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Swivel:
Right, been doing a bit more research on these gussets. I still think that your gusset looks a bit chunky and not as neat as these ones pictured here. The gussets on the ammacos were the 1st thing to go BITD and many had repairs on them done. Ammaco Pros/Freestyler's were released with a gusset with the two holes cut out. These always cracked there when ridden hard. Ammaco fixed the problem with embossing the gusset and curving the metal underneath, like the Haro Gen 1 gusset. The metal used on the 2nd gen gusset was also thicker and stopped this problem happening.






Above is the piccy of my Ammaco with the embossed gusset...





See this image above to see what I mean about the cracking gussets....



Here are the photos from our own Museum. Notice the cut outs/embossing in the gussets.










Lastly, Daz's (ammaco daz's) version is the only one i've seen like yours where the gusset is solid and that is unusual and could be original, but who knows...?

Matt  :)

bmxbob:
Nice Detective work Swiv  8)

4130HUBBS:
  8)  RESTORATION....   ITS THE WAY 4WARD... ;)

dice22:
Could be mega rare then with solid gusset guess i will find out when i strip the frame with nitromoss

dannywhiteley:
Im sure the plain solid gussets were a quick fix by Ammaco in response to all the cracked 'cut-out' gussets.  An interim measure before the embossed gusset was developed.

Basically its a gen 1.5, midway between the more common cut out and embossed gussets.  Makes sense why so few have surfaced, they wouldnt have been around for long.

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