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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: Gary72 on October 04, 2007, 10:21 PM

Title: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Gary72 on October 04, 2007, 10:21 PM: Was just looking at the GT website and this frame looks the nuts, always wanted an ULTRABOX.

http://www.gtbicycles.com/bmx_race.html
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: wildwood1971 on October 04, 2007, 10:31 PM: i reckon we might see some of these at the olympics - looks tip top :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: dialledbikes on October 04, 2007, 11:54 PM: I think the regular aluminium ultra box frames look nicer than that carbon thing.

Steel is real though ;)
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Dingobmxer on October 05, 2007, 05:03 AM: carbon fibre = fishing rods

:) DINGO :)
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: theRuler on October 05, 2007, 05:05 AM: Quote from: Dingobmxer on October 05, 2007, 05:03 AM
carbon fibre = fishing rods

:) DINGO :)

word.
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Dingobmxer on October 05, 2007, 05:09 AM: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMX-GT-SPEED-SERIES-ULTRA-BOX-EASTON-FRAME-PROFILE-CRAN_W0QQitemZ220156108126QQihZ012QQcategoryZ98082QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

:) DINGO :)
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Bob_Acid on October 05, 2007, 05:51 AM: i've had the same pair of carbon fibre forks on my MTB for nigh on 15 years admitedly i only use it to tow the kids about these days but it did take some stick in the early days and is still going strong.
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: dialledbikes on October 05, 2007, 07:43 AM: I saw a set of Carbon forks snap at Bournemouth regional last year, and a couple of weeks ago a kid down at Peckham snapped his carbon bars. They both went down hard.
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: scooterboy on October 05, 2007, 06:50 PM: Dingo, you speak the truth :daumenhoch:

Scoot
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: wolfybmx on October 05, 2007, 06:52 PM: the shape of things to come but not in the uk at the mo
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: bof on October 05, 2007, 07:44 PM: Are the wanks riding these yet then, would be interesting to see one in action. :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Lazarou on October 05, 2007, 09:27 PM: GT messed with Carbon Fibre before and it was shite then as well......

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/v432/Lazarou63/gtthermo.jpg)
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Bob_Acid on October 06, 2007, 12:36 AM: it's alright for towing the kids about though...

Maybe a gap in the market there if anyone wants to exploit it? ???
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: dialledbikes on October 06, 2007, 12:57 AM: Joey Bradford has one of those new GT carbons, but when he came over to the UK to race and do clinics, he rode a regular alloy frame, not the carbon one.
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: se on October 07, 2007, 11:55 AM: How do you get a tob tube pad for that? Strap a sleeping bag around it? :idiot2:
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Dingobmxer on October 07, 2007, 04:57 PM: Quote from: se on October 07, 2007, 11:55 AM
How do you get a tob tube pad for that? Strap a sleeping bag around it? :idiot2:

UCI rules nowadays mean you dont have to run pads

:) DINGO :)
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: Moschops on October 07, 2007, 10:32 PM: As far as i know there is only 2 of the dam ugly stelth fighter bikes in working order.

As Mike has said Joe Bradford ownes one and I think the other is Mike Day's.
I rode an alloy one a few weeks back ;D :) ;) :daumenhoch:

Nuff said.
Title: Re: GT ULTRABOX 2
Post by: se on October 08, 2007, 09:13 PM: Pads not about rules, they're about style - and several hundred bleedin quid in my recent experience :-[