An even older goat - 1983 Mountain Goat

[jimi911]

This is a pretty cool one ...

Its a real early Mountain Goat made by Jeff Lindsay. He began making MTBs in 1981 and he didn't make a ton. This is #12 so its likely one of the first few dozen he made.

Unfortunately no fork or bar stem combo :| Anyone have one?

The backup plan is to do a sort of Cali themed build with all high end early 80s left coast bits.

 

[tintin40]

will you be restoring?

 

[jimi911]

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will you be restoring?

Yeah. Down to the bare metal and back again. Same colour though. Its a super dark metallic grey fade (almost black). I'll have someone match the original livery as best they can.

Basically a Deluxe, but I think its a bit earlier than the first bikes Mtn Goat called a Deluxe.

 

[longun]

Very cool, pulls up a chair and signing in

 

[tintin40]

an excellent restore to keep watching

 

[mk one]

ooo i like that, would like to see a pic of the whole frame too

The shaped tube reminds me of Colnago frames, do you know what steel it is?

Very nice

mark

 

[slimjoe]

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Very cool! I have the Goat brochures from the 80’s so will have a look at tubing etc. Think Jeff used tandem tubing for certain tubes.

 

[M-Power]

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Also loggin on for this. Love these really early bikes. FAT used tandem tubes on the early Box crown forks too.

 

[IHateRain]

Nice project

 

[Kona-Ian]

Interesting.
Only a bit of surface rust.
Looks good.