When I was young, the coolest bike you could own was a GT. Not only did the brand sponsor my childhood idols, mountain bikers Steve Peat and Hans Ray, its bikes also had the instantly recognisable triple-triangle frame. Quite what this assemblage achieved – whereby the seatstays bisected the main triangle of the frame to create a third and highly covetable extra triangle – was beside the point. Now, several decades later, the design has found its raison d’être. Applied along with a clever carbon and glass fibre layup, the uninterrupted seatstays on GT’s new Grade allow it to achieve several centimetres of vertical compliance.
The GT Grade was introduced in 2014, and with each version it has become more capable. In that time it has shifted from endurance road bike to light gravel machine
