Team RTS, I had cut the pages off magazines articles and pinned them beside my bed because my dad said that if you really wanted something you have to visualize it and see it... It didn't work I had a (very nice) Tequesta and when the head tube cracked what we could afford was a used and beaten up zaskar 😂
I started riding shortly after the LTS came out and always thought they were so cool looking. So much so that I eventually bought one (years later) and restored it to catalog specs. i.imgur.com/karyzNQ.jpg
Thank you for reviewing our bike collection, I hope that people on here enjoyed seeing the bikes as much as we do riding and collecting them along with the memorabilia. It started in 88 for me with mountain bikes with my Raleigh and Clive with his Peugeot. We still have these then went onto the black and white Tequesta you saw in the video and Clive on the silver Pantera you see near the end, and finally in 1993 due to a lot of inspiration from Hans and GT I got the turquoise Zaskar that you see being reviewed outside. There are another 15 bikes that are not in this room too, including a re issue Zaskar, 92 Avalanche, Ricochet and many others. There are a couple of newer bikes you may see in the room to mix it up a bit and they do all get ridden especially the Zaskars as they are so iconic as I am sure you will agree. 🤟
Thanks for showing us the amazing collection, wish you all the best. And Hans, he is amazing, I've met him a few times,always a good chat, a laugh and telling stories
Good morning Justin and Clive. Thank you so much for sharing your iconic collection of GT Mountain bikes. I started riding MTB in Melbourne Australia in 1996 and are the proud owner of 2 1997 STS2 one of which is completely original down to the tyres, stickers and pedals. I would love to talk to you about these bikes and get some feedback from you about possibly selling this bike and thee best way to go about it. Can i contact you and what is the best way? Thanks Craig
What makes the old GT Bikes so cool? The unique style, the design, the concept. Gary Turner (GT) had a vision, outstanding ideas for bicycles and knew/still knows how to build great bikes. And Hans "No Way" Rey als always been the great representative dude for GT Bicycles. He is an absolute legend and inspired a lot of people to buy GT and riding them. Everybody that loves bicycles usually has at least one GT.
Hello Hans, this is Dan Sotelo, hope you're doing well... I have a bit of a "TRUE STORY" only a few people know about mostly Richard's secretary. I think it was late 1996 when onZa was going thru a forced bankruptcy that I got a surprise phone call from an excited Richard Long. Richard did not mix words and knew that my partner was the one who was trying illegally to rip onZa away from me, and had a few choice words for him... He announced to me that come hell or high water he was going to out bid anyone or everyone when onZa came up for sale at the bankruptcy court. With one exception, if I ran the onZa division, and also promised me I would be set for life and never have to worry about money ever again... I said yes... Richard than had his secretary write up the contract for me to review after he came back from the Big Bear lake MTB race on Tuesday. Unfortunately, that weekend Richard was killed in the motorcycle accident. Otherwise onZa & GT would be in an other world as I was already making plans for a complete drive system... Yup, that's a bit of history no one really knows about.
@@gmbn that blue ano Zaskar in the video is awesome! But my all time favorite would be a 1997 GT Speed Series Team Edition BMX. As a teenager I never wanted anything more than that 🤟😃
I have a 97 STS-1 , 98 LTS 1000ds, 98 LTS 2000ds and a 99 STS xcr1000, never ridden an RTS, so the RTS team is my favorite. I have owned these bikes for over 20 years and still love to ride them.
Dang I almost forgot that Hans is like ten years older than me and I'm fifty-one. He has got to be the best sixty year old on a mountain bike out there.
thanks a lot Mr. No Way Rey for the Video! saw you several times during the after shows at the World Cups jumping on tabels and cars, over a bunge of persons etc.
It was Hans and probably loving GT BMX's back in the day, that I rode the GT tequesta then the pantera and always wanted a zazkar they look so funny now with the modern geometry
This was very nice to see, I'm definitely one of the older riders that got exited about this :) Hans was a great inspiration for me when I got started in the early/mid 90's and my first proper mtb was actually a GT Pantera like the one at the very end and I had a Profile bar on the fornt of it. I later on had one of the Cannondales with the suspension over the fork and a Gary Fisher that got stolen from me, I do however think the GT still sits in my parents garage :) These days I'm back in the saddle, got me a Trek Top Fuel 5 least year and I love seeing how far the sport have come since I left some many years ago :)
Super cool The Don Hans is right on saying the rts was the first suspension bike to actually work. I met Hans way back in the early nineties and he may have not broken a frame but his hotel room was full of wheels both fkd and ones waiting to be fkd ha ha . Kinda wish is still had my Zaskar le from 96 . Ar now i sound old ha ha shit i am old .
