Is this a bike you're trying to acquire? I love it. If it's in good shape and the decals are there and the price is right, I'd go for it. A guy has the frame and it looks to be in good shape with stickers in place. I had a Pro Racer and would like to get one for the right price. Thanks alot for all the info. I agree. Although not way out of the ball-park, that's a little pricey for a Pro Raider.
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Paste as plain text instead. Only 75 emoji are allowed. Of that 40 most never made it out of the factory or were quickly recalled due to the welds at the Z failing. Currently, only 3 are known to exist, serial numbers 01, 03 and Serial number 01 is still owned by the original owner and 03 and 07 are in a private collections and neither owner currently has any plan to sell. So what do you do when you can't score a 24" CW Phaze 1 from the s?
Build a better, stronger one. They're based on a Revco 24" frame, Revco being CW's sister company. With modern tubing and welds, this bike is touted as quite a bit stronger than the original. Old bikes need love too, get them off the carpet and ride! Need red Oakley 3's in great condition and red Suntour 44t chainring to finish recreating my first BMX bike.
It was a not so uncommon mistake. Hey troynlori thanks for the info, serial number is here is a picture of the serial number- looks like the person who hammered the serial number on this was daydreaming.
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And every other one I've seen it like that. Yours is the first, not in that trend. They both have built in seat post clamps. They have two welded on tabs for a chain guard. Both the Jet and Pro Street 88 and later had fatter forks that also had a flat bottom instead of the angled type usually seen on other Hutch forks. The XR-1 looks similar to a Pro Racer but has small triangular cut outs in the rear dropouts.
It may have a tube for a rear brake bridge instead of the flat plate with the Hutch logo. The Exel has L shaped rear dropouts that make a standing platform similar in a way to Haro. The Wind Styler has welded on chainstay platforms that look sort of like a half circle. It also has an odd top tube platform design.
Instead of the seat stays curving around to the top tube they just come right up next to it, which is kind of difficult to actually stand on and sort of defeated the purpose of having a platform in the first place. While it would be easy to dismiss these bikes as no good you have to take into account that they weren't really intended for serious riders. These were made for beginners and for that they served their purpose just fine.
In the late 80's Hutch also made a few bikes designed specifically for serious speed. It had a speed derailleur with a click shift and fairings. It was incredibly fast.
This bike was only available in white. In 89 they also did a lower priced version of this bike and called it the FZ I'm unsure of the parts for this one and I don't know what it was made of either. It will be obvious which is which once you see pictures of the HPV. Get on a steep enough hill, let gravity take it's course and hold on for life. This bike had no crank of course and could reach speeds that were dangerous.
There were small pegs for your feet similar to the way a motorcycle is. If you want to fly down a hill and scare the hell out of yourself then here's the bike for you. Something not commonly known is that Hutch also made a mountain bike called the Trail Star. I don't know much about it yet but I'll add information and pictures as I get them.
From what I know so far it was available only in the candy apple red paint color and the frame somewhat resembled a "Speed" style of design rather than the look most mountain bikes have today. It was also made in Japan. What killed Hutch? Hutch had been slowly dying for years due to money problems. Combine that with having to compete against companies as big as GT and Haro.
Why was Hutch having money problems and how could a company that sold so many products go under? There were several reasons actually. Hutchins' propensity for extravagance was one thing. It seemed he spent more on advertisements, did more advertising, paid the highest prices for the racers and freestylers etc.
Somewhere in the middle of it all he made a lot of money but If you made a million dollars and it cost you a million and a half then you are a broke rich man. The pursuit of trying and succeeding to make the Hutch name so big caught up. He used to rent town cars and nice rides for himself and his riders to ride in while they were racing at nationals.
Just to be going in style! I probably sound like I'm slamming Hutch or Mr. Hutchins himself. That's not the attitude I wish to present. This is Hutch were talking about, the coolest bike company that ever existed. It's just that it appears the company had made some monetary decisions that ended up hurting the bottom line. In hindsight I'm sure these things are probably obvious. Getting a factory sponsorship from Hutch had to have been a blast though.
The riders seemed like they were living like rock stars or something. I'm sure it was one hell of a party while it lasted. Now combine all that with the fact that in the late 80's the BMX market in general hit a big slump. BMX bikes just weren't really selling anymore.
The craze particularly freestyle had reached it's pitch and was now coming back down. Lots of companies, Hutch included, surely felt the pinch. Perhaps the way to go should have been to keep production in America but focus on being a small company and only make frames they absolutely knew they could sell such as the racing frames and the Trick Star all the while evolving the designs to take advantage of emerging technology in BMX. The whole idea of going for 'gimmicky' type bikes like the HPV and mass market bikes like the Exel should have been avoided.
Hutch should have focused on doing what they did best. But that's just my opinion. I think the reason Hutch did stuff like the HPV was that they were attempting to attract a new market to make up for the lost BMX sales. Other companies did the same thing. We saw GT and Haro coming out with mountain bikes for example. It seems all the major companies were scrambling to find ways to keep bringing in money since at that time there just wasn't much money in making "kids" bikes. It seems to me though that there was always a demand for the Trick Star frame well after Hutch quit making it.
