Thursday, July 09, 2009

New Giant TT - Radical or what!

(Courtesy of Crooked_Knee and Road Bike Action Magazine - Click Here for the full article and photos)

Radical yes but I'm a bike snob so the fact that it's a Giant means that it doesn't do it for me.

So what do you need to know about the Giant Trinity Advanced SL 0?
1. It will be available this September.
2. It won't be cheap. If you think all the hours of design, wind tunnel testing and manufacturing a complicated bike like this don't add up to much, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. Asking price will be $14,000.
3. As Giant's good looking PR honch Andrew Juskaitis reminded us, all of Giant's performance bikes are sold at various levels. The new Trinity too will be available at a variety of prices and with an assortment of different component selections.
4. Perhaps most important of all, the bike you can buy in September will be better than the bike the Pros are riding today. As the saying goes (and has been proven time& time again) racing improved the breed and so what problems they have uncured and solutions they have found with the team bikes have been incorporated to the production bikes.
5. By touting both a Tri/TT variable seat angle adjustment (74, 76 and 78 degrees), it would seem that Giant is sticking to the one bike/two use model for the new bike. Whether or not they will profit, or pay a price for that decision, is something the aero aficionados out there will have to decide.
6. The frame will be available in three sizes and Giant is making eight differently sized stem assemblies available for optimum sizing.

2 comments:

oliver Knott said...

an absolutely non-pulchritudinous looking bike.
radical maybe, good-looking not.

KeatSeong said...

kinda resembles the new Specialized S-Works... hhmmm