I see they've got my first mountain bike in there! It's the '92 Timberline; white with the zebra stripes. It's still in my fleet and is a great town bike!
In 1994 I built up a steel Karakoram frame I bought from evans then in 1995 I bought that years zaskar Le and moved most of the parts over and added the new Judy XC forks, great bikes and great times
That was epic!! Instantly transported me back in time to the 90’s reading magazines and watching videos etc Bought back memories I didn’t even realise I still had.. Awesome!! 👌👌❤️
Man that GT road champs diecast semi was awsome!😮 I'm probably in the minority that rides bikes and collects diecast😅 I still ride and love my blue GT outpost
I spent about ten hours over multiple days polishing up a silver GT and putting fresh stickers on it. Been sitting in my storage area the last two years waiting for me to ride a bike again. Exercise bikes suck
On a whim I bought a used GT Outpost Trail last week for only $50 off marketplace. I freaking love the bike. I couldn’t believe how much bike I was getting for the price and where I live in the Midwest people just give these things away. Now I’m looking for another one. I want one for casual riding around town and I plan to build a touring bike with the other.
Hans Rey!! Wha a great memories from the 90s. GT was big but the I drive killed them. The STS, Lts etc were so cool and them that thing. But early 2000s was bot the best era.
I ride, and wouldn't swap my 2018 GT Sensor Alloy Comp 29er. Upgraded forks to RS Pike ultimate charger 2.1 - 150mm and shock 130mm RS debonair deluxe ultimate and it's now SLX 12 sp with a 10/45t cassette. Also uped the wheel set. It does everything and is going strong - better than me. Original cost was £1650.00 in that years bike sales. A huge ammount of bike for the money. Don't know why I didn't see more of them. Even World Wide Cyclery did a whole video on them as they were so impressed with the GT and they didn't even sell them.
Incredible collection ;). I don't see GT LTS 2000 DS. I have for sale this: model 1999 (Black-Silver color, Marzocchi Bomber QR20 (Front), Rock Shox SUPER Deluxe (Rear), Shimano LX in excelent condition (8/10).
I still have my 93 USA hand made GT Zaskar LE (chrome) , my 97 GT LTS-2 (anodized red) and my 2000 hand made GT I drive 1.0. (chrome). How crazy in love with the bikes back in the day, spent every penny on them. I think the bike shop owner retied happy.
the orange splatter karakoram was one of my dream bikes (obviously the zaskar bb finish and xizang). back in the early 90's my local bike shop had a karakoram for sale 2nd hand for £400. being a skint youth i couldn't afford it but i had a quick go on it down a side street. i had to hand it back sobbing ang ride home on my 1988 dawes ascent 15 speed mtb 😂
Wauwwww great collection! However, Hans is missing one piece of the GT family, although, I didn't see it and I think he doesn't have it. Unfortunately I can't place any video or picture
From the start of the video--between the on-camera mic, the echo of the room, Neil's lack of enunciation, and Hans's accent--I'm finding it very hard to listen to. Edit: Will Play Sports Network ever implement closed captioning on its (many, highly popular) channels? They really should.
Oh man, these GTs with the fade and the matching stem, they were just outside of my budget back in the day. Anyone remember cutting groves in the elastomers to make them work better in the cold?
Hans did an event at a shop in Colorado Springs, CO where I grew up, so I got to watch him ride when i was in high school. He was amazing, that was so much fun, and he autographed my helmet that day. Super cool guy. Thanks for sharing this.
