GT Avalanche Dry Ice Style

[PhillB]

Nice example!

 

[Black_puma]

Nice example!

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That's lovely and wouldn't look out of place in my collection! But my money's already being spent on my next project!
I must resist...
Good price though, i paid more for my '91 Avalanche!

 

[27motorhead]

I had one of these under warranty after I found a crack under the down tube / head tube intersection on my 1991 Daktari Avalanche. I much preferred the look of my original Avalanche vs. this Dalmatian scheme and also didn’t like the groove tube feature. Still a lovely machine though and sensibly priced and sized (for us shorties!)

 

[Black_puma]

I had one of these under warranty after I found a crack under the down tube / head tube intersection on my 1991 Daktari Avalanche. I much preferred the look of my original Avalanche vs. this Dalmatian scheme and also didn’t like the groove tube feature. Still a lovely machine though and sensibly priced and sized (for us shorties!)

How did that happen?
That would be quite unusual for a chromoly steel frame, I would think?
I have the 91 Daktari White Avalanche myself, obviously bought used so no warranty if anything like that happened. And I only ride it to commute to work once a week or so.

 

[27motorhead]

How did that happen?
That would be quite unusual for a chromoly steel frame, I would think?
I have the 91 Daktari White Avalanche myself, obviously bought used so no warranty if anything like that happened. And I only ride it to commute to work once a week or so.

Used to do trials riding as well
As XC and guess lots of hard landings/falls all added up. Cracked just away from the weld which is normal due to heat damage. Only checked mine after laughing at a friend who was in the bike shop with his Klein Attitude with the same issue and a few hours later I found out I was in the same boat!

 

[PhillB]

Just bad luck with that frame I guess, someone lingered a little too long with a torch and left a weakness.

I've just checked and this is the Dry Ice 92 finish and not the Daktari 91 finish that the seller suggests - I thought it was wrong!

 

[27motorhead]

Just bad luck with that frame I guess, someone lingered a little too long with a torch and left a weakness.

I've just checked and this is the Dry Ice 92 finish and not the Dakar 91 finish that the seller suggests - I thought it was wrong!

I always felt it looked like a Dalmatian dog! I hammered my first Avalanche frame, in fact I’ve just remembered I did the same thing to the replacement frame!!! And I ended up getting a Zaskar by paying extra and I never managed to break one of those…

 

[PhillB]

I am a little tempted... mainly because I think it is actually a 16" in GT units, do you agree?

Can I be ar*ed to drive to Wiltshire though....?

 

[Black_puma]

I'll let someone else have the joy of buying it as i have enough to keep me going, as much as I would love to own it. I just want to focus on my Zaskar project as that will cost enough to get all the bits for it!

 

[27motorhead]

I am a little tempted... mainly because I think it is actually a 16" in GT units, do you agree?

Can I be ar*ed to drive to Wiltshire though....?

Looks like a 16” to me. I used to measure the chainstays (16.5”) on pictures to help me work out what a 16” version would look like as the catalogues always had BIG framed bikes photographed. Wiltshire isn’t too far from West London and then tie in visiting somewhere en route…