I realized what was originally missing from this thread was a pre-face explaining the story behind the Hutches with drilled brake bridges. For those un-aquainted with "drilled brake bridge" Hutches, here's some early history behind these rare frames and the company behind them...
Before ProfileRichard Hutchins ran an east-coast bicycle mail order shop out of Maryland selling a huge variety of big-name BMX products (JMC, Torker, Cook Bros., Panda, Mongoose, Redline, Bullseye, Robinson, Thruster, etc, etc.) . Through this shop, in addition to name brand complete bikes, Hutchins began selling complete "Hutch" race bikes built on Robinson frames (reference the blurry 1980 catalog page below). These bikes were sold as the "Hutch MX Racer", "Hutch MX Mini Racer", and "Team Hutch MX Racer" (as first seen in November 1979 Bicycle MX Action magazine). [Anybody have a clearer image of this catalog or a shot from the magazine featuring the Team Hutch MX Racer built on a Robinson frame-set?]
The Profile YearsOwned by Jim Alley, the now legendary Profile Racing, Inc. started in the 1960s New Jersey as a racecar chassis shop. In the early 1970's Profile moved down to Florida. And by the late-70's, the entire "Profile family" had become hooked on BMX and started manufacturing bicycle racing components (including their now famous line of chromoly box cranks from born in 1979).
In 1980, Richard Hutchins commissioned Profile Racing to manufacture Hutch-branded frame sets. These were all made over the course of about 1 year (1980 into 1981) and sold as 1981/82 model year frame sets which hit the market in the Fall of 1980 (as per BMXA). The frames all had the Hutch name drilled into the brake-bridges with dot letters. The bridges themselves were drilled by Jim's son one by one. Aside from the drilled brake-bridge, tell-tale signs of a Profile built Hutch frame is the rear triangle geometry where the seat stays are welded above the top-tube intersection. Also, the rear drop-outs have angled cut-outs at the entries into the axle slots. These early frames were originally paired with either of the two styles of Profile forks: Centerline dropouts (down facing) or leading edge (forward facing) dropouts. It is not known how many of these framesets were actually produced, as Profile has neither the numbers nor recollection of how many they actually sent out to Richard Hutchins; however, Jim did tell Tom (KIW) "Not too many at all." In addition to the frame sets, Profile also provided Hutch with the early box cranks.
The earliest ads and racing pictures, featuring the new Hutch frames, show the extremely rare red and white graphics. Then in 1981, came the switch to the 2nd-generation decals: an early versions of the black and chrome decals with the Western logotype.
Post ProfileLater in 1981 (for the 1982 model year frames) Hutch's relationship with Profile ended and moved on to commissioning other manufactures, MCS (Florida) and the more local Speed Unlimited (makers of Thruster) in New Jersey. These early 1982 frames forwent the drilled bridges and had blank brake bridges instead. The MCS frames have the typical two-piece MCS chain-stay bridges. For a short time in 1982, the SU frames were paired with the unmistakable leading-edge Thruster forks. It was then in mid-1982 (1983 model year bikes) that we begin to see we begin to the familiar Western type logo appear on the bridges (some double-stamped) and pairings with the classic leading-edge Hutch forks everyone is accustomed to with the super-round shoulders. These 1983 model frames also sported the new (3rd-gen) "repeating" Hutch logo head-tube decals. 1984 model frames came out in late 1983. These were produced in-house and bore "new security" serial number on them.
More resourcesThis and more in-depth information can be found at these two fine sites:
JJR BMX
http://users.pandora.be/jjrbmx/inter-test/...oryArticle.htmlhttp://users.pandora.be/jjrbmx/hutch/HUTCHhistory.htmlHUTCH-BIKES
http://www.hutch-bikes.com/hutch_history.htm
Yeah...I'm an idiot.