Here you go, the pads came the other day so its finished although the chainwheel will be chainged to a black one very soon.

I have had the F&F since 1990 when I bought it of Hutch Factory ride Ashley Duffy. It had the chrome rims, Hutch bars also.
The Aero speeds were scored back in 98' for an undisclosed sum that would make your eyes water!, the hubs shorlty after and the rest just here and there.

The IBMXF World Championship plate is original and came from Melanie Vauvelle, I believe she got it from either Tim Judge or Steve Veltman after the World in Holland (cant remember the year at the moment!).

That thing is sooo sweet!!!

Awesome build....Is it for sale?

You must be left handed...

Rock on..

Whoa nice build and history. Gotta love 24's
A set of Aerospeeds on a cruzer never hurt either...

great build!
Just fantastic.
BTW the plate is from 1983.
HERE you can find a article about the Hutch Team in 83 when Steve Veltman used the same plate!

I was gonna say you must be from Europe with the rear brake lever on the left.

Awesome Hutch.

Screw the chrome Arayas - the chrome Ukais are much harder to get and look better I reckon.

As for the red chainring - I like it - it carries the red touches through nicely.


Pre-serial XL24?
The undrilled forks are a nice bonus!

In fact I'd change the black seat and seat clamp out for red ones - that would look hot!

John, where did the pads come from? Retrofit?

Hey John - that's awesome - really well done. Talk about a longterm project - fantastic results!! Are they Tom Barone's pads - I'm rapt with mine.

And just love the details - the Hutch suite, Aerospeeds, yellow label comp 3s, rad kaps. I'd hate to see what those parts would go for on the Bay nowadays...Serious bling.

nice build love the details

Ver, very nice!!!

Great job John, that's one sweet ride.

nice man very nice!

First class build man. You really did a great job!

Wow, great build! I really like the touches of red throughout.

It just looks fast sitting there!!!

John sent me a pic on my phone of that at the weekend and for the first time EVER I was speachless, tis a true thing of beauty big man well done
now when can I have a go on it???
DINGO

Wow, reallly nice, but find it odd the pro racer decal half way down the loop? Sweet ride, and I like the red ring as well.

The "Pro 24 Racer" decal on XL24's runs a bit lower on the brake stay than standard Pro racer. Not sure why, but that is how I have seen them in old tests.

But with Hutch, it seems that everything has slight variations so there are probably some out there that run the decal up near the brakes.

Is there anyway you could post that article in full?

what in the world are those black things sticking out of the spindle-arms?

WHOA !!! John that is one sweet Hutch 24XL I am really starting to like the small touches of red on Hutch bikes. I cant wait to finish mine

Mark

looks like a real race bike from 83-84 and thats good ! very sweet.

Very Sweet!

tznutts,

Unfortunately I dont have the full article. I was picking up a set of the "Pro 24 Racer" decals, and that was the picture they sent over for me to check them out.

Hey

Glad you kids are liking my XL24. I cant believe how sweet it looks. The build has been going on for so long now I was worried that when complete it would be and anti climax, but it just isnt! Its great to look at it everyday.

The history goes back with me to. I won a UKBMX National aboard this F&F, although many of the parts you see were not on it back then.

The black caps are sometimes seen on |Aerospeeds in the magazines from BITD, but I get they were one of the first thing to get lost or thrown away!

The pads were traded with a friend of mine who had a number of Hutch builds. Yhey are repops but I'm not sure whre they came from. I think he had them produced over here in the UK.

As for the red touch, I always had a thing for red and white Oakley B1B grips. Probably because teh Hutch factory guys used them so much. The build was always gonna have that touch of red for that 'factory look'. Imagine my exitement when I scored the IBMXF WC Zeronine plate a couple of years ago!!!! I knew exactly where it was going!

Thanks for your kind words.

JJ

jumperjohn.

i know the cranks came with caps. here is a set i had. the caps i had where flush. are yours flush?

maybe its just the photo but they appear to stick out 1/4" or so.

if you need some flush ones let me know i can help ya out......

that's killer! what a nice ride. good work

sup tom!

havent seen ya around so much.

glad your back

That is a very very nice BIKE!!!! Always luved the 24xl's from Hutch!...Congrats!

Beautiful bike! I like the twist you put on that all Hutch ride. Definitely worth the wait.