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Phil
a Road RacerDate Reviewed: March 11, 2012
Strengths: Valuw
Comfortable due to carbon stays and forks
Sturdy Frame
Ultegra components, decent wheelsetWeaknesses: Could be stifferBottom Line: This review is for a 2010 GT series 1 with Ultegra components and a Mavic Askium wheelset. Currently I have replaced the stock saddle with a Selle Italia saddle for comfort reasons and Krysium Elites when I race. I picked up the bike during the Fourth of July sale on performance in the summer of 11' and have ridden over 2,000 miles on it so far. This was my first road bike I purchased and as a college student with limited funds I was looking for the most bang for my buck, and I found it with this bike. At $1040 purchasing this bike was akin to buying the groupset by itself with a free frame, wheelset, and saddle attached and performance wise it has served great. The bike is under 20 lbs without pedals as it comes and is decently stiff, you get a good power transfer between you and the bike but due to the carbon seat stays and fork still gives you a comfortable ride. I've ridden a century comfortably on this bike and have plans to do more endurance riding when the summer comes around. The bike's geometry is such that you can keep the stem above the highest spacer and ride upright or you can slam it down for a much more agressive style of riding. With the compact crankset you have plenty of gearing for even the most challenging of climbs and it is quite stable when descending at excess of 45 mph. The askium wheelset, while not the lightest, have served quite well as training wheels and have taken the beating of Indiana roads fraught with potholes and cracks without going out of true as of yet. The frameset seems to be quite durable, after 2 crashes I can hardly tell anything has happened other than the bartape was torn up and needed to be replaced. As an entry level road racer I can tell that at this point any faults during the race are because of the rider, not too much because of the bike at this point. And if you do start getting the itch to upgrade you have a full ultegra (minus the brakes) groupset and you can always transfer the components over if you get a new framset rather than purchasing a whole new bike. From a value and performance mindset I would definitely recommend this bike to anyone who isn't worried about having a bike from a "lesser" company that isn't a Trek, Giant, Cannondale, etc because the bike will serve you well and there is no reason that you can't keep up with the boys on their carbon bikes, if you've the heart and commitment you'll be riding alongside with them and knowing that you saved a bunch in the bank. While I do acknowledge that I will be looking to upgrade sometime in the future, for your new cyclist or someone looking for performance at a good value you can't beat this. Unfortunately it looks like GT might have discontinued the series 1 bike, at least with Ultegra, they now have it outfitted with Sram Rival, another quality groupset. All in all it's a good bike with great components that will serve you well and has good components on it if you want to build up another frameset. If you're a person who really wants to try your hand in racing this is not a bad bike if you don't have another to ride but if you do you may want to consider holding out and saving up for something stiffer like a CAAD 10 which will serve you better in Crits than this bike, its in situations like that where I wish the frame was stiffer but the rider can always get stronger.
Summary:
Great Value, good bike, you will enjoy the ride and the savings, and if you want to race you may want to hold out a bit longer
Favorite Ride: A Swedish Bakery Ride from Notre Dame up to Michigan
Price Paid:
$1040.00
Purchased At: Performance Bike
Similar Products Used: Cannondale R400
Bike Setup: Krysium Elites and a selle italia saddle have replaced the askium and stock saddle, 105 pedals
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Samadhi
a Recreational RiderDate Reviewed: March 1, 2012
Strengths: Great Frame. Sram Apex Derailluers and shifters. Decent wheels. Handles well. Fast. Lightweight.Weaknesses: Not the most comfortable saddle (Fizik Pave CX). Cassette should have been a 12/28 and not a 12/25.Bottom Line: 2011 GTR Series 2 - Very good bike for the money ($800). Derailuers are awesome. Fast bike that handles well, Nicely appionted with SRAM dereailuers and shifterns Mavic wheels, flat-blade spokes, Ritchey stem, bars and seatpost. Not a bad choice for my first road bike in 40 years.
Price Paid:
$800.00
Purchased At: Performance Bike (sh
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Rod
a Road RacerDate Reviewed: September 24, 2011
Weaknesses: Breaks or the pads. I replaced mine with a Ultegra breaks to make a full ultegra.Bottom Line: Smooth ride, Great components to match!
Favorite Ride: GT Series ONE ULTEGRA
Price Paid:
$1049.00
Purchased At: Performance Bike
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Paul from Orlando
a Recreational RiderDate Reviewed: July 5, 2011
Strengths: I have a bike built for under a $900 well under 20 lbs that rides like a champ, picked up VUELTA CORSA LITE rimes with Vittoria Kevlar tires, for $240.00 new for all at nashbar, a Q2 157 g carbon post for $22.00 off ebay, and I am using crank bros eggbeater pedals, I tried a few bikes from the lbs and to get this performance I would be at almost 2k, just love it, shifting and breaks will have to do for now as I was looking for performance and shifters dont make a bike faster, breaks do what they need to do as they will stay for a bit as wellWeaknesses: stock parts are fillers on entry bikes, the stock wheels weren't true out of the box and I worked on them a few times before replacing them, the alex 500 wheels with formula hubs are at 1972 grams for the pairBottom Line: have had the bike for a few months now and have always tinkered with bikes as I have a full xtr Rocky Mountain mtb with all the goodies on it, I just got into riding on the road and this caught my eye for the looks and price to get started, I have changed a few parts so far as I am sure you are curious about weight as I have scaled most of the parts for this
stock parts,
seat 340 grams (new seat 283g)
seat post 386 grams(new post 157g)
stem 152 grams (new stem 126g)
front wheel 860 less the skewer (new 681g)
rear wheel 1112 less the skewer and cogs (897g)
skewers @ 80 grams each
cassette 288 grams
tires 362 grams (new 240g)
tubes 78 grams reused
Favorite Ride: Seminole pass
Price Paid:
$499.00
Purchased At: performance bike
Similar Products Used: specialized allez
Giant DEFY
Bike Setup: 2010 series 4
crank bros eggbeater pedals
VUELTA CORSA LITE wheels
Vittoria Kevlar tires
syncros stem
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BumbleBeeRider
a Recreational RiderDate Reviewed: June 23, 2011
Strengths: Lightweight, Good Geometry, Responsive, Fast, Handles WellWeaknesses: Subpar stock brakesBottom Line: I've been cycling for about four years now; primarily on a hybrid, so the GT GTR Series 1 is my first road bike and I'm completely blown away. This bike is light, responsive, and handles really well. It has reenergized my desire to ride. Since I purchased this bike, I now average about 75 miles a week in the saddle.
From what I've been able to tell thus far, this bike is better constructed than most bikes in the same price range. The Rival components are precise and very smooth. I upgraded the brakes to Sram Rival since I was informed the stocks brakes were subpar. I also swapped out the Vittoria Rubino for a pair of yellow Michelin Pro 3 to match the colors in the bike and quickly realized they allowed the bike to ride faster.
Favorite Ride: WO&D
Price Paid:
$1350.00
Purchased At: Performance Bikes
Similar Products Used: None
Bike Setup: Sram Rival Components
Mavic Wheels
Ritchey Carbon Handlebars
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