1994 GT National Team Bike
1994 GT National Team Bike
The bike spent time on roof racks like this
This is one of the U.S. Cycling team bikes from the mid 1990s. While Koichi Yamaguchi made some of the early team bikes (and some of the weirder track stuff), This was definitely from GT’s shop in Colorado. GT furnished the national team with all kinds of great bikes during the decade (most of them made in Longmont, Colorado), and this was my favorite.
GT's Triple triangle design and beat-up paint
Probably the last time anyone raced with a steel fork
Mavic parts, some bikes had Zap electronic
The bike is built out of really sweet-riding True Temper steel tubing, with great finishing details like the smooth fillet-brazed joints and the flashy patriotic paint job.
Mavic was the parts supplier those years, and you can see that the bike is still almost 100 percent “sponsor correct” for its time. At some point the bars and stem were switched from Profile (sponsor 1994-1996) to Cinelli (sponsor 1997-2000), and we (the mechanics) bought seatposts from Excel Sports in Boulder when our supply of Mavic posts ran out.
San Marco made these cool custom saddles for us
Dave Zabriskie's number from Fleche du Sud
Apparently, this wheel went with Jonathan Page's bike
Because the national team is kind of fluid throughout the year, this bike was ridden by a number of different riders. Rebecca Twigg used it on the road, as did Marissa VandeVelde (Christian’s sister), At some point the original fork was damaged in a crash, so I grabbed the fork off of Dirk Copeland’s old bike in the equipment room. This bike hung out on the roof of the U23 mens team car in its later years, and was used as a spare by Kirk O’bee and Josh Thornton among others.