For Sale 1988 GT Timberline 18 speed Ishiwata Chromoly

[monkeynuts]

For Sale 1988 GT Timberline 18 speed Ishiwata Chromoly 21 inch

Completely standard except for the following upgrades

Shimano Deore 6 speed shifters
Shimano SLR Brake Leavers
Onza Grips
Shimano later spec bottom bracket as the original one was well past it's sell by date!

I upgraded the shifters and brake levers as the originals where cracked and plastic items which just felt rubbish. They are both period items so in keeping with the bikes age.

It has a biopace chainset, Ritchey speed max tyres, exage trail group set, u-brake, double bootle mounts on the downtube and a cool seat post to boot.

The frame is dent free and the bike rides really well, the paint is pretty good but some of the decals are showing a little wear.

This is a pretty rare MTB and would like to see it go to a good home.

Price £150 and collection only from Farnborough Hampshire

 

[Cypis]

Is it Ishiwata (xtimes) butted frame?
How heavy were they?

 

[monkeynuts]

Hi there

The frame sticker says ishiwta cromoly main frame only nothing about the butting of the tubes. I am not sure about the weight but can do some research and try and find out.

Thanks

 

[andyz]

I like that a lot, but thankfully its way too big for me!

Good luck with the sale though!

 

[Rahbari]

This frame will be rather heavy. The main tubes are Cro-Mo, the rest is Hi-Ten. My guess is a good 3kg for the frame alone.

Another person with an unknown GT frame of 1988 had 3097g.
http://www.mtb-news.de/forum/showthread ... 216&page=4

But you don't buy early GTs because of the weight.

Even my high-end GT Psyclone, GTs premier steel frame which was more costly than a Zaskar, of 1992 (4 years younger, full True Temper GTX, double butted, heat treated) weighs 2171g.

 

[Cypis]

monkeynuts - that would be great, I have no hard info on 1988 GT's
Rahbari - I'm just very curious about these Ishiwata, some of the greatest retro-brands had them at some point, and it included triple butted cro-mo frames
(although information on butting was present on frame sticker)