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Rather chuffed with my purchase this morning!
Everything on it is original. The chain & pedals were so badly rusted I had to bin them, but I had other pedals, so just need a chain - will change the cassette too, as they can both be had for £15 from crc.
I've always wanted one of these & I finally have one!
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I used some Autosol on a small part of the frame & it came up a treat:
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I'd like to restore the whole frame to a highly polished finish, as I think it was originally. I would like to source graphics first before removing them though.
I absolutely love the nice welding:
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Some time required in the man cave......
I like that
Ace! I'm still using my GT Borrego from the same era, STX cranks and the same 'mavic equipped' chain stay sticker.
I serviced the rear hub for the first time last week, bearings in good nick, and changed the chain for the first time.
It's now on commuting canal path duty. It's a great bike.
GT Pantera was my first [i]proper[/i] MTB, mine was grey painted U brake version.
Just built up a late 90s FSR with Judy SL long travel. Mavic 512 rims, X0, shorty stem, Azonic double wall bars. I'd have given my left nut to own it when new.
Rode it about 200 yards and........ It's a bit crap, steep angles, narrow bars. What's that saying about meeting heroes.
Think it'll get hung on the garage wall as an ornament.
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I'm still on the lookout for an early 90's 17" Marin Pine Mountain frame, if anyone has one
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Those welds are ridiculously nice. Got to love an old GT, I almost got drool on some feller's xizang at 10UTB...
Like qwerty my first proper mtb was a pantera just like the one you've bought. STX & STX-RC kit. Yours even has the origional tyres that were specced on it (velociraptors).
i used to ride with a guy from the black country who had a Pantera, he was silly quick at Cannock chase back in the 90's
Autosol is ace at bringing up old frames, I've got a 1992 Orange Aluminium Elite ready for a blasting. Have a word with Gil at the Cycle Shed for decals, he does all the retro stuff.
Gil at the cycle shed?
You got a link please?
Here you go.
http://www.thecycleshed.co.uk/frontdoor.html
Gil is a top bloke and the go to chap for decals on retrobike.
Excellent, thanks.
I've just emailed him.
Also had a Pantera with a u-brake fitted ! ... worked at a frame builders at the time and so modded the frame to use cantilevers and resprayed it yellow along with my mag 20 rockshox 🙂 .. way before rockshox painted their forks yellow 🙂
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Tmb467, like this...1990 still all original apart from saddle and pedals!
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Loving the new bike mate, taking it to Dalbeattie in June? I'd love an old Zaskar Le, Trek Y22, 90' Kona or Proflex. Keep a cheeky eye on EBay and Retro bike but no luck so far..
Anybody have any of the above in a small frame size for sale?
Don't sell it, it's a keeper.
Love those early 90's Marins!
I was 16 in 1990 and worked/saved all summer to buy the Pine Mountain. £570...that was a lot back then!
Squin- that's lovely!
Mine had purple forks that I swapped out for a set of Pace RC35s
(93 I think)
Loving the new bike mate, taking it to Dalbeattie in June? I'd love an old Zaskar Le, Trek Y22, 90' Kona or Proflex. Keep a cheeky eye on EBay and Retro bike but no luck so far..
Anybody have any of the above in a small frame size for sale?
Don't sell it, it's a keeper.
Loads of Zaskars go through eBay, change the search criteria to sold and check, usually cheap too.
Still riding and racing my frame, bought new in 97.
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i like all your bikes (a lot 😀
would love a zaskar le one day.
[quoteI almost got drool on some feller's xizang at 10UTB...
Euphemisms for the day award goes to....
I had my Pantera upgraded at purchase, had XT thumbies, Smoke rear & Porqupine front. I recall shortening the stem at some point with a.bright yellow GT FlipFlop, eventually had it sprayed turquoise with a white fork. Rode Moab on it too. Good times.
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I'm still on the lookout for an early 90's 17" Marin Pine Mountain frame, if anyone has one
Or this one, late 80's I think. All original parts:
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boblo - 1989.
squin - my best mate at school had one exactly the same as that !
Everyone - [url= http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/ ]Retrobike[/url] is the place for all your eighties/nineties nostalgia.
Back in 1990 my Pine Mountain was the dog's swingers, but I've ridden it within the last couple of years and compared to modern bikes...it rides like a dog. Bloody awful.
Lovely to look at and brings back happy memories, but bloody awful! A 25yr old bike feels like a 25 year old bike and technology definitely gets my vote. It could be however, that I’m 25 years older and everything hurts more than it once did! 😉