Please Post Everything You Have Related To The Gt Lts Bike From Old Ads To Articles To Specs , Tips, Stories About Bike. Manuals And Of Course All You Pics . I Am Building A 1996 New Old Stock Lts 1 Frame I Found With All Xtr And Saint Parts
Let me know if you need a Boxxer front wheel. I have a 20mm Boxxer by Ringle non-disc hub laced to a Mavic rim.^^I dig that Modification! Would like to see more pictures! Great looking bike!
I just scored this one....
Also have a set of Rock Shox Boxxers on the way....1999's. Gonna try and keep it era correct.
Just a quick thought, your Craigslist bike may be a 96 or older. Note the cantilever hanger on rear triangle. By 97 they had gone to V-brakes on high and mid-level bikes.
It still looks pretty big for a small though, but then again, I don't know much about the DH bikes...never a hill big enough around me to justify one (or the 'nads for matter)
nice score! I was watching that for a long time! Can't wait to see it!Well Im back in here for the second time, after buying my first lts december of 2012.
I just got a carbon STS frame on ebay with plans to rebuild. Turns out I only had a partial kit that happened to have a couple needle bearings in it.
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Cohiba, check out the PDF BETD has on how to install the bearing kit for that location. It can be found here: http://www.mountainbikecomponents.co.uk/ftp/product/pdf/LTS bearing kit fitting instructions.pdfAmazing to see how long this thread has been in existance. Love it.:thumbsup:
Its been a couple of years since I was more active on MTBR, but this thread got me inspired to fix up my 99' STS 1000 DS and put it back into service. I always was a big time fan of this bike and of GT back in the day. You can see a picture of my bike (how it was a few years back ago) in the "Post your GT here" thread in the first post.
So I got myself set up with everything that I needed for the rebuild:
...BETD LTS / STS bearing kit -> check
...new Mavic Crossmax ST wheelset -> check
...new XT groupset -> check
...new replacement oil for my oldskool Magura Gustav M's -> check
...fresh new lube / degreaser / cleaning materials -> check
...good mood -> check
So far so good with my rebuild - I completed everything over a couple of weekends and now I am working on the finishing touches.
Just one thing which seemed a bit unusual when I installed the bearing kit on the rear linkage - the bearing set for directly behind the trunion mounted shock. If you take a look at the attached picture - you will notice that there are spaces between the rear linkage and the seatstays. Before I installed the bearing kit, the old GT bushings filled up those spaces and there was no play. Now, there is no noticeable play when moved by hand, but when installing the travel chips I had to use a hammer :madman: and I noticed that this force causes the gaps between the rear linkage and seatstays to change. Hammer force from the right onto the travel chips --> seatstay space to the right gets bigger, just like on the picture below.
Did you also notice this when installing your bearing kits? I am thinking of heading down to the local hardware store to get some plastic spacers to fill up the gaps left and right of the linkage. What do you think? How did you solve this problem? Or is it not really a problem from your point of view?
Also one final question - when installing the new BB and cranks, I used ONE black 3.5mm spacer on the drive side of the BB to get up to 73mm (as recommended by Shimano) - this was ok, right? Can't help feel that the right crank might be a tad far out, but that could just be me not being used to how the hollowtech cranks look like....
Thanks for any help / answers you may have.
Pics will be posted once the bike is finished.
Best regards,
Cohiba
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