What bike is it - just for fun ;)

[skolioza]

I found this photo somewhere in internet

Duff McKagan (1st Guns'n'Roses's bass guitarist) likes riding his mountain bike
What bike is he having in this picture?
Brand shouldn't be a problem to answer, but year and model? Your types?

Enjoy and have a good fun

 

[jax13]

it looks like he stole it from a kid!

i like a small frame myself but that seems pretty small for him to ride with any degree of comfort.

 

[mooster]

Strangely it looks quite a big frame, he must be a giant!

 

[jax13]

Strangely it looks quite a big frame, he must be a giant!

6'3" seems to be the most common answer online.

 

[dyna-ti]

Strangely it looks quite a big frame, he must be a giant!

6'3" seems to be the most common answer online.

and no knee cartilage to speak of


bike is a GT

 

[mechagouki]

It has M732 cantilevers on the front, so it's definitely pre 1991, and the GT badge on the top tube is making me think 1988, but i can't find a catalog for that year. I'm pretty sure it's not an Avalanche or a Karakoram 'cause I've seen '88s of both.

 

[FMJ]

I Know Duff had something going on BITD with DBR. IIRC he was quoted in a MBA feature as saying if it wasn't for MTBs, he would have probably OD'd.

 

[drystonepaul]

Tough one: Found this though...

 

[mechagouki]

In that one the shifters look like M730 6 speed (XT-1), which would make it 1988 or earlier.

 

[Drencrom]

Think that's supposed to be an 'E' and not an 'F' in the photo above.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/ ... id=7121934 - any use?

When I got down to L.A. in June 1994, I was five weeks sober. Before even going up to my house I stopped at the Bike Shack, a cycle shop in Studio City...
...Next I picked out a new mountain bike. Though I had been using an old no-name steel bike, I decided to splurge on what I thought was a pretty nice bike -- a Diamondback. After all, this was my thing now and I wanted a good bike.