what are .... were they.. are they worth getting? is it a midschooler... or a pacific??

Just basically i know a guy who has one.. doesnt want it... and dont know if it is a cheappy or worth my time to even tghink about>???

junk.

Depends what parts he added to it...but basically not worth the gas to go get it.

I'll send you one for the cost of shipping!

Total, compelete, unadulterated, early/mid 90's garbage, when GT couldn't care less about BMX or producing a bike that lasted more than a month. Early 90's Dynos are right up there with the Huffy Sigma as far as I'm concerned. Why ride a ****ty Dyno in 1993 when you could rock a HB Big Daddy, or a Standard Shorty, or even a Haro Master? Just about ANYTHING was better than early 90's GT products. They didn't give a **** about us.

thats all i needed..

what makes them junk?


are they the newer stuff.. or was it old school junk?

The DYNO VFR was the nations number 1 selling bike in their day(according my pal at a bike shop). A bike shop gave me one recently(early 90's I'd say) due to the fact it was incomplete due to a thief and they knew I might be able to use it. Just LOOKING at it ,it doesnt seem too bad. In fact I think it's the overseas manufacture of them that people dont like mostly. Some people like them (at least the 80's models). I just built up a 24 inch mid 90's NItro Dyno and have a 20" DYNO Nitro to sell.
They are common bikes but I tell ya, if they were breakage prone, they would have broken LONGGG before I recently recieved them.

Well, maybe I was too harsh. What makes them junk? The fact that GT was TOTALLY out of touch at the time and completely convinced of their dominance, even as it was fading. If I remember right, the VFR was a low level complete sold in the early 90's. It was during the time that GT was solidly resisting ANY attempt to modernize their product line. While anyone who valued their life or knew what the hell was going on was riding a Standard, S&M, or Hoffman, Gt was still totally convinced that their bikes were as modern as anyone else's and their quality as good as anyone else's. They couldn't have been more wrong, and they couldn't have cared less. The GT/Dyno bikes of the early 90's are dangerous.

While the rest of the bike world was getting used to threadless pegs, 14mm axles, 4130 American made frames, 7 pound frames, and heat treated axles, GT/Dyno had ceased all American production and was pushing inferior, dangerous crap. I broke two GT frames in less than 3 years, and I rode flatland! Their production values at the time were low, low, low (I once pulled a '94 PFT out the the box, brand new, and had to bang the bottom bracket back into round with a hammer, they also totally ignored the industry standard 1/4" dropouts for two thin dropouts welded togther - lame)

That all being said, I rode a '92 and '94 PFT and liked both of them - but thinking back on it I think I would've been much happier with a Big Daddy or a Standard. : )

D, so true.
We broke so many '90-92 GT Pro FS Tours at the time it's amazing. The shop owner would weld them back together for us cause none of us coud afford new frame every month. Usually they gave in around drop outs or headtube/toptube weld area, and yes just by riding flatland.
However, I liked all three PFS's i rode, two '90s and one '91. The bike was handling great and was very light, but at the same time very weak.
By '92 they decided to give up the u-brake and replace it with a Pitbull. How lame was that!
Big Daddy, Shorty, Soul Bro, early Morales etc. were up to date unlike GT.
The "dark years" i'd say, 1990 - 1994.