I still have my old GT Avalanche that I brought when I worked in Halfords. It was the first bike I had with disc brakes, Rock Shox SIDs with a full XT and XTR build. It’s had a few tweaks over the years but mechanically it’s still perfect and despite it being old it still takes me back to when I first fell in love with riding bikes whenever I ride it
Wow what a collection, brings back memories. That's what I would expect to see at GT head offices if Richard Long was still in charge. GT has thrown out most of its greatness, former shadow of itself 😢
Back in 1998 I wanted a GT Zaskar so badly. Our bike shop in Maine (Bath Cycle & Ski) had one and I was just about to buy it but then they opened up a new skateboard park in Brunswick Maine. It just so happened that the bike shop had a GT Show on sale at the time and that's the bike I went with. Even on sale it was over $600 but man that thing was awesome!! Wish I still had it.
Yeah this brought me some great memories, the colors, the GT logos, the MX brakes, just missing one GT BMX completed, they were the Ferrari that every kid on the block dreamt of before mountain biking :)
@@gmbn Yes sir, just the frame and the stem but they were stunning, the BMX GT stems were just amazing, at that time the stem was the first or second thing you would look on a bike.Btw, sorry to go out of the topic, I just rip my leg calf muscle with the pins on my pedals on a very small crash 2 days ago, yes I was wearing shorts, skin or knee protection would not help, those pins are knifes ready to cut you as soon as they touch you on a 23kg EMTB, any advice? Thanks
I have one of those Karrakorams with the lava paint job! It's older than I am! Would love to restore it and gibe it a 1x drive train for commuting! Sounds very similar to modern gravel bikes really!!
No no! The first full suspension bike that actually worked was the Mountain Cycle San Andreas. It worked a lot better and it wasn’t a wet noodle like the GT RTS.
What is your favourite bike from this collection? Let us know in the comments! 👇
All!! 🤩🤷👍
That Gold frame.
Team RTS, I had cut the pages off magazines articles and pinned them beside my bed because my dad said that if you really wanted something you have to visualize it and see it...
It didn't work I had a (very nice) Tequesta and when the head tube cracked what we could afford was a used and beaten up zaskar 😂
I started riding shortly after the LTS came out and always thought they were so cool looking. So much so that I eventually bought one (years later) and restored it to catalog specs.
i.imgur.com/karyzNQ.jpg
Zaskar LE for me!
Thank you for reviewing our bike collection, I hope that people on here enjoyed seeing the bikes as much as we do riding and collecting them along with the memorabilia. It started in 88 for me with mountain bikes with my Raleigh and Clive with his Peugeot. We still have these then went onto the black and white Tequesta you saw in the video and Clive on the silver Pantera you see near the end, and finally in 1993 due to a lot of inspiration from Hans and GT I got the turquoise Zaskar that you see being reviewed outside. There are another 15 bikes that are not in this room too, including a re issue Zaskar, 92 Avalanche, Ricochet and many others. There are a couple of newer bikes you may see in the room to mix it up a bit and they do all get ridden especially the Zaskars as they are so iconic as I am sure you will agree. 🤟
such a great collection!
Thanks for showing us the amazing collection, wish you all the best. And Hans, he is amazing, I've met him a few times,always a good chat, a laugh and telling stories
Good morning Justin and Clive. Thank you so much for sharing your iconic collection of GT Mountain bikes. I started riding MTB in Melbourne Australia in 1996 and are the proud owner of 2 1997 STS2 one of which is completely original down to the tyres, stickers and pedals. I would love to talk to you about these bikes and get some feedback from you about possibly selling this bike and thee best way to go about it. Can i contact you and what is the best way? Thanks Craig
@@frenchbred2081 can I get one
@frenchbred2081
Great collection.
Recommissioned my 95/96 karakoram this summer. So much fun to spin about on.
What makes the old GT Bikes so cool? The unique style, the design, the concept. Gary Turner (GT) had a vision, outstanding ideas for bicycles and knew/still knows how to build great bikes. And Hans "No Way" Rey als always been the great representative dude for GT Bicycles. He is an absolute legend and inspired a lot of people to buy GT and riding them. Everybody that loves bicycles usually has at least one GT.
Hans=LEGEND!! I started mtb riding in 1993 and he was THE KING. Seems like a great guy like Greg Lemond.
