Originally Posted by
The Trashman
Does anyone know much about the Ground Breakers? The only catalogs I could find mention a 26" MTB, but the one I have is a 700c hybrid, taiwanese mig welded frame and had shimano 200gs groupset on it. The serial number is MQKT56834.
While I don't know how to reverse engineer that particular serial number format, the presence of Shimano 200GS narrows the model years down to 1990 to 1992 and would make it an entry level model.. Fortunately, I have the Shogun price lists for all three years and the only one listing the Ground Breaker hybrids is 1991. There were three Ground Breaker hybrids and the 200GS model was the lowest, being known as the Ground Breaker I (one). The original MSRP was $329 US.