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Title: hutch bars year?
Post by: firebird4130 on April 14, 2009, 10:27 PM: (http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ii227/firebird4130/hutch65.jpg)
just got these can anyone tell me when they were made?
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: trasher on April 14, 2009, 10:33 PM: going by martins no.1 hutch pro racer

http://martinbike.jalbum.net/Parts/Handlebars/slides/HutchAdBars83.html
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: firebird4130 on April 14, 2009, 10:42 PM: cheers :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: steve Beech TA on April 15, 2009, 06:41 AM: I dont think they are to be honest, :-\ I have a set of early hutch pro bars on my pre serial hutch. the bottom of the bars were the stem goes is to squared and flat if you get my drift, early pro bars are more rounded if you look on the link to martins.

Here are mine, original chrome and decal. look at the bottom of the bars, there is more of a sweep to the stem position.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/10082008285.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/10082008286.jpg)

on the bike.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/jj275/stevebeechaTA/DSC00084-1.jpg)

I would say yours are newer then the early pro bars, sorry
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: firebird4130 on April 15, 2009, 08:40 AM: think you might be right, as long as they look the part on my Ta I don't mind if they're not era correct, thanks for the info & pics ;)
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: markyp on April 15, 2009, 05:30 PM: fuggin gorgeous hutch by the way :smitten:
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: steve Beech TA on April 15, 2009, 05:46 PM: They will be spot on, on a TA mate :daumenhoch:

thanks for the pos comment on my hutch i have a way to go sill, need hubs and Triton pedals
Title: Re: hutch bars year?
Post by: firebird4130 on April 15, 2009, 07:34 PM: yeah that hutch is lovely