The Sears Free Spirit 12spd DOES have numbers on the bottom bracket! 11 hours ago Eastern Bikes has 20+ years in the BMX bike industry creating complete bikes, frames, forks, tires and everything else to build a quality ride. The Murray Street Baja does not have any serioal numbers, but there was a sticker with some on it. The Murray brand is, in 2010, found on lawn equipment such as mowers.(, 10:49 AM) Bill Wrote: Ok I promised that I would look at two different bikes I have and here are the results. By 1999, Murray and Roadmaster had ceased production. companies were unable to compete with imported bicycles from China. In a legal challenge, it was ruled that Chinese bicycle imports were not a threat to U.S. bicycle manufacturers in operation - Murray, Huffy and Roadmaster. 1990s and 21st Centuryīy 1996, there were only three major U.S. Some new Murray bikes would last only about 500 miles, according to Ken Kifer's Bike Pages. Ken Kifer's Bike Pages says cheap Murray bikes of this era often had problems with wobbly wheels, poor-quality components and improper initial assembly. Because Murray's 1980s bikes were made on a low budget, problems with quality and durability were common. Murray also manufactured budget BMX bikes on 20- to 24-inch frames during the early years of the decade. One of the rarer models was the Murray cruiser bike with a 26-inch frame, made for only a short period of time during the early 1980s. The English company Tomkins bought out Murray in 1988.ĭuring the 1980s, Murray bicycles varied in style and quality. Although sales volume increased, overall profits were disappointing. Murray's solution to this problem was to mass-produce bicycles cheaply and sell them through big-box discount stores. Bike manufacturers in general were battling declining sales during the 1980s.

In 1982, Schwinn moved one-third of its overall production to the Murray factory in Nashville, Tennessee. Production of BMX bikes continued into the 1980s.

bicycle manufacturers, Murray started making BMX-style bikes for the youth market in the late 1970s. Murray undercut competitors' prices and sold millions of bikes through department stores such as Sears. Production stopped during World War II, but in the postwar era, Murray became a successful low-cost bicycle manufacturer. In the 1930s, Murray started making bicycles, aimed primarily at the U.S. The first Murray factory was in Cleveland, Ohio. Initially, the manufacturing focus was on car parts, including gas tanks and fenders. The company making Murray bicycles was founded in 1919 as the Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co.

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