I hope this doesnt belong in MID school Anyway this is my GT 24" project in the works. Let me know what y'all think so far. I am kinda mixed about the gold gear & brakes, thinking maybe blue. . As for the seat, seatpost, seatclamp, bars and stem those are what I am needing input as what I should go with. Any ideas ??

Mark

What year is that? Looks like a GT/Robinson tail.. Ya, its a mid school bike, but its still cool... Nice ride!

The flat pierced seat tube made me think it was old school , then I checked the rear dropouts & got totally lost....it must be newer than the 1986 24 inch GT we have , Matt is still messing around with the colour scheme on that.....

I found that a simple mix of Blue , Black & Chrome combo sits nice on the Satan Ana 26 inch GT's



Along with some little yellow Bottema stickers for the supercross forks + a yellow label comp III to compliment the yellow in the GT stickers....

FWIW:
Try to match up your colours mix as close as (financially) possible to each other , the gold & black are a nice mix but the shades of blue coloured components on it atm really wander all over the spectrum & throw out any colour combo or asthetic balance you are trying to mix in , right out of whack.
The primer grey handle bars won't help much either when you are mocking up a bike & trying to get the look you are after.

I am by no means a magnificent Artiste' , but as an Electrician your life depends on really knowing your colours , so I have paid a _lot_ of attention to colour & always look for variations in it , those variations are
a good indicator of pending trouble etc.

JB

JB the primer bars , Haro stem , seatclamp , and seat are not staying. I just put on some laying around parts. As for the year model, from serial # I am guessing it should be a 93.

Mark

Sorry Haro#7 , I kinda skirted your question for ideas on the parts...& got hung up in colour variations on the parts you were not using....

"As for the seat, seatpost, seatclamp, bars and stem those are what I am needing input as what I should go with. Any ideas ??"

Despite the frame GT being a 93 model why not retro fit it with a combo of parts from around the Santa Ana or Huntington Beach era 1980-->1986 or so.

Keep the seat , fit some Black spendy bits , like a hinged Dia Compe seat clamp & inverted Tuff Neck , chrome GT 24in cruiser bars (or whatever bars chrome) , gold dia compe brake lever , gold suntour headset lock , black grips , sneak in a new school yellow teflon coated brake cable (if they make them) or get a black teflon brake cable , chrome or black chain (anything but a gold & chrome chain)

All of _my_ suggestions really pend on _your_ personal likes dislikes & BUDGET.

Our 26 inch GT above is obviously not a strict period correct 1982 build. But we like it.

Same should go for you with whatever way you choose to build your GT cruiser.

JB

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the primer bars , Haro stem ..... are not staying.

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FWIW...it all looks ok to me apart from bars, stem and s.p. clamp....

bars - look up auction #120117673644 or even #120118020230, stem #140117638806

[ May 14, 2007, 05:40 AM: Message edited by: velocidad ]