GT i.d. please

[silentpartner]

is this a performer, or ..........?, what year? do the forks or bars look original? any good?





alan 

[gmac]

Dunno much about mid school, but from the GT script I'd say it's mid 90's at the earliest. Is that something stuck to the fence, or has it got a rear refector ? 

[RADHAB]

It is a performer and Young Pete "Quadrophenia" will explain which vintage it is!! my guess would be 88-89.
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[rom_kid_04]

my mate had one of theese i think its from the early 90's

[theRuler]

yeh mid ninties, before they changed em in 1997

[David]

Definitely not a GT Performer

95ish GT Vertigo

 

[tricknuts]

the back whell couldn't get much further back, and the chain's still slack

[Peanut]

From what I can gather, in them days the only difference between the performer and the vertigo was the decals and the wheels.

Here's my 97







Out of every bike I've ever had I'd say that the geometery on this one was the best, so responsive. I don't think they're worth much but they are definitely a nice ride.

[David]

The 90's Performer has AD lugs, these two don't, they be Vertigo's

[theRuler]

The 90's Performer has AD lugs, these two don't, they be Vertigo's

i had a 96 performer with no lugs
i welded some on

it was a good bike. nice geo and very ridable

[Wayne Ryder]

I had one of those frames for a couple of years, bought for peanuts from Superbike in Ilford. It had 990 lugs, though. Only reason I ditched it was a dented seatstey tube.
Nice bike, a much better ride than the crappy steel S-Bend GT; that was a huge disappointment after wanting one for so long.

[Peanut]

I've seen vertigo's with lugs.

two lugs or not two lugs that is the question.

[David]

Yep, I've seen Vertigo's with lugs too but much later, on the newer style frames.

Here's GT's 1993 offerings - lugs/no lugs, you get the idea....





Still using the S-bend frame - your's is later than this.

All said and done, these are both entry level bikes - the Raleigh Burner's of their day.

 

[Peanut]

Did he just say the B word?

[theRuler]

they were hardly the raleigh burners of their day
that crown was still held by the like of "universal" and "townsend"

oh, and raleigh. they never stopped making bmx's

[David]

universal & townsend 

Ain't they your catalogue bikes?
There was plenty of them back in the day.

Your Dyno Compe, common as muck, owned by ton's of kids in the 90's who had no real interest in BMX.

THAT is your Raleigh Burner of the last decade, surely?

[theRuler]

i guess you are right

dyno compes and DB vipers.
still a shit hot bike compared to "entry level" 10 years prior 

[David]

dyno compes and DB vipers.
still a shit hot bike compared to "entry level" 10 years prior 

True
Kids today don't know they're born    except they do, coz their Dad's video'd it