Xizang....what do you make of this one?

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

Pay special attention. This one's rare for a number of reasons:

1) It's a bead blasted frame and it always been that way.
2) The rear dropouts are like no others I've ever seen on a Xizang.
I would call them "chiseled machined bullets". The bullets have machining lines and they are cut to a chiseled appearance inserted into the seat stays and around the dropout...very industrial looking. Anybody else out there have one like this?
3) It may just be me.... but it seems to me like the seat tube is running way past the top tube on this one.
4) It has the machined headtube, a machined bottom bracket (you can see the lines), and the seat tube braze on for routing cantilever brakes.
5) It's perfect.... not a scratch.... and never had a chain hit the chainstay.

It was built up but probably ridden no more than a hundred miles.
I was thinking maybe it was a 99 model...the year they painted them white and perhaps it just never got painted but I don't think those frames had the canti braze-on on the seat tube.

Your thoughts?

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

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last one

 

[Pickle]

Perfection

 

[South Bound]

I love those industrial welds. It is stating the obvious, but if I had to have a GT, it would be a Xizang....

 

[Geoff]

No idea but it is damn nice!

 

[Benandemu]

Lovely.
It has typical 'Ti sports' trademarks of the mid to late 90's all over it. And then GT spec the individual finishing touches that make it so nice. I'm sure that it was called something else though... not Xizang!

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

Lovely.
It has typical 'Ti sports' trademarks of the mid to late 90's all over it. And then GT spec the individual finishing touches that make it so nice. I'm sure that it was called something else though... not Xizang!

NO it's Xizang geometry, Xizang's top tube end cap, USA built..... it's a Xizang alright.. What typical Ti Sports trade marks are you talking about besides great welds maybe the rear dropout.

 

[xizang]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm liking it a lot

 

[Benandemu]

Lovely.
It has typical 'Ti sports' trademarks of the mid to late 90's all over it. And then GT spec the individual finishing touches that make it so nice. I'm sure that it was called something else though... not Xizang!

NO it's Xizang geometry, Xizang's top tube end cap, USA built..... it's a Xizang alright.. What typical Ti Sports trade marks are you talking about besides great welds maybe the rear dropout.

Dropouts are biggest giveaway then welds, bottom bracket, method of stamping, headtube gussets, and the blasted finish. Can't see gear cable stops clearly, but they look like the little barrels that I have. You can see it was built next to my Marin Ultimate. These Ti sports hallmarks were from about '95 to '99, I think.

Technically, they're brothers!