decoding GT frame numbers

[kula]

Hi, does anyone have any pointers on how to decode a GT frame number.
as a taster it starts b9001600 but the last 2 digits are too filled with paint to read.

thanks
Kula

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

Model year of frame, model of bike and a picture always help.
Doesn't look like anything old must be a newer import frame.

 

[kula]

it's a small Zaskar Race in the yellow and blue colours, I think made before GT went Bust. But I was hoping the frame number would be able to tell me more, just as a raleigh frame number does.

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

it's a small Zaskar Race in the yellow and blue colours,

I think this one was posted a couple years back and was a repainted Zaskar Race done in Yellow and Blue iirc

 

[mikeekim89]

I'm not sure you know, the serial number isn't right for any prebust zaskar or comeback one far as i know. is the serial number on the bb or drop out?. the 2 numbers you can't read are the frame size. if the top cap's curved, that's pretty much a zaskar nono. i've never seen one that's real with a curved plate. non carbon. also all zaskars i know of have the numbers 6061on the opposite drop out if i remember correctly. pics would help though.

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

I'm not sure you know, the serial number isn't right for any prebust zaskar or comeback one far as i know. is the serial number on the bb or drop out?. the 2 numbers you can't read are the frame size. if the top cap's curved, that's pretty much a zaskar nono. i've never seen one that's real with a curved plate. non carbon. also all zaskars i know of have the numbers 6061on the opposite drop out if i remember correctly. pics would help though.

Nope first year Zaskar Races were 7005 curved top cap and built in Taiwan. Available in Billet (silver) w/blue stripes or yellow with red and black trim.. This topic on Zaskar Race's gets hashed around every year. Search. I can post the catalog pics if you want the proof. Made a mistake and bought a Zaskar Race with MIT decals still on it. Never made that mistake again. Probably the least desirable of all the Zaskar's built.

 

[mikeekim89]

i though the race series we're lightest, i'd get one if they did a 6061 version..

 

[kula]

thanks for the posts guys. Well after reading through endless threads, seems the different types of Zaskars stir up some emotions
Found out that the one I have, or rather my wife's came from Merlin cycles in 2002 and sold as bankrupt stock.
It's a 12.5" doglegged top tube frame. disk mounts so rear drop outs are far too fancy to have a frame number, so that's under the BB. So perhaps it's a 2001 Zaskar Race.
Regarless, the frame is v light and has built into a decent bike. My wife loves it and wouldn't swap it for anything.

 

[IDB1]

My wife loves it and wouldn't swap it for anything.

Much more important than year etc. imo.