Mystery Track Frame
08-25-08 | 10:47 PM
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I used to work at the shop. I didn't pay $700. I think if it was Russian, the nines in the hand etched serial number would look like lower-case g's. (Cyrillic) There's another Ti frame at the shop, not triple-triangle, road-drops. I'm not sure if it's a relative, but it's equally lacking in demarcations. I'll see what the sticker on that one says.
I grew up in Huntington Beach, CA; Wouldn't even a VERY custom GT have a stamped serial number?
I think Titan is my favorite answer, but anything handmade by Bob Furry would have been more expensive, unless it was dumped post-merger.
Perhaps after Bob resigned, they made some Ti bikes to try to lure pro-riders, but were unsuccessful and sold them off.
The mystery continues.
Anybody got a line on a Ti road/cross fork with a 1" steerer long enough for the 210mm head-tube? I can cut it and (re)thread it, but I can't make it longer.
I grew up in Huntington Beach, CA; Wouldn't even a VERY custom GT have a stamped serial number?
I think Titan is my favorite answer, but anything handmade by Bob Furry would have been more expensive, unless it was dumped post-merger.
Perhaps after Bob resigned, they made some Ti bikes to try to lure pro-riders, but were unsuccessful and sold them off.
The mystery continues.
Anybody got a line on a Ti road/cross fork with a 1" steerer long enough for the 210mm head-tube? I can cut it and (re)thread it, but I can't make it longer.
08-25-08 | 11:28 PM
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I used to work at the shop. I didn't pay $700. I think if it was Russian, the nines in the hand etched serial number would look like lower-case g's. (Cyrillic) There's another Ti frame at the shop, not triple-triangle, road-drops. I'm not sure if it's a relative, but it's equally lacking in demarcations. I'll see what the sticker on that one says.
I grew up in Huntington Beach, CA; Wouldn't even a VERY custom GT have a stamped serial number?
I think Titan is my favorite answer, but anything handmade by Bob Furry would have been more expensive, unless it was dumped post-merger.
Perhaps after Bob resigned, they made some Ti bikes to try to lure pro-riders, but were unsuccessful and sold them off.
The mystery continues.
Anybody got a line on a Ti road/cross fork with a 1" steerer long enough for the 210mm head-tube? I can cut it and (re)thread it, but I can't make it longer.
I grew up in Huntington Beach, CA; Wouldn't even a VERY custom GT have a stamped serial number?
I think Titan is my favorite answer, but anything handmade by Bob Furry would have been more expensive, unless it was dumped post-merger.
Perhaps after Bob resigned, they made some Ti bikes to try to lure pro-riders, but were unsuccessful and sold them off.
The mystery continues.
Anybody got a line on a Ti road/cross fork with a 1" steerer long enough for the 210mm head-tube? I can cut it and (re)thread it, but I can't make it longer.
08-26-08 | 05:34 AM
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08-26-08 | 07:02 AM
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08-26-08 | 09:57 AM
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08-27-08 | 10:43 AM
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1 says it and the rest follow , people are cattle .
BUT a nice frame you have there MR .. enjoy , its aGT ..
BUT a nice frame you have there MR .. enjoy , its aGT ..
08-29-08 | 12:29 AM
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I'd love to believe that Yamaguchi-san built me a GT in Colorado, but I'm not quite so optimistic...Here's the 52cm road frame with the same materials, welds and hand scrawled serial numbering.
Does this look GT to anybody? It looks like Taiwanese-prototype confusion to me...But the quality is first rate. I really wish I could find a definitive answer. I love my bikes, most of them are easy to research. This F***er is a real mystery.
Convince me...anybody.
Does this look GT to anybody? It looks like Taiwanese-prototype confusion to me...But the quality is first rate. I really wish I could find a definitive answer. I love my bikes, most of them are easy to research. This F***er is a real mystery.
Convince me...anybody.
08-29-08 | 01:58 AM
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Yamaguchi made some rebadged "GT" track bikes for the US Team, they were brazed steel frames.
https://www.yamaguchibike.com/content/History
Koichi began working with the US Cycling Federation as National Team Mechanic in 1988, and, in 1989, he began making prototype frames for the US National Team and became the lone official framebuilder of the United States Olympic Cycling Team.
https://www.yamaguchibike.com/content/History
Koichi began working with the US Cycling Federation as National Team Mechanic in 1988, and, in 1989, he began making prototype frames for the US National Team and became the lone official framebuilder of the United States Olympic Cycling Team.
