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NYSoul:
I have just got an 87 GT which is pretty original (some questions coming about stuff i aint sure about). The paint is good but but not perfect and has a few deep scratches, at some point in its life it has been touched up with a paint stick and where that has been done it really shows. I would like to have it perfect but at the same time i am also feeling its wrong to paint something so good.

Some questions...
When i got the bike it came with an SR 1 piece crank, a black chain and a late 80's GT chainwheel. The chainwheel looks right but the chain and the crank dont. It also has sticker residue where "Team Model" stickers would have gone. I am thinking it might have been a Team Model with a power series crank and the crank has been robbed at some point. Can I tell from a serial number or is there anything else that would give it away? (I have a later GT crank, chrome chain and Dyno chainwheel in the pics)
The stem does not look right either and at some point it has had a wider stem as there are marks on the bars, is it likely to have had the big GT block stem when new?
Would it have had a Gyro and not a rotor?
and one more.... Do the bars look right?

oberonspacefruit:
oh, you so need to leave it.

lazychubs:
yep deffo leave it and pull bars back a tad lol
looks the dogs mate

NYSoul:
To be honest thats what i was thinking. I could see myself in 6 months time when i had learnt more kicking myself for painting something that was good to start with.

Cheers

oberonspacefruit:
wait till pete quad see's it. ask him...

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