92 forks would be a very tall order,havent seen any come up. i think 99 percent of them got bent horribly or broke
sucks bout snapping off a head tube, a early condor gone
was just wondering how the head tube gusset was set up,there are 4 small varations of this gen of early ramp room condor from spring of 94-late spring 95.
these two of mine have a few diffs,the ht gusset,the rear peg mounts and two cable guides on one.
ive been doing a bunch of research of this era of them,finding out which came first,dates when changed,stuff along those lines etc
hit the mother load recently, ive been talking with paul murray,hoffmans first in house welder so im starting to get a bunch of info pouring in.
here is a reply from him about what i was asking him,(about the early ramp room 94 condors)
"Wow... yeah, this is not what I expected, but this is good.
I'll have to do some research of my own to give you a good answer...
I moved out to Mat's in may have 1994. He did not have welding machines at his shop yet. S E Racing was producing all of his bikes prior to that, oh wait... there might have been some local welding guys, that they knew, doing some work for them before I got there.
After I ordered a machine, and built a table, and kinda got things to where I could weld, I don't think we were producing bikes yet. I think I welded bars and forks mostly at first.
Gack had designed that one inch headset, clamp on style stem, and was finally getting steerer tubes back from machinists, and we started producing those together after he made a fixture that was obviously crooked. He got really mad at me, but I fixed the fixture after making one pair and SEEING that he had blown it. ha ha ha Did I mention he got mad at me? ...yeah, we butted heads a lot back then.
I remember welding Big Daddy's and Condors. I don't remember ever puting bosses on the rear drop outs for pegs... but that doesn't mean I didn't do it.
I own one of the early models, but I'll have to go to my dads and hope that it is intact. I also should have a pic of it around here somewhere.
There was a BS comp at OKC while I worked there... I was still riding a Mongoose Hooligan, and I broke it during my first run. After welding it together, a few minutes later, I went out and took my next run.... that was fun.
After that, they thought it ,might be a good idea to get me on a Hoffman, Mine had some sort of blem...
Somewhere along those lines they hired a kid named Shane Kinsley from Vermont. Shane and I were pretty tight, even though he was hired without my knowledge, and I was the so-called "welding manager... making about six bucks an hour. ha ha ha
The HB guys figured out that they could get away without paying overtime if they called you a manager and put you on salary. ...one more cool thing about working there...
I kept pretty current journals, or diaries, or whatever you want to call them back then. I may be able to get some info from that.
My head is killing me, I've been sick all day. I need to go lay down. I'll get back to you with more soon."
-paul "
so i got much more info to follow
