What color is the frame? Also the levers and chainwheel.

Frame looks to me like a deep purple .cant tell on the levers or chainring??

it's hard to tell lou....all the other colors (neon) stand out to much.

That photo looks like it has been toned, probably hand toned, so you will not be able to accurately decipher what color is supposed to be what...so my opinion is that the frame is a shade of grey because it's a B+W photo with color put in spots to accentuate them.

J

Making an educated guess....

Eddie neve really road black bikes. I can not really remember any blue ones either. I would gues that it is Purple. Those are 85 decals too, it appears (down tube).

Stephen

[ August 26, 2006, 08:08 PM: Message edited by: RL-20II Guy ]

Isn't that one of those gt Brittania world tours? I think they came out in a maroon type colour........but I'm probably making it up....

im going by the disc covers, thought he only did that on a baby blue gt.... otherwise i can't tell what the colors were, and if it was black and white before the added color graphics..there is no way to tell the colors....

[ August 26, 2006, 08:56 PM: Message edited by: carldrexler ]

I`m guessing purple frame, black levers, and gold gear. We know the pads are black, the gear matches the World Tour sticker. Serva has a good point, maroon. Actually dark red? The uniform is black. The GT logos on the wheel covers, GT is blue and comes close to the frame color? Could that be 1986 blue?

Not saying the frame is black, but I definitely remember him riding a black one a some point with white mixed in. He also had a black uniform if I remember correctly because they asked him in the one interview if the colors represented anything, or if it was reflecting his personality at the time or some kind of crap.

hmmmm not sure it will help but I just inverted the colours. So everything black appears white.....

Can you do that in other colors?

I am going with blue, like the darker blue on the '85 World Tour. Those wheel covers are the first style that he ran, before the Olympics. I remember pics of those covers on blue and white bikes. I am guessing early '85. The black frame and uniform came later ('87)
Purple would be much darker in a B&W photo, that reverse is a good example. I agree with the black levers!

didnt Eddie ride a black PP in the Levis comercial ??

I think Servas right about the maroon Britania W Tours too, but I dont know what color that is...

Here is that Commercial....

Inverting the colors and also turning it into black and white is a good idea. That is how a lot of cases that Video surveillance camera shots are solved.

I will send this picture too my friend that is a retired NASA CIA agent - he loves this stuff.

Stephen

I`m going straight to the source. I have somebody contacting Eddie to see if he remembers the bike.

Maybe this hes been asked before but why did he cover the bend in the downtube for that commercial? So his GT wasn't clearly a GT.

M Dew wanted Eddie, not the bike. So by covering the most distintive part which makes it GT they wouldn`t have to pay for the rights to show it.

Here's my opinion on the bike in question,

I'm guessing this was one of his bikes before the European leg of GT's World Tour. Eddie once rode a red GT World Tour frame. I have a pic of him with this frame with white bars/post/seat and actually know the guy who owns the original frame.

Dave Breed was running similiar wheels/covers during the same GT tour but his were mounted to the purple/radberry'ish colored GT bikes. Lou, do we know if this pic was early 1985? Eddie is still using his '84 model race forks but converted to the '85 Mach race forks during the European tour.

I think he's running red frame, white bars/post/seat, gold Shimano pedals (as per my pics). If you can snag another photo, look at the seat tube midway up from the BB shell. There should be a first generation GT fork stand bolted in there (why, I don't know, but he and Breed ran it this way).

Do you think GT red is the same as Dyno red?
It can`t be early 85, there is new parts on that. All white GT tires came out in 86, looks like hollow axles which could be Super Lace hubs, I don`t think dark uniforms were out in 85. But yet there is old parts on it, Kashimax seat, Tech 3 levers, Sana Ana pads.
I`m clueless with Dyno but didn`t that come out in late 85 early 86? Theres a Dyno sticker on the wkeelcovers.
I remember the fork stand in the seatmast gimick. I think it`s for another variation of Cherrypickers.

here is a pic of a red one he rode, though without disc's and he has tuffs!! seems to have the gt logo tires too..so maybe team guys had them first.


its from a book that was published in the UK in 1985. the book is called "BMX Moves" by Willowisp Press. i got the book from the old book mobile in elementary school. there is a pic on the rear cover of a guy on a blue gt, but i don't know which rider.

il scan both images at work friday

[ August 30, 2006, 06:43 PM: Message edited by: carldrexler ]

I see that the levers are red. The hard to find red Tech 3, OUCH. Black cranks and Tuffs.

the grips are red..

il give an exact description since my camera sucks...

-white gt logo knobbie sides
-black tuffs
-black powerdisc with ring on inside
-white gt rear framestands
-brown or green dyno forkstands
-white brake, white levers (levers look tech3), white brake pads
-red world tour with added sticker with the ef signature one
-white block
-white bars
-white post
-white aero looking seat
-black sr mp470 pedals
-cranks look chrome
-red unitrons i think (two tone ame's)

when i scan it you should get a clearer image.

[ August 30, 2006, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: carldrexler ]

That can`t be the bike. Thats probably his ground bike, I need the pool/ramp bike.

I was never conviced that the bike in that pic was black. Dark red makes more sense to me.
That pic DID however, inspire me to paint my GT Black BITD. After getting wheel covers, then tossing them.

-Bill

I know he had a blue one with those or similar wheel covers (big G&S and A'me stickers), white tires, and alloys underneath the wheel covers.

The bike I'm thinking of is in the November 85 issue of Plus!, in the article "The 25 Gnarliest Tricks in Freestyle" (what can I say...? BMX Plus! lingo...) where Fiola is doing an Alley Oop on that bike.

Another approach: The photo seems to be taken at a KOS event at the Combi pool. There weren't that many events held there in 85, so check the mags for old contest coverage at Upland's combi pool.

Forget what I said, the bike I'm thinking of is the one that's one this cover of Freestylin' (jan 86):



Not the same bike.