Carbon fiber is cooler that a popsicle in a snowstorm, we all know that. Its got that cool weave thing goin’ on, and it’s light right? There’s a lot more to this fancy material than that. Who better to know than Giant bicycles.

Giant is the world’s largest bicycle manufacturer. Not only do they make a tonne of bikes, they start from from scratch on all of them. That means making the alloys for their aluminum bikes (think fire and melting stuff), and manufacturing their own carbon sheets to make their carbon bikes (think large loom of wondrous lightweight material).

This top-end TCR Advanced SL is a great example of Giant’s ability to manufacture some of the best quality bikes available.

Being such a large manufacturer Giant has incredible buying power, and the budget for advanced engineering, and development.

They don’t only make their … Read More »

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Sometimes we don’t choose when we bleed. This happens when you ride a bike. Lately I keep re-opening a crape on my shin haha… However, we don’t always bleed from the skin. I recently had my bike stolen off of the roof rack of my car; something that caused me pain. I will fully take responsibility, as I could have taken more precautions in securing my bike. Though I also take the stand that I would hope that I could forget that my bike is on my roof rack without someone taking what it represents from me. Its such an odd, hurtful feeling having a bike stolen, which I hope none of you have to go through.

Sometimes things will come back, but I didn’t have my hopes up. Who knows, it could still happen. Instead of sitting … Read More »

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Recently I noticed an article on bicycling magazine’s online website of Giant Bicycle’s carbon production process. Many people don’t know just how large of a company Giant is. Yes, they actually make all of their own bikes. They do not farm out production to other companies. They make their own aluminum tubing, and they even make their own carbon fibre. Whether its a Defy Alliance 1, or a TCR Advanced SL 0 Giant manufactures their carbon for frame production from a spool of thread! When looking for a road bike you might not being thinking of who actually made the bike that you are looking at, but you might be interesting in knowing just how well its made after reading the bicycling article. If you are concerned about your health, you probably want to know what goes into the food … Read More »