BMX

Ultra Box 2

• Owner: tymez
• Country: Australia
• Brand: GT
• Model: Ultra Box 2
• Posted: 07 August 2009

About this bike

As soon as I saw this bike as a prototype I immediately fell in live with it. It’s one of those bikes that polarizes opinions, you either love it or hate it. There’s no in between, it doesn’t grow on you.

When I finally saw the frame in the flesh, I just knew I had to have it. I was tossing up whether to by the frame on it’s own, and build one up myself when a complete one popped up for sale. I jumped at it and got a sweet deal on the complete bike considering it was only 2 months old.
I’ve never owned a carbon BMX bike before (they don’t make that many!) but all I kept hearing was how stiff this thing was. Add a set of carbon Bombshell forks, Truavit Noir carbon cranks and you get a sore back just from cruising around on it.

I don’t race, just collect and as I post some more bikes, you’ll see I have a soft spot for GT’s. Sort of overkill for just getting the milk and bread, but hey, you only live once.