Screenshots/0e/e8/3626-vollbild.jpg' alt='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' title='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' />GT Bicycles Wikipedia. GT Triple Triangle frame. GT Zaskar Pro Carbon. GT Bicycles designs and manufactures road, mountain, and bmx bicycles. GT is a division of a Canadian conglomerate, Dorel Industries, which also markets Cannondale, Schwinn, Mongoose, Iron. Horse, Dyno, and Road. Master bicycle brands all manufactured in Asia. GT was founded in 1. Gary Turner and Richard Long in Santa Ana, California, and was noted at its inception for spearheading the prominence of BMX bicycles, later for developing a range of bikes around its triple triangle design, and at the end of its independent history, winning a commission to manufacture a 3. Superbike1 for the 1. Summer games. GT sponsored numerous race teams and individuals, including noted riders Rebecca Twigg and Juli Furtado. In 1. 99. 8, the company went public and subsequently merged with Questor Partners, then owner of Schwinn. The conglomerate went bankrupt in 2. Pacific Cycle, which was in turn acquired by Dorel Industries in 2. GT is noted for their triple triangle hard tail frame design where seat stays are parallel to the downtube and attached to the top tube forward of the seat tube, rather than directly at the seat tube. The company often uses a frame design where the bikes top tube extends rearward past the seat tube, claimed to reduce the vibration transferred to the seat from the rear wheel. Later versions would have GT stamped on the end of the extended top tube. Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' title='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' />Early historyeditGT was co founded in 1. Richard Long along with welding engineer and custom bike maker Gary Turner, in Turners Fullerton, California garage at first manufacturing for the youth motocross sport, BMX bicycle racing. Turner had been a musical instrument repairer by trade, and began making BMX bikes for his children, improving on the quality over then available bicycles. Long had used money from a motorcycle accident settlement to open his bike shop in 1. Wwe 12 Xbox Torrent Iso'>Wwe 12 Xbox Torrent Iso. 5 1 Upmix Software Programs there. Anaheim Bicycle Center, where he and Turner would later market their bicycles. GT would grow to a multimillion dollar firm supplying bicycles to the U. S. Olympic cycling team,1In 1. Long and Turner sold a controlling interest to Boston based investment firm Bain Capital, which took the company public in October 1. Geezer Butler was born on July 17, 1949 in Birmingham, England as Terence Butler. He is married to Gloria Butler. See full bio. Denver police are investigating an incident involving cheerleaders at East High School being forced to participate in painful and possibly abusive practice routines. In 1. 99. 6, GT won the commission to manufacture a highly aerodynamic bike design that would later become known as the Superbike. Olympic regulations. A byproduct of a year long development program with the U. S. national team known as Project 9. Describing the bike, the U. S. Cycling Federations track endurance coach Craig Griffin said its so thin and light, and its as strong as anything built. Its so aerodynamic that when you look at it from the front, it disappears. Controversially, just prior to the 9. Summer Olympics, Rebecca Twigg quit the team, citing her Superbikes ill fit3 as one of the reasons for departing. A week before GTs debut at the 1. Summer Olympic, GT co founder Richard Long was killed in a motorcycle accident on his Honda Valkyrie en route to a national championship series race for the National Off Road Bicycle Association at Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino mountains. At the time of Longs death, GT maintained an office at the factory in Santa Ana as well as a factory in Huntington Beach2 and manufactured 6. GT, Powerlite, Robinson and Dyno brands, distributed bikes, parts and accessories via its Riteway network and had annual revenues of 1. Dave%2BMirra%2BFreestyle%2BBMX%2B2/foto/xbox/0/25/25.jpg/Foto%2BDave%2BMirra%2BFreestyle%2BBMX%2B2.jpg' alt='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' title='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' />Less than two years after Longs death, in 1. Bain Capital sold GT to another investment group, Questor Partners, which at the time also owned Schwinn, for 1. Questor would file for bankruptcy on June 2. Richard Long had died. As well as the manufacturing of bicycles, GT Bikes sponsored several teams6 competing in BMX, mountain and road competitions. GT Factory Racing Team. There are six riders on the BMX Race Team Riley ONeil, Luke Madill, Joey Bradford, Eric Rupe and Arielle Martin Verhaaren, which compete in competitions held globally. GT Freestyle GT Air Show Santa AnaHuntington Beach. During the 1. 98. Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' title='Dave Mirra Style Bmx Full Version' />GT struggled against the behemouth bike company, Haro Bikes which dominated the freestyle BMX landscape and industry. As Haro was the most popular freestyle BMX bike at the time, it eclipsed GT in all categoires especially in the number of bikes sold, number of sponsored feestlye riders and number of wins and trophies in competitions throughout the 8. BMX Freestyle and GT BMX have a well documented history on video and in magazine coverage from publications like FreestylinGo, BMX Plus, and Ride which all fostered young talent like Eddie Fiola, Spike Jonze, Eddie Roman, and Mark Eaton and helped an entire generation of riders define themselves and their sport. From the mid eighties onward, Team GTs Pro Freestyle riders were some of the biggest and most recognizable names in BMX. The GT BMX brand and team riders appear in the Hell. Track starting lineup scene in the BMX cult classic film Rad. Famous names from the ranks of Teams past include X Games Champions Dave Mirra, Jay Miron, Jamie Bestwick, Eddie Fiola, aka King of the Skateparks, Brian Scura Rad Dad inventor of the Gyro, aka SST Oryg, Trevor Meyer, Martin the Chairman Aparijo, Josh White, Dino De. Luca, Dave Voelker, Brett Hernandez, Kevin Jones, Mark Eaton, Gary Pollak, Kevin the Gute Gutierrez, Ruben Castillo, Robert Castillo, Jason Geoffery, Goro Tamai, Krys Dauchy, and Adam Jung. Along with Team Haro, Team GT helped shape the future of BMX Freestyle and helped pioneer a sport once deemed nothing more than a fad. GT bikes were fashioned after Haro bikes and took much of their design cues from Haro. GT produced some of the first Freestyle specific bikes in their early Performer and World Tour models. Later highly successful models were the Pro Freestyle Tour, which saw the first use of mountain bike style brake mounts for use of Dia Compe 9. Dyno Pro Compe one of the most ridden flatland frames of the early Nineties. GT was also there for the birth of street riding in the late Eighties with the GT Aggressor Designed in California, but frames made in Taiwan and Dyno Slammer bashguard models. GT also designed and sold the first flatland specific bike in the USA the GT Show. GT Bikes current Freestyle Team includes the riders Dave Dillewaard, Rob Wise, Eric Bahlman, Justin Coble, Bobby Kanode, Calvin Krey, and Brian Kachinsky. Mountain TeameditEight riders in the Mountain Team, compete in global competitions including downhill, four cross, trials, freeride and dirt jumping. The riders in the team are Marc Beaumont, Hans Rey, Eric Carter, Roger Rinderknecht, Kevin Aiello, and Tyler Mc. Caul. In 2. 01. 2, GT added Kyle Strait, Dan Atherton, Gee Atherton, and Rachel Atherton to the team. Hans Rey has been sponsored by GT since 1. Road TeameditGT Bikes briefly served as team sponsors and bike supplier for Jelly Belly professional cycling team. After the 2. 00. 9 season, the team ended their relationship with GT and began riding Focus bikes. Lotto pro cycling team now Lotto Belisol at one time had Easton aluminium tubing GT frames. The team now rides on Ridley carbon frames. Co Factory TeameditThe Co Factory Team was founded in 2. The team is composed of riders from across the US riding for local dealer teams that represent GT Bicycles.