GT FORCE CARBON PRO LE

£5,500

GT has never shied away from suspension development. Its early designs employed a high single-pivot design dubbed RTS, before transitioning to LTS, a classic four-bar configuration. In recent times GT hung its suspension hat on iDrive, again a high single-pivot design, but this time with a floating drivetrain. When GT introduced the updated Sensor and Force platforms in 2018, it circled back to the glory days of LTS with a popular rocker link configuration.

Fast forward to today and the latest Force is a 29er enduro bike that retains the LTS suspension, but the links have been reconfigured to produce a 160mm travel mid-pivot idler design. It’s referred to as a mid-pivot design, because the pivot point (in this case virtual) is