![]() Fill the race with grease and imagine you are a brain surgeon while repositioning the ball bearings. Then refit the rubber seal on the LHS into the recess, it will clip in. It also looks cool.Ĭlean off the ball bearings one last time and dry. As there are rubber seals I used a rubber friendly grease in the form of automotive red rubber grease from castrol that is silicone based. Now that you have cleaned everything time to reassemble. Mind that rubber/ brass seal and clean.Ĩ. Catch all the ball bearing and clean as above. Only tap the metal as the black ring is another metal seal. The LHS race needs to be taped out, I used a flat round punch but learned from my mistakes and dot this one over a towel. I used a mix of auto brake cleaner, white spirits and gt85 on rubber bits. Clean everything with appropriate cleaner/ degreaser. I soaked them in white spirits and dried them off with paper towel.ħ. So my advice is to remove the IDrive over a towel and have a jar or container ready to store them. Relise you now have small ball bearings all over your grass and cry while picking them up for 30 mins. Try not to distort it too much but it does fit back into a nice recess to help even if it has gotten a bit mis shapedĦ. Clean this with rubber friendly stuff like GT85. Mind the black ring seal you will need this again later. a wooden block and a Lump hammer freed it after cursing and belting it about 20 times. no luck, so I googled and googled as I though I may have missed something but I didn't. that did not work so I sprayed it with GT85 and left it overnight. Mine did not budge and I went at it with a rubber hammer. The GT manual said remove the I drive from the Right Hand Side RHS. YOU ONLY NEED TO REMOVE THE BOLT FROM THE IDRIVE SIDE AS LONG AS THE SHOCK IS REMOVED YOU WILL HAVE CLEARANCE ENOUGH TO REMOVE THE IDRIVE SYSTEM IF YOU PUT IT IN FULL COMPRESSED POSITION. ***DO NOT REMOVE DOG BONE BOLT FROM THE FRAME SIDE, 20 PLUS YEARS OF CORROSION BUILD UP MOST OF THESE ARE SIEZED. ![]() Remove waves disc counter clockwise and remove dog bone bolt. Don’t worry if this all sounds a bit numb and squishy, because the lively handling will always maintain your interest.4. ![]() Bags of traction at both ends and the ability to run the shocks soft means you’re not constantly throwing your weight around or standing out of the saddle to cope with climbs and descents. Even with soft pressures to offset slight initial shock stickiness, it doesn’t bob much either, although the soft pedalling feel can sap the morale on long road climbs until you get used to it.Įven at over 33lb the bike doesn’t seem to drag too badly, and off-road it certainly feels much lighter – mainly due to the fact that the suspension lets you flow forward over stuff rather than being kicked back. The ‘floating’ bottom bracket only moves slightly though, so while there’s an almost ‘elastic’ chain sensation all the time, it never kicks back sharply or distractingly. The rear swingarm is free to pivot back and up as it hits edges and bumps, letting the bike roll over them really easily and smoothly. GT i-Drive XCR 1000 GT i-Drive XCR 1000 Date: June 2000 Price: 3200 Purpose: Dual-suspension Trailbike Home phone: (714) 481-7100 B Value C Weight27 pounds A Frame design A Fork performance3-stroke RockShox SID XC fork A Rear suspension Fox Air Float RC shock, i-Drive suspension, 4.5 travel. The unique i-Drive action means masses of traction from the rear, too. A steep seat angle keeps enough weight on the front wheel for plenty of steering traction in tight and slippery situations, though. ![]() The short stem handling is eager but well weighted, with a stable head angle stopping things getting lairy at speed. Then again, the bus driver feel certainly gives masses of power assistance to steering. The skinny, high rise 27in wide bar is bordering on the daft in terms of width, but a few minutes with a hacksaw will trim it to something more reasonable. The only downside is the fact it only comes in 18 (medium) and 20 (large) inch sizes, so you’re stuck if you’re on the small side.Īgain it’s the cockpit that dominates first impressions of the GT, but in the opposite way to the Cube. Bottle placement is underbelly only, but a QR seat clamp makes saddle height adjustment easy. While tyre clearance isn’t bad, the front mech cable couldn’t be placed in a worse position to get covered in crap, so watch for rust. The plates are then heavily cut away at the top where they mate the shock and neat horseshoe seat stay top either side of the seat tube.Ĭonsidering the complexity of the frame, cable/hose routing is relatively tidy, although it’s likely to destroy swingarm paintwork very rapidly. The front of the swingarm is then formed from one massive forged V section with the bottom bracket swinging independently off the bottom.
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