What is Giant composite frame?
These frames feature the most advanced engineering and construction methods: MATERIALS: Professional-grade grade raw carbon with the highest stiffness-to-weight ratio available today. With fewer pieces and junctions, the frames are up to 100 grams lighter and significantly stronger.
What is a composite road bike frame?
By far the most commonly used bike frame material for higher-end mountain and road bikes (including virtually every bike being raced at the professional level), carbon fiber is a composite of carbon sheets that are bonded together in a mold using resin.
Do Giant frames have lifetime warranty?
Giant Bicycle, Inc. (“Giant”) warrants the frame and rigid fork of each new Giant brand bicycle and Giant brand frameset to be free from defects in material and workmanship for as long as the original purchaser owns the bicycle.
What Tyres does the giant defy composite 2 come on?
The Defy Composite 2 rolls on Giant’s own P-R2 hoops, laced radially with 24 DT Swiss Competition spokes at the front, and 28 at the rear, where there’s a two-cross pattern on the driveside and and a radial lacing on the non-driveside. They’re shod with Giant’s P-R3 tyres, slick offerings in a narrow, 23c profile.
How much does a defy bike cost?
The Defy Composite range includes three other models and tops out with the Ultegra Di2-equipped Composite 0, which will sell for £2750. The Defy Advanced frameset enters its second season for model year 2013. Revisions from model year 2012 are subtle (a unidirectional carbon finish perhaps the most significant).
What’s the difference between the giant defy and the advanced?
But the Advanced bests that bike by rote of using lighter, higher grade Toray T700 carbon fibre. Even though the Defy was never destined for Grand Tours, Giant have invested a serious amount of development time and cash into it.
What’s new with GIANT bikes in 2014?
Like many manufacturers, Giant operates an engineering cycle of about three years. Last year saw major changes to the road range; 2014 will do so again. The top line from the 2013 story is the introduction of the Defy Composite: a brand new frame that sits between the carbon Defy Advanced and the model’s all-conquering, aluminium incarnation.