GT iDrives

[kevinator]

FYI, the first year of i-Drive production was 1999. I had one of them as a warranty replacement for a broken Team LTS. Sold it a few years back and it's still going strong. OTB? Sounds like operator error.

[1TrackMind]

Originally Posted by 2wheel_lee

I think you meant 2003. The first model year for the XCR i-Drive was 1999 (and it didn't have disc tabs!). The 5.0 came out a few years later.

Pacific bought GT in late 1991, so I think that he was talking about 1993. He just may have had the frame model wrong. But you are right, I don't think they made i-drives back then.

[2wheel_lee]

Here's my former custom 2000 GT XCR-1000.
It originally came ball burnished, then I hand polished it then sent it out to be anodized. I added the chrome stickers from a GT Ruckus X, and a billet head badge from an LE (Limited Edition). Since this frame was made in Santa Ana, I added the ping pong paddle stickies (there was a ping pong table near the R&D area).

The titanium dog bone had actual needle bearings and was also an LE. The bottom bracket assembly was the ultralight LE version, too. And, of course, the shock was one of a handful custom made coil shocks from Rock Shox. I loved that bike. I was sorry the day I sold that frame. Even compared to my modern bikes, that bike is still one of my favorites - if not the favorite.

Despite many of the frames from this era failing, I beat the crap out of it, and it never broke.

[2wheel_lee]

Originally Posted by 1TrackMind

Pacific bought GT in late 1991, so I think that he was talking about 1993. He just may have had the frame model wrong. But you are right, I don't think they made i-drives back then.

Check your dates. You're a decade off. 1993 was the era of the RTS (I had a 1994 RTS).

[kevinator]

Lee, that's a bitchin ride. Mine was Cosmic Sunrise with a polished rear triangle. I eventually scored a disc rear triangle which made that bike a'ight. I used to ride it in West Virginia and it rocked.

[dstepper]

Sorry yes 2003, forgive me my age sometimes reveals itself.

The GT was my first bike and the people that I first started riding with told me trails like T&A and some of the other now illegal trails in Laguna where intermediate trails. I tried things back then that I don't like to do on my RFX. That bike was fine climbing I just had no business using it like I did with a Rock Shock Judy and not knowing any better.

Dean

[1TrackMind]

Originally Posted by 2wheel_lee

I think you meant 2003. The first model year for the XCR i-Drive was 1999 (and it didn't have disc tabs!). The 5.0 came out a few years later.

Ooops...I read it wrong...

DENVER, USA (September 12) - Pacific Cycles has bought Schwinn/GT for $86 million at an auction of the federal bancruptcy court of Colorado. After an initial bid of $63 million earlier last month, bidding between the two contenders Huffy and Pacific went up to a final Pacific bid of $86 million. Schwinn’s fitness division will be sold separately. (OB)
Published @ 12-09-2001

Take everythng I said back

[DeeZee]

Originally Posted by 1TrackMind

I have an ID 5 1.0 and love it! I have gone OTB, but I am pretty sure that was not the bike's fault.

you should get a 29'er. It is is imposible to go OTB.


ps. You want to ride tonight?

[1TrackMind]

Originally Posted by DeeZee

you should get a 29'er. It is is imposible to go OTB.


ps. You want to ride tonight?

I think there's a vid somewhere around here that proves otherwise

Official OT/Highjack...
Don't think I can tonight, I might try to sneak out today...where are you riding and what time?

[DeeZee]

Originally Posted by 1TrackMind

I think there's a vid somewhere around here that proves otherwise

Official OT/Highjack...
Don't think I can tonight, I might try to sneak out today...where are you riding and what time?

Maybe from the house to Dana Point?

Make it happen!


back on topic. IMO the Idrive is a great sus system

You should PM HELLDOG and ask him how many GT frames he has broken

Howver I think the newwe frames are much improved. And besides if it breaks and it is covered under warranty who cares.

[slo65]

I have an 06 I-D 5 4.0, I love the thing, don't really care for the color so much, the front fork kinda sucks (judy j4)but ill upgrade it eventually. I beat on it pretty well, don weigh a whole lot though (185-190)

[AVR]

I bought an Idrive 3.0 just before Pacific bought GT. It has been a great bike. I am a big guy and have had no problems. Yes, I have gone OTB, but that was all me.

[RacinJason]

I loved my GT's. Now GT=Pacific/Huffy

Originally Posted by 1TrackMind

Ooops...I read it wrong...

DENVER, USA (September 12) - Pacific Cycles has bought Schwinn/GT for $86 million at an auction of the federal bancruptcy court of Colorado. After an initial bid of $63 million earlier last month, bidding between the two contenders Huffy and Pacific went up to a final Pacific bid of $86 million. Schwinn’s fitness division will be sold separately. (OB)
Published @ 12-09-2001

Take everythng I said back

[slo65]

Originally Posted by slo65

I have an 06 I-D 5 4.0, I love the thing, don't really care for the color so much, the front fork kinda sucks (judy j4)but ill upgrade it eventually. I beat on it pretty well, don weigh a whole lot though (185-190)

ha, forgive me, that was typed on my treo under the desk at work , but yea i like my bike, i've gone otb twice but it was all me