What a great bike collection. Would have loved to see Justin and Clive presenting their amazing collection themselves
Hello Hans, this is Dan Sotelo, hope you're doing well... I have a bit of a "TRUE STORY" only a few people know about mostly Richard's secretary. I think it was late 1996 when onZa was going thru a forced bankruptcy that I got a surprise phone call from an excited Richard Long. Richard did not mix words and knew that my partner was the one who was trying illegally to rip onZa away from me, and had a few choice words for him... He announced to me that come hell or high water he was going to out bid anyone or everyone when onZa came up for sale at the bankruptcy court. With one exception, if I ran the onZa division, and also promised me I would be set for life and never have to worry about money ever again... I said yes... Richard than had his secretary write up the contract for me to review after he came back from the Big Bear lake MTB race on Tuesday.
Unfortunately, that weekend Richard was killed in the motorcycle accident. Otherwise onZa & GT would be in an other world as I was already making plans for a complete drive system... Yup, that's a bit of history no one really knows about.
GT is my favourite. I have a fair few. Including a Hans Rey 25th Anniversary Avalanche in a special white and gold colourway.
Beautiful collection of GTs and brilliant listening to Hans 👌
I remember all of this! Mountain biking has transcended most of my life, and I will continue to let it.
For a GT fanatic like myself, this was a dream come true video!
So good to hear that Neville! What's your favourite vintage GT?
@@gmbn that blue ano Zaskar in the video is awesome! But my all time favorite would be a 1997 GT Speed Series Team Edition BMX. As a teenager I never wanted anything more than that 🤟😃
This is so good. MBUK, Hans, GT all take me back to the late 80’s mid 90’s…. Brilliant times!
I have a 97 STS-1 , 98 LTS 1000ds, 98 LTS 2000ds and a 99 STS xcr1000, never ridden an RTS, so the RTS team is my favorite.
I have owned these bikes for over 20 years and still love to ride them.
I had the GT Karakorum (yellow with tiger stripes). I had the silver Zaskar. I even had the carbon 3-spoke Spin wheelset. Oh, good memories!!!
I had the 91 Avalanche. White with tiger stripes. Daktari White I think was the name.
Coolest looking bike Ive ever had.
Love the vintage
What's your favourite year or bike from the history of MTB?
Still have my zaskar 20th anniversary bike. Built it up myself. Hans Rey is the best!
WOW this makes me feel old. I have a GT hard tale with Spin wheels and a Manitou front shock.
what an incredible collection. Love how colorful and individualized bikes used to be. The titanium one stands out for me.
No way Hans Ray! "Down, back, up" is ingrained in my mind forever 😁
Dang I almost forgot that Hans is like ten years older than me and I'm fifty-one.
He has got to be the best sixty year old on a mountain bike out there.
A quantity of schnitzel consumed by the looks of it!
thanks a lot Mr. No Way Rey for the Video! saw you several times during the after shows at the World Cups jumping on tabels and cars, over a bunge of persons etc.
These are the bikes I grew up with, my dream one was always an early ball burnished Zaskar. Great times when one bike did everything.
Still have my old avalanche...still have a soft spot for GT...they were the best trash around frames back in the day
GT’s are my favorite 🤙🏼
In the Netherlands, Arnhem is a real MTB museum with 800(!) vintage mountainbikes, 180(!!) brands. It insane, just like this insane GT collection❤🎉
It was Hans and probably loving GT BMX's back in the day, that I rode the GT tequesta then the pantera and always wanted a zazkar they look so funny now with the modern geometry
I miss my 87' GT Pro Performer bmx. She was pretty in Purple. Thanks for showing this collection 😍
This was very nice to see, I'm definitely one of the older riders that got exited about this :)
Hans was a great inspiration for me when I got started in the early/mid 90's and my first proper mtb was actually a GT Pantera like the one at the very end and I had a Profile bar on the fornt of it. I later on had one of the Cannondales with the suspension over the fork and a Gary Fisher that got stolen from me, I do however think the GT still sits in my parents garage :)
These days I'm back in the saddle, got me a Trek Top Fuel 5 least year and I love seeing how far the sport have come since I left some many years ago :)
I had a 91 Avalanche, RTS-1, and LTS. All fun.
Bikes were deff more glamorous then with the real cool paint jobs and nice looking shorter wheelbase frames ..
Would new bikes suit that style of paint job? 🤔
Awesome video. Love seeing well looked after old bikes.
Super cool The Don Hans is right on saying the rts was the first suspension bike to actually work. I met Hans way back in the early nineties and he may have not broken a frame but his hotel room was full of wheels both fkd and ones waiting to be fkd ha ha . Kinda wish is still had my Zaskar le from 96 . Ar now i sound old ha ha shit i am old .
