Please help identify and age my GT frame.
boicey
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Hi everyone, i wonder if anyone can help me identify and age a GT bike i own? Ive contacted GT UK and have sent an email to GT USA but cant get a definate response. Hopefully someone out there will be able to put me out my misery.
Here are some of the details.
Its an aluminum hard tail, it was originally a light blue colour but has now been polished back to the metal.
The frame number, stamped under the bottom bracket is RZ 0106466
The frame has GT stamped just above the dropouts and on the blocked end of the top tube behind the seat post. The tubings slightly oversize, particulary where the down tube begins.
The spec, which i believe is original, is mainly deore lx / xt. Its got Mavic rims and rock shox forks and the whole bikes fairly light.
Im thinking it might possibly be an old Zaskar, but ive not seen one in a light blue, if that even was the original colour!?
I can email a picture if anyone fancys having a look.
Really hoping someone can help, as if i find out that its a high endish frame, im thinking of restoring it as a project and keeping it as a second bike.
Any help would be hugely appreciated as this has been bugging me for a while now. Thanks again.
Here are some of the details.
Its an aluminum hard tail, it was originally a light blue colour but has now been polished back to the metal.
The frame number, stamped under the bottom bracket is RZ 0106466
The frame has GT stamped just above the dropouts and on the blocked end of the top tube behind the seat post. The tubings slightly oversize, particulary where the down tube begins.
The spec, which i believe is original, is mainly deore lx / xt. Its got Mavic rims and rock shox forks and the whole bikes fairly light.
Im thinking it might possibly be an old Zaskar, but ive not seen one in a light blue, if that even was the original colour!?
I can email a picture if anyone fancys having a look.
Really hoping someone can help, as if i find out that its a high endish frame, im thinking of restoring it as a project and keeping it as a second bike.
Any help would be hugely appreciated as this has been bugging me for a while now. Thanks again.
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Thats not the greatest picture, i'm going to guess at an 96/97 Avalanche/Avalanche LE, i may be a very old zaskar but from about 97 the zaskars all had integrated seat clamps, which yours does not. Have a look on the inside dropouts or the l/h dropout, GT's always used to stamp the material series onto the frame, if it says 7005, its not a zaskar, if its 6061 it could be0
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Thanks for all your responses so far. Its most appreciated. Ian, it says 700e on the inside of the dropout.0
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better pictures of the whole bike. and make them bigger.
the parts that are on it can also help age the bike. and this might help http://www.mtb-kataloge.de/html/gt.html
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I can't see the pictures, what forks does it have? or just describe them?
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Just driven to my work where the bikes kept after all the great response ive recieved to take a full list of the spec.
It does have 7005 on the dropouts, not 700e as i listed earlier. (what a colleage told me on the phone!) So i assume Ians right and its not a Zaskar.
The full spec is . .
Rock Shox Judy xc Forks.
Deore LX V brakes and levers.
XT rear mech
Deore front mech
Trutiv 5d cranks
Gt stem
Mavic 221 rims
Titec seat post
Geforce headset
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pictures of the rear drop outs could be good.
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Rear drop out pic. The other side is replacable. The tiny spec of blue in the hole is i presume what the original colour was. There are traces of it in other hard to get to spots too.
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i am out of ideas, but i am guessing 96-97
and i see that the blue GT is not original and might not be original colour.
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Very like my Tempest (see sig pic) which (I think) is the same frame as a Backwoods too..
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Id like to thank everyone for all the help ive recieved so far. From the responses ive recieved most people seem to think its a 96 / 97 Avalanche, so i doubt its really worth doing anything to restore it. . Guess to be exactly sure what year and model ill have to investigate the frame numbers some more. .
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Id like to thank everyone for all the help ive recieved so far. From the responses ive recieved most people seem to think its a 96 / 97 Avalanche, so <b>i doubt its really worth doing anything to restore it.</b> . Guess to be exactly sure what year and model ill have to investigate the frame numbers some more. .
Thanks once again to everyone whos taken the time to try and help me out.
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TBH if its of good weight and you like it, why not restor it? GT hardtails are quality!
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