2011 GTR SeriesGT Bicycles designs and manufactures, and bicycles. GT is a division of a Canadian conglomerate, which also markets, Schwinn, Mongoose, IronHorse, Dyno, and RoadMaster bicycle brands; all manufactured in Asia.GT was founded in 1979, by Gary Turner and Richard Long in, and was noted at its inception for spearheading the prominence of BMX bicycles, later for developing a range of bikes around its 'triple triangle' design, and at the end of its independent history, winning a commission to manufacture a $30,000 carbon fiber 'Superbike' for the. GT sponsored numerous race teams and individuals, including noted riders and.In 1998, the company went public and subsequently merged with Questor Partners, then owner of. The conglomerate went bankrupt in 2001 and was acquired by, which was in turn acquired by in 2004.GT is noted for their 'triple triangle' frame design — where are parallel to the and attached to the forward of the seat tube, rather than directly at the seat tube. The company often uses a frame design where the bike's top tube extends rearward past the seat tube, claimed to reduce the vibration transferred to the seat from the rear wheel.
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Later versions would have 'GT' stamped on the end of the extended top tube. Contents.Early history GT was co-founded in 1979 by bike shop owner Richard Long along with welding engineer and custom bike maker Gary Turner, in Turner's garage — at first manufacturing for the youth motocross sport, BMX bicycle racing.
Turner had been a musical instrument repairer by trade, and began making BMX bikes for his children, improving on the quality over then available bicycles. Long had used money from a motorcycle accident settlement to open his bike shop in 1975, the Anaheim Bicycle Center, where he and Turner would later market their bicycles. GT would grow to a multimillion-dollar firm supplying bicycles to the U.S. Olympic cycling team,In 1993 Long and Turner sold a controlling interest to Boston-based investment firm, which took the company public in October 1995.In 1996, GT won the commission to manufacture a highly aerodynamic bike design that would later become known as the 'Superbike.' And later banned by Olympic regulations. A byproduct of a year-long development program with the U.S.
National team known as Project '96, the bike featured a carbon graphite frame with no top tube, extremely thin seat and downtubes, a seat tube with a deep cutout to accommodate the rear wheel, as well as differently sized aerodynamic wheels. Describing the bike, the U. Cycling Federation's track endurance coach Craig Griffin said 'it's so thin and light, and it's as strong as anything built. It's so aerodynamic that when you look at it from the front, it disappears.' Controversially, just prior to the 96 Summer Olympics, Rebecca Twigg quit the team, citing her Superbike's ill fit as one of the reasons for departing.On October 11, 1996, GT announced that it had reached an agreement with Nike whereby Nike will be an official sponsor for all of GT's bicycle racing teams in 1997.
Under the new agreement, all GT team athletes will use Nike shoes and after-race apparel. This new sponsorship agreement represented an expansion of Nike's current sponsorship as the official shoe of the GT mountain bike team by the then CEO Michael Haynes. GT Bicycles had the first and the only mountain bike and BMX teams that are sponsored by Nike. GT had a total of 57 athletes on various teams in 1997, including nine mountain bike racers, 32 BMX racers and 16 freestyle/GT Bicycle Air Show performers. This article needs additional citations for.