What where you riding for Downhill in 91/92...?

[DutchmanPhotos]

We were doing our first downhills around '92.. I remember going to Belgium to do some of my first races. Dual slalom also.

I rode a GT Zaskar with Manitou suspension forks. The whole 2 inches of travel, haha!!

We would use high rise Answer Atac stems, with 7 degree bent Taperlite bars (I saw Dave Cullinan do that on his Iron Horse in MBA magazine). Because there were no riser bars at the time, so we would point the rise upward, to create a BMX kind of feel to our bikes. We also slammed the seat low and used Suntour Beartrap or Shimano DX BMX pedals or something similar.

Great times. Let me find a picture..........

 

[DutchmanPhotos]

This is kinda what it looked like.

This is the '94 or '95 Zaskar GT gave me after I snapped the headtube off of the '91 I had..... Still bummed I had to give that frame back to 'em to get a new one.

I hope to have this one restored this summer. Not all the original parts are on it which I used back in the mid nineties, and I swapped it to A-head, but it should become a pretty cool ride when done.

 

[theCyclemedic]

This is kinda what it looked like.

This is the '94 or '95 Zaskar GT gave me after I snapped the headtube off of the '91 I had..... Still bummed I had to give that frame back to 'em to get a new one.

I hope to have this one restored this summer. Not all the original parts are on it which I used back in the mid nineties, and I swapped it to A-head, but it should become a pretty cool ride when done.

Old GTs Rock, this is my lunchtime hack!

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[DutchmanPhotos]

Here some of my inspiration I was talking about in my previous post..... High rise stem, bars with the rise upward, and the seat slammed low.

I saw Cullinan ride this bike at the '93 Worlds in Metabief France.. He would come up to this one BMX style double jump (a pretty big gapper for that time) in the course, right out of a corner... He'd take a little sprint, get some good air, clip out one foot, lay the bike flat to a full pancake one footer, come back straight, clip back in, and land smooth..... Some of the coolest riding I ever saw back in that time.

 

[jonboy]

Here some of my inspiration I was talking about in my previous post..... High rise stem, bars with the rise upward, and the seat slammed low.

Yeah, me too!!!