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14 JUNE 2021 The first combined UCI Mountain Bike World Cup race of the year was held in Leogang, Austria, over the weekend, and the Giant Factory Off-Road Team was out in full force over three days of racing. First-year team rider Rémi Thirion led the squad with an impressive top-10 finish in the elite men’s downhill. Thirion came into his first major race with Giant racing on a prototype Glory DH bike. “It’s a big change to switch teams and bikes, and this was my first real race with the team,” said the 31-year-old French rider. “Leogang is a hard...

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...

Friday, June 4, 2021 Liv Racing Collective athlete Sandra Walter scored her first cross country mountain bike podium result of 2021 Wednesday at the Internazional di Italia #4 in Valle di Casies. Internazional di Italia, the five-race Italian XC series took place in Valle di Casies this week. With a challenging 4km (2.5 mile) track, the race drew a strong international field and top Italian racers vying for one of their last chances to qualify for the Olympics. Liv Racing Collective’s Sandra Walter took advantage of the opportunity to compete while in Europe between World Cups. After a challenging start, Walter continued to...

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2021 Giant-sponsored triathlete Tim Van Berkel kept his podium streak alive at Ironman Cairns, finishing second at the Australian event, which also serves as the Asia-Pacific Championships, for the third year in a row. The 36-year-old Aussie has been a mainstay at the front of the pack over Ironman Cairns’s decade-long history. He won the event in 2016 and has six podium performances over the years. This year’s pro men’s race saw a repeat podium from 2020, with Max Neumann, Van Berkel and Josh Amberger finishing first, second and third respectively. “It was great to be back in...

TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2021 Cycling Plus magazine and its affiliate website BikeRadar.com revealed the winners of its 2021 Bike of the Year awards, and top honors went to the TCR Advanced SL Disc 0. This reengineered, pro-level road racing bike was named "Superbike of the Year," with editors calling it a “dream machine with exquisite handling and brutally fast acceleration.” Cycling Plus and BikeRadar editors combed through the top 2021 road bikes to select 32 finalists representing the year’s best offerings. Of those, the TCR Advanced SL Disc stood above all others, impressing testers as “the most complete race bike on sale today...