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[oldskool]

Amate of mine used own and ride a hutch trick star...he bought the frame new .....a small group of us used to ride in the small town. All these years later, a friend that rode with us, was at the dump, looked at the metal pile and said" that's toni paynes hutch" . He was right. Toni had cracked the frame, so his dad fixed it by welding in 2 vertical posts from the chain stays to the seat post stays. VERY distictive! He put in his shed and forgot about it for 2 years until someone mentioned that i was building up old bikes , and hey presto, i picked it up today. Hmmm bit rough  (cough), but i will be looking for a repairer for this one......

[COASTY]

Cool! It's good to find a childhood memory even if it wasn't yours. Either way it will turn out good.

[Tim]

That is a great tale,  I'm sure the frame will fix up nicely.

[oldskool]

Thanks guys!! It's amazing that more than 20 years later...someone has thrown this to the dump....and the only rider out of the original 5 of us...who still lives in our home town, just happened to be at the dump, and saw this frame before the dump bloke pushed up the metal pile with a backhoe! He pushes up once a day. So the window of time in which he found it was a long shot by the very least.  I scored a patterson 3 weeks ago....similar story but i'll do another write up on the forum for that one. 

[Tim]

Mate, ask the dump guy to put all bikes aside for you to look at before he dozes em and if you grab one give him a 6 pack