The bottom bracket moves separately to the high mounted swingarm, but while there’s no obvious nod on smooth trails, there’s still a constant pedal-trail interaction. Even with the short stem, the long top tube gives loads of stretch for pulling the sky down to meet you. ![]() With the heavier duty i-Drive 5.0 taking on ‘all mountain’ duties, GT has put the 2.0 firmly in the XC camp. The use of bottom bracket bearings in the main pivots makes them pretty bombproof as long as you check for tightness regularly, but mud room is limited, even with the 2.1in tyres fitted. ![]() The 3D shock mounts are particularly crisply forged, as are the dropouts and bottom bracket mount that dangles below the rear swingarm. The terminals of the seatstays are little drilled bullets for internal gear cable routing, and the front mech cable gets an additional barrel adjuster where it goes through the seatstay plate. ![]() As you’d expect for a light XC bike, the rear subframe is a mix of skinny pipe and thin plate bridges, but there’s some really neat detailing.
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