Giant PROFESSIONAL GRADE BROCHURE

Technology | Advanced SL-Grade Composite

Professional Grade

Advanced SL-grade composite features the highest-performance carbon raw material formed by breakthrough construction techniques.

State-of-the-art T-800 raw composite material is painstakingly woven in Giant’s own composite factory (a step no other major manufacturer undertakes), then hand-crafted into framesets using Giant’s most advanced construction technique, Fusion. The process produces the lightest, stiffest and most ride-compliant framesets ever to roll on two wheels.

ADVANCED SL FEATURED ON:

TCR ADVANCED SL: 18 TRINITY ADVANCED SL: 26 TCX ADVANCED SL: 50 ANTHEM X ADVANCED SL: 58 TRANCE X ADVANCED SL: 64

1 Integrated Seatpost

Features: As the pioneer of the integrated

seatpost, Giant continues to improve its original design with lighter weight (approximately 40 grams of weight savings, compared to a standard composite seatpost), improved aerodynamics and a “tuned” forgiving ride feel. An adjustable saddle clamp offers 10 or 23 millimeters of offset for precise saddle position.

Benefit: Lighter, more aerodynamic and providing

a more “tuned” ride than a traditional post, the TCR Advanced SL’s integrated seatpost is the advanced way to stay in the saddle.

2 Fusion Process

Features: Breakthrough construction technology

allows Giant engineers to save signiﬁcant weight (more than 100 grams) compared to traditional monocoque construction designs, while helping to build the stiffest racing-oriented frameset Giant has ever produced in its 38-year production history.

Benefit: Fusion is the key to building Giant’s

lightest road bikes without sacriﬁcing stiffness or strength. A two-step molding procedure makes these junctions stronger and more precise than traditional co-molded junctions.

3 PowerCore

Features: A massively oversize bottom-bracket/

chainstay area features a fully integrated, 86-millimeter-wide bottom-bracket design. Asymmetric chainstays provide additional stiffness on the driveside and stability on the non-driveside.

Benefit: Unprecedented pedaling stiffness is

achieved through the fully integrated bottombracket standard and intelligent chainstay design.

4 MegaDrive

Features: A massive rectangular downtube and

oversize toptube work in unison to provide superior front-end lateral and torsional steering precision. The precisely engineered, rectangularshaped downtube yields unprecedented pedaling stiffness.

Benefit: Both tubes work together to produce the

quickest-accelerating, best-handling bicycle Giant has ever produced.

5 OverDrive

Features: An oversize headtube and fork steerer

tube create maximum steering precision without additional weight. The 1 1/8-inch top / 1 1/4-inch bottom headset bearings (1 1/8-inch top / 1 1/2-inch bottom for off-road bikes) and tapered composite steerer tube are utilized in conjunction to provide optimal torsional/lateral steering stiffness. Both the top- and downtubes “wrap” around the headtube to provide additional torsional and lateral stability.

Benefit: Pinpoint steering precision is pushed to

the highest level. Hard cornering under the most demanding conditions has never felt so conﬁdent.