Cycling News — Trance X Advanced Pro 29

11 JUNE 2021 Bicycling magazine selected the Trance X Advanced Pro 29 for its 2021 Editors’ Choice awards, with testers claiming the full-suspension trail bike beat out all competitors in its class and is “light, full of energy, efficient, and way more capable than its travel suggests.” Louis Mazzante, test director at Bicycling, put the Trance X Advanced Pro 29 to the test on a variety of technical trails and had this conclusion: “Giant put together what might be the ideal trail bike for most riders.” Designed as a high-performance all-rounder, the Trance X 29 range features both aluminum and composite frame builds with 135mm of rear...

06 APRIL 2021 The mountain bike publication Beta posted a feature review of the new Trance X Advanced Pro 29 on its website, highlighting the versatile trail bike for its “nicely balanced modern geometry” that delivers “fun, lively handling.” Beta editor Mike Ferrentino reported on the key technologies in the Trance X Advanced Pro 29 including its full-composite frame and flip-chip feature that lets you quickly change the headtube and seattube angles, along with the bottom bracket height, to fine-tune the handling. After detailing all the angles and measurements, Ferrentino wrote: “This dance of numbers reveals a bike that all our testers deemed more...

29 JANUARY 2021 The annual Design & Innovation Award winners have been announced, and the new Trance X Advanced Pro 29 trail bike earned a spot on the prestigious list of the bike industry’s top performing products. Testers were impressed with its versatile performance on various types of terrain, claiming that it “blasts free of the constraints of categories.” Viewed as a benchmark achievement for the bike industry’s highest-performing products, the Design & Innovations Awards brings together select journalists, professional test riders and other industry experts to test products and choose the best in their respective categories. The Trance X Advanced Pro...

22 OCTOBER 2020 Last month Giant introduced the new Trance X Advanced Pro 29, a full-composite trail bike with updated Maestro rear suspension and a new flip chip feature that allows riders to adjust frame geometry. The launch of Giant’s most capable all-rounder trail bike has caught the attention of cycling media around the world, with dozens of outlets publishing feature stories on it. Some select gear editors and testers have had a chance ride the new trail bike and post their initial impressions. Vital MTB gave the Trance X Advanced Pro 29 a perfect 5-star rating, claiming: "The Giant Trance X is...

17 SEPTEMBER 2020 The all-new Trance X Advanced Pro 29 is a full-composite trail bike with updated Maestro rear suspension technology and a new flip chip feature that allows riders to adjust frame geometry. The forward-thinking Trance X Advanced Pro 29 has many of the same features and technologies as the recently introduced Trance X 29 aluminum-framed series, but with a lighter weight full-composite frame. It's aimed at riders seeking one high-performance trail bike to do it all. Building on the progressive style of the shorter-travel Trance Advanced Pro 29, it combines the speed and agility of of its shorter-travel predecessor with a more...