Author Topic: GT find . Well chuffed. (Read 2357 times)

Haro82 · « **on:** February 28, 2007, 03:48 PM »

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

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.

dodgydave · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:52 PM »

nice find m8 ..what you give for it ??..if its ok to ask m8 ..

harris · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2007, 03:54 PM »

nice find..these finds keep turning up.

Haro82 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:01 PM »

Quote from: dodgydave on February 28, 2007, 03:52 PM

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

So I gave the young lad £20 and we were all happy.

Stodgy · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:08 PM »

Another nice shed find!

Nice one - looks like 2007 is definately gonna be the year!!!!

LXIX · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:17 PM »

1988

gregster · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:18 PM »

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/

daz bmx it! · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:20 PM »

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

Haro82 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:26 PM »

Quote from: LXIX on February 28, 2007, 04:17 PM

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

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.

DR VINOAH · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2007, 04:49 PM »

ace find fella

Quote from: Stodgy on February 28, 2007, 04:08 PM

Another nice shed find!

Nice one - looks like 2007 is definately gonna be the year!!!!

and i hereby declare 2007

as the year of the shed

theRuler · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:14 PM »

nice bike

it aint a nora cup though

yours has better components than one of them, which were, to be fair, pretty poorly specced

Gashead · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:25 PM »

Cracking find mate ! Wish I could get my hands on my old ET and Curtis

jT Racing · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2007, 05:35 PM »

top find mate

i know where you can get NOS decals for that

john

dannyboy · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2007, 06:38 PM »

nice find bit of a shed i could sort you out with a nice burner for that old thing

lazychubs · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2007, 06:52 PM »

its a84 as you use the first two no.s after letters

stuntmaster · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2007, 06:54 PM »

g2 ie feb 84 is the year nice find

retrogeezer · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2007, 07:20 PM »

yeh, that is sweet - I love a survivor.

Just clean it up.

Mattdub · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2007, 11:09 PM »

Quote from: theRuler on February 28, 2007, 05:14 PM

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

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #18 on:** March 01, 2007, 08:37 AM »

very nice

mcam · « **Reply #19 on:** March 01, 2007, 09:20 AM »

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?

Haro82 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 01, 2007, 10:19 AM »

Quote from: mcam on March 01, 2007, 09:20 AM

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

Here's a few more pics.

Flaz · « **Reply #21 on:** March 01, 2007, 10:40 AM »

nice one

bmxmatt1974 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 01, 2007, 10:58 AM »

nice find, would look good with my gt mini

jT Racing · « **Reply #23 on:** March 01, 2007, 04:58 PM »

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.

http://www.bmxmuseum.com/bikes/info/122/