Frame age advice please (GT content)

[Pickle]

I have always been of the opinion my RTS is a 1996 model......until washing it Monday night.

Flipped over to remove the Malvern mud from the linkages and double glanced at the serial numbers; it finishes 1994 :?

I brought it new in 1996, but is it actually a 1994 model? Not that I mind at all, I'd just like to know

 

[cce]

it has 1996 decals.

 

[Pickle]

it has 1996 decals.

Thats what I thought, especially after checking the catalogue :?

Do you think 1994 frame built up with 1996 bits?

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

I have always been of the opinion my RTS is a 1996 model......until washing it Monday night.

Flipped over to remove the Malvern mud from the linkages and double glanced at the serial numbers; it finishes 1994 :?

I brought it new in 1996, but is it actually a 1994 model? Not that I mind at all, I'd just like to know

What are the first four digits??? for Example the first four should be like this 0996XXXX Meaning that it was produced in September of 96. To the best of my knowledge GT never serial numbered anything with the manufacturing date at the end. I think your was the 1994th one they built that year and the digits in front of that are the month and year it was produced. You following......???

 

[cce]

the RTS was mature by 1994, and with the LTS released in 1995, i doubt the frame design changed a great deal

i expect either GT or caratti just threw things together as they found them

 

[Pickle]

Thanks guys.

gm1230126, I'll check the number this PM and post it up.

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

the RTS was mature by 1994, and with the LTS released in 1995, i doubt the frame design changed a great deal

i expect either GT or caratti just threw things together as they found them

No that's not the way things were done. The bikes were fully assembled in Huntington Beach and later Santa Ana. Saw bikes going down the line many times.