What a treasure trove 🤩
I see they've got my first mountain bike in there! It's the '92 Timberline; white with the zebra stripes. It's still in my fleet and is a great town bike!
In 1994 I built up a steel Karakoram frame I bought from evans then in 1995 I bought that years zaskar Le and moved most of the parts over and added the new Judy XC forks, great bikes and great times
Hello. I had a blue anodized gt zaskar. Pure love
That was epic!!
Instantly transported me back in time to the 90’s reading magazines and watching videos etc
Bought back memories I didn’t even realise I still had..
Awesome!! 👌👌❤️
Man that GT road champs diecast semi was awsome!😮
I'm probably in the minority that rides bikes and collects diecast😅
I still ride and love my blue GT outpost
Beautiful history thanks for sharing ❤
I spent about ten hours over multiple days polishing up a silver GT and putting fresh stickers on it. Been sitting in my storage area the last two years waiting for me to ride a bike again. Exercise bikes suck
It must look amazing!
On a whim I bought a used GT Outpost Trail last week for only $50 off marketplace. I freaking love the bike. I couldn’t believe how much bike I was getting for the price and where I live in the Midwest people just give these things away. Now I’m looking for another one. I want one for casual riding around town and I plan to build a touring bike with the other.
I love the GT Psyclone, the GT Karakoram, the GT Lightning and the GT Xizang
Hans Rey!! Wha a great memories from the 90s.
GT was big but the I drive killed them. The STS, Lts etc were so cool and them that thing. But early 2000s was bot the best era.
Amazing!!!
It's a great collection!
I always had a soft spot for the GT Lobo during the thermoplastic days. Too bad that didn't make the collection 😢
I turned down a couple of lobos, also there was a dhi which I sold to concentrate on more hard tails and earlier bikes.,
Still have my '96 GT Avalanche, pretty decent shape
I ride, and wouldn't swap my 2018 GT Sensor Alloy Comp 29er. Upgraded forks to RS Pike ultimate charger 2.1 - 150mm and shock 130mm RS debonair deluxe ultimate and it's now SLX 12 sp with a 10/45t cassette. Also uped the wheel set. It does everything and is going strong - better than me. Original cost was £1650.00 in that years bike sales. A huge ammount of bike for the money. Don't know why I didn't see more of them. Even World Wide Cyclery did a whole video on them as they were so impressed with the GT and they didn't even sell them.
Incredible collection ;). I don't see GT LTS 2000 DS. I have for sale this: model 1999 (Black-Silver color, Marzocchi Bomber QR20 (Front), Rock Shox SUPER Deluxe (Rear), Shimano LX in excelent condition (8/10).
It’s a frame at the moment at the back in the anodised orange. Just underneath the hanging blue rts 👍
I still have my 93 USA hand made GT Zaskar LE (chrome) , my 97 GT LTS-2 (anodized red) and my 2000 hand made GT I drive 1.0. (chrome). How crazy in love with the bikes back in the day, spent every penny on them. I think the bike shop owner retied happy.
I lived in a country town so I had to pay $5 at the grocery store for a magazine just to look at these bikes and drool!
Modern bikes are a lot like everything XXI century does: Performant, efficient, gray, soulless.
Long live old bikes.
Legal relançamento.....😮😮😮a volta das aro 26....
Bought a 90's GT Karakorum MTB with a Red splater paint job and toe clip pedals brand new back then. Wish i had kept it.😢 Have a 2019 Norco Sight now.
Wow 😮
the orange splatter karakoram was one of my dream bikes (obviously the zaskar bb finish and xizang). back in the early 90's my local bike shop had a karakoram for sale 2nd hand for £400. being a skint youth i couldn't afford it but i had a quick go on it down a side street. i had to hand it back sobbing ang ride home on my 1988 dawes ascent 15 speed mtb 😂
This “Omar” person needs some love gmnb……
I have a beautiful GTRTS2 for sale. I am the original owner. The bike is completely original and it looks like I brought it yesterday.
If only jason mcroy hadnt unfortunately left us early, he would have been as influencial as hans for DH mtb
Wauwwww great collection! However, Hans is missing one piece of the GT family, although, I didn't see it and I think he doesn't have it. Unfortunately I can't place any video or picture
No way!
