[masterstint]

Putting together a neighborhood cruiser/excercise bike, hoping to be as era correct as possible also, and I've come up with my 1st two questions for the house Hutch experts:

1) What year is this setup?
2) What would be the most correct Hutch race stem? Deep H or Western H?

thanks,
Claude

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[FeelixX26]

Nice start you have there. I am pulling information from JJR's awesome Hutch website. The frame looks to be late 84 to mid/late 85. The ads for that year show a deep h stem.

[masterstint]

FeelixX26, on 22 January 2012 - 01:37 PM, said:

Nice start you have there. I am pulling information from JJR's awesome Hutch website. The frame looks to be late 84 to mid/late 85. The ads for that year show a deep h stem.

cool thanks for the info!!

[FeelixX26]

You are welcome. Looking forward to this build!

[lboorse2]

Just keep in mind that the year is still a rough estimate. No way to tell succinctly from serial number, other than the existence of a serial number (on the dropout with no Koizumi mark) means USA made '84 or later.

BITD, I ran a DK stem on my Hutch with GT race bars and Takagi 1pc cranks. I wasn't big on the matchy-mathcy Hutch stuff.

[masterstint]

thanks guys, when did the Western H come out?

[racerbvd]

lboorse2, on 23 January 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

Just keep in mind that the year is still a rough estimate. No way to tell succinctly from serial number, other than the existence of a serial number (on the dropout with no Koizumi mark) means USA made '84 or later.

BITD, I ran a DK stem on my Hutch with GT race bars and Takagi 1pc cranks. I wasn't big on the matchy-mathcy Hutch stuff.

I also ran a DK on my Hutch cruiser when it was built up in the 80s and still on it today..