My Bike

[MTIbiza]

A friend of mine pointed me to this site after i broke a shifter... great site and hopefully have a replacement shifter on it's way shortly.

Anyway the story goes that many moons ago I worked in a bike shop part time after school etc. In that ime I built my bike. Nothing has been changed since apart from the headset. I am trying to remember what year the bike is but it will be around the 97/98 mark. I have recently got back in the saddle and putting more miles in and getting more smiles back out of using the bike.

GT Zaskar frame with a spattering of x-lite stuff - seatpost, stem, bars, Marzocchi Bombers Z1 forks, XT brake/shifter combo, XT front and rear mech. WTB velociraptor tyres.

Anyway here are some pics. let me know what you think.

Sorry for the poor images - I will take some better ones at the weekend.

Cheers

Mie

 

[hoegaardenadds1]

good work sir! where abouts in east sussex are ya?

 

[saltyman]

welcome onboard

 

[MTIbiza]

Based near Crawley in West Sussex. Tend to ride over at Holmbury St Mary's near Dorking or around the crawley area.

Thanks for the welcome.

 

[coomber]

Very nice. Like the stem, is it a fly?

If you post up the serial number someone will be able to tell you the year it is.

 

[mikee]

nice

move the seat tho

welcome to bankruptcy pending .com

 

[6.5x55]

Generally like it but I've seen a couple of saddles snap from being that far back - puts alot of strain on the rails .

 

[MTIbiza]

Very nice. Like the stem, is it a fly?

If you post up the serial number someone will be able to tell you the year it is.

Yep X-lite fly stem.

I've moved the seat a bit further forward as I don't want any snapped rails etc.

I'll try and get the serial number when I go out on it this friday.

 

[JustinW]

That is a 1997 frame, I have a 16" in black and somewhere I have two sets of decal kits for it. Currently I have the paint stripped off but its going back to the original GT powdercoater to be repainted and then having original decals put back on. I ordered spare decal kits from GT before they were sold. This is a built in California frame.

 

[MTIbiza]

Where about on the frame is the serial number?

I have a feeling it might be earlier than 97 but i could be wrong.