2013 GT Meatball
2013 GT Meatball urban bike pairs a triple-triangle frame with the SRAM Automatix 2-speed automatic rear hub and coaster brake behind a cable-free exterior.
Description
Urban discipline. If it has no gears or brake cables, it must be a fixie, right? Wrong. Devoid of anything that gets in the way of your riding, the Meatball hides all the good stuff in the rear hub. With two speeds and a coaster brake hidden from plain sight, you get the clean look of a fixed gear with all the awesome features of a city bike.
"Logic and simplicity. Same cool fixie look with a simple frame and flat, gray paint, but with the addition of two gears, a brake, no cables and no thinking — so you can fit in yet go faster. The rear hub, using the centrifugal clutch of the SRAM Automatix 2-speed hub, reads your speed and shifts automatically into the higher gear when you hit about 10 mph. The big gear allows for a fast cruising speed. To manually downshift for hill climbing, just coast momentarily; it'll downshift. The auto-shift quickly becomes second nature."
--Roy M. Wallack, L.A. Times
Technical specification
Frame & Fork
- Frame
- GT Meatball triple triangle frame, track ends with replaceable steel reinfoced plates
- Fork
- GT Baller street fork with alloy steeler, alloy blades
Drivetrain
- Crankset
- FSA Vero Track crank 46t alloy ring
- Bottom bracket
- Tange Seiki ultra light sealed cartridge
- Chain
- KMC Z510
- Freewheel
- SRAM 21t
- Pedals
- GT Nylon platforms
Wheels
- Rims
- GT Baller 30mm tall aero
- Tires
- Schwalbe Kojak 700x35c slicks
- Spokes
- Stainless paint to match
- Hubs
- GT Mohawk high flanged sealed bearing, track nutz
- Rear hub
- SRAM Automatix 2spd auto shifting coaster brake hub, black
Cockpit & contact
- Handlebar
- GT Baller Street fighter riser bar 35mmx550mm
- Stem
- GT 3D forged paint to match
- Grips
- GT Wings
- Headset
- Tange Seiki sealed
- Saddle
- GT
- Seat post
- GT Alloy micro adjust
- Seatpost clamp
- GT
- Colour
- Gray
Brakes
- Brake levers
- Tektro hinged
