Identify the bike challenge!

[Dick Spanner]

Hi everyone, I thought it might be fun to let you guys have a stab at identifying my old steed having dug it out from the very darkest corner of my garage following a slight setback with my newly recommisioned Orange E3.

Please excuse the poor quality of the pics and the poor state of the bike. It was my first mountain bike which I bough second hand and was very much used and abused.

 

[the great roberto]

Easy.It's a GT.And judging by the colour,a ladies one at that.

So it's a ladies GT.

Next.................

 

[jonnyboy666]

blimey, that's a strange old beast :shock:

531 with a triple triangle and drum(?) brakes

looks highly specced for it's age though, has mavic rims by the look of the stickers

 

[jonnyboy666]

i didn't think gt coz it is 531, there were some uk guys using tripletriangle though.

 

[JeRkY]

Aint no GT, the tripple triangle (although still ugly as anything) doesn't feature the top tube piercing the seat tube.

Interesting bike, I like the rack mount.

 

[JeRkY]

Aint no GT, the tripple triangle (although still ugly as anything) doesn't feature the top tube piercing the seat tube.

Interesting bike, I like the rack mount.

 

[tiboltrider]

It's got Dawes cranks! So I'm going for Dawes. They would have been using Reynolds.

Frame / weld quality looks too good to be a GT!

And lovin' the shoulder pad :shock:

 

[shovelon]

It's got Dawes cranks! So I'm going for Dawes.

Frame / weld quality looks too good to be a GT!

 

[Dick Spanner]

Excellent replies so far.

Roberto gets the dunces hat for guessing the obvious and in this case incorrect GT.

Also, I like to think that it is so pink, it's positively macho.

The Dawes crank is a red herring, I had to replace one and was given it!

 

[legrandefromage]

going by the the 531 stickers, thats from around 1986, there were lots of stuff out the using hub brakes.

its as cool as **** is what it is.