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1995 Hoffman The Egg

infamous egg, most got destroyed.

got this in a trade deal. touched up and buffed upped the paint,looks new. currently wall art.
im gonna quote from mats book, that explains the egg and how it came about pretty good.
"sales were super,but after a few years in business we were spinning our wheels. to grow and keep up with the demand,wed need to expand into the territory claimed by the well distributed manufacturers like gt, haro,schwinn etc. in short we would need to take our bike line from strictly hardcore vert, street and flatland fare into the realm of budget bikes. the idea was that since most bikes sold (about 85%) are entry level rides,we could get new kids into riding,gain presence in our shops, and once the shops saw how fast the low budget models moved off the floor, theyd order some of the more serious equipment."   
"building an economical bike couldnt be done with our in house machine shop,we were cranking out product as fast as we could get raw tubing on the shipping dock, but it was walking a razors edge just to stay afloat. to cut the margins and try to make things cheaper would sink things for sure. the key was sourcing a competent manufacturer in taiwann where the prices were more affordable but even setting up for that cost lots of money because the taiwann factories had minimum orders and needed down payments before they would do a production run. mike devitt (of s.e.),had before mentioned the t-word and i brushed it off saying i couldnt come up with the down payment. mike suggested i get a letter of credit from a bank that would work as a cash advance. i had a better idea. i got my international distributor accounts to pre-order and send me letters of credit from their banks. i sent these letters to my taiwann manufacturer to finance my order, whatever profit i made from these pre-orders i used to finance additional bikes for me to stock. it was a way of covering the fact that i had no money, and to my surprise it worked. with the profit i made from selling these bikes, i was able to order and additional container. so for no money out of pocket, i got two for the price of none and was able to bring a new bike to the hoffman bikes lineup. it looked like a rare occasion where math was working in my favor."
  "we called our first taiwanese bike "the egg" (baby condor), because we just knew they were built to crack. the geometry and componentry were okay, but the frame and fork sets,compared with the heavy duty condors, were merely high tensile steel tubing. it had an affordable price of just $199. perfect for the beginning rider for transportation to school and back. unfortunately, our reputation preceded us and despite our best efforts to alert bike shops the the egg was not the same style bike as our infamous american built, high end, high performance lineup, a lot of hardcore riders bought eggs. they tried to jump them, street ride them,take them on vert, and literally scrambled the eggs. we got back tons of cracked frames and choppered fork sets. it was clear we had to do something before our reputation was destroyed. the egg sold out but cost hoffman bikes a chunk of credibility. i knew we couldnt make the same mistake twice and had to find a way to get bikes made in volume."