The bike is a solid daily rider as is, and had a full 'Pro Tune' 1 year ago. It has good components and a great drive-train. Rules on first page.This bike has been great to me and it handles the most intense trails in the area no problems- and it looks great! I am 6'0 tall and this bike should fit anyone 5'10 - 6'2, I would guess. No buyer protection or seller ratings- Scam Alert Pig ugliest AM/Enduro/XC/DH bikes out there if yours is a pig post it!Īnyone still riding Giant AC? post them here! Thanks for a positive reply at last, to be honest i was feeling happier as i came across a copy of what mountain bike and found the gt idrive 5 2.0 was given the bike of the year 07 ,it got 1st place in the best sub £1750 full sus trail bike and my model came 3rd in the best sub £1000 catagory so it cant all be bad, i was thinking of doing some light dh duties on it and to be honest its looking beefier than earlier versions, i guess all mountain will be my label for a while, plus i think it will handle the work run nicely, in truth its probably gonna be more suited to the actual riding i want to do as hanging on an undersized bike with kids half my age probably wouldnt be so cool anyway, thinking of building a street bike too though as our 12year old is now getting into 2 wheels so ill have an excuse for a more jumpy bike, ill sort some pics of mine later only mods so far are pedals, my biggest concern is over the air shock and if it will handle my abuse, likin the colours on your steed by the way, If you think I'm being biast because I own one, check out GT XCR 3000 on google, there are plenty of reassuring testamonials there. If that's what your needs are this bike is plenty strong and will not disappoint you. It is a full suspension cross country racing bike. It is not a north shore bike or a downhiller. It is the best for going up hills and it rocks pretty good on the downhills too. if you are looking for a great bike to thrash the x country trails of ANY extremety, this bike will easily keep up to bikes of twice the price. The comparison would be (if you ski) like trying to ski powder on sno blades. Well for one thing it is definately not made for doing drops and jumps on the north shore, and any one who attemps to do so on this bike deserves to get hurt. I also read what the other fellow is saying about how he dislikes the i drive. But, IMO I wouldn't get one, it just isn't strong enough for any jumps. Also lots of bearings close to the dirt but an interesting design with using bb bearings for the main bearings. For north shore riding they were usless and I saw a huge amount broken. I went over the handlebars and landed on my shoulder - 3rd degree separation. The third time it broke the shock mount cracked so badly that the shock detached from the back of the bike, as I was going over a jump ( hadn't even left the lip yet), the front of the bike all of a sudden flipped up towards my face, as I left the jump the back of the bike bottomed out and kicked me up. I went through one front triangle (cracked) and two rear triangles ( cracked at shock mount twice!). I had a Idrive 1.0 with Z1 and xt stuff back about 2000 or 1999 and it separated my shoulder for me. I live here in Vancouver and ride on the north shore. having lurked on a couple or three forums i cant help noticing either a lack of or total slating any time idrive (ducks again) gets a mention, they really that bad, its sat next to me as i type this should i stick my helmet on just in case, anyway feel free to rip it out of me or own up to having one, not labelled my self into a catagory just yet as when i last rode you just had a couple of bikes and pretty much did it all, fancy a free ride all mountain mix with some jumps n stuff, living in middle england free rides a bit of a joke not really a wilderness is it, anyway anone got oneĭon't know much about the new ones. Ok here,s the deal we had a cycle to work scheme set up this year, so thru work i was able to get back to mtb,ing after a few years off, thing is work set it up with halfords instead of any of the big cycle stores so my choices were limited, after some time it seemed the idrive 5 would be the best choice i could get for the money, plus it looked pretty cool.
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