My first mountain bike was a 2010 GT Avalanche 1.0. It was a great bike, and I miss it a lot. It met an untimely demise when my car was hit from the rear. My wife and I both lost our bikes. I had an Avalanche 1.0 and she had an Avalanche 3.0 (disc brakes).
I now have a Cannondale Flash Alloy 2, which is the better bike, but my GT never missed a beat. There are a lot of things I liked about that GT that I like(d) that the Cannondale doesn't provide. I'd have loved to have an opportunity to ride both, my C-dale and my old GT back to back, just to see which one I'd take home.
Here's what's left of the GTs.
Here's what it
used to look like...
