Giant Team World Cup Atlanta
09-05-20, 11:45 AM
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Giant Team World Cup Atlanta
New mountainbike in the stable: a Giant Team World Cup Atlanta edition, built only in 1997. It was meant to celebrate the golden medal that Dutch Bart Brentjes took home at the summer Olympics of 1996. I bought it from the first owner and the bike is, as far as I can see, totally original. Even the tires are the original ones and still excellent. Shimano Alivio/Acera parts, 21 gears. Are there any more here with this MTB?
09-09-20, 08:41 AM
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Cool bike but Brentjens was riding for American Eagle when he won the Olympics. Then the following year, Specialized poached him.
09-09-20, 09:30 AM
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09-09-20, 01:42 PM
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The top riders at Giant at the time were Lennie Christiansen and Rune Hoydal. Both accomplished riders.
09-09-20, 02:20 PM
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Cool paint, but looks like low end components even for it's day. Are you going to ride it?
09-10-20, 02:51 PM
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09-10-20, 03:44 PM
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Love the looks, lower end components ruins it. Even the RST fork is so-so. Cool find though.
09-11-20, 12:18 AM
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Real fun can be quite close.
05-07-23, 05:43 AM
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Yes, I have it since I got it as a birthday present as a boy in the nineties.
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
05-10-23, 12:20 AM
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Yes, I have it since I got it as a birthday present as a boy in the nineties.
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
In terms of value probably not much. It is a fairly low end bike just with some slightly special edition paint but that will only bring so much. Cool paint can only go so far and I doubt there is any provenance to the Atlanta Olympics and was just a hey let's make one of our low end bikes cooler and sell it for a little more.
05-19-23, 10:11 AM
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Yes, I have it since I got it as a birthday present as a boy in the nineties.
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
How rare is it?
Mine is in terrible shape right now, basically everything needs to be redone. But the frame looks to be fine.
I thought about restoring it, now that I really got back into mountainbiking, but the frame is too small for me.
What would the value be for such a frame? (also in the Netherlands)
