jimwah
Old School Hero
Well this seems the right place to say hello - so here I am, a 90's mtb refugee, perhaps I've found a home
I'm enjoying digging through the various threads & reminding myself of the bikes me & my mates used to read about - we basically spent all our free time from age 10-16 on our bikes. I've had all sorts of bikes from the late 80's and through the 90's - Universal(!), Marin, Trek, Specialized, and some BMX's like Mongoose, Haro etc. But I never owned a GT...
A year or two ago, I got another cheap Trek, after a long stint off the bike. It did the job, I covered a few trails on it, but it wasn't really inspiring & I was living in town, which made it difficult to get back into riding - last month however, I moved into the country (backing onto some nice trails in Herts) :twisted:
Then a few weeks ago at work, I spotted a rather dirty, battered looking MTB in the warehouse, hmm... seems like it has the old triple triangle... time to investigate. Turns out this is for sale, and its a GT Zaskar ('97 maybe?) with some '02 Judy's, a mix of LX/XT/XTR kit and in comparison to my Trek, really very light. A few days later, it's in my shed & the deal is done! It's battered, but it's like a whippet through the tracks round here, and climbs like nothing else I've ridden. Not much I need to replace on it, but I'm sure I can find something...
In the meantime I'll be finding inspiration & drooling over GT's around here, cya around
I'm enjoying digging through the various threads & reminding myself of the bikes me & my mates used to read about - we basically spent all our free time from age 10-16 on our bikes. I've had all sorts of bikes from the late 80's and through the 90's - Universal(!), Marin, Trek, Specialized, and some BMX's like Mongoose, Haro etc. But I never owned a GT...
A year or two ago, I got another cheap Trek, after a long stint off the bike. It did the job, I covered a few trails on it, but it wasn't really inspiring & I was living in town, which made it difficult to get back into riding - last month however, I moved into the country (backing onto some nice trails in Herts) :twisted:
Then a few weeks ago at work, I spotted a rather dirty, battered looking MTB in the warehouse, hmm... seems like it has the old triple triangle... time to investigate. Turns out this is for sale, and its a GT Zaskar ('97 maybe?) with some '02 Judy's, a mix of LX/XT/XTR kit and in comparison to my Trek, really very light. A few days later, it's in my shed & the deal is done! It's battered, but it's like a whippet through the tracks round here, and climbs like nothing else I've ridden. Not much I need to replace on it, but I'm sure I can find something...
In the meantime I'll be finding inspiration & drooling over GT's around here, cya around