Giant dropped a bomb on the world last night when they announced they had increased head tube torsional stiffness by 30%! Yes a whopping 30% folks. Overdrive 2 is the name. The head tube remains the same and all it is is a larger diameter… More ›
Giant have recalled ALL 2011 Giant Anthem 29ers in the US due to the weld at the seat/top tube juncture possibly failing. This doesn’t affect New Zealand-sold bikes; Giant’s own site and press release states that it only affects the US sold bikes. Given the… More ›
Giant is hitting 2010 hard, between its two teams, the new Rabobank XC squad and the Factory team, it’s fielding a bunch of heavy hitters across all disciplines. Adam Craig, Danny Hart, Duncan Riffle and Kurt Sorge are just some of the names on Giants… More ›
Anthill’s new film Follow Me is all about having fun on your bike and so we wanted this contest to be fun too. We’re pretty stoked on the idea—hopefully it will give you a chance to come up with some funny, crazy, unique ideas of… More ›
I’ve been getting frustrated with how much junk there is in my garage of late… There’s a bunch of stuff that I should have gotten rid of ages ago, so I’ve started putting some of it on TradeMe. First up there’s this rubbish 21″ 2002… More ›
Found some more 2010 Giant pics on the Bikemag site… This time there’s some Anthem pics and info, and how about Giant’s new parts and accessories, yup that’s a carbon Giant stem and bar combo… Ti hardware and all!!! More ›
There is a stellar write-up on three of Giant’s 2010 gravity bikes over on NSMB that’s worth checking out. The Glory, Faith and popular Reign X0 get a good going over. Big news is that NONE of Giant’s gravity bikes will accept SRAM’s HammerSchmidt…crazy. Check… More ›
Anthill has just posted up this cool Matt Hunter profile. It answers a few questions and gives us a pretty clear indication of what Anthill has in store in “Follow Me” (if the title didn’t give it away). More ›
It’s not exactly breaking news but here’s a little look at Giant’s new (well re-released) 2010 Faith. The Faith was initially launched in 2005 and it quickly gained a following among riders favouring aggressive, big-mountain terrain. Over the last couple of years Giant engineers, product… More ›
I have to admit I just stole these last two posts from Hyperfomance’s blog but seriously this latest one is priceless. So I didn’t realise it but Santa Cruz bikes have a blog, it’s actually a perfect mix of humour and interesting stuff… on the… More ›