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    GT FORCE CARBON PRO LE

    Sep 15, 2021 5 minutes
    Alan Muldoon

    £5,400/29in/gtbicycles.com

    Last month, we predicted a wave of new idler suspension designs, the latest of which to wash up on our shoreline is the 2022 GT Force Carbon. Not that you needed an early warning system to see this one coming, as Wyn Masters has been ripping around on one for months.

    Designed around 29in wheels, the GT Force is an enduro race bike through and through. Leading the charge on the Carbon Pro LE is a 170mm-travel RockShox Zeb Ultimate fork, the burly fork matched to a RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate shock where the new high-pivot LTS suspension layout boasts 160mm travel. And that’s vertical rear-wheel travel, so the number hasn’t been massaged by any sort of hocus pocus.

    Being a four-bar suspension design, the specific axle path on the Force isn’t as obvious as on a single-pivot bike. But it’s clear from the layout

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