BOX To Be Official Sponsor of the GT Factory Team

Jan 12, 2014

Written by Bart de Jong

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Cycle Group, Inc. (CGI) is pleased to announce that it will be an official sponsor of the GT Factory BMX Team in 2014. This past year, CGI supplied the team unofficially with brakes, cranks and some handlebars and stems. “It was an honor that GT asked us to be part of their program last year. The team is stacked with many of the world’s top riders and is one of the best-run programs out there. The riders and GT trailer always present a legitimate factory image at the races. I’m really excited that they asked us to be an even bigger part of the program,” said Toby Henderson, founder and executive director of CGI. Besides the race team bikes, GT currently specs Promax brake levers, brakes and stems on a variety of its high-end complete race bikes, among them the Speed Series and Interceptor lines of bikes.

“We’ve worked really hard the past two years to develop two complete lines of top-notch BMX products—BOX and Promax.

We’re really pleased that the product managers at GT recognize our work. We also appreciate the help the team has provided as testers for the BOX Vector cranks,” Henderson said.

GT’s Speed Series frames are one of the few currently available that have a BB30 bottom bracket shell and are compatible with the BOX Vector cranks. BOX and GT worked together to fine tune the innovative cranks and bottom brackets before they go into production this winter.

“The GT Factory BMX team has been involved in the testing of the BOX/Promax components over the past year and the level of quality experienced has exceeded our expectations,” said Steve Spencer, sports marketing manager for GT. “It is an honor to be partnered with Toby and the CGI team and look forward to future successes together,” he added.

The entire Factory GT team will use BOX Vector cranks, Genius/Eclipse brake sets and Phase 1 number plates. The smaller kids also will use BOX X-Series carbon forks and handlebars and Promax cranks. Several of the other riders will use BOX Delta stems with Maximus bars, as well.

The team consists of Mike Day, Tyler Brown, Quentin Caleyron, Felicia Stancil, Sean Gaian, Jordan Miranda, Jonas Harmon, Sophia Foresta, Shan Hatfield, Brooklyn VanRenselaar and Aiden Otten.