What can my bike do?

bailed out

I have reacently bought a gt i-drive xcr and have done some light riding on it but want to start to push it a bit more and i was wondering if anyone could recomend what ithe bike will take in terms of drop ofs and jumps, i just don't want to end up breaking it or having to get it repaired. Here is the website for the specs

www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/serv ... yrn_106180]

Thanks in advance for any help.

robertpb

So why did you by a bike if you didn't know what it would stand up to. The best way round is to ask first what you are going to do with the bike, get advice, then buy accordingly.

My monies on the bike, while you're trying to break it, it's trying to break you but only one feels pain.

For anyone to give advise on how your bike is going to stand up we would need to know about you, your weight, are you a heavy rider etc.

Your bike would take a lot of abuse without braking from me because I weigh under 10 stone and I'm a light rider also touch wood not accident prone.

You on the other hand could be 18 stone be a heavy rider and accident prone.

Can you see how difficult it would be to give you a straight answer. Just keep riding until you find out.

bluechair84

The bike will handle drops fine - so long as your not dropping big to flat like wall rides to pavement. I had an old XCR and did picnic table height drops to flat and it didn't break. Think dirt jumps with smooth transitions and you can go biiiig. Or drops in jump parks to sloped surfaces. It's a trail bike, so is built to take some impacts, but not designed for harsh stuff. I'd be wary of your handlebars and stem. If you do want to start doing drops think about stronger bars as you don't want a steerer tube to the eyeball when they go...
But like R said, if you are a bigger guy then you'll have to limit your drops.

bailed out

I'm 6foot 2 and 10 and a half stone but kind of accident prone due most of the time to big feet. I asked the dude in the shop what it would handle and he said most light freeride stuff and small drops, but i got the bike because it felt really nice to sit on and the handeling was excellent.

supersonic

It is not a freeride bike. As above, will take smooth drops and landings, but nothing big.