Admin TrulyOdd Posted October 5, 2022 Admin Share Posted October 5, 2022 I saw a video that Greg Hill posted of his GHP 24” cruiser on FB. I thought it was real cool so I grabbed some screen shots from the vid. He mentioned it was the first one ever made. A pre production frame & fork and didn’t have a serial number. I thought you non-FB guys might like to see it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The 26incher Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Wow! That bike is awesome!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin TrulyOdd Posted October 7, 2022 Author Admin Share Posted October 7, 2022 Does anybody know for certain what the forks are? I was trying to get a good pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turdburd Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 On 10/6/2022 at 5:37 PM, TrulyOdd said: Does anybody know for certain what the forks are? I was trying to get a good pic. Look to be inline forks, so maybe VDC. Guessing at that. Wonder who Greg had building his frames at that time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dav451 Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 5 hours ago, turdburd said: Look to be inline forks, so maybe VDC. Guessing at that. Wonder who Greg had building his frames at that time. I agree with VDC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hays Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 Yes VDC made all of the Star and GHP frames from 1982-1985. At the end of 85 when Voris sold the production division of VDC, Greg pulled the plug because the frames sucked and went to Asia for production. Those can be differentiated by the serial being on the BB instead of the dropout. Greg also said that he put the 85 decals on this replacing the 84 style decals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmx2112 Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 That's pretty badass that it's still around. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gto455 Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 l think I've read Dennis Dain gave Greg Hill a GHP 24 that Dennis had since the 80s.I wonder if this is the one,I vaguely remember that style seatpost on Dennis' bike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Baron Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Yes indeed, I gave this complete bike 'back' to Greg. I worked at GHP when he got his company going, cleaning, polishing and stickering up the new frames and forks. Boxed them up for shipping and pretty much doing all the warehouse stuff. We were friends form all the way back when he first started around 1975 or so. This frame was his first design for a 24" cruiser and I believe we decided the bottom bracket was too low. I think he redesigned it and raised the bottom bracket up. I had quit racing in 79 but continued to race a couple time a year after. I had not raced in a while and had never raced a cruiser but I raced this one once, It was a USBA SoCal national in October of 84. I guess Brett Allen(?) and Marvin Church, both racing for mongoose, were a big deal at this time. I beat them both in my first moto and I guess I pissed off Skip Hess and the whole Mongoose team for doing so. LOL I didn't do so well in the main but didn't care, I had some fun. I did end up with a great picture from the day. Anyway, fast forward to 2022. I'm newly retired after 40 years with UPS and I need to thin out my 'stuff'. I rolled up to Greg's house and handed him this complete bike, pretty mush just as I raced it. Probably a prototype frame, one of (insert a small number here) of those GHP bars. I have plenty of special bikes, Greg deserves this one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turdburd Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Cool to see this back in Greg's hands. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
