Traditionalists that prefer a 26 inch wheelset will find the Trance quite appealing. The Anthem X W is designed for women riders, with a slightly modified frame shape, and comes in at $2,975. At $2,875 it is priced about the mid-range of today’s quality off-roaders. In fact, most of the Giant line are now 29ers, with only a handful of 26 inch bikes to choose from.įor a more realistic budget, Giant’s Anthem line offers a solid 29er bike with Shimano XT components, Giant rims, and disc brakes.
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It is a full carbon frame and has 29 inch wheels.
The top-of-line Anthem X Advanced (at $9,000) is designed for the elite racer (or affluent weekend warrior) and features all of Giant’s innovations like Maestro suspension and its OverDrive steerer tube.
Veteran mountain bike racers to first-time off roaders can find something to fit their needs from Giant’s line. Rounding out Giant’s road line are a couple of offerings – again with both men’s and women’s versions – of time trial/triathlon bikes and track bikes. The Envie is the women’s version of the top-end Propel and comes in at $6,200. The Avail models are analogous to the TCR bikes, and range between $1,350 and $6,900. Giant also offers a parallel set of road bikes specifically for women. The TCR model – Giant’s signature bike that is still true to the original innovative frame configuration – comes in five flavors beginning with the entry-level TCR at $1,300 with and aluminum frame and Tiagra componenets and goes up to the TCR Advanced SL 0 model for $9,600 that features carbon fiber frame and fork and the Dura-Ace electronic groupset. It’s top-of-the-line Propel models cost north of $10,000 and feature Shimano Dura-Ace electronic shifting and the highest-end Giant wheelset and components available. Giant’s racing and tri bike offerings quickly dispel any misconception that it is a Wal-Mart kind of steed. It makes finding the right Giant easy in what might otherwise be a dizzying array of choices. Its website not only profiles the bikes with prices and specs, but provides an easy-to-use bike search arrangement that zeroes in on what you want based on gender, age, type of riding, etc. Giant offers a range of bikes across several categories – road, ‘cross, mountain, kids and what they call “lifestyle” bikes for utilitarian/commuting use. Its “Maestro Suspension” claims to provide a maximum amount of efficiency and versatility to full suspension mountain bike riding, using four separate pivot points and two linkages that allow for a floating pivot to reduce pedal bob and let the rear wheel travel vertically.
Giant also applies its manufacturing economies of scale and design acumen to the mountain bike world. The TCR geometry married to Giant’s carbon fiber materials were on full display at the Tour de France, used in 2006 by the T-Mobile Team and more recently by Rabobank. At first met with resistance from the establishment, the concepts behind TCR – shorter tubes lead to a stiffer frame that is more responsive and less material means a lighter bike – were soon widely imitated and in 1998 the UCI modified its rules to allow for frame geometry changes. In 1995, through the design ideas of British engineer Mike Burrows, Giant introduced the Total Compact Road (TCR) design that altered the angles and length of the bike’s rear triangle and top tube. Soon Giant replicated this tactic with carbon frames – the Cadex 980 C is regarded as one of the first widely available carbon fiber bikes that was within a realistic cost for most people.
Lightweight aluminum frames were Giant’s entrée into the mass market – using 6061 aluminum for its bikes and also design tweaks like bladed forks and seatposts to improve aerodynamics. Maybe Wal-Mart by today’s standards, but in 1983 a $300 bike was pretty mid-range, especially in the mountain bike arena.īecause Giant had a strong base of technical infrastructure and engineering talent, it was able to introduce cutting-edge materials and new design ideas at affordable prices that smaller firms could not match. But the growth in cycling in the early and mid-1980s sparked a move by Giant to become its own brand and compete for the lucrative sales market in the above-$200 price range. Giant was founded in 1972 and remained content to be purely a shadow manufacturer that made bikes for other brands like Schwinn and Nishiki. Giant has demonstrated that despite its size – over 5 million bicycles across 12,000 stores and close to $1 billion in revenue – it can still be innovative and a “player” in the competitive road and mountain bike markets. Giant Bicycles proves that big isn’t necessarily bad. When you’re big and Taiwanese in the bicycle world, overcoming a stigma of the “Wal-Mart bike” is even harder. When you’re one of the biggest kids on the block it’s easy to become a target. Giant Bicycles – Not “Too Big to Succeed”
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