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27.5, Gear, gt, gt bicycles, helion, mtb, News, xc - June 27, 2014

News: GT Announces New Helion 27.5 XC MTB

New to GT’s lineup is the Helion 27.5 cross country rig. While this tweener-sized bike is aimed at the average XC market, it’s designed with aggressive cross country in mind, with a slightly slacker head angle, a long top tube, and wider bars than a lot of XC riders run. Key Specs The Helion features …

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Final Review: GT Force Carbon Pro 27.5

Buzzwords and catch phrases come and go with time, but there are three catch phrases that are on fire right now in the mountain bike industry: “27.5,” “enduro,” and “one-quiver bike.” (…not to mention anything with the words “fat” or “plus.”) Over the course of this review, I’ll explain how the design of the GT Force …

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On Review: GT Force Carbon Pro 27.5/650b

Back in the 1990s, GT and their triple triangle designs were the name in performance mountain bikes, but then the company seemed to go quiet for several years. That’s been changing dramatically recently, especially in 2012 and 2013 with GT signing the Athertons to their Factory Racing team and the release of a number of all-new, …

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DH, Downhill, fury, gt, gt fury, News - June 8, 2013

News: GT Releases New Fury DH Bike

Yesterday, June 6th, GT just announced the release of its brand-new downhill bike: the Fury. The bike was developed in conjunction with Gee, Dan, and Rachel Atherton, who signed on with GT back at the beginning of 2012. The Fury features brand new geometry and technology, and according to the riders and developers it represents …

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Cannondale Not Made in USA After 2010

The Scalpel Team Replica, one of the winningest MTB frames ever. This news isn’t all that surprising: Cannondale announced it will be moving all its frame manufacturing operations from Bedford, PA to Taiwan by 2010. The move will affect all the Dorel Industries bike lines including Cannondale, GT, Schwinn, and Mongoose. Dorel’s Pennsylvania facility will …

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