New Mountain Bike

I have a mountain bike arriving (this week I hope)... Its a closeout sale special, GT i-drive 5 4.0. Same frame across all the models just different components.

It should be mostly built, but I will be removing the tektro disc brakes and putting my Hope M4’s on… assuming cable paths + cable lengths are compatible.

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Its running 5 inches of rear travel, and for my weight I probably only need 4 inches rear travel.

Ive heard a few people have snapped the dogbones attaching frame to the bottom bracket but other than that the frame is supposedly rock solid which is nice. Easier to slowly replace cheap components than the frame.

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Downside is the frame can be a bear to clean when muddy.

Sure, I wanted a more expensive bike but with a mortgage and baby coming, beggars cant be choosers and going from no-bike to bike will just be great.  Its so nice of GT to dump prices on last years models and give them away for a bargain.

Ive already dusted off the helmet smile

Posted by Stu on 01/15 at 12:05 PM
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  1. Picture of Chris Chris -- Sep 14th, 2007 10:45 AM

    That blue colour looks really nice up close.  Looks like it has metallic flakes in the paint, sweet.  Looks like you’ve got mad amounts of clearance under the pedals too, I hate it on most
    mountain bikes when they keep them low down “for hill climbing” and they get caught on well everything, ants, snails, twigs, cracks in the pavement.  Now you’ve made me feel lazy and I want to go for a ride.

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