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Quadog:
Finally got this back together after a new paint job was going to change the look a little but as its my missus bike she preferred the pink bars and post. I had made up some snide woody Itson bars from a set of chrome repop power wings and some hutch decals a set  chrome mx 1000s with chrome  post also I managed to get power disc for my bullseye crank thought that will look a lot  better than the crank set up I have now I went to put it on then remembered it catches the rear calliper which is on back to front because of the bastard high brake bridge to be honest I think it needs a set of aerospeeds to finish it off .So it stands like this for now would like some opinions on the chrome parts though see if I can sway the missus .
If not check fleabay for a nos set of hutch woody bars just £250 bargain 👍

BMX1973:
Nice build. Looks fab and not over the top  :smitten:

deeman:
You got the Woody decal the wrong way round Scott!  :crazy2:
I reckon chrome bars and post might look good...leave the 880's on though, fook the Mx1000's 
Looks pretty sweet as is though... :daumenhoch:

Retrodan72:
Tidy that Scott.  :daumenhoch:

Mikku:
She's pretty in pink! Always used to prefer the lilac/lavender/purple reign colourway but must admit to liking the pink more and more. :daumenhoch:


--- Quote from: hotdog on November 26, 2018, 08:15 PM ---Clearly Quadog isn't happy with the quality of his Trick Star. Maybe Diamond Back were on the case when it came to Quality Control and Hutch were not. I use the words "far eastern' as I can't remember exactly which country the baseball stamped frames were made. At one time though,I did have a pair of Trick Star forks that were stamped 'Tange' which was an eye-opener for me.

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Just to clear this up, the "baseball" stamped frames were made in the Koizumi factory in Japan (the baseball-like symbol is the company logo) then later on Hutch (along with a host of other companies) moved their manufacturing to Taiwan. I was a always a bit sniffy about Taiwanese-made frames but I have to say that the welding on my '84, Giant-made Redline 500a looks great. That said, I suspect that quality-control in the early days was less than perfect, as they just wanted to get as many bikes made and sold as quickly as possible before the bmx bubble burst. ::)

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