Zaskar

You'll never know until vou've ridden it. Manufactured at GT headquarters in Southern California, the 1995 GT Zaskar is the personal ride of Trials/Extreme rider Hans Rey. And if you've ever seen Hans ride, you can appreciate what that means. For over 4 years Hans has been blazing some of the toughest and most extreme trails in the world. And year after year it's the same story. the Zaskar handles whatever Hans throws its way. To make the Zaskar capable of enhancing a rider like Hans performance, we pulled out all the stops. Featuring our race proven Triple Triangle Design™ frame, the Zaskar is created using 6061-T6 double-butted heat-treated aluminum to create a lightweight, yet strong and powerful frame. With the equipment abuse that goes hand in hand with competing on the World Cup circuit, special attention was paid to the very critical high stress areas, such as the seatstays, chainstays and juncture of the head, top, and down tubes. To strengthen these areas. we used oversize butted tubing and bold welds. At the head tube, we also added powerful reinforcing gussets to aid in the distribution of stress loads over a larger surface area. And as if that were not enough, even the finishing process adds to the strength, as well as the beauty, of the Zaskar, including anodized frames, undergoes a unique process called "ball burnishing". In this process, the frame is tumbled in a large drum filled with thousands of ball bearings. This constant bombardment of ball bearings acts as a mild form of "shot-peening" that not only polishes the frame, but compresses and strengthems the aluminum as well. USA made 6061-T heat-treated aluminum Triple Triangle Design™ frame. GT Bologna Lite chromoly fork with 1 1/4" triple butted blades or RockShox Judy XC suspension fork. Shimano Deore XT 24-speed component groupo w/Tioga titanium freewheel and RapidFire Plus Shifters. Mavic 217 gold anodized alloy, double wall rims, w/Ritchey Logic double butted S.S. spokes and Tioga Psycho-K kevlar bead tires. Onza clipless pedals. Bontrager TiTec titanium bars w/alloy bar ends. Oversize alloy 'Aheadset' stem. Vetta TT Tri Shock leather saddle with tubular Vandium rails. Ball Burnished or Ink Blue anodized finish.