Giant's new TCR Advanced SL
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The Dura-Ace version is only slightly more sedate
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The new TCR Advanced SL's defining feature
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The top tube and down tube of the TCR Advanced SL
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How much stiffness do you want?
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The matching fork's stout legs and 1 1/4" steerer tube base
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The huge down tube uses a rounded rectangular profile
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Naturally, the giant down tube also provides plenty of room
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Giant's use of the new press-fit bottom bracket format
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The seat tube certainly isn't much narrower
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The trick rear brake cable routing
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In spite of current trends,
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Giant was ridiculed ten years for its then-radical compact frame geometries
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Production TCR Advanced SL bikes
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The newly refined seatmast head
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Giant's 'Fusion' process is used at the seat cluster
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Relatively slim seat stays
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The standard TCR Advanced
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The TCR Advanced's head tube
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There's a lot of beef up here
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Standard TCR Advanced frames
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The top tube of the TCR Advanced
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There isn't quite as much flaring up here
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A more conventional bonded modular monocoque construction
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The two-bolt seatpost head holds tight
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The Defy Advanced is Giant's new 'performance' bike
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A taller head tube and longer chain stays
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Giant is using tapered and oversized 1 1/8"-to-1 1/4" steerers
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The front end of the Defy Advanced
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Although pegged as a 'performance' rig
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Yup, press-fit cups can be found here, too.
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The aero seatpost profile carries through
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Sorry, you won't be fitting your Thomson seatpost in here
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The Avail Advanced is the women's-specific version
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All of the Defy Advanced's major tech features are included here
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Giant has wholeheartedly adopted the press-fit bottom bracket standard.
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Need to go faster?
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Bladed fork blades help slice through the air.
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The Aeryn Alliance uses an aluminum lower half
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