as your LBS? You could do the same divide by 3, or more, to any other bike stocked by a LBS.

shredwinds
7 years ago
Reply to  anonymous

Small scale shops have a profit margin around 25-35% for established brand name bikes, closer to 25% if the bike retails much higher than $3k. If they can buy in big enough numbers in preseason, that margin can be closer to 35-45%, but we’re talking $100k and above contract orders. QBP brands like Surly and All-City are only 20-25% profit margin. Fuji and the other brands in the ASI family hit around 50% margin, we call that “keystone”, but no one ever pays sticker price for a Fuji because there’s just so much more room to offer what seems like a deal, but really you just sell them the bike for the price it should actually cost. Retail profits in shops are really based in apparel, tubes, and little things like pads and cables. Most stuff on the floor hovers around 40%. Theft and building costs eat into any actual retail profits. Essentially, the retail floor is just a carrot to lure in people to pay for service, where the shop charges $35-70 an hour to pay a mechanic $9-15 an hour to wrench on their bike.

Spectre
Spectre
7 years ago

Carnage…What an ironic name for this bike.

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