Kristoffer R
Retro Newbie
Hello!
I'm new at this forum. Thought I'd start off with a weekend report.
Last weekend I found out a shop, Jungmarks Cykel & Sport in Gothenburg, was about to fold and they had to move out of the premises asap. They gave away all used bikes for free. I went there to find a free restoration project.
I'd never visited the store before. The owner was reputed to be something of an original, refusing to ever have a sale and also generally refusing to sell items. Therefore, this was basically a goldmine of retro bikes, parts and accessories, and while I was there they were packing stuff up in crates to ship off to somewhere. I scrambled together random boxes of stuff and an incomplete road bike + parts to assemble it. The woman in charge told me they shifted at least a hundred bikes just that day. She had already had 40 bikes in boxes transported to her barn.
Anyway, some bikes were left standing and may still be somewhere. I hope I was right to tip her off the GT bikes in the pics are (possible) collectors items - there were some rubbish mtb's basically given away to punters and it would be sad to have them end up like that. I was sorely tempted by the RTS-2 at just under £300.
GT RTS-2 and GT Slammer
There is a short thread at happymtb.org with some more pics.
http://happymtb.org/forum/read.php/1/2421884/2422068
I'm new at this forum. Thought I'd start off with a weekend report.
Last weekend I found out a shop, Jungmarks Cykel & Sport in Gothenburg, was about to fold and they had to move out of the premises asap. They gave away all used bikes for free. I went there to find a free restoration project.
I'd never visited the store before. The owner was reputed to be something of an original, refusing to ever have a sale and also generally refusing to sell items. Therefore, this was basically a goldmine of retro bikes, parts and accessories, and while I was there they were packing stuff up in crates to ship off to somewhere. I scrambled together random boxes of stuff and an incomplete road bike + parts to assemble it. The woman in charge told me they shifted at least a hundred bikes just that day. She had already had 40 bikes in boxes transported to her barn.
Anyway, some bikes were left standing and may still be somewhere. I hope I was right to tip her off the GT bikes in the pics are (possible) collectors items - there were some rubbish mtb's basically given away to punters and it would be sad to have them end up like that. I was sorely tempted by the RTS-2 at just under £300.
GT RTS-2 and GT Slammer
There is a short thread at happymtb.org with some more pics.
http://happymtb.org/forum/read.php/1/2421884/2422068
