Avalanche, Pantera, Backwoods or Tempest.... definitely not a Zaskar

 

nice GT's I'm restoring a 93 GT Team Avalanche the Blue one and a 93 GT Zaskar LE both with m900 parts Lots of work & $$ but it will be worth it, can't wait to post them for everyone to see JayMan

 

GT 1995 Backwoods question

Heh,

Hope alls well, I have a Backwoods GT 1995 or 1996, great bike, still working well, I want to upgrade the forks to suspension forks, Just wondering, does anyone know if there is any type of Suspension forks that will fit that frame type ?

http://www.bikepedia.com/Quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?Year=1995&Brand=GT&Model=Backwoods&Type=bike

Thanks

 

Here is the details on my GT backwoods model

http://www.bikepedia.com/Quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?Year=1995&Brand=GT&Model=Backwoods&Type=bike

Any help would be great

 

I have a 96 backwoods and put a 100mm Rockshox Duke on it. Works great.

 

frame: 96

parts: 98/99

fork: 2000, wheelset polished, no good in winter :-(

i was faster than now

nut

chiefnut

 

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Thanks for that Jeremy, I'll check them out, are they easy to fit ?

 

If it has a 1 1/8" headtube it should be an easy upgrade. If its the old 1" you might have a little more trouble.

 

Here are some of my retro GTs...

- A GT Bravado, again, I do not know the vintage of this but from the decals onboard, it appears to be a late 90s GT Bravado. Reynolds 631 double butted chromoly tubes with GT chromoly fork. Turned into my daily commuter bike - light, fast and can handle anything that my road bike cannot, and easily converted back to a proper MTB shall I decide to scare myself by riding a full rigid someday.

I love the Bravado...I've been looking for a late 90's Bravado or Karakoram frame to build up.

 

Here's my '97 Xizang and my '93 Zaskar LE

'97 Xizang (w/'95 decals) and my '93 Zaskar LE - both 16"

Unfortunately I don't have the Zaskar anymore, but I hope to rebuild one just like it one day. But I'm so impressed with the Xizang right now. It's such a solid build and the '09 80mm SID is just an incredible fork compared to the original '98 SID it had when I got it.

 

damn you!!!!!

loverly

 

But I'm so impressed with the Xizang right now. It's such a solid build and the '09 80mm SID is just an incredible fork compared to the original '98 SID it had when I got it.

:thumbsup: I luurrve your Zanger. I have a matching sticker kit on mine.
What year model is yours? Very nice.

 

:thumbsup: I luurrve your Zanger. I have a matching sticker kit on mine.
What year model is yours? Very nice.

I bought the Zaskar frame back in college, then built it up. I don't recall where I got it from, but I feel like I ordered it out of a place in mountainbike magazine. I thought is was a '94, but GM told me it was a '93, which is close enough that the details get a little fuzzy for me. He has a purple one with similar looking white letters, so I think he's right. I haven't seen another Zaskar with those decals either. The Xizang is pretty awesome, though. I think I beat GM by a few minutes on that one! ;-)

 

Bryanus yours was definitely a 93 by decal.

 

Recent pick-up....a GT drop bar with a ton of history behind it. As you can see by the serial number this GT Edge steel cyclocross frame was built for 2001 UCI MTB Champion, 3 time US XC Champion and six time US cyclocross champion Alison Dunlap. Fillet brazed from Reynolds 853 at the GT Tech Shop in Longmont, CO. This one has definitely been ridden. Shows a ton of head tube cable rub and a few other frame and stay nicks but overall is in very decent shape. It came to me set-up as a SS with mismatched wheels. I just gave it a good bath and put on some parts I had in boxes in the basement to get it operational. My 14 yr. old daughter will be the bikes new rider. Anyone out there got a set of old Cane Creek wheels so I can get it back to spec?

 

Recent pick-up....a GT drop bar with a ton of history behind it. As you can see by the serial number this GT Edge steel cyclocross frame was built for 2001 UCI MTB Champion, 3 time US XC Champion and six time US cyclocross champion Alison Dunlap. Fillet brazed from Reynolds 853 at the GT Tech Shop in Longmont, CO.

Very nice. I remember that bike... I love "skinny-tubed" GT's.

 

A bike with provenance, very cool. Even if it is a GT with skinny tires.

 

Dude, that is awesome. Glad it was you who got it and not someone with no GT knowledge. Great find.

 

1996 GT Zaskar

 

98 xizang

nice xizang on ebay item 260567231253 take a look

 

nice xizang on ebay item 260567231253 take a look

Don't spam the fourm douche bag.

 

Just pulled the trigger on a Xizang, not sure if I paid a good price (750 seems a bit much) but it has a new Sid fork and full XTR. Frame is perfect and it rides so nicely that I just couldn't pass it up, too sweet! Here's a quick photo, I can get some more when it's light out. So . . . what you think, fair price?

BTW, how do you pronounce Xizang. Now that I own one, I should know how to pronounce it. And don't tell me it's something like "Zi-Wang" so that everyone laughs the next time I say it! :nono:

 

Shhee-zung?

* http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Xizang * clicky on the little speaker button

$750 sounds pretty damn good price, you normally pay more for just the frame

 

looks to me like you did just fine...congrats