This people is beyond my dream bike, When I was young I used to peep through them Cheltenham bike shop windows gazing at the ball burnished LTS bikes and Zaskars dreaming of even touching one never mind owning one. Then when the plastic version appeared i only dribbled on my well thumbed magazine pages 
So fast forward (ahem ) a few years and my obsession with GT and I have finally got my hands on a plastic one!! , Its a early LTS nana model rather than a STS. The bike had a pretty easy life but was not clean I dont think since built in 1996!! :shock:
The history as I have been told ,The frame come from Recycle (Croydon bike shop in 90`s , remember it?) this was a insurance payout (2nd) from Marin to cover the chaps Marin FRS which had cracked again. They actually told him its a design fault and wouldnt cover the cost again so paid him his full money back and gave him a Indian Fire trail frame and told him to swap all the bits over. Not a bad deal really i thought so wanting a full suss frame he went and brought this one. Apparently as they always are it was a "team" frame used by british rider?
So here we are currently, I have stripped back to the frame (literately) grime like I have never EVER seen before and it now sits waiting to be built again. All the bushes are nice and tight with no play (now clean too) and a Risse rear shock ready to go.
My main head scratch was which groupset to clad the steed with, It came with an original nice condition m900 without the cantis (been replaced with later V`s and adaptors for canti shifters) or I have squireiled a mint M952 groupset away which would be more in fitting with the year of frame.
Even though the frame does have a canti hanger (Retrobike Sin ) I am going for the later groupset :?
The wheelset will be a middleburn rear with a pretty cool period front wheel that was made by a engineer in worthing again been told one of three made.
Thats as far as it has got , I have actually just removed myself from the garage to write this up as I was very quickly dropping into the what is laying around to lash it up and get it mobile :roll: So I am going to take a step back and actually decide what I want for it and do it right (shock horror :shock
I am open to ideas for
Forks - I have mint Judy xc or nice Orange Bombers z4`s (not sure on either)
Stem-
Bars-
Seatpost - Currently had black Kore 27.0
Headset - Going to source a King (quite excited never had one before :roll: )
Would love any feedback
So fast forward (ahem ) a few years and my obsession with GT and I have finally got my hands on a plastic one!! , Its a early LTS nana model rather than a STS. The bike had a pretty easy life but was not clean I dont think since built in 1996!! :shock:
The history as I have been told ,The frame come from Recycle (Croydon bike shop in 90`s , remember it?) this was a insurance payout (2nd) from Marin to cover the chaps Marin FRS which had cracked again. They actually told him its a design fault and wouldnt cover the cost again so paid him his full money back and gave him a Indian Fire trail frame and told him to swap all the bits over. Not a bad deal really i thought so wanting a full suss frame he went and brought this one. Apparently as they always are it was a "team" frame used by british rider?
So here we are currently, I have stripped back to the frame (literately) grime like I have never EVER seen before and it now sits waiting to be built again. All the bushes are nice and tight with no play (now clean too) and a Risse rear shock ready to go.
My main head scratch was which groupset to clad the steed with, It came with an original nice condition m900 without the cantis (been replaced with later V`s and adaptors for canti shifters) or I have squireiled a mint M952 groupset away which would be more in fitting with the year of frame.
Even though the frame does have a canti hanger (Retrobike Sin ) I am going for the later groupset :?
The wheelset will be a middleburn rear with a pretty cool period front wheel that was made by a engineer in worthing again been told one of three made.
Thats as far as it has got , I have actually just removed myself from the garage to write this up as I was very quickly dropping into the what is laying around to lash it up and get it mobile :roll: So I am going to take a step back and actually decide what I want for it and do it right (shock horror :shock
I am open to ideas for
Forks - I have mint Judy xc or nice Orange Bombers z4`s (not sure on either)
Stem-
Bars-
Seatpost - Currently had black Kore 27.0
Headset - Going to source a King (quite excited never had one before :roll: )
Would love any feedback
