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Giant Advanced Composite Technology - About

Giant Advanced Composite Technology – About: Hi I’m Andrew Juskitis, global product marketing manager here at Giant Bicycle. I’m here today to explain our advanced composite technology. Lets get into it and find out why our bikes are better than our competitors. Starting with the front of the bike, you’ll notice that the ‘head-tube’ area is massively oversized here. We call it ‘Overdrive’ and it uses an oversized bearing standard, with inch and an eighth on top, and inch and a quarter on the bottom. The goal of this is to achieve maximum stiffness for front end stearing stability. As we move down the bike you notice the massively oversized ‘downtube’ as well. We call this ‘Megadrive.’ Megadrive isn’t just a design feature; it’s an actual performance feature. Again, maximum stiffness attaching the headtube down to the bottom bracket area. The three things that our racers require when they’re racing on our product is: maximally light weight, outstanding stiffness, and also comfort as well. You can tell by the headtube and the downtube that we’ve achieved that stiffness. No other are is greater in stiffness than the bottom bracket area here, using an oversized standard. It uses the BB86 integrated bottom bracket area here, with asymmetrical chain stays. Massively oversized, extremely light-weight, and also very comfortable as well. Another interesting feature that you’ll find with advanced composite technology on this particular bike, is the integrated seat mast. Integrated seat mast technology was first established by Giant over five years ago. We continue on with that tradition with offering a seat mast that offers you 40 grams of weight savings over a traditional seat post. You can tell with all of these features, the headtube area, the downtube and the bottom bracket area, that outstanding stiffness was goal number one, maximum lightweight was number two, and certainly no third, was comfort. A bike that’s outstandingly comfortable, very stiff and very lightweight to ride. That’s advanced composite technology. All of these features are available on the high end but they also truckle down to the low end as well.