The brand new Liv Pique Advanced 0 is a top-of-the-range XC trail bike. Designed for female riders based on body geometry data, it's a 120mm travel full-suspension steed with a carbon frame and 27.5 wheels.
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The Pique is an aggressive cross-country bike, part of an increasing trend within XC riding and racing. Stemming from an increase in the technicality of cross-country race courses — which not only combine strenuous technical climbs, but now increasingly feature rock garden descents, drops, and even rhythm sections and drops — these bikes are the result of a drive to create race-worthy bikes that are still efficient climbers and can handle such terrain.
While 29in wheels and hardtails are still popular, there is an increasing number of 27.5" wheeled full-suspension bikes in the cross-country race circuit, and you need to look no further than the winning bike at the Rio Olympics cross-country event to see that the wheel size and suspension are not in themselves a barrier to success in this discipline.
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The Pique Advanced 0 is the pinnacle of the Pique range. With more blinging XC kit than you can shake a stick at, it's got top of the range pretty-much everything.
The bike occupies the same cycling niche, as it were, to the Giant Anthem, as Liv and Giant are sibling companies and Giant produces the frames. However, it is very much its own bike, designed from scratch for female riders. Despite a general trend right now for 'women's specific' mountain bikes to be based around a unisex frame and women's specific finishing kit — such as the Specialized Camber Women's and the Juliana bike range's Santa Cruz frames — Liv has taken a completely different approach.
Top whack parts
High-end finishing kit
Raising the bottom bracket
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