Quality
A GT frame. Oh yes, it will be mine..
What...no fat tube triple triangle "Karakaram"?
I have a GT RTS 2 like new condition. Looking to sell it.
I had a Zaskar then LTS3 hung on to them forever almost just tossed them in the recycle last month nobody wanted them
💪
From the start of the video--between the on-camera mic, the echo of the room, Neil's lack of enunciation, and Hans's accent--I'm finding it very hard to listen to.
Edit: Will Play Sports Network ever implement closed captioning on its (many, highly popular) channels? They really should.
🥲
So damn cool. Great video. The polished Zaskars are so classy
This is nuts! I have the Avalanche, Zaskar and RTS hanging in my garage.
Do they get ridden hard?
@@Paganiproductions84 heck no! Maybe in the 90s when I got them. That tech is just too old to push these days.
Do you know how much drugs I sold to get a GT timberline with girvin flexi stem
😂😂
Still have my GT big rig model, new in box. Good to see you Hans! -Austin
Oh man, these GTs with the fade and the matching stem, they were just outside of my budget back in the day. Anyone remember cutting groves in the elastomers to make them work better in the cold?
Amazing collection! 👏 👍🤩🚲
Hans did an event at a shop in Colorado Springs, CO where I grew up, so I got to watch him ride when i was in high school. He was amazing, that was so much fun, and he autographed my helmet that day. Super cool guy. Thanks for sharing this.
I have to say the Zaskar LE. Raced one or two back in the day as well.
I still have my old GT Avalanche that I brought when I worked in Halfords. It was the first bike I had with disc brakes, Rock Shox SIDs with a full XT and XTR build. It’s had a few tweaks over the years but mechanically it’s still perfect and despite it being old it still takes me back to when I first fell in love with riding bikes whenever I ride it
Such a cool collection!
I believe Hans had a ton of bikes stolen a few years ago, had a timberline and a Zaskar LE well used, wish I still had them
Hans Rey, The legend.
Wow what a collection, brings back memories.
That's what I would expect to see at GT head offices if Richard Long was still in charge.
GT has thrown out most of its greatness, former shadow of itself 😢
Back in 1998 I wanted a GT Zaskar so badly. Our bike shop in Maine (Bath Cycle & Ski) had one and I was just about to buy it but then they opened up a new skateboard park in Brunswick Maine. It just so happened that the bike shop had a GT Show on sale at the time and that's the bike I went with. Even on sale it was over $600 but man that thing was awesome!! Wish I still had it.
Yeah this brought me some great memories, the colors, the GT logos, the MX brakes, just missing one GT BMX completed, they were the Ferrari that every kid on the block dreamt of before mountain biking :)
Did you ever own one?
@@gmbn Yes sir, just the frame and the stem but they were stunning, the BMX GT stems were just amazing, at that time the stem was the first or second thing you would look on a bike.Btw, sorry to go out of the topic, I just rip my leg calf muscle with the pins on my pedals on a very small crash 2 days ago, yes I was wearing shorts, skin or knee protection would not help, those pins are knifes ready to cut you as soon as they touch you on a 23kg EMTB, any advice?
Thanks
Love bikes never rode a GT I liked though 😢
Which GT bikes have you owened?
nostalgic
I have one of those Karrakorams with the lava paint job! It's older than I am! Would love to restore it and gibe it a 1x drive train for commuting! Sounds very similar to modern gravel bikes really!!
No no! The first full suspension bike that actually worked was the Mountain Cycle San Andreas. It worked a lot better and it wasn’t a wet noodle like the GT RTS.
I have my 94 outpost trail. Cheap and good bike to ride around the town without fear of walking around with something valuable.
I'm starting to believe you can tell how early a frame is by how narrow the handlebars are!
I have a gt race bike it's all chrome from the early 80s I always loved gt cool video.
Did Hans ever get any of his stolen bikes back when his home got broken into?
I remember taking my zaskar back to the shop after a few months complaining the chain was slipping! " you need a new chain mate" was the answer!👍👍
the RTS was in that playstation courier game
Turner made some classics too
best feeling one was the idrive dh but they snapped a lot I heard
…Hans mit dem großen Fuß !