I can remember fogging up the glass at my LBS in 1997 when the '98 line came out and I first laid eyes on the LOBO at Ace Cycles in Brooklyn. I just couldn't wait (nor scrounge up enough money) so I eventually bought the previous year's STS DH which I've loved and cherished for years. But this thread is about a boy's dream come true.
It was just another boring Monday morning. Sitting at work opening packages from QBP and sorting the contents against the packing list, thoroughly unexciting. Once the deliveries were finished I took my post behind the computer to eat some lunch and run my regular ebay searches: sts, lts, rts, lobo, ringle, hadley... etc... sounding familiar? But this Monday was different no sooner did I enter the 4th ring of my searches I see the holy grail of my wanted list, a 1998 GT STS LOBO! I jumped into action... well really I just do a little math, set myself an alarm for later that evening and went back to work. That evening I poured over my keyboard and eventually won the auction. not quite a week later the box (with frame inside) arrived.
I couldnt resist slapping my old ZZYZX fork on the second the frame came out of the box. Even if it didn't have a headset installed.
Parts waiting to go as follows:
Hed Jet DH rims to red anodized GT/Hadley hubs
XTR M952 rear der, BB, cranks and brakeset
MRP chain guide
Cane Creek DH headset
Azonic shorty stem
Thompson seatpost
handlebars are my only real question, I have a Control Tech bar and a Ritchey Force Lite one but neither really do it for me. any suggestions? I thought a Bontrager Crowbar might do it but cant put my hands on one.
Here's one of the frame and fork, I'll have a complete pic done sometime this afternoon.
That night I placed my bid and payed the seller. The next morning he shipped it out and 5 days later I'm opening the package. It took me some 14 years to buy one and now I'll waste no time getting it built to the highest level I can so it can join the rest of my GT collection.
It was just another boring Monday morning. Sitting at work opening packages from QBP and sorting the contents against the packing list, thoroughly unexciting. Once the deliveries were finished I took my post behind the computer to eat some lunch and run my regular ebay searches: sts, lts, rts, lobo, ringle, hadley... etc... sounding familiar? But this Monday was different no sooner did I enter the 4th ring of my searches I see the holy grail of my wanted list, a 1998 GT STS LOBO! I jumped into action... well really I just do a little math, set myself an alarm for later that evening and went back to work. That evening I poured over my keyboard and eventually won the auction. not quite a week later the box (with frame inside) arrived.
I couldnt resist slapping my old ZZYZX fork on the second the frame came out of the box. Even if it didn't have a headset installed.
Parts waiting to go as follows:
Hed Jet DH rims to red anodized GT/Hadley hubs
XTR M952 rear der, BB, cranks and brakeset
MRP chain guide
Cane Creek DH headset
Azonic shorty stem
Thompson seatpost
handlebars are my only real question, I have a Control Tech bar and a Ritchey Force Lite one but neither really do it for me. any suggestions? I thought a Bontrager Crowbar might do it but cant put my hands on one.
Here's one of the frame and fork, I'll have a complete pic done sometime this afternoon.
That night I placed my bid and payed the seller. The next morning he shipped it out and 5 days later I'm opening the package. It took me some 14 years to buy one and now I'll waste no time getting it built to the highest level I can so it can join the rest of my GT collection.
