Regardless, the bike is a sex machine. Is that a carbon pace fork? How does it ride?

Like gm said above, 2000/2001 was a shake up time at GT that things were rather crazy. Dig up some old bike mags, you'll find zaskar (team color - not sure if they were team 'edition' or not, I just remember the color) sold at deep discounts on ads pages, from the fear that the frame would not come with any warranty. I almost bought one at $250 - kicking myself for being poor back then I also remember team color model wtih the aluminum cast (not sure) head badge instead of stickers. You know, I'll dig up my old MBA tonight and scan it.

It was in like Sep 2000 issue, with ping pong. Like gm said above, 2000/2001 was a shake up time at GT that things were rather crazy. Dig up some old bike mags, you'll find zaskar (team color - not sure if they were team 'edition' or not, I just remember the color) sold at deep discounts on ads pages, from the fear that the frame would not come with any warranty. I almost bought one at $250 - kicking myself for being poor back then I also remember team color model wtih the aluminum cast (not sure) head badge instead of stickers.

Here is an email I got from an actual employee of GT: If the bike frame was manufactured at the Santa Ana CA facility, the first three or four digits of the serial. Official GT Bikes website featuring GT Bicycles brand mountain, bmx, road, and urban bikes.

You know, I'll dig up my old MBA tonight and scan it. It was in like Sep 2000 issue, with ping pong.I generally prefer ping pong discussions with my wife on the bed lol! I guess history and authenticity of my frame is not really an issue for me now. $250 back then is quite a sum still! Yeah do scan your mags please, get them digitized and don't forget to share! So here we go: These images are lifted from Mountain Bike Action Sep 2000 issue, so the frame must be made in late 1999 or early 2000.

Notice ping pong decal indicating the frame was made in Santa Ana, CA: GT riders, like Alison Dunlap and Rolland Green, were winning all over the place. Yeah poor Mr.

Looked like a good time, didn’t it? Fast forward to 2001 - SchwinnGT Corp went into bankruptcy Sep 10, 2001 by filing it to District of Colorado US Bankruptcy Court. So all magazines pretty much dropped any coverage of GT bikes from late 2001 and 2002 – all I can find are the fire sale of GT bikes. Around this time, Zaskar frame origin becomes unclear. It gets weird from there – notice your black stripes are straight diagonal through top/bottom tube? It looks like (from a limited googling and ads browsing), that color scheme was done for Avalanche frame from the same era: Zaskar for some reason always had these black stripes in different angles between top and bottom tube: And bikepedia doesn’t even list Zaskar Team for 2002 (no Zaskar for 2002 for that matter) – maybe they just forgot.

From your other finds, I’d say yours is 2001 frame. It says made in USA, so it must be. Maybe these were last batches made in the US before everything got shipped out to Taiwan. Is that a 16 inch frame? How much does it weigh? Must be a dream ride. Hi I have a 1996 GT LTS- 1?

What I wanted to know is were all GT bikes especially the high end models all made in Santa Anna Ca, until 2000-2001? I ask this because My serial numbers are different from any other 1996 LTS numbers the first three are SAS then 6A then 1210 I figure that the first SAS means Santa Anna and the S is for the S in LTS then the 6 for 1996 and A for an LTS-1 then the 1210 for the 12th of October. Other serial numbers for LTS bikes I have seen on MTBR and other websites don't have the same looking code Any Ideas? Call Of Duty 4 Cracked Servers No Mods there.

Hi I have a 1996 GT LTS- 1? What I wanted to know is were all GT bikes especially the high end models all made in Santa Anna Ca, until 2000-2001? I ask this because My serial numbers are different from any other 1996 LTS numbers the first three are SAS then 6A then 1210 I figure that the first SAS means Santa Anna and the S is for the S in LTS then the 6 for 1996 and A for an LTS-1 then the 1210 for the 12th of October. Other serial numbers for LTS bikes I have seen on MTBR and other websites don't have the same looking code Any Ideas?Yours is not an LTS-1 from 1996.

The Taiwan built lower models started SAs. Likely an LTS-2 or lower model that is wearing a replacement set of LTS-1 decals. Post a picture of your.

Are the parts original to the frame that would also tell you which LTS model the frame originally was.

Hi, I have just got a old steel gt frame (for free!). I have figure out that it take a U-brake in the rear placing it pre-1993 I think since I read somewhere that 1992 was the last year GT used U-brakes. It is steel excluding Xiang and not fillet braced excluding psyclone. So I try to figure out whether it is a high or low-end steel frame. It is definitely heavier than my kona kilauea from 1995 but judging from the previous owner it shouldn't be a low-end model (and GTs from that era where never light if I got it right). Is there any easy way of telling the models apart (it was bare steel when I got it and now I have had it powder coated so that might rule out some identification options).

I got to know that serial number of the frame could be used and if the first letter is an H, GT had it built at Taiwan-Hodaka and they made mopst of the GT's from the Karakoram up in the line. If it's an S or maybe SF it was probably built by SanFa. Most of the 400 dollar and under models Timberline, Talera, Outpost and Outpost Trail were built there. The serial number of my GT is T 90016923. Not sure what this tells me. Does it mean that the frame was built in Taiwan-hodaka in january, 1990?

The cap at the back, where the GT logo is, is flat if that matters (the end f the top tube kinda). How To Install Openproject On Windows there. Any hints are welcome! I believe you are correct in your assumption that the first two digits of the serial number indicate the year of manufacture, as I have an known 1988 model that starts with T87. I'm not sure is the next digits are a week or month indicator or part of a 6 digit sequence number, but yours is low enough in all instances to suggest a 1990 model. By happy coincidence, I just happen to have the 1990 catalog.

The lowest model to use the U-brake is the Timberline, which is distinguishable from other models by the presence of rack mount eyelets on the seat stays. Next up, the Tequesta, is missing these eyelets and has hozitonal rear dropouts. Next up are the Karakoram and Karakoram K2.

They have vertical rear dropouts. Forks have eyelets. Frames spec the same tubing and I suspect the only difference is components.

Top two are Avlanche and Team Avalanche. Look identical to Karakorams, but lack the fork eyelets. Frame tubing specs are not identical, but both use mixed tubesets.

I suspect the only way to tell the difference may be via seat post diameters.