Cycling News

22 FEBRUARY 2021 With a strong group of World Cup contenders and national champions, veterans and rising stars, the Giant Factory Off-Road Team enters the 2021 race season boasting a diverse mix of new talent and returning riders. This year’s squad consists of 14 riders competing in a variety of off-road disciplines including downhill, enduro, cross-country, gravel and E-bike racing. One of the team’s key additions this year is French downhill pro Rémi Thirion, bronze medalist at the 2020 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Thirion, a veteran pro with six World Cup podiums to his name, captured his first World Cup...

15 FEBRUARY 2021 Last October, Colombian cross-country racer Leonardo Páez rode his Giant XtC Advanced SL 29 to a second-straight world championship title. To celebrate that achievement, Giant is introducing a special limited-edition replica frameset that’s available for purchase. The XtC Advanced SL 29 World Champion edition frameset is a superlight, responsive hardtail that’s engineered with Advanced SL-grade composite, Giant’s most premium frame material. This XC race machine delivers the highest stiffness-to-weight ratio of any hardtail mountain bike in its class, translating to ultra-efficient pedaling power and precise handling on the trail. Each frameset is custom tuned for its size. The tube shapes...

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...

19 January 2021 Liv Racing is growing in 2021! Today, Liv officially welcomes Linda Indergand (SUI), Sarah Hill (RSA), and Dani Johnson (USA) to the team. This news comes on the heels of the recent announcement of Liv as the exclusive partner of the Liv Racing Women’s WorldTeam (formerly CCC-Liv). With these additions, Liv expands its global support to 25 women riding as part of the Liv Racing program, which is composed of three professional racing teams. “Liv Racing is an extension of the Liv brand and our overall commitment to women,” said Phoebe Liu, chief branding officer of Giant Group,...

20 JANUARY 2021 The TCR Advanced Pro Disc has been chosen by Road.cc as its 2020/2021 Bike of the Year. The website published a feature story covering its top-10 bikes of the year, and in addition to earning the prestigious overall winner Giant also scored the No. 2 spot in the "Superbike" category with the pro-level TCR Advanced SL Disc series. Explaining their reasons for picking the TCR Advanced Pro 1 Disc model as the No. 1 bike of the year, from a long list of contenders, road.cc editors wrote: “Why? Because it offers a superbike performance at a way more accessible price....