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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: Haro82 on February 28, 2007, 03:48 PM
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Been looking for a GT for a while and was chatting to my mate who used to have a GT and he said he thought he new who had it . He sold it to his cousin in Liverpool who gave it away to his stepdads grandson who lived in Widnes. He said he would try to get his phone number and phone him to see if he still had it, a few hours and a trip down the motorway later and I had this :daumenhoch:
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/andrewhill_bpool/DSC00759.jpg)
If anyone is clued up on GT's could they give me a bit of info on it. It's a bit of a wierd one as it is like a Nora Cup as the top tube is cut straight, but the forks and back drop outs are stamped GT (unlike the Nora Cup) and the back drop outs also have one small hole in them and the serial is under the BB (G284788). So it looks like a NORA cup f&f but with subtle differences. ???
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nice find m8 ..what you give for it ??..if its ok to ask m8 ..
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nice find..these finds keep turning up.
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nice find m8 ..what you give for it ??..if its ok to ask m8 ..
It was a young lad who had it now and he never rode it because he didn't have any inner tubes and couldn't get any so I asked his Dad how much he wanted for it, and , wait for it , he said ... just take it mate you've already spent a bit on petrol to get here :D
So I gave the young lad £20 and we were all happy. :) :) :) :)
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Another nice shed find!
Nice one - looks like 2007 is definately gonna be the year!!!!
:daumenhoch:
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1988
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Nice find! It looks quite small to me or is that just the photo? Maybe an expert?
This site might help mate - http://bmxmuseum.com/bikes/info/122/
:daumenhoch:
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Nice find,I drove past a bike today,it was proped up against a wall with blue skyways on it,the place i was,was virtually out in the wilderness? I didn't have time to stop,but the more I thought about it ::),so bugger it I'm going back up there 2moro :)
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1988
It's defo not an 88 as he bought it about 84ish as a full bike and I've got pictures of us racing with him on it around that time. Would have been out on the p*ss in 88 :LolLolLolLol:
I've checked the bmxmuseum and it doesn't really help. I think it is a Pro frame because I remember it being bigger than my expert frame BITD.
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ace find fella :daumenhoch:
Another nice shed find!
Nice one - looks like 2007 is definately gonna be the year!!!!
:daumenhoch:
and i hereby declare 2007
as the year of the shed
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nice bike
it aint a nora cup though
yours has better components than one of them, which were, to be fair, pretty poorly specced
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Cracking find mate ! Wish I could get my hands on my old ET and Curtis :'(
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top find mate :4_17_5:
i know where you can get NOS decals for that ::)
john
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nice find bit of a shed i could sort you out with a nice burner for that old thing ;D
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its a84 as you use the first two no.s after letters
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g2 ie feb 84 is the year nice find
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yeh, that is sweet - I love a survivor.
Just clean it up.
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nice bike
it aint a nora cup though
yours has better components than one of them, which were, to be fair, pretty poorly specced
Nora Cup F+F's were available seperately as well :daumenhoch:
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very nice
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Technically, there is no such thing as a "Nora Cup" GT. They're 1983 model GT's, defined by the seat tube decal being replaced with the 1982 Nora Cup decal. They also put the same decal on the steerer tube of the forks.
All (well, most) 1983 Gt's, be it mini, expert, Pro, and cruiser were stickered like that. The 1983 models were the same as the 1982 models, although I've spoken with someone who owned a 1982, and a 1983 cruiser, and he said the frame geometry was slightly different.
That is a cool survivor, though it is a bit strange having the serial number on the BB. Could someone have stamped or engraved it there?
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That is a cool survivor, though it is a bit strange having the serial number on the BB. Could someone have stamped or engraved it there?
No I doubt it. My mate definately didn't who owned it from new. I saw a couple of messages on a americam osbmx site that mentioned a few GT's having been stamped on the BB, someone mentioned these might have been made in Japan, but I also read that G mean built in Santa Ana. The Spec on it was just like the Pro Series that came out 84 (looking at an old advert in BMX Action Bike) but the frame is different. Very Strange :idiot2:
Here's a few more pics.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/andrewhill_bpool/DSC00766.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/andrewhill_bpool/DSC00770.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/r313/andrewhill_bpool/DSC00763.jpg)
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nice one :daumenhoch:
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nice find, would look good with my gt mini :daumenhoch:
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i think that it is from after 84
i have never seen an early gt with a letter in the serial and on the bottom bracket. They didn't start with engraving untill 84.(the same year they started the bolgne cut)
ask adam(aditup) he knows about gt's.
Now, i could be wrong. :LolLolLolLol:
http://www.bmxmuseum.com/bikes/info/122/ (http://www.bmxmuseum.com/bikes/info/122/)
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never seen em that early with gt stamped on the droputs, especially the forks
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I have a GT Pro from 84 that is exactly the same as that bike, it is a European spec GT not a US spec GT. I am not too sure on where they were made though.
Same serial number location and similar serial number also.
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v518/stidds/GTPro1.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v518/stidds/GTPro2.jpg)
(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v518/stidds/GTPro3.jpg)
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Hi lads we were talking on rad about my gt pro with the stamped rear dropouts. Turns out Ad was pretty spot on his theorey. Ive had an email from a bloke on the us forums who claims his old man worked at the santa anna factory he says that the last run off 800 gts finishing in feb 84 were built for the benefit of the japs & they were stamped on both dropouts to give it a designer label kinda thing & to make them look at bit more profesional thats the reason the frame no was moved to the bb (the the japs didnt like it & decided to do the slash cut & stamped top tube). He seems to think that mine serial number G284799 was the last but one made G284800 was the last & old gary turner was said to have had the last one himself. And so the other bike that has come to light with both f&f stamped in the same way is also one of the last santa anna built bikes frame no G284788. Im not sure that this will mean they are worth more but its a nice to get a reasonable explnation about these bikes. Im keeping mine now anyway its back up on my wall. cheers Ad Ben.