What do you get if you cross a Hetchins with a Bates? This is not a trick question. In fact, you get a Hetchins with Cantiflex tubes and a Diadrant fork. Such frames exist--see below.

You can call it a Batchins or a Hates or a Hetchbat, as you please. (You may remember that the bat was Bates' symbol.) Very few were made, all as special orders. This one has Magnum Opus lugs and a complete Campag Record group set with Flite Titanium saddle. It was ordered in December 1996 and delivered in March 1997.