Out there
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it can do stuff ill tell you what
we are on last run of the day. We are literally on the last gondola. It's almost seven o'clock here at Keystone
we had a great day of riding out here with Joseph and
Joseph gave me a challenge. he said why don't you try my GT man?
It's way cheaper than your transition but I guarantee you're gonna love it. And I said, alright, dude, let's do this
So Joseph tell us give us a little rundown on your bike. It's more of a bike check
I'll kind of tell you guys what I think and what I feel about it after I get done riding it but yeah
Just tell us about your bike, man
All right
So stock this bike comes in at 1900 or dollars, which is still a fair bit of money
But compared to some of the high end bikes that are shown on social media and stuff
This is actually pretty affordable. So what we have here is a bike with 130 in the front
That's a rock shock. Recon RL
pretty good budget air fork
Nothing special you can't run any tokens, but it does have compression and you can adjust the rebound
Now in the back we have something a little bit special. This does not come standard on the bike
This is a rock shock super deluxe
Rc3 that I bought used for 190 bucks
It was basically pull off from an evil reckoning I think in the back you have
Some more stuff that got swapped out
So right now I'm running a box 46 this is 11 to 46 tooth 11 speed cassette
That's made it to a SRAM NX
derailleur SRAM NX
Shifter the brakes are still suck. They are the tech TRO
Whatever they are the other mod that I did was a P&W
Dropper post this is their 125 mils Rob. So yeah, this has a 65 degree head angle for climbing you have I believe it's
75 degree CTA on the GT so pretty steep
It's not the perfect bike but no bike is perfect. But I think this is kind of a really fun bike for the money
I'm really curious to try out
Joseph bike so yeah, let's get to it
saying already feels like a monster truck, but
The Alliance is off. These little jumps pretty good
See how it lays into a corner
Yeah, it's true
A little less travel than I'm used to
I think you said we're running somewhere around 130 front and rear
It's pretty nimble on the front end
so
Getting it through these corners
pretty easy
not sure what the weight is on this bike, but
You can't feel it a little bit. Is that the end of the day so
My legs are already a little bit tired by it
It's got a pretty good pedaling platform to it
Pretty responsive to the pedal strokes
Brew
Got the big 29er wheels so, you know, those things are gonna roll
Out there
Oh you got some air
Brew
New stuff that you want
For a biking at sub 2000 mark
I'm loving it. The suspension is pretty active
It doesn't feel chattery
So it's really absorbing these bumps
Not too bad for a rock Sox, I think he said recon upfront
I think he said he switched up the the rear shock. He's doing some playing around with those settings. So
You know maybe that helps it a little bit in the rear suspension, but that isn't doing all of the work so
Overall the bike just feels good
I
Mean coming from a bike. That's a lot lighter than this
You know, I don't want to keep coming back to that, but you do feel
the heavier bike
It takes a little more to throw it around
But it's doable Oh
The bike is doing really good, but I can tell you right now
She's got those
old stock rubber grips on here
and
Whoo, you can totally do it. There's no shock absorption whatsoever
really taking its pull
On my hands my wrists
Tell you what, this bike really needs small upgrades
First thing I think I do if this from my bike
Good offset, ESI extra chunky grips on here
Whoo, yep
See we do now, oh nice yeah
All right
I can honestly say oh, yeah
Honestly say I've written way more expensive bikes that didn't have the same type of
Just kind of comfortable ride platform that this does
The fact that it sexy pedals pretty good is you know, absolutely surprising to you too. So
It's really got some good things going for it
Even with that pretty and for your level
Component I treat you. Yeah GT Zonda something. I think I really do
Jumped off
You know what 2,000 bucks I'm not sure that this would be like let's say a race bike
You know if you were looking to do some
really aggressive
Competitive racing. Duis, you are just starting out and surpri find out the bike you're looking for
You know, there's better option than the GT line for that
stuff that'll save you a lot of way better components that type of thing but for two grand you
Know for somebody who is let's say that weekend warrior
Just likes to get out and ride
Doesn't want to have to worry about you're dropping $4,000 you're tearing up a $4,000 bike
once same type of similar ride feel and this
You know, I really was not anticipating liking this bike when jealous it was like hey man, why don't you try my budget option
$2,000 bike
You know
even Joseph himself is kind of you know said that
hey, there's definitely something better out there and I
Mean, I agree to some extent for sure. I mean money you can throw money at anything
You know, I don't think that the bike is necessarily gonna make the rider
You put some pro level rider on this bike I guarantee you he's gonna ride it pretty darn close to the same way
$10,000 race bike. So yeah. I'm I am absolutely liking bike
Oh, yeah
All right
All righty this bike just goes right for it it's crazy. I don't know if the way it helps doing the satirical 4:0 ever
Driving the highest walk all day
Alright so I just finished up my quick ride review of joseph´s
GT sensor his budget build which is their their entry level bike 2000 under
$2000 worth with some customizations some small customizations. Honestly. He didn't do a whole lot to it
Just some small tweaks and I mentioned a couple things that if this was my bike, I'd pray too, but overall, you know
I had a really good time riding the bike. I didn't think that I was gonna like this bike Joseph
I really wanted to hate this bike. I just I just wanted to hate it
Okay, but I honestly can say I I didn't these guys are gonna hear it throughout the video
I mean I pretty much praise a lot of things about this bike
I
Mean what are some of the things that stick out for you with this bike? Why do you like this bike?
so first off I do have a history with GT but not time II think the very first
real mountain bike that I had was a 98 GT which shaved my parents bought that for me and my dad and I used to
Go mountain biking all the time. So I have a lot of great memories with GT. I
Really saw a lot of people getting so caught up with buying the biggest most expensive
Bike that they could barely afford. I wanted to show that. Yep
Nineteen hundred dollars can buy you a lot and I didn't spend that much more
Alright, so that was a quick bike check on Joseph's twenty nineteen GT sensor the $2,000 option. Actually, it's sub $2,000
I was pretty impressed guys. If you guys haven't checked out trail features, go ahead. I'll put the link right up here somewhere
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