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Title: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: BrianP on June 20, 2007, 07:08 PM

need some help dudes. know it's a gt performer of some type ( :D ) but which one?

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/gt/pb_gt-04.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/gt/pb_gt-02.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/gt/pb_gt-03.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/gt/pb_gt-01.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/gt/pb_gt-05.jpg)


Thanks in advance!

 :daumenhoch:

Bp.

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: lazychubs on June 20, 2007, 11:18 PM

84 year but pete qaud would know
and pester ya for it lol

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: SaMAlex on June 20, 2007, 11:26 PM

I dont know much about performers but Pete must be rubbing off on me.

I thought the 84 has the outer standing platform tubes in the middle of the main top tube. It was the later ones that were slightly higher so they were all level at the top.

Also, Id say it was much later with that cable guide on the BB unless it was fitted later

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: Lazarou on June 20, 2007, 11:44 PM

It's not 4130 either so does that make it a late Jap model?

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: Moose on June 21, 2007, 08:12 AM

'87 Performer (not Pro)

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: harris on June 21, 2007, 08:16 AM

i would also say 87 ish as its got the bridge on chainstay near bb.

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: munners on June 21, 2007, 08:20 AM

Ive got exactly the same frame as that and the serial number is very similar.

Its def an 87.

Well heavy aren't they!

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: SaMAlex on June 21, 2007, 08:38 AM

How/why do we all know this carp?
We really are rather sad, aint we?  :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: Steve P on June 21, 2007, 08:42 AM

Defo '87 ish ... looks like the original cable guide has been removed from the BB too  :daumenhoch:

Steve

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: BrianP on June 21, 2007, 09:19 AM

Cheers guys, thanks for the responses. Glad i didn't spend a whole lot of cash on it. or did i? (95 euros)

Anyway, it's bought now, and heading for a white powdercoating in the next few weeks.

Yeah it's well heavy and the dropouts are kinda beefy for the age.

I presume the extra tick on the gt logo on the sloped end of the top tube means something?

It's still got the cable guide on the bb steve, just kinda difficult to see from the angle of the pic. it's also got the guides on the underside of the downtube and i got a centre pull brake here waiting to go on.

Anyway, cheers for the input, better get cracking!

 :daumenhoch:

Bp.

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: Steve P on June 21, 2007, 09:31 AM

Quote from: brianp on June 21, 2007, 09:19 AM

It's still got the cable guide on the bb steve, just kinda difficult to see from the angle of the pic

Ah yeah, looking closer I can see it's still there now ... you got a barain there for 95 €uro  :daumenhoch:

Steve

Title: Re: Can someone please help me date and id this model?
Post by: Stodgy on June 21, 2007, 09:43 AM

Yep, definately an 87.

That was the year they went to the double bend downtube...but they also updated the 'classic' Performer and sold it alongside the new design. The main update was the inclusion of those cable guides on the underside of the downtube...much better braking!

Anyhow, here's the relevant bit from the catalogue (with an early 'fudged' frame - they later went to solid dropouts):

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/b292/stodgy1/1987GTCatalogpg7top1.jpg)