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GT Titanium road frame - headtube sizes?
I just purchased this GT: https://imgur.com/a/wj4dZ1D because I'm sort of ish starting to get into collecting interesting/rare titanium bikes. IMO GT wouldn't be anything special except for the obvious - that sweet triple triangle.
EDIT: It's a 1", I am bad with a measuring tape. Last edited by cribbit; 08-08-2018 at 11:14 AM. |
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It's 20 years after the fact...and a niche within a niche...nothing to get frustrated with
GT began to struggle with deliverables in 97. Their handmade shop was in Longmont. The ti bikes were really late and I can't recall if they were made by GT or someone else. GT made some really cool steel and aluminium hand made, ti not so much. Sandvik? They broke often |
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That's weird that they were using 1 1/8" as early as '98. What fork would they have available at that point?
The 1998 catalog is on Retrobike. It doesn't look like 1 1/8". |
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i own a gt edge titanium frame. and a reynolds steel one. both 60cm. they are both 1" tubes. the titanium is a 1994 and the steel a 1998. both made in colorado. all their high end frames were made there. a friend of mine raced for gt and his edge titanium frame was from 1998 and has a 1" tube to.
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Yeah, agree with above that 1-1/8" would have been highly unusual in '98. Also cannot come up with what fork would have been used.
Maybe the head tube was replaced? I know of more than a few titanium frames that started with 1" but now have 1-1/8" courtesy of the original builder or otherwise (repairer) like Bilenky. Last edited by aaronf; 05-19-2018 at 08:17 PM. Reason: typos |
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the fork they used for the original ones was an alloy one by kinesis. thats whats on mine. the newer bikes used a bladed kind of gt fork that was black. the steel bikes were stock with a steel fork. |
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In 1 1/8"?
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no. both are 1". both threaded. the carbon one was offered in threaded and threadless. mine are both threaded.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/246923/ |
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contact I've never seen that gt fork in the bigger size. only the smaller. but maybe im wrong. but the frames i have are 1" sizes.
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I love the modern ones. I had a frame being swapped out a couple years ago (maybe 2015) via warranty. I worked at a cannondale shop and it was my SuperSix evo. They were out of them for a long time, and when they eventually sent me one it didn't have a fork at all, or eventually one that could match. I tried to get them to send me a GT ti edge frame instead of the Evo hi mod they sent me eventually (that went to bcroslin). Even though the evo HM was like $1500 more expensive wholesale than the GT which was by then several years old on closeout they wouldn't do it.
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