GT Bikes Value is in the Name
Posted in Sports on December 26th, 2010 by Mark Gildenburg – Be the first to commentNot long ago there was “the bike scramble” an entertaining game where pedal cycle riders had the same enjoyment just like their motorbike colleagues.
In the very early times, people scrambled on specialised road bikes. Tons of wear and tear on the machine.
While the game grew it was necessary that there had to be change and thus the birth of BMX. BMX (Bicycle Motocross tenders the same thrills just like spills or the ‘engine’ kind. Naturally there had to be a bike fabricated to haul the substantial bits and pieces.
1979:, Gary Turner, a welding engineer, along with Richard Long, a bike garage owner, established a business, to be known as GT Bicycles, dived into making of BMX bicycles only. Everything happened because in the early 1970s, Gary’s son begun being mixed up in the comparatively new BMX race. Being an engineer, Gary had an appeal in the design and endurance of the structures and saw them weighty and as feeble. This encouraged him to design his son’s frames. He took his proficiency of the drag racing and reworked it to make the piping in the design of the BMX bikes. This was successful for the young Turner and a while later the BMX’s frames were being looked for and as a result, he began making the frames for other BMX cyclists.
1974:, Richard Long, who had the bicycle shop got interested in the acceptance of Gary’s frames he approached him with intent to being a retailer for his products. Hence in 79, they set up a connection mutually.