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Title: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: rhino_mac on April 07, 2009, 11:50 AM: Hard to find maybe, but $500!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-SCHOOL-BLACK-HUTCH-PRORACER-BMX-GRIPS-TRICKSTAR_W0QQitemZ300306200826QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCycling_Parts_Accessories?hash=item300306200826&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: HEYWOOD BMX on April 07, 2009, 12:08 PM: :) Are Hutch fans really the most obsessive in OS BMX? Still I`m sure the buyer will be happy regardless of the cost.
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: mark 2 on April 07, 2009, 12:13 PM: A pair of nos ones did go for $820 - but they look pretty scruffy for $500. Ouch!
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: stidds on April 07, 2009, 12:17 PM: That is mental, I would personally wait until John DeBruin starts remaking them and then buy them for £30. :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: rhino_mac on April 07, 2009, 12:34 PM: $820 for NOS????? Madness.

I'm tempted to buy them, send them to China and pay for a dozen samples to be made up. Would only be a couple of hundred quid and then Ebay them!!
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: meticulous on April 07, 2009, 07:14 PM: the decimal point should be 2 places to the left...
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: hunterdubber on April 07, 2009, 09:10 PM: Hutch collectors need to get a grip ::)

I'll get mi coat ::)
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: ozone on April 07, 2009, 09:14 PM: Quote from: rhino_mac on April 07, 2009, 12:34 PM
$820 for NOS????? Madness.

I'm tempted to buy them, send them to China and pay for a dozen samples to be made up. Would only be a couple of hundred quid and then Ebay them!!

Team up with Babelovely - they knock out lovely repro stems etc. so recreating some Hutch grips should be a walk in the park. ;D
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: CD17 on April 08, 2009, 02:03 PM: Quote from: ozone on April 07, 2009, 09:14 PM
Quote from: rhino_mac on April 07, 2009, 12:34 PM
$820 for NOS????? Madness.

I'm tempted to buy them, send them to China and pay for a dozen samples to be made up. Would only be a couple of hundred quid and then Ebay them!!

Team up with Babelovely - they knock out lovely repro stems etc. so recreating some Hutch grips should be a walk in the park. ;D

:LolLolLolLol:

Yeah Iv seen some of those lovely Haro stems ::)
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: wildon on April 08, 2009, 05:58 PM: Quote from: wish id kept my TA on April 08, 2009, 02:03 PM
Quote from: ozone on April 07, 2009, 09:14 PM
Quote from: rhino_mac on April 07, 2009, 12:34 PM
$820 for NOS????? Madness.

I'm tempted to buy them, send them to China and pay for a dozen samples to be made up. Would only be a couple of hundred quid and then Ebay them!!

Team up with Babelovely - they knock out lovely repro stems etc. so recreating some Hutch grips should be a walk in the park. ;D

:LolLolLolLol:

Yeah Iv seen some of those lovely Haro stems ::)

Me too :'(
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: wildon on April 08, 2009, 06:00 PM: I recently got some of those Hutch grips off e-bay ... had absolutly no intention of spending stupid money on them ... until a few pints warped my mind and i picked up the laptop :idiot2:
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: rhino_mac on April 08, 2009, 06:25 PM: I did that with my Laserlite..........................I'm in too deep to turn back now!
Title: Re: Ouch - most expensive grips ever?
Post by: Brandy Truffle on April 08, 2009, 09:05 PM: ....the Hutch grips are coming a little bird has told me same people who handled the recent Mongoose repops are doin the injection molding.... no difference either.

Let's see who wants to pay $800 then :LolLolLolLol:

I'll have a set on my lawnmower just to take the mick when JDB starts sellin' em online ;D