GT Bikes are a top American Bicycle maker of quality Road Bicycles with a growing market share. Gary Turner and Richard Long founded GT Bicycles in 1979. Turner was a welding engineer and Long was a bike shop owner. GT Bikes were originally formed to produce high-end BMX cycles for the then new sport of Bicycle Motto Cross (BMX). They have grown significantly in over the years to become a large producer of quality bicycles over a wide range of bike types. GT cycles are based in the USA.

A unique feature of many GT Bike frames is the Triangle where the seat stays and down tube and top tube cross. GT Road Bikes are now a highly regarded road cycle brand and are present in a lot of the world’s top road cycle races. GT Bikes are the team sponsors and bike supplier for Jelly Belly professional cycling team. And also Silence-Lotto had aluminium tubing GT frames.

GT Road bikes in common with most of the top racing bike makers now offer a range of high end carbon composite frames for their top end road bicycles. GT have based design and development of their road bike range on the need for maximum speed and have therefore incorporated cutting edge technology and design coupled with strenuous testing of the latest GT Road bikes by the Pro sponsored Jelly Belly cycle team. This has helped to GT firmly near the top of High End Road Cycle market and produced great results on the road race circuit and track racing. Current Road Bicycles from GT Bikes include the GT GTR and GTRw (for women) series of bikes all made from carbon composite frames and the Top of the range GT Team Carbon road bike an exact replica of the Jelly Belly Pro Cycle Teams Bike used in many of the world major cycle races. GT continue to grow in stature in road cycle arena and sales and comapany exposure go from strength to strength.

By: Steve Brig