Perhaps it wasn't profitable to build those frames anymore? It seems maybe they were hoping the Trick Star 2 would fill the demand? As you'll see in the interview below, Jeff also mentions a new bike simply referred to as a Hutch Freestyler. Maybe that was what they were going to go with instead of the Trick Star but I still have never seen one and when he mentioned it to me it was the first time I had ever heard of it. Rumor has it the final nail in the coffin came when Hutch designed a new Aluminum racing frame.
It was extremely light. The frame weighed 1lb 9 oz. However it didn't hold up well. A kid was seriously hurt on one when the frame broke. Hutch was sued. The frame was recalled. Again, this is frequently referred to as a rumor. I am unsure as to the complete authenticity of this. Bellis took over and brought production back to America.
He was no stranger to BMX. Revcore of course was the racing company that manufactured extreme high quality American made frames. The quality of a Revcore is astounding and they went out of their way to make sure they were strong as well as light. He moved Hutch from Maryland to Kentucky. The plan was to sell off the remaining Hutch inventory while building new stuff and getting team members to ride and promote the product.
The following quote is from the racer Jeff Donnell who was sponsored by Revcore and then rode for Hutch. So Bellis still has a warehouse full of fixtures, bikes, products - everything that wasn't sold. So, he wanted to start getting rid of all that stuff and wanted a pro to wear their uniform and promote their product.
I was going to stay amateur and still ride for Revcore, but Roger Worsham knew I was getting burned out on trophies. He called me up and asked if I wanted to turn pro and ride for Hutch and I said yeah. They're not only getting rid of the stuff they got, but they'll start making new Hutch frames with the fixtures. Hutch had been fighting a lawsuit brought against them by Hutch Sports USA makers of stuff like football helmets.
Apparently part of the agreement must have been that Hutch Bikes change their name. This name change to "Hutchins" appeared to have taken place sometime between 88 - I have seen Hutch ads for 89 model freestyle bikes with the company name as Hutchins Bicycle Designs and the company address in Kentucky instead of Maryland.
The bikes themselves were still called "Hutch" at this time. Soon the bikes themselves said Hutchins instead. Some XL versions were made as well. The Judge 2 of course was a new version of the popular Tim Judge Hutch frame from back in the early 80's.
I don't know what the freestyle frame was called. I don't think it was a Trick Star but I'm not certain. I saw an ad for a company called Derby Towne Cycles who sold only Revcore and Hutch stuff the ad is in the picture gallery. It said they had new American made Hutchins frames. One was listed only as "USA made freestyle frame". I don't know what it was called or what it looked like. I contacted Hutch around 90 and asked if there would be a new Trick Star. The reply was that there would be a new Trick Star in 91 and it would be American made.
I saw some mail order companies advertising that they were going to have Trick Stars again. When I contacted one about the price they said that Hutchins had changed their mind and were going to focus on racing frames instead. Whether or not this is true I don't know. Like I said, Hutch definitely told me that they were building a new Trick Star. What kind of sticker kits did these bikes have? At first they had the same Hutch stickers as the old racing bikes had but that was quickly changed.
Some of the different styles were ones that looked just like the old Hutch downtube sticker except that it said Hutchins instead of Hutch. Another style was an elongated H with stars trailing behind it. One head tube decal was just a large western H with a star behind it and another design was a large western H with the words Hutchins Performance Products written all around it in the same font as the late eighties logo. What differences exist between the Hutch and the Hutchins bikes?
One example would be the dropouts. Hutchins dropouts are all thick. The dropouts on the Judge 2 look like they are even thicker than the others possibly. Hutchins bikes likely will not have any logo pressed into the brake bridge. Some don't appear to have serial numbers either.
Some of the last batch of Hutchins frames had a different looking dropout on the fork. Most were done like the original Hutch dropouts but some were shaped a little different and had no hole.
If you ever find one of the few Hutchins frames I suggest you get it. They are very nice. The name may have slightly changed but it's still Hutch and it was American made again. I don't know the exact date Hutch closed down but it was probably sometime around In the end some people might look back at Hutch and claim the company was a failure.
No way. Hutch may no longer be with us but many who look back on the history of this sport are going to see this company as one of the leaders. No doubt about it.
I mean come on As for Richard Hutchins and what he's doing these days That's about all I can find on him.
What about Mr. According to Jeff Haney, "He his doing what all of us dream of when we get to that age. Traveling, living, and doing whatever the day brings. He is a very wealthy man and loves to talk about the good old days. The Hutch name has been purchased by John DeBruin and new parts, and eventually frames, are in the works. Some of the people who ran the Hutch teams over the years. I have no idea how many there actually. I hear that in both Hutch and CW made some skateboards.
I don't know if it was real or not but that probably would have been a good move on Hutch's part to grab someone as big as him. Then again, perhaps Hutch was in no financial shape to be sponsoring someone as popular as McCoy was. Of course, as we all know, Dennis was soon snatched up by Mongoose who made a new frame for him called the Hooligan.
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