Need help from GT experts

[Lord_fowl]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIB-RARE-GT-XIN ... 4ac981b8bf

What are these? are they genuine? Didn't GT go out of business?

 

[ishaw]

Kind of, but I don't think for very long and have been selling bikes happily for the last decade or two since that happened. Been on the moon long

 

[Lord_fowl]

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hmmm if i ever go modern maybe
and yes i have been "away" was in the mid 90's that i got my first car and about the same time i got fed up with the bike thieves here in the shitty of Toronto. Now i have kids more money and this rash that wont go away, i think its called the wallet degenerative disease
thanks for the quick reply

 

[ishaw]

No problem. I caught the same disease just before I had kids and amassed a lot of projects. Never now get the time to ride the ones I finished, let alone complete the ones I had planned. The time has come to change that, going to get out more and ride (on a modern bike, albeit a steel one that I will be building shortly), a cull of the builds I have in boxes and never gotten around to, and appreciate the ones that I have built already and occasionally take them out for a spin/pose when the weather is nice.

I've always been a fan of GT since my first one, an RTS-2. It is why I have build the team version I have. I doubt I will ever sell that. I'm in the process of finishing (well I say that, will it ever be finished?) an STS build. Having a trunnion shock mount modified so that I can run a more modern fox shock. Then it will be finished. Oh wait, I have a bearing upgrade that I might also fit, then it will be finished. Oh, but I'm not quite happy with the red logos on the bars etc etc. It's fun though.

 

[FMJ]

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Igor's in jail still. Bike theft is at an all time low.

 

[MADJEZ]

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Yes they went bust 2001, got bought out by the people who owned Mongoose/Scwinn.
They made generic low end stuff for a while but always had a good high end range.

Recently gone a bit more up market (some great high-end full-sussers) and reintroduced the Zaskar/Xizang. Though of course as retrobiking purists a full sus Zaskar and a 29er Xizang...... :shock:

 

[Lord_fowl]

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had a guy on ebay comment to me about igor once,, :shock: he was from Atlanta Ga or thereabouts :shock: i know of a whole host of others that didnt go to jail and are out there still roaming loose so i'm always a bit worried that they might come back :evil: