This article originally appeared on BikeRadar
For 2016 Giant redesigned the TCR road bike from the ground up with a lighter and torsionally stiffer frame and a lighter fork. Giant will also have new tubeless-ready road wheels and a new line of saddles, complete with a measuring tool for shops in the form of a saddle with pressure-sensitive gel that records your position by changing color.
While the Propel is Giant's aero machine and the Defy is the endurance platform, TCR is the straight-ahead road race bike. Giant's lead TCR designer Doug Barnett said the three core values behind the TCR redesign were efficiency, handling and race-tuned ride quality.
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"When we talk about efficiency we’re talking about how the bike performs in the hands of the guys who push that bike to the limits, the GC athletes who ride in the pro peloton," Barnett said.
(Claimed) facts and figures
Giant claims the top-end TCR Advanced SL has the highest stiffness-to-weight ratio of any road bike. Barnett said Giant bought samples of all of their competitors’ bikes to test, and the TCR Advanced SL came out 7% stiffer than its closest competitor, the Cervelo R5.
- SLR 0 - ultralight full carbon wheelset, 30mm deep, claimed 1,331g a pair US$2,300
- SLR 0 Aero - full carbon aero wheelset, 55mm deep, claimed 1,535g a pair, US$2,300
- SLR 1 also carbon, 30mm deep claimed 1,425g a pair, US$1,300
- SLR 1 Aero - full carbon aero wheelset, 55m deep, claimed 1,700g a pair, US$1,300
- SL 1 - alloy l30mm deep, claimed 1,585g a pair, US$500
- SL1 - alloy/composite hybrid rim, 55m deep, alloy brake surface, claimed 1,860g a pair